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“The Great Gatsby” in Its Historical Context

important to remember that at the time Fitzgerald wrote, "immigrants were coming to the United States by the millions because they...

Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson in a Historical Context

held public education of the period in great disdain, which is expressed in a poem dubbed "Saturday Afternoon:" "From all the jail...

Historical Context of 'The Caine Mutiny'

In 6 pages this paper considers the Communist paranoia of the 1950s as depicted in this film's desire to prosecute Queeg during a ...

Historical Context of the North American Free Trade Agreement

requirements that are costly, and so their corn broom products, products that are clearly not expensive, high-end, or high-technol...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass in an Historical Context

could neither read nor write. Most were still slaves and white Southerners viewed Douglass as somewhat of an anomaly. An educated ...

Teaching Racism, Historical Context and Irony Using Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

to read and teach to students, especially in the younger grades. Fishkin believes that to fully understand the work, students must...

Historical Context of the Female Breast

In seven pages this paper examines the female breast in a consideration of issues such as breastfeeding and its cultural, psycholo...

Historical Context of the Term Slave and Frederick Douglass

In two pages this paper examines Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass with the focus being the use of the term slave in an ...

Historical Context Regarding Philosophy's Intent

In fifteen pages this paper examines the intention of philosophy from a historical perspective that includes consideration of phil...

Historical Context of Marriage

In five pages this paper examines marriage in sociological and historical contexts as it is portrayed in G. Robina Quale's A Histo...

Trends in Public Housing in Virginia

educational improvement. Previously a respected public school, it now serves only those of the district who cannot afford a priva...

Historical Context of the Novel Kokoro by Soseki Natsume

In five pages this novel is analyzed from a Meiji era historical context. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five from a Historical Context

In seven pages this 1968 novel by Kurt Vonnegut is examined from an historical perspective. Six sources are cited in the bibliogr...

Historical Context of Emily Dickinson

indeed, cannot, be overlooked. A rare taste of boundless joy is exemplified in Wild nights, wild nights. Perhaps written o...

The Historical Context of All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

poetry, essays, stories and novels from men who had never envisioned themselves as literary artists. From their painful wartime e...

Shakespeare's Henry V in Historical Context

Henry V is evaluated as a historical figure as well as a character in the Shakespearean play by his name. Personality characterist...

The Historical Jesus in 3 Views

the context of Jewish salvation history (Sanders 88). Nevertheless, the issue of Jesus supernatural birth, as related in the gospe...

Racial Segregation and Housing

problems, such as the lack of both public services and private enterprise in inner-city black neighborhoods, have persisted in par...

The Divided House of Abraham Lincoln

his background and upbringing. However, at no point are the framers of this exhibit content with merely presenting a recitation of...

Ignorance and Fear in 'The Minister's Black Veil' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

hearers quaked. An unsought pathos came hand in hand with awe" (Hawthorne). They shuddered and were simply fearful of this man who...

American Culture Literary Comparison of Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne

and... evokes that stage of Puritanism when a diminished conviction was beginning to be replaced by a somewhat hypocritical moral ...

Employee Motivation Research Known as the Hawthorne Studies

55). As a result, an entirely new way of thinking had to develop regarding how such workers would be managed and directed. Recog...

Short Storie Elements in Works by John Updike, Flannery O'Connor, Willa Cather, William Faulkner, Mark Twain, and Nathaniel Hawthorne

like herself. From their initial conversation in the garden, Beatrice reassures him that she is sincere by stating that "Forget wh...

The Scarlet Letter

the story the reader discovers that he has branded himself permanently with an "A" to pay for his sins. But, he is not a man who w...

Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" And O'Connor's "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" - Evil

some do not stop to consider the consequences of their actions. Brown is especially aware of this fact as he becomes "a stern, a ...

Contextual, Cultural, and Historical Influences on Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 Social Drama, A Doll’s House

of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...

Causes Of The American Banking System Collapse

ones home. The reality is that not every individual earns enough to buy a home. Just as the root causes of the Crash of 1929 and...

Hidden Motives in The Scarlet Letter

a communitys judgment on one of its members. This paper discusses some of the issues raised by the novel. Discussion First, its n...

"Young Goodman Brown" - A Psychoanalytic Reading

fa?ade of the townspeople and the reality of their participation with "evil" in the forest. It is common to interpret the narrati...

The Individual and Society in "The Scarlet Letter"

p. 42). As Hawthorne writes, "the scene was not without a mixture of awe... [as well as] guilt and shame", purely because of the d...