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the Union. It was Lincoln who had endorsed the Reconstruction plan, but Congress was far more cautious. Congress determined that...

much stayed on one plot of land for much of their lives, passing the land to the children when they died. Then the children grew u...

Americans from the land). In addition, during the early part of the century and by Congressional Act, the U.S. forbid fore...

such things as "To veil the threat of terror/ And check the show of pride" and "The blame of those ye better/ The hate of those ye...

In response to this exclusion, the first ever convention was held to discuss womens rights, and this took place in Seneca Falls, N...

rocks carefully and diligently (University of California/Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology). While examining the rocks, Smith had ...

Indians but most were brought forcibly from Africa (Bermuda History, 2003). Typically, they were used as domestic servants but we...

Inc., 2003). As an example we note that such inventors of the Middle Ages "could not generalize from a water wheel to the theory o...

when the bankers there allegedly established free banks in hard-to-reach locations - locations "where the wildcats roamed" (Dwyer,...

in American culture, despite her pro-immigration sentiments, which were directly opposed to the anti-immigration public feeling of...

group were extremely poor. Ireland was a land of peasants with a high unemployment rate, and those who boarded the ships for Ameri...

Hate their job? Something drove them out of the workforce with inadequate resources, so they will have to determine if they want t...

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

novel awakens in the future, the year 2000, and at this time Bellamy pictures a utopian state that was achieved by the abandonment...

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 theory of survival of the fittest (AllPsych, 2003). Basing his thoughts on Darwin, Galton, in 1869, argued "that intellectual ...

society as we know it and, furthermore, the end of Western civilization in the process. His vision of the "Death of the West" is f...

pain and trying to find herself as she divorces herself mentally from her poor beginnings when she was married at fifteen to a hor...

would become his own trademark. This film, along with Obsession (1976), further developed De Palmas expressive use of cinematogra...

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

the beginning of the novel? Why does Edna not try to follow the same path as her artistic mentor, Mm. Reisz, who lives the indepen...

The cultural bias against education for women was so severe in the eighteenth century that Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), note...

not explicitly intended to depict any concrete object or situation, but rather seeks to create a "mood or atmosphere," which elici...

to move to the back, and when he refused, would go to court. The court essentially ruled against Plessy, rendering segregation val...

feature the vivid natural imagery that characterizes her sensuous and deeply passionate works of Romantic fiction. These storie...

is one that ties the two brothers together, although neither one of them realizes it. Each fears his own cowardice and has to ov...

romanticism prevents her from seeing Charles realistically prior to marriage and her failed expectations cloud her perception of h...

the rights of plants: "And when we call plant stupid for not understanding out business, how capable do we show ourselves of under...

would rise up and overthrow the bourgeoisie (property owners), in order to establish a socialist state. As this suggests, the po...

he is absolute appalled that Sissy does not know the scientific definition for "horse," and that his own children have been tempte...