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Essays 361 - 390
not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...
inherently good or inherently evil. Fragmentation and diversity are seen as positive and there is no conservative or fundamental p...
some contrasting views of Englishness and attitudes about colonialism in their respective uses of the occult/supernatural. One te...
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...
first chapter, Goodell describes slavery as defined by the laws of various southern states; here we read things like this: "LOUISI...
face" (lines 444-445)("Sir Gawain" 229). The head then warns Gawain not to forget their agreement, which is that Gawain will submi...
a free man prior to the Civil War and it was during the Civil War that he began to work alongside Abraham Lincoln in many ways, al...
et al., 2007: 198). He tried to convince Congress to move in that direction and actually encourage the nation "to promote the immi...
of Shonibares characters via their clothing. While Victorian in style, the design for the wax fabrics originated in the Dutch colo...
Gabriel Rossetti; William Holman Hunt; John Everett Millais; James Collinson; Frederic George Stephens; Thomas Woolner; and writer...
equality reversed and he no longer supported the cause of "economic and moral independence" for women in his later years, but rath...
times, Washington endeavored to alleviate the fears of the white majority by emphasizing that black people were not a threat to th...
in his review of Maggie, vented his "frustration at realism," as he complained that realism "seemed written from the outside" (Gol...
migration of people to urban centers and increasing support for westward expansion. As many began to support the spread of aboli...
and borrower (Edwards "The Currency"). During this era, huge deposits of silver were discovered in Nevada, which greatly increas...
this regard. The following discussion of Austens Northanger Abbey will explore the way that Austen depicts the nature of emotion a...
"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...
took their activities outside of the "low" entertainment district (Adler 737). Public officials and police drew the line, ...
and "one day could not explain some term of horsemanship to her that she had come across in a novel" (Flaubert 29). Emmas disappoi...
("Caviar," 2003). The saltiness in each encourages drinking and according to Stein, until 1900, the United States produced about ...
Each criticized the foundationalist approach advocated by Russell. Rorty (1989, 87), for example, insisted:...
own background also needs consideration, as the work was also a reflection of the man and his circumstances. After this some examp...
abnegates any evil whatsoever. Blake seems to believe, as one can readily determine from a study of his other works, that evil is...
to the German artists of the time, yet his bias is clearly French; French Romantics, French Landscape (despite the fact that there...
me the story of my birth even though he wasnt home for the blessed event of his first child and only son. He had joined a local m...
work of Susan B. Anthony and others like her the womens movement would be far more stagnated than it currently is. Anthonys...
worth a great deal of cash and even on the hip hop scene, gold teeth are something to envy. In some way, this is as true today as ...
"the aspirations of the people themselves. The controlling idea of the French Canadian is to retain...
lived a privileged upbringing throughout Europe (Downes 5). Lacking a university education did not deter this young sketch artist...
1998). Shaka died in 1828 and was succeeded by his half brother Dingane who was involved in the assassination with another half b...