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

romances, and their association with violence discloses the cultural anxieties about nation-making. Samuels reads the figure of wo...

in ideology about punishment, there is often changes in types of crimes committed. The most common reason for arrests in the 1800...

Venezuelan border would become a point of contention with Great Britain and ownership of Cuba would become the focus of the Spanis...

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...

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

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

wives of plantation owners, while the majority of them were well educated, rarely left their manicured grounds without their husba...

In "Sitting Bull and the Paradox of the Lakota Nationhood" author Gary Clayton Anderson details the contradictions which are inher...

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

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

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...

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

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

owners of the factories were convinced that there was "no other way in which Society could get along, except that many pulled at t...

63). Through incremental decrees, the Meiji government moved toward creating a highly centralized, bureaucratic government. Duri...

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

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

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

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

times, Washington endeavored to alleviate the fears of the white majority by emphasizing that black people were not a threat to th...

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

in his review of Maggie, vented his "frustration at realism," as he complained that realism "seemed written from the outside" (Gol...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...