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The Expanding Nation

migration of people to urban centers and increasing support for westward expansion. As many began to support the spread of aboli...

PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD AND ITS ART

Gabriel Rossetti; William Holman Hunt; John Everett Millais; James Collinson; Frederic George Stephens; Thomas Woolner; and writer...

The 19th Century Buildings

towards the wealthy and powerful as could be inferred through looking at some of the stations. A good website for pictures of famo...

'Englishness' and the Occult in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

some contrasting views of Englishness and attitudes about colonialism in their respective uses of the occult/supernatural. One te...

New York Tenements and How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis

fate of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat" (Riis, 1971,5)....

"Around the World in 80 Days" as a Guide to 19th Century Globalization

a deck steward on a tramp steamer. The film points out quite nicely the fact that the book really is a travelogue, with each episo...

Southern Slave Codes

first chapter, Goodell describes slavery as defined by the laws of various southern states; here we read things like this: "LOUISI...

English Language Learners' Educational Timeline

schools to take "affirmative steps" to overcome language barriers that impeded non-English speaking children from academic success...

19th Century Neoclassicism's Politics

In four pages this paper focuses on France in this overview of 19th century neoclassicism from a political perspective. Three sou...

Nineteenth Century Italian Unification

power would arise to overshadow the papacy (Age of the Sage, 2005). After explaining the background of a fractured Italy, t...

19th Century Industrialism and Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy

Bellamy notes, did not hold much power within society, inasmuch as there was an unyielding sense of control that loomed over the a...

Romantic Musical Composer Robert Schumann

life" that Schumann was leading in 1834 and he described this and other works done at this time, collectively, as his "summer nove...

The Development of Great Britain as a Center of World Economy Through the Use of Trade and Finance

the late 19th and early 20th century, these countries had amassed a great deal of wealth through technology. Not only were factori...

Presidential Elections and the Influence of Lobbying

as soft money and issue advocacy" (Newlin Carney 337). However, pro-reform activist groups are adamant about the issue of raising...

A Review of Communist Manifesto

had heretofore been recognized. Marxist theory further claims "of all the classes that confront the bourgeoisie today, the prolet...

Rebellious Femme Fatales in An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde and The Second Mrs. Tanqueray by Sir Arthur Wing Pinero

come in direct conflict with conservative convention (Bennett 219). The so-called new woman became symbolic of what the Victorian...

First Half of the 19th Century and the Phrenology Controversy

this was seen as indicative that the brain shape would reflect the development of the different cerebral organs, meaning the devel...

The Influence of Cultural Developments on Visual Art, from the Mid-19th to the Mid-20th Century

early twentieth centuries established themselves. What this means in terms of how those great philosophers looked at the broader ...

Art History and Orientalism

Egypt in the late eighteenth century. French rule of Egypt ensued, but was soon supplanted by the British. This was the beginning ...

Charles Dickens on Childhood

In seven pages the ways in which Dickens' portrays childhood during the 19th century in his classic novels Great Expectations, Oli...

Europe During the Mid 19th Century and Social Changes

In six pages this paper discusses the socioeconomic changes that occurred in Europe during the middle 19th century in an assessmen...

Arts Patronage Changes

This research paper consists of five pages and argues how during the 19th century changes in arts patronage took place especially ...

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

In five pages character analyses of Lucetta Templeman and Michael Henchard as featured in Thomas Hardy's 19th century novel are pr...

Physical Characteristics, Personality, and Physiognomy

In five pages this paper examines these topics within the context of 19th century psychologist Samuel R. Wells' text The Temperame...

Women's Alcohol Consumption in the 19th Century

This 5 page paper examines the extent of alcohol use among women in the 19th century. The writer pays special attention to the tem...

Literary Crime Fiction

In five pages this paper discusses how the crime fiction literary genre developed throughout the late 19th and early 20th centurie...

1812 to 1860 Manifest Destiny in the United States

an old concept, and the meaning changes from what was the original intent. The author also looks at the concept with a focus on ce...

Sphereland and Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott

In five pages Abbott's 19th century work is analyzed in terms of its presentation of women as inferior that was meant to serve at ...

Life and Philosophy of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

In five pages this research paper explores the early 19th century philosopher's life and approach to philosophy with emphasis bein...

The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek, The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier by Jakob Walter, and Nationalism

In seven pages this paper traces the emergence of nationalism from the early 19th century until the first World War as portrayed i...