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believe that everyone (even women) should learn to read and write because the reading of the scriptures was thought to be one of t...

no avail. Her father explained that the antidote would actually kill her, but she did not want to live being poisonous anyway. The...

to the role of an international statesman; through his efforts, he ultimately ended up as a role model for many American youths wh...

The information, however, should prove sufficient for further investigation on the part of the student. Tales and Sketches: Scie...

in the goodness of man and the mans natural state is in nature and is burdened by civilization (Campbell). The doctrine of sensibi...

as being mostly unforgiving of mans shortcomings, inasmuch as he implies that humanity has turned into a selfish, egotistical and ...

of the Puritan ideal that humans born into the world had a tendency to sin and he went on further to theorize that the human subco...

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

In five pages this essay considers nonconformity and conformity as it is depicted in Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, Black Boy by Richard...

for the tumultuous relationship between the inhabitants of Uncle Sams residence, later described by President Abraham Lincoln as a...

truly fulfilled, and in fact he likens this fulfillment to a nearly spiritual ideal. On the other hand, there was...

punishes her by labeling her with the letter "A" and through social ostracism. Thoreaus argument with the state in "Civil Disobe...

ordinary and therefore the townspeople find it frightening. They have tried on several occasions to discover why the minister wear...

his studies had no definite object, either of public advantage or personal ambition; a gentleman, high bred and fastidiously delic...

repressed. Sexuality, gender, cultural practice, ideology, and narrativity, among other things are represented within art as appe...

culture and education along with the setting of his hometown of Salem, Massachusetts, is a common topic in Nathaniel Hawthornes wo...

and venture onto "a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow pat...

we use our life experiences to decide what wee believe otherwise to be. In Young Goodman Brown we are faced with a...

ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...

attending Bowdoin College. While some of his work was published, this did not provide him with enough income to live on and he ear...

Introduction The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a story filled with many images and many forms of symbolism. It is a ri...

opening to Jacksons Lottery, as Jackson carefully underscores the normality of the day and how what is to take place is viewed as ...

Such a setting, she points out, simply added to the fear and accusations of witchcraft against innocent people (Jacobs). I...

does begin to notice the details of her life that she used to overlook, such as returning home, windblown and sunburned, and disco...

This paper addresses Hawthorne's use of symbolism in 'The Scarlet Letter.' The author contends that Hawthorne uses mirrors to sym...

In six pages this paper contrasts and compares the images featured in these two poems by Walt Whitman. There are no other sources...

each of the six areas of life: family and home; spiritual and ethical; social and cultural; financial and career; physical and hea...

reality of the profession. It needs a makeover much as it had in the 19th century in Brittan when nursing reformers struggled to h...

the daughter who has lost a mother and does not know it: "She was growing too attached to the child and wanted desperately to help...

very opposing forces. There is an evident duality to Herakles. On the one hand, he has a compassionate side that truly wants to ...