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Italy, Germany, Reunification and Nationalism

the political community is. Nationalism has existed practically throughout the history of the world but it would eventually becom...

Aesthetics Definition and Modernism

such as slavery, racism, imperialism and World War I (Lavender, 2000). Modernists, in contrast to the Victorians, focused on human...

Nineteenth Century Authors James, Davis, and Twain

Smiley, knowing full-well that this would set the old gentleman off on a rant about Jim Smiley and the celebrated jumping frog. Th...

Showman and Composer Franz Liszt

noted novelist George Sand (women novelists in the nineteenth century often wrote under male pseudonyms). One of his most signific...

'True' Womanhood Visions

who comes to love Mag and he persuades her to marry him. This step, of course, completes Mags ostracism from white society. "She w...

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 ...

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...

Feminism and Ursula K. Le Guin's, Sur

This paper examines the issue of gender in Le Guin's short story, Sur. The author discusses gender roles, symbolism, and thematic...

1890s' American Expansionism

area. As a consequence they sometimes still ran afoul of foreign entities and almost constantly had to deal with the aboriginal p...

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...

Addressing Family Concerns

opportunity to concentrate on the task of child rearing. However, as Scwartz and Scott (2003) indicate, this stereotypical ninetee...

America and Free Labor of the Nineteenth Century

slave and freeman who work for nothing has about the same amount (1840, 368). Interestingly, a bit later, Karl Marx would remark t...

American Culture and History

founded. Many in the turbulent times of today chose to condemn U.S. government and culture rather than to recognize it fo...

1984 Film This is Spinal Tap and Social Assumptions

uncompromising manner that demands to be interpreted as truth (This is Spinal Tap PG). It is the perfect device for Rob Reiner to...

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Character Development

adventurous spirit that is within man, and certainly within Huck, that allows him to pursue adventure with such fervor. Of course,...

Equalizing Aspects of Sport

special accommodations. In respect to race, sometimes there is reverse discrimination. Some believe that the black man has a nat...

Workplace and the Intersection Between Gender and Ethnicity, Race, and Class

and has been given the opportunity to proceed and succeed as far as she chooses, often seems to be reaching their goal, or close t...

Another Look At Affirmative Action 3

refocus it (Riley A0-6). Among the most telling statistics: Nearly one in three white men in New York City - 31 percent,...

Nella Larsen's Novels and Awareness of Gender and Race

begins to see herself as somehow less than the rest of humanity, a sub-human at best. This self hatred continues throughout the ...

An Othello Analysis

end. The tragic nature of the story does rely on the supposition that Othello is indeed propelled to do something because he is ...

Overview of the High Rate of Teenage Unemployment

problems.... Because theyre not supporting anyone else, they can afford to wait for the right job " (2001, p.28). This is true. ...

The Color Purple by Alice Walker and Celie's Self Discovery

by her contemporaries. These women will weave a rich fabric of friendship, which is symbolically referred to in the novel through...

Social Separation and Ideologies Regarding Gender, Class, and Race

As Rubin (29) also points out, politicians have engaged in all sorts of acrobatics to negate out the existence of the poor and the...

Psychiatric Diagnosis and Influential Factors

criteria which must be met for a client to be diagnosed with various psychiatric conditions. Understandably, however, the recogni...

Overview of the History of Racism

owners rationalized the enslavement of Africans based on the perception that they were heathen, rather than on differences in skin...

Othello, Role of Gender

This essay discusses Shakespeare's "Othello" and the role of gender, race and class. Five pages in length, four sources are cited....

Socioeconomic Inequality in Nineteenth Century US

The author discusses the importance of Congressional action, court decisions, and various factors relating to gender and race in t...

Race, Gender, and Sexuality and the American Family

This 5 page paper gives a summary of how the homework reading informed the student's opinion on the American family. This paper in...

Class, Race, Sexuality, and Identity

embraced and coddled when they are hurt. A boy may be given masculine toys and a girl given dolls. If a boy wants to play with dol...

Zadie Smith's White Teeth, Toni Cade Bambara's The Salt Eaters, and Themes of Gender and Race

all her fights are useless, futile, for there seems to be no positive movement, no positive gains made for women or blacks. She em...