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Leisure Activities Philadelphia Pa
597 words
Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and
Leisure in Turn-of -the-Century New York
(Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1986).
Kathy Peiss describes the leisure activities of
young working women living in New York during the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in
her book Cheap Amusements. The book explores the
emergence of a young female working class and the
conflict the women encountered with the "Old
World" traditions. Peiss also explores the
commercialization of lei...
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The Fall Of House Usher
1,221 words
During the nineteenth century, literary writers
were encouraged in transcendentalism. Their main
focus was on capturing the spirituality in nature.
For example, authors such as Henry Thoreau and
Ralph Emerson were dominating the world of poetry
and prose with their tales of nature. From
Thoreau's journey through the Maine Woods to
Emerson's Nature, the transcendental ere, was in
the main stream. Yet, not all of the nineteenth
century writers shared this same viewpoint. As a
matter of fact, one w...
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Life Of Frederick Douglass Learning To Read
1,052 words
The growth of domestic slave trade in the United
States was induced after the official end of the
African slave trade in 1808. Slaves were
considered a piece of property and a source of
labor, especially in the Southern cotton fields.
The slave could be bought and sold like an animal.
He or she was allowed no stable family life and
little privacy. Law prohibited the slave from
learning to read or write. Frederick Douglass was
one slave who successively escaped the institution
of slavery, and fou...
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Story Of An Hour Louise Mallard
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In The Story Of An Hour, a short story written by
Kate Chopin, the desire for independence from male
domination was illustrated. This theme represents
a common sentiment from oppressed women in the
nineteenth century. Louise Mallard, the
protagonist, reveals her true feelings about her
marriage to Brently Mallard. After hearing the
news of her husbands death, Louise weeps not for
her loss, but for her freedom. Through the context
of the story and the use of symbolism, Chopin
helps us understand ...
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Dont Ask Dont Gays In The Military
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Lauren Stewart Government 2301 December 7, 200!
GAYS IN THE MILITARY! In 1994 there was a debate
at the White House, which wanted to let gays serve
in the military openly, yet Congress and the
military did not. The compromise protected
homosexuals in uniform as long as they didnt
flaunt their sexual orientation. In the eighties
and nineties, gays have mobilized to seek civil
rights protections from the National Government.
In the United States, questions of basic civil
rights and liberties are o...
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Labor Unions Large Scale
808 words
The growth in large-scale industry and labor
unions in the second half of the nineteenth
century can be explained in many ways. Unlike
earlier in the century, now there were broad
markets, fast expansion in good economic times,
thus causing a rise in demand for more goods.
Additionally, new inventions with development in
big business caused large scale industrialization
to become possible. Lastly, companies ability to
employ mass numbers of people to work in their
factories for cheap further enc...
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Early Nineteenth Century Heathcliff And Catherine
876 words
In every authors life, there is an event or
sequence of childhood/ early adulthood events that
have shaped the authors life and general point of
view. These events often color or influence the
authors outlook and filter their way into the
authors work. In Wuthering Heights, by Emily
Bronte, this is clearly shown... The reader sees
an extraordinary inwardness in Emily Bronte's book
Wuthering Heights. Emily has a gloomy and isolated
childhood... Says Charlotte Bronte, my sisters
disposition was no...
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Civil War Nineteenth Century
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There were many reasons why Civil War poets wrote
about the war. Some used the war to express their
ideas concerning society, religion, and mans place
in the world. While others aspired to capture the
effects of the war and its impact on the soldiers
and their families. Few of the poets trying to
capture the wars effects approached realism
because sentimentality and melodramatic temper was
typical for their era. There were so many
different feelings express in the poetry about the
Civil War. I p...
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Miles An Hour Steam Engines
1,292 words
How much people's lives changed for the better
during the Industrial Revolution and why? In
Britain about two hundred years ago, great changes
took place in making goods and transport, which
has moulded the way our world works today. These
changes made big differences to many people's
lives and work methods; and put together these are
called the Industrial Revolution. They started in
Britain and speed to Europe and on to the United
States. A lot of the Industrial Revolution's
changes helped the ...
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The Yellow Wall A Twist On Conventional Symbols
870 words
Reflecting their role in society, women in
literature are often portrayed in a position that
is dominated by men. Especially in the nineteenth
century, women were repressed and controlled by
their husbands as well as other male influences.
