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Essays 181 - 210

Avian Flu: A Student's Perspective

to the human population as well. Interestingly, biotechnology plays both a positive role and a negative role in this potent...

Raboteau & Elkins/2 Views of Slavery

performing these rites for the multitude of abducted Africans who died in transit to the Americas. In the second chapter, Rabote...

Review of An Article on a Text on “The Yellow Wallpaper”

marriage" distorts the meaning of the sentence "John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that [in marriage]" (Seshachari 115)...

Lanza/Elevator Music

or artistic merit that might be associated with his music genre. He argues that decades of rock music that sound more like car cra...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Slavery

simply a novel that came from her imagination, but rather one based in a great deal of fact in how slaves were treated and the con...

Gary Nash/Race and Revolution

his Preface, indicating his regard for him as a "seminal thinker" (Nash ix). Also, he acknowledges that he adopted his stance rega...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin as Protest Literature

and takes him to New Orleans (Stowe). Tom and Eva become very close because of their devout Christianity (Stowe). In the parallel...

Uncle Tom's Cabin as Social Protest

smack of soap opera, the basic facts that she relates relative to the horrors of slavery are accurate and relatively unembellished...

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

and interpreted this book differently there are a few primary sources that offer up perceptions of the work. One author clearly he...

Good v. Evil in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

The conflict between good and evil and how it is represented through characters and symbolism are considered in this analysis of U...

Southern Slavery and its Social Status

Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas and Virginia decided that they would succeed from the union and...

Comparative Analysis of Flight to Canada and Uncle Tom's Cabin

many readers didnt realize, however, was that Stowes almost melodramatic story-telling style hid a biting, sarcastic tone -- the b...

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Patriarchy

business--wants to buy up handsome boys to raise for the market. Fancy articles entirely--sell for waiters, and so on, to rich un...

Issues Featured in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

knows that it would put Mr. Shelby even further in debt and that he might be forced to sell off more of the slaves from his home....

Superstition and Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

and just as its midnight you back up against the stump and jam your hand in and say: Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts,/...

Elements in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

the most important economic realities involving the slaves is that which involves the selling off of slaves by Shelby to less than...

Transcendentalism of Louisa May Alcott and Harriet Beecher Stowe

March sisters, Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth. Examination of this text reveals that, in particular, Alcott stressed the transcendental per...

Rauchway/Murdering McKinley

that Roosevelt succeeded in causing the majority of Americans and many historians to forget about McKinley in the wake of Roosevel...

Linda Gordon's Single Mothers and the History of Welfare - Pitied But Not Entitled

professionals were at best ambivalent on the question of whether women, married or unmarried, should be full-time mothers or peopl...

Civil War Impact on the Writing of Harriet Beecher Stowe

In nine pages this paper examines the profound impact the Civil War had on the novels of Harriet Beecher Stowe, including Uncle To...

Incendiary Text of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

In eight pages this paper how Uncle Tom's Cabin may well have ignited the Civil War spark to the antagonisms that had long been si...

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

given a place to sleep. All of this is done by a man who had just voted on a bill that would prohibit whites from helping fugitive...

Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston on Female Power

In six pages this paper examines women's power and how it is portrayed in Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Are Watching God and Ric...

Review of The Arts of China by Michael Sullivan

In four pages this book that chronicles the development and history of Chinese art from the ancient period to the 20th century is ...

Slavery Aspects

In five pages such issues that are relevant to slavery such as 1950's Fugitive Slave Act, the Fourteenth Amendment, abolitionism, ...

Various Racial Perceptions Regarding Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

In eleven pages this paper contrasts and compares past and present reactions to Uncle Tom's Cabin by blacks and whites alike. Twe...

The History Commercial Banking in the United States

A paper addressing commercial banking's history in the United States. The author addresses the Glass-Steagall Act, future trends,...

Blueprint for Negro Writers and the Works of Richard Wright

This paper examines Blueprint for Negro Writers in an overview of the ideologies expressed in the works of Richard Wright as illus...

Tom's Character and the Thematic Development of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

This paper examines how thematic development is achieved through Tom's characterization in Pudd'nhead Wilson in terms of scientifi...

Rebecca Harding Davis' 'Life in the Iron Mills'

This paper of 7 pages considers how the author considered issues of economic inequality, social separations, and class differences...