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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and the Description of Roles for Women

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...

Westward Settlement and Environmental Effects

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

History of the Civil Rights Movement in America

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

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as me...

Women's Rights Movement and Contributions of the Antislavery Movement

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

Nineteenth Century Surveyor and Contemporary Map Inventor William Smith

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

1834 Bermuda

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

U.S. Era of Free Banking

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

Nineteenth Century Inventions

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...

Romantic Art and English Painter J.M.W. Turner

In ten pages this nineteenth century artist's life and art are the focus of this report with his music in paint Romanticism the pr...

The Lowell Offering Writings by New England Mill Women, 1840-1845 by Benita Eisler

In nine pages this report considers the lives of women who worked in fabric mills in Lowell, Massachusetts during the mid nineteen...

A History of Bausch & Lomb

Historic information about this well known company is relayed and current information is also provided. An analysis of this firm t...

'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and a Dissection of John Keats's Prose

In eleven pages this essay explicates Keats' nineteenth century poem in a consideration of life experiences, language, and poetic ...

Contemplation in Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth and Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson

with his family, he finds himself reminiscing about his adventurous past, and nature encourages his ruminations: "It little profit...

19th Century Changes in Turkey and Egypt

In six pages the changes that took place in Turkey and Egypt during the nineteenth century are discussed. Six sources are cited i...

Life and Military Achievements of Sudan's Muhammad Ahmad Ibn As-Sayyid' Abd Allah

In seven pages this paper examines the life and major military accomplishments of the Mahdi nineteenth century leader of Sudan. F...

Andrew Jackson vs. Henry Clay by Harry L. Watson

In five pages the political battles of these two highly competitive nineteenth century leaders are detailed in Watson's text. Two...

The Social Construction of Gender in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper examines Shelley's novel as a metaphor for social issues of the nineteenth century. This five page paper has one sourc...

The Issue of Adultery

wants to hear about it. In addition, cliches such as "The grass is always greener on the other side" abound, and did not become ...

A China Foot-Binding History

In this paper of six pages the questions of how and why foot binding is practiced in China are answered and the changes since the ...

Fukuzawa Yukichi's Influence

This of course would serve to weaken the state, thus giving the Western nations a way to step in and take control of Japan. As h...

Lowell System

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

Crane/Maggie: A Girl of the Streets & Naturalism

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

Intellect and Emotion in Hawthorne's 'The Scarlet Letter'

This paper addresses religious rationalism versus romantic passion in Nathanial Hawthorne's nineteenth century novel. This five p...

A Case Study

inexperienced teacher whose pedagogical approach to teaching is not geared to a fourth grade level. What are the different perspe...

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...

The Anti-Slavery Movement

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

Bellamy/Looking Backward,

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

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...

Civil Rights in the Nineteenth Century

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