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and suggests several avenues for further research; it also draws quite a clear picture of the difficulties many of the farm famili...

before was not freer to gain access to. The use of moveable types was a move towards homogeneity. McLuhan states; "the world of v...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

Puritan religion, culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Natha...

status quo in order to embrace her own intellectual redoubt ("The feminism," 1998). In the 1850s, the vote was really the only co...

personal morality were simply accepted, not questioned during their lives. Because American society as a whole had become better...

still American-made. The Chomsky considers that Israel is more and offshore U.S. military base than a country in its own right --...

to appear more frequently. Eventually she locks herself in her room and tears the paper from the walls (Gilman, 1996; Yim, 1996). ...

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

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

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...

("Caviar," 2003). The saltiness in each encourages drinking and according to Stein, until 1900, the United States produced about ...

and insights as previous nature poets and against the threat of a materialism that seems to be viewed as a destructive force capab...

a degree. Indian women too, however, are slowly gaining momentum in terms of equal rights. While in nineteenth century Ind...

more democratic, liberal and capitalistic visions of the 19th century (Wood 95). With republicanism we see that such things as ine...

financial gods (Himick, 2004). According to Himick, Morgan had such power over wealth, if he said someone had money, that person h...

a weekend. Technology contributes to the state of constant activity that so many are used to and many elderly people remember a ti...

and destiny (Aubrey). While Darwin pictures humanity as consistently evolving toward more intelligence and reason, Huxleys take on...

into the White House (Brooks, 2003). The Brown raid took place in South Carolina, a state where the slave population was higher th...