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Identity and Gender Reflections in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Kate Chopin's The Awakening

it threatened who she was as a member of the white race and the upper classes. Therefore, it can be seen that Ednas desire to pa...

Argument in Favor of Nineteenth Century Southern Slavery

Master provided a slaves entire living, giving him food, shelter, and in effect, his life, then the slave owed his entire life to ...

Nineteenth Century Authors James, Davis, and Twain

Smiley, knowing full-well that this would set the old gentleman off on a rant about Jim Smiley and the celebrated jumping frog. Th...

Life and Works of Nineteenth Century French Composer Cesar Franck

(1822-1890) was born in Liege where he also first studied as a piano virtuoso from 1830-1835. Franck first toured Belgium at the a...

Nineteenth Century City Planning

which commenced in July 1909 with over three hundred principal citizens taking the position, was created as a means by which to "e...

Gangs of New York Film and New York Gangs of the Nineteenth Century

gangs" ("Gangs," 2003). Rival gangs include the Irish and the Natives, two groups that were usually present, but again, not the on...

Book Review of Rosalind Rosenberg's Divided Lives, American Women in the Twentieth Century

to be the homemakers, the wives, the mothers, the caregivers. Women were alternately placed on a pedestal and held in subservienc...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century New York and Paris

impressionism, a movement in painting that concentrated on the effects of light and color" This was a movement that originated in ...

Canada's Legal System and How the Female Legal Personality Has Evolved

their exclusion from society, because since they were not accorded legal personalities, this meant "women were not included in the...

Nineteenth Century 'War' of Tecumseh

to who Eckert has his characters refer to as "the tales of the old people" the meteor was "The Panther -- a powerful spirit passin...

Nineteenth Century and Greek Revival Architecture

"National Style" got its start - and finally ended during the latter part of the 19th century - in Philadelphia (Pollock, 2002)....

Comparative Analysis of 2 Texts on Women's Issues

Tanenbaum points out, "Even today a common way to damage a womans credibility is to call her a slut" (2000, p. 2). In many ways, ...

Nineteenth Century Romanticism and the Importance of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

of both on the individual. Certainly, Hamlet offers insight to a man who is torn by a number of powerful emotions but who also thi...

Eighteenth Century British Literature and Women

Evelina Evelina was Burneys first and most successful novel (Description of Evelina, 2002). It is a story in which Burney...

Nineteenth Century Imperialism and the Global Impact of the Industrial Revolution

by private individuals, who naturally placed their own needs over those of their workers. Kevin Reilly (1989) observed in his tex...

Four Issues Regarding the History of Australia

also occurred in numerous nations in the mid- to late-1950s through the 1970s (Spooner, 2002). The focus of this wave included: "e...

Candide by Voltaire and Women

(Voltaire Chapter 8). She began living the life of a prisoner of war for the most part. One author notes she was "ill-used by othe...

History of Europe from the Fifteen through Nineteenth Centuries

In six pages this history of Europe overview examines the region's ocean sailing advantages and superiority along with the roles o...

Nineteenth Century Childhood in the Works of Henry James

In eight pages this paper examines how 19th century childhood is reflected in James's What Maisie Knew and The Turn of the Screw. ...

U.S. History, Labor, and Equality Questions

who threatened the racial caste system for that matter (747). When threats failed to yield results, planters could call upon the p...

20th Century Women's Suffrage Movement

In six pages this paper examines the evolution of women's suffrage throughout the 20th century as it included the Progressive Move...

Nineteenth and Twentieth Century U.S. and Mexico

general had helped the Tennessee Democrat win both his partys nomination and the 1844 election. It also heightened tensions with M...

US Chinese Immigration During the Nineteenth Century

In seven pages this paper discusses the 'push and pull' issues pertaining to the immigration of Chinese to America. Six sources a...

The Mid Nineteenth Century Prejudice Against Chinese Immigrants

In eight pages this research paper discusses Chinese immigrant discrimination from the 1850s through the 1870s with the assistance...

Development in Japan and China From the Sixteenth Until the Nineteenth Century

In five pages the time period from 1500 until 1800 is the focus of a discussion of Japan and China's religious, economic, and poli...

Death Theme in Poetry of the Early Nineteenth Century

In five pages this paper examines how the death theme predominates in the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Lydia Huntle...

Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Canadian Societal Changes

subsistence base to an industrial one set in motion a number of societal factors which had to be dealt with. Masses...

Twentieth Century Gender History

This paper presents an overview of the 20th century events that changed the way society perceives and understands gender and women...

A Review of The Princess of Cleves

An 8 page essay reviewing the novel by Marie de La Fayette. This so called women's novel provides interesing insight into French h...

Historical Perspective on Women's Workplace Fashion

the social elite where the yuppies of the 1980s went quite the opposite way, showing off their designer suits. Steindorf suggests ...