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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...

Intellect and Emotion in Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter'

This paper addresses religious rationalism versus romantic passion in Nathanial Hawthorne's nineteenth century novel. This five p...

Metacom of the Wampanoag: Changing Perceptions Over Time

predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...

The Dissemination and Marketing of Music from Tin Pan Alley to the Modern Day

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

Andy Warhol, A Twentieth Century Genius

One can begin to see that Warhol would make his mark in the advertising industry with attention to fashion. During the 1950s, And...

Walker v. Brown, 1862

the jury will find for the defendant (Walker v. Brown). The court is asked to decide the issue of whether or not the plaintiff s...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

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

Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates by Peter Ward Fay

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

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...

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,...

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...

Twentieth Century Literature and Gender

and large, the wealthy is a class of leisure. This upper class mentality is expressed in Whartons (2000) House of Mirth. The nov...

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...

Twentieth Century Art and Primitivism

What one might learn about the journey to becoming a primitive artist is that one must follow ones intrinsic path and be true to o...

Feminist Readings of Twentieth Century Novels

mock romance, a post-modernist parody of a familiar genre" (Oates carter-wise.html). Interestingly enough, even with little, or no...

Nineteenth Century Imperialistic Activity

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

Nineteenth Century Actors Edwin Forrest and Edwin Thomas Booth

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

Twentieth Century China's Soong Dynasty

said to have been more concerned with attaining power and wealth than they were in propelling China into a fortuitous future. Int...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Conflict Between Man and God

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

Individuality and Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Henry David Thoreau

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

E.C. Deloria's Waterlily Analyzed

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

Women in the Literary Works of Edward A. Abbott and Thomas More

to take up arms; they are not compelled as are the men. They are also encouraged to strive professionally and intellectually and c...

Late Twentieth Century History and Politics of Chile

of reasons, would spin into an economic plummet. One of these reasons was the collapse of the nitrate market, a market which has...

Nineteenth Century Racism and Native Americans

(through industrialization), rather than a place to keep pristine or clear. The problem was, in his treatise, Turner ignor...

Secession and Issues of Slavery

into the White House (Brooks, 2003). The Brown raid took place in South Carolina, a state where the slave population was higher th...

Germans of the Twentieth Century and the Attractiveness of Nazi Concepts

provide the salve for that discontent. Evans (1998) notes: "What really needs explaining is...

Arab World Renaissance of the Nineteenth Century

against oppression in the early 19th century, many reformers began to inundate the Islamic world, thus inserting many pivotal beli...

Gordon S. Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution

more democratic, liberal and capitalistic visions of the 19th century (Wood 95). With republicanism we see that such things as ine...