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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...

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

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

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

owners of the factories were convinced that there was "no other way in which Society could get along, except that many pulled at t...

63). Through incremental decrees, the Meiji government moved toward creating a highly centralized, bureaucratic government. Duri...

that still labored in the homes and fields of the Southern slaveholders. Abolitionists even tirelessly transported illegal cargo....

North. The business this family chose to engage in, at least eventually, was education. They started a school. The school would be...

"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...

slowly and the next major developments moving towards the modern financial markets was the increased use of the corporate status,...

there was nothing else to help to that end. Another important thing that occurred is that in Paris, the doctors would begin to qua...

forced removal became known as "The Trail of Tears", an event that proved once and for all that no matter what the Cherokee or oth...

publishing of magazines or stationary (Tawa, 1990). The main method of distribution involved composers approaching the publishers...

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...

and borrower (Edwards "The Currency"). During this era, huge deposits of silver were discovered in Nevada, which greatly increas...

While this fact does not indicate that the author of Genesis intentionally used the word "yom" to indicate the passage of billions...

times, Washington endeavored to alleviate the fears of the white majority by emphasizing that black people were not a threat to th...

single location" (Francis Lowell, 2001). Contemporary commentary on the way in which Lowells first factory seemed to spring up ov...

in his review of Maggie, vented his "frustration at realism," as he complained that realism "seemed written from the outside" (Gol...

Dakota Sioux during the 19th century is as different a life from our current society as one could imagine. And yet, Deloria has t...

well, but the number of children from these other cities were minuscule when compared to those that shipped out of New York. It in...

and superstitious. Although Huck may not be racist himself, he no doubt has been raised in an environment of extremely racists ind...

Harvard. In this text, Royce combines romance and storytelling with an historical subtext that denounces, rather than romanticize...

wealth and property should be distributed equally, or alternatively that the state would hold the property collectively and then w...

counterrevolution against communism, which stemmed from it a radical rejection of liberal constitutional politics, the fascist mov...

up in a "freethought household" (Madigan 48) and her mother had already written about womens rights while her father "a noted Util...

plays. "In the Midwest from 1800 to 1840, Shakespeares plays were more frequently staged than those of any other dramatist. After ...

respond to and voice his opinions regarding the political events and developments of his time in England, but with a vision for th...