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wives of plantation owners, while the majority of them were well educated, rarely left their manicured grounds without their husba...

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

romanticism prevents her from seeing Charles realistically prior to marriage and her failed expectations cloud her perception of h...

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

to move to the back, and when he refused, would go to court. The court essentially ruled against Plessy, rendering segregation val...

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

The cultural bias against education for women was so severe in the eighteenth century that Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), note...

society as we know it and, furthermore, the end of Western civilization in the process. His vision of the "Death of the West" is f...

novel awakens in the future, the year 2000, and at this time Bellamy pictures a utopian state that was achieved by the abandonment...

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

Hate their job? Something drove them out of the workforce with inadequate resources, so they will have to determine if they want t...

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

represents often empowers citizens into believing their nations and peoples are the best and brightest in the world. It is believ...

feature the vivid natural imagery that characterizes her sensuous and deeply passionate works of Romantic fiction. These storie...

and suggests several avenues for further research; it also draws quite a clear picture of the difficulties many of the farm famili...

also examines some possible solutions. Clarkson points out that other writers, in addition to Grada, have been appalled at the fac...

developed, even barbaric (Ferro, 1997). This was true within the then US, there had been the perception of the Native Americans as...

known life without industrialization. At the same time he was a man who reflected the dreams and ideals and hopes of his people fo...

Canada is made up of various regions with different needs and interests. Industries tend to form where there is a need. It would b...

before was not freer to gain access to. The use of moveable types was a move towards homogeneity. McLuhan states; "the world of v...

took until 1791 for the states to agree on the ten that have endured (Mount, 2005). However, as needs arose, and different concern...

the theory of survival of the fittest (AllPsych, 2003). Basing his thoughts on Darwin, Galton, in 1869, argued "that intellectual ...

addition, many women owned businesses; they worked as "apothecaries, barbers, blacksmiths, sextons, printers, tavern keepers and m...

group were extremely poor. Ireland was a land of peasants with a high unemployment rate, and those who boarded the ships for Ameri...

the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...

gender, class and historical events, and few women were given the opportunity to travel ... Traveling, for women, has been forever...

until the outbreak of the War Between the States during the middle of the century), the country almost seemed to be two polar oppo...

rejection highly influenced Lazaruss "Spagnoletto," which provided Lazarus with the "literary props" to effectively represent the ...