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Essays 271 - 300

City Beautiful v. Urban Reform Movements

history of urban development and city planning is the result of a lengthy evolutionary history. The following discussion relates 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...

The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears

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...

Carl L. Becker's "The Heavenly City Of The Eighteenth-Century Philosophers"

Christianity was based upon a vast compilation of both positive and negative influences acquired from the short-sightedness of pow...

The History of the Financial Markets

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

The History of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

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

The French Revolution and Changing Alliances

The French Revolution had a reverberating effect not just on France but on the world. State relations changed dramatically during...

The Congress of Vienna - Good For Europe?

doubt that a great deal of good came from the congress, and it is interesting to note there was a condemnation of the slave trade....

The Western Tradition of Psychology

Psychiatry is a relatively new discipline yet its roots can be traced back to philosophers such...

Commentaries on Taiwan

548). As this suggests, commentary written by Dutch writers predate the observations penned by Yu. For example, Reverend Georgiu...

Life of a Factory Worker Compared with Life of a Slave

students of history shudder to read the horrible human rights abuses that were inflicted upon slaves in the antebellum South. Howe...

The Revolutions in Spanish America and Their Effect on Spain

early 19th centuries, Spain was perhaps the most powerful nation on earth. It has established colonies in the New World, and treas...

Religion and Change from the Fourteenth to the Eighteenth Century

properly! Religion is, and always has been, a driving force in society. This was...

Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

52). Close examination of "Story of an Hour" reveals the manner of Louise Mallards death, i.e., murder, and also the message that ...

U.S. Imperialism During the 19th Century

always rationalized based on diplomatic or human rights objectives. For example, when American politicians wanted trade access th...

General Mills and Ready to Eat Breakfast Cereal Market

recommended that the organization continue with a strategy, but ensure that there marketing helps to enhance the level of differen...

Methodology of Anna Julia Cooper

(May 2007: 106). Cooper felt that the struggle of black women for social justice was an inherent element in the "wider struggle fo...

Comparing Jacobs and Wilson

of slavery, as she was not free by any definition of this term and she was treated as property, in a manner that is equivalent to ...

Native Americans as Depicted in the Art of the Dominant European Culture

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

Guernica Painting by Pablo Picasso

images to such effect that the original image is hard to see. There are many pictures painted in the 1930s and 40s which were pain...

Mutiny on the Amistad by Howard Jones Reviewed

for the slave trade won their freedom through the Supreme Court. Joseph Cinque and the 53 captives revolted in the Caribbean on th...

Social Principles Revealed in Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

with an ideal society of the time. "The novel focuses on the romantic affairs of the two sisters. When Marianne sprains her ank...

Department Store and its History

other retail considerations. This revolution was not limited to retailing considerations alone, however, but extended all the way...

UK Education Policy Prior to and Following the Second World War

late 1830s, more than two-thirds of the working class population was literate (West, 2002). In an attempt to address the educatio...

Social Evolution During the Nineteenth Century

their perception of his genius. (Gould 26) Where gender behavior is concerned, a complicated and controversial issue of de...

Hunger in California in Texts by Maria Ruiz de Burton and Josiah Royce

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

19th Century America and the Effects of Communism

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

Late Nineteenth Social Darwinism, Realism, and Racism Commentary of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

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

Everyday Life in Traditional Japan by Charles J. Dunn

alone could carry the long swords (Dunn, 1977, Sellen, 2002). Dunns appreciation of some of the key elements of the classes explai...

Immigrant Experiences and Angel Island

Before actually describing the art and poetry that came out of detainees from Angel Island, a look at the locations history would ...