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Crime in Great Britain During the Victorian Age

This paper consists of six pages and discusses crime and other social issues that occurred during the Victorian Age. Six sources ...

Book Report on 3 Books

one down. It is a story of hope in a world where there is hunger and darkness. It is an uplifting book because Oliver goes through...

Homeland Security, INS and Epidemiology

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...

Blake, Dickens and Wilde and their Eras

This essay looks at representative works of William Blake, Charles Dickens and Oscar Wilde in relation to the eras in which they w...

Adult Learning Theories, An Article Summary/Chen

This article summary describes a study, Chen (2014), which pertains to nontraditional adult students and the application of adult ...

Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, France and England

of ever-growing interest. So, with great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered" (Dickens NA). We are then presented ...

Civil Rights Movement and Civil Disobedience

being obedient. As the key Civil Rights moments mentioned above illustrate, civil disobedience is characterized by an abs...

Antitrust Issues and Internet Explorer of Microsoft

In five pages this paper examines the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft and issues regarding the Internet E...

Organized Crime Syndicates and Commercial Burglaries

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...

Judaism in the Works of Franz Kafka

In five pages the ways in which Judaism ins represented in Franz Kafka's works are examined with an emphasis upon his story 'Metam...

Anne Moody's 'Coming of Age in Mississippi'

This is a 5 page book review in which the author relates her own upbringing which is in sharp contrast to most members of American...

Southern Great Britain and Henges

This paper discusses Great Britain's ancient monuments and what henges reveal about the Bronx Age in nine pages....

'Cruel and Unusual Punishment' and the 8th Amendment

punishment.iv It was a close vote of 4 to 3, which means that not all justices on that court believed electrocution to be cruel an...

Victorian Era Writing

This paper considers 2 Victorian Age writings, essayist John Stuart Mill's 'Speech in Favor of Capital Punishment' and John Henry ...

The Signalman as a Ghost Story

the story may have reflected a time in Dickens life where the writer was significantly more in tuned to the transient aspects of w...

Historical Development of Prisons

accompanying technological advancement changed society to such an extent that people felt they had no guidelines for how to behave...

Analyzing Bleak House by Charles Dickens

society." With his literary weapon, Dickens took direct aim, launching a vitriolic attack on the legal, political and socioeconom...

Hard Times and Charles Dickens' Depiction of Industrialism

In eight pages this paper examines how Dickens' critiqued Victorian industrialism in his novel and then evaluates his social contr...

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...

Bleak House by Charles Dickens and the Supernatural

In five pages this paper examines how supernatural and ghosts were perceived by society during the 19th century in an analysis of ...

Victorian Spirituality in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

This state of affairs was the order of the day in that era, and it was this sad setting that added to the problems of every day li...

Nineteenth Century Victorian England's Fallen Women

In eleven pages this paper discusses how women were marginalized in England's nineteenth century Victorian society. Four sources ...

The Legal Use of Child Labor in Pre-Victorian England

12 pages and 12 sources. This paper relates the specific views of the history of child labor and the use of child labor in early ...

19th Century Boston, Crime, and Punishment

in ideology about punishment, there is often changes in types of crimes committed. The most common reason for arrests in the 1800...

England of the Eighteenth Century, Crime, and Punishment

felony, the law implies that it shall be punished with death, viz., by hanging as well as forfeiture: unless the offender prays th...

Love's Power in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

love but rather sees it as simply a different option he is being offered in terms of continuing to love her and be devoted to her....

Four Classic Literary Works and Human Nature

linked to societal ideas of the early eighteenth century as to what constituted a "proper" middle class English life. This is evid...

From Disillusionment to Values in Great Expectations Character of Pip

the ideals of Dickenss time, in which Victorian societal values were to be accepted as the best values ever to come into existence...

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, T.S. Eliot's 'The Mill on the Floss' and Narrative Perspective

had a daughter who loved him"; however, Maggie received no such indications either from her father" or from Tom--the two idols of ...

Characters of Nancy and Jane Eyre Compared

In seven pages these female protagonists from Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre are contrasted and co...