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Comparative Analysis of 2 Texts on Women's Issues

Tanenbaum points out, "Even today a common way to damage a womans credibility is to call her a slut" (2000, p. 2). In many ways, ...

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 ...

'Hedda Gabler' and 'Phaedra'

In this 5 page paper, the heroines of the respective works are compared and contrasted particularly in terms of how they depict wo...

French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and Women's Condition Changes

The same situation followed women for much of the next two centuries. It persists today in even the most developed nations; still...

The Wall Art Found in the Etruscan Tombs

This 6 page paper discusses the wall paintings found in Etruscan tombs. Among those discussed are the Tomb of the Baron and the To...

Early History of Women's Subjugation

In three pages this paper presents a brief overview of women's subjugation from the ancient period until the 17th century. One so...

W.H. Auden, Georges Braque, and Pablo Picasso

In five pages this report considers W.H. Auden's poetry line 'Art is a lie that tells the truth' within the contexts of painting b...

Women's Alcohol Consumption in the 19th Century

This 5 page paper examines the extent of alcohol use among women in the 19th century. The writer pays special attention to the tem...

2 Dutch Masters, Leyden and Steen

earnings from his art were meager ("Seven Dutch Masters: Jan Steen"). In the popular imagination, Steen is associated with the i...

Baroque Paintings

heroic exploits" (Irinas World). And, in this particular painting, which also holds an angel of sorts (actually a goddess) with a ...

A Painting

one can also understand that it was a place were many different peoples came together, and then disappeared: "From the twelfth to ...

Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanual Leutze

damaged state, the work won a gold medal in Berlin and was "much celebrated in Europe."9 It was part of the permanent collection o...

A Painting by Joan Brown

image from her mind. The student asked that the writer select a visual element, and I selected the use of ORGANIC SHAPES, one of ...

Uncle Tom's Cabin, Eliza and Marie

This essay pertains to two women characters, Eliza Harris and Marie St. Clare, who are featured in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." The wrier ...

Nineteenth Century Slave Ownership

In twelve pages this research paper examines a nineteenth century plantation and slave owner in a consideration of economics, plan...

A Review of The Princess of Cleves

An 8 page essay reviewing the novel by Marie de La Fayette. This so called women's novel provides interesing insight into French h...

19th Century American Reforms

virtues, and some held that the best way to achieve this was to withdraw from traditional society and establish small communities ...

Storms by Watteau and Delacroix

Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863) are two very different paintings of storms. Watteaus painting shows country people busily harvesting ...

Gauguin and Ingres

object of desire, but here she seems shy and even a bit hostile. In his book on Ingres, Robert Rosenblum describes one of Ingres o...

Evolution of Women’s Roles in Society

for the most part they were not really considered citizens and were truly at the mercy of men for their survival. It was not rea...

Painted Rooms: Rome

are so clearly defined that there is a lack of true illusionism that one would see in a painting that encompasses many overlapping...

Van Eyck and Velasquez

the bed (Jan Van Eycks Arnolfini "Wedding" Portrait). Finally, the light source is a window to the left, and the daylight illumina...

Sean Scully/Wall of Light

the formed of "learned communication" (Kuspit). As it is, Scully tries to recreate his lived experience for the viewer by offering...

Candide by Voltaire and Women

(Voltaire Chapter 8). She began living the life of a prisoner of war for the most part. One author notes she was "ill-used by othe...

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and the Description of Roles for Women

the means of doing so were very circumscribed; it usually meant they had to go into service. Women rarely worked at any sort of oc...

“The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century”

use of both primary and secondary sources are used throughout the book and the message if the interdependent link between imperial...

Labor Movement and Women's Involvement During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

addition, many women owned businesses; they worked as "apothecaries, barbers, blacksmiths, sextons, printers, tavern keepers and m...

Geoffrey Barraclough’s Unconventional Interpretation of the Carolingian Empire in The Crucible of Europe

Carolingian Empire was a complete unification of Europe, but the denial of the many regional differences and the steadfast refusal...

Comparing 3 paintings & painting/music

babies shown abandoned testifies to the fact that many of the women were mothers who were separated from their children. A red rob...

A Primary Source Analysis: Genesis and American History

This essay analyzes the Book of Genesis and then discusses its impact on the worldview of Europeans during the sixteenth century a...