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Contextual, Cultural, and Historical Influences on Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 Social Drama, A Doll’s House

of Norway. Interestingly, Ibsen observed a year before the completion of A Dolls House in his text Notes for a Modern Tragedy, "T...

The Seven Sisters/Women's Education

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

Wier/Tehano

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

Dickens/Utilitarianism & Hard Times

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

Butler & Eliot

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

Chopin/The Awakening/Suicide as Closure

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...

Mordecai: An Early American Family (Book Report)

North. The business this family chose to engage in, at least eventually, was education. They started a school. The school would be...

Barbara Novak/American 19th Century Art

"Death on the Pale Horse (1802), oil sketch on canvas, Allstons analysis relates something of his own romantic vision. He writes t...

Day-Age Theory of Creation

While this fact does not indicate that the author of Genesis intentionally used the word "yom" to indicate the passage of billions...

Walker v. Brown, 1862

the jury will find for the defendant (Walker v. Brown). The court is asked to decide the issue of whether or not the plaintiff s...

Lowell System

single location" (Francis Lowell, 2001). Contemporary commentary on the way in which Lowells first factory seemed to spring up ov...

Flaubert/Emma Bovary

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

Louisa May Alcott, Kate Chopin on Equality

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates by Peter Ward Fay

seeking to do business in the area. These included restrictions, such as not being allowed to learn Chinese, only being able to li...

The Anti-Slavery Movement

that still labored in the homes and fields of the Southern slaveholders. Abolitionists even tirelessly transported illegal cargo....

The Dissemination and Marketing of Music from Tin Pan Alley to the Modern Day

publishing of magazines or stationary (Tawa, 1990). The main method of distribution involved composers approaching the publishers...

The History of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century

there was nothing else to help to that end. Another important thing that occurred is that in Paris, the doctors would begin to qua...

Metacom of the Wampanoag: Changing Perceptions Over Time

predominant mindset of manifest destiny that set the stage for the many abhorrent actions that were yet to unfold in Native/White ...

Children's Book Illustrators

"pencil or pen and ink"; however, for her finished pieces, Potter worked primarily in watercolor, adding touches of pen and ink wh...

The History of the Financial Markets

slowly and the next major developments moving towards the modern financial markets was the increased use of the corporate status,...

The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears

forced removal became known as "The Trail of Tears", an event that proved once and for all that no matter what the Cherokee or oth...

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

This book review pertains to Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, a novel that describes animal rights abuses in the nineteenth century as ...

Political Transformation and the Nineteenth Century Irish Immigration

With the Mid-nineteenth century potato famine in Ireland, hundreds of Irish fled here. Although they received a less than hospitab...

Homeland Security, INS and Epidemiology

problems, but refugees are perhaps most at risk, since many of them "come from areas where disease control, diagnosis and treatmen...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

Adult Learning Theories, An Article Summary/Chen

This article summary describes a study, Chen (2014), which pertains to nontraditional adult students and the application of adult ...

Organized Crime Syndicates and Commercial Burglaries

but commercial burglaries are up (Star Tribune 02B). For many reasons, burglars find commercial establishments a better target th...

Judaism in the Works of Franz Kafka

In five pages the ways in which Judaism ins represented in Franz Kafka's works are examined with an emphasis upon his story 'Metam...

Antitrust Issues and Internet Explorer of Microsoft

In five pages this paper examines the Department of Justice's antitrust case against Microsoft and issues regarding the Internet E...