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French Composer Charles Gounod's Life and Music

1937). Gounod was equally gifted in art and for a time seemed torn between the two but a musical epiphany he had at age 13 would ...

Women's Rights and Latin America

fact, Caulfield goes into an extensive and exhaustive couple of chapters on the constant parade of litigations against men who had...

Architecture and Modernism

with evident truths (39). It was clearly a break away from convention. No longer did rules dominate but rather, the eye of the art...

Gangs of New York Film and New York Gangs of the Nineteenth Century

gangs" ("Gangs," 2003). Rival gangs include the Irish and the Natives, two groups that were usually present, but again, not the on...

Modern Criticism of Descartes' Dualism

unique opinion about the theory. The author then indicates that "the Cartesian myth is insidious. It can assume many guises, an...

The Body Project by J.J. Brumberg

counterparts. Rather than a lack of information about their bodies and sex, a situation that was common in the nineteenth century,...

20th Century Literature and Its Influential Factors

Most literature of this era tends to ramble around a loosely constructed plot structure, much as the politics of the time did. It ...

Theater Design of Gordon Craig

in the nineteenth century traditional ideas of scenic design were rejected by artists such as Craig, who felt that scenery should ...

John Dewey and Richard Rorty Philosophical Parallels

our understanding of language, democracy, the individual (self), within both the public and private spheres. Rorty notes, for exa...

Discrimination in America Between 1900 and 1945

life of their own, relegated to minding the household chores, raising the children and looking after a husband who never recognize...

Modern Architectural Movement

the past. Nonconformity now took over as the leading force, with cultural retrospection becoming all but obsolete (Berman PG). N...

Twentieth Century Changes in the Relationship Between the U.S. Economy and American Law

When the Keynesian revolution started, there was less concern about the supply side factors. Keynesian economics developed in res...

Book Review of Rosalind Rosenberg's Divided Lives, American Women in the Twentieth Century

to be the homemakers, the wives, the mothers, the caregivers. Women were alternately placed on a pedestal and held in subservienc...

Thousand Pieces of Gold by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Chinese woman (in the area)," and therefore, she was also "an attraction that (would) bring men, Chinese and white, from miles aro...

Christianity Expansion

points of doctrine, particularly in regards to controversy over whether Judaic custom was still applicable to Christians. Missiona...

Treatment Delivery Systems and Addiction Treatment History

deemed insane but they did try to keep inebriates out of their institutions (2002). Dr. Thomas Kirkbride explained in 1840 why h...

Boston Harbor's Revitalization and Development

agencies were involved. Why? Boston Harbor had a pollution problem. During the early 1980s, an organization called CLF filed a la...

Oregon Trail and Education

(2003). While not formal, the education was something for the children to hang onto. Obviously, the reason why formal education co...

Frank Lloyd Wright and Alfred Hitchcock

and also it also spoke of their sexual frustration and repression. In his movies, every shot has a meaning and a purpose. H...

Electron Discovery

skeptical eye upon Thomsons claim, even to the point of questioning whether there was any validity to his discovery whatsoever. W...

Education and Corporate Capitalism's Influence

instructions. This "scientific" approach to both education and business was designed to promote efficiency and secure the USs dom...

British Cinema Censorship Prior to 1945

Censorship of any form also has the effect of promoting elitism with regard to access to...

Connection Between Politics and Art in the Philosophies of Walter Benjamin and Martin Heidegger

particular essay, we are told that, "art lets truth originate." According to Kiefte (1997), what Heidegger is wondering about is...

Art and the Impact of Industrialization

This paper examines how art was affected by the 19th century Industrial Revolution with works by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and oth...

Contemporary Literature and the Maintenance of Identity

In five pages this essay examines maintaining identity in the first 50 years of the 20th century in a consideration of such litera...

Roles of Women and How They Have Evolved

In five pages 20th century women are examined in a consideration of how they have evolved and moved from the domestic sphere into ...

Physical Characteristics, Personality, and Physiognomy

In five pages this paper examines these topics within the context of 19th century psychologist Samuel R. Wells' text The Temperame...

1812 to 1860 Manifest Destiny in the United States

an old concept, and the meaning changes from what was the original intent. The author also looks at the concept with a focus on ce...

The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

In five pages character analyses of Lucetta Templeman and Michael Henchard as featured in Thomas Hardy's 19th century novel are pr...

Turn of the Century Vienna

In five pages this paper discusses Vienna in an overview of its changing turn of the 20th century socioeconomic and political land...