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Essays 151 - 180
gangs" ("Gangs," 2003). Rival gangs include the Irish and the Natives, two groups that were usually present, but again, not the on...
status quo in order to embrace her own intellectual redoubt ("The feminism," 1998). In the 1850s, the vote was really the only co...
the past. Nonconformity now took over as the leading force, with cultural retrospection becoming all but obsolete (Berman PG). N...
points of doctrine, particularly in regards to controversy over whether Judaic custom was still applicable to Christians. Missiona...
deemed insane but they did try to keep inebriates out of their institutions (2002). Dr. Thomas Kirkbride explained in 1840 why h...
noted novelist George Sand (women novelists in the nineteenth century often wrote under male pseudonyms). One of his most signific...
who comes to love Mag and he persuades her to marry him. This step, of course, completes Mags ostracism from white society. "She w...
area. As a consequence they sometimes still ran afoul of foreign entities and almost constantly had to deal with the aboriginal p...
this was seen as indicative that the brain shape would reflect the development of the different cerebral organs, meaning the devel...
Egypt in the late eighteenth century. French rule of Egypt ensued, but was soon supplanted by the British. This was the beginning ...
slave and freeman who work for nothing has about the same amount (1840, 368). Interestingly, a bit later, Karl Marx would remark t...
opportunity to concentrate on the task of child rearing. However, as Scwartz and Scott (2003) indicate, this stereotypical ninetee...
life" that Schumann was leading in 1834 and he described this and other works done at this time, collectively, as his "summer nove...
as soft money and issue advocacy" (Newlin Carney 337). However, pro-reform activist groups are adamant about the issue of raising...
had heretofore been recognized. Marxist theory further claims "of all the classes that confront the bourgeoisie today, the prolet...
come in direct conflict with conservative convention (Bennett 219). The so-called new woman became symbolic of what the Victorian...
In four pages this paper focuses on France in this overview of 19th century neoclassicism from a political perspective. Three sou...
power would arise to overshadow the papacy (Age of the Sage, 2005). After explaining the background of a fractured Italy, t...
Bellamy notes, did not hold much power within society, inasmuch as there was an unyielding sense of control that loomed over the a...
some contrasting views of Englishness and attitudes about colonialism in their respective uses of the occult/supernatural. One te...
a deck steward on a tramp steamer. The film points out quite nicely the fact that the book really is a travelogue, with each episo...
first chapter, Goodell describes slavery as defined by the laws of various southern states; here we read things like this: "LOUISI...
fate of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat" (Riis, 1971,5)....
are more characterized by segregation than by integration in their natural state. It is only when we introduce the formal organiz...
putting on a play for the President and the First Lady is obviously designed to make the viewer angry (i.e. this is the "most piss...
narrative. Eventually, however, he rejects her, and the pain of this separation results in her death. Instead of prospering, now t...
that females should function in subordinate and often demeaning roles in comparison with men (Readers Companion to American Histor...
true, several attempts to colonise the countries of Latin America through military intervention: however, since these were for the...
father) and the liberals started their revolution (Romero-Marin, 2001). The period between 1833 and 1836 saw the abolition of feud...
older brother, Alexander I, died and his second brother, Grand Duke Constantine, refused the crown (Levykin, 1999). His first act ...