In "The Yellow Wall-Paper, " by Charlotte Perkins
Gilman, the protagonist is oppressed and
represents the effect of the oppression of women
in society. This effect is created by the use of
complex symbols such as the house, the window, and
the wall-paper which...
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Women In The Progressive Era
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... rant workers habits, including drinking,
saloons, and prostitution. With the settlement
houses, which were mostly ran by women, were
renovated, maintained, and lived in. They were
located within ethnic neighborhoods to 'improve'
the people who resided there and at the same time,
'Americanize' them. Like Jane Adams, founder of
Hull House in Chicago in 1889, most were women who
had few alternatives other than marriage or
teaching, here, native-born women wanted to
acquaint their neighbors with...
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Thomas Hardy Nineteenth Century
650 words
Explore Hardy's portrayal of women in three of the
stories studied. The Wessex tales was set in the
nineteenth century; Thomas Hardy decided to write
his stories and novels in the past, during the
nineteenth century before he was born. Hardy got
some of his ideas from his grand parents; he used
to spend long evening next to the fire listening
to his grand parents telling stories form the
past. Thomas Hardy invented his own places He is
highlighting the point that women around that time
do not ha...
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Heart Of Darkness Nineteenth Century
1,363 words
There have been many critics, predominantly China
Achebe, that have cast a cloak of racism upon the
back of Joseph Conrad. Those authors base these
allegations upon the novel Heart of Darkness,
calling it a vile and most ungodly novel that only
seeks to set the black race as a footstool of the
white race. However, one must realize that there
is a much deeper meaning to the novel than that of
blatant racism. It is, in fact, a connection with
the past that shows both the mindset, as well as
the ig...
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Imperialism Representation In Conrad And Kipling
1,526 words
Imperialism sprung from an altruistic and
unselfish aim to take up the white mans burden and
wean [the] ignorant millions from their horrid
ways. These two citations are, of course, from
Kiplings White Mans Burden and Conrad's Heart of
Darkness, respectively, and they splendidly
encompass what British and European imperialism
was about at least seen from the late-nineteenth
century point of view. This essay seeks to explore
the comparisons and contrasts between Conrad's and
Kiplings view of impe...
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Expansionism In The Late 19th Early 20th Century
704 words
Expansionism in America during the late nineteenth
and early twentieth century shared many
similarities and differences to that of previous
American expansionist ideals. In both cases of
American expansionism, the Americans believed that
we must expand our borders in order to keep the
country running upright. Also, the Americans
believed that the United States was the strongest
of nations, and that they could take any land they
pleased. This is shown in the "manifest destiny"
of the 1840 's and ...
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James Fenimore Cooper Nineteenth Century
600 words
James Fenimore Cooper was born in the year 1789,
and lived in New York State until 1803. (1) Since
James Fenimore Cooper lived along the frontier, he
was able to capture that way of life and
accurately portray it in his novels. (2) This is
one of the many reasons why he was loved and
admired as a writer. James Cooper attended Yale
University. (3) After he was expelled his junior
year in 1805, (4) he enlisted in the Navy as a
common seaman in 1806 and then went on to warrant
a midshipman from 180...
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Late Nineteenth Century Importance Of Being Earnest
902 words
The society presented by Wilde in the first act of
The Importance of Being Earnest is the late
Victorian society within which he lived. This
society was highly influenced by the nouveau riche
and aristocracy. Wilde's play focuses upon this
sphere of social society with its drawing room
setting. The late nineteenth century society was
very much based upon rigid class distinctions and
this comedy of the same period holds this same
ideal. Evidence of the society this literature was
drawn from can b...
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Man And Woman View Of Women
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Walt Whitman helped shape American poetry through
his various works. In I Hear America Singing, he
glorified the average working man in his Ideal
Democracy. In the introduction to Leaves of Grass,
Whitman expressed his belief in the common man and
woman (Napierkowski 157). Whitman used many
different themes to get his point across, and
these themes shaped his work. The theme of common
people in the American democracy sets the tone and
wording, and contributes to the overall message of
I Hear Ame...
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Queen Victoria Prime Minister
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Victoria and the big-bang theory Fenian Fire: The
British Government Plot to Assassinate Queen
Victoria Christy Campbell HarperCollins? 18. 99,
pp 320 Twenty-five years ago, I was one of the
Secretaries of State who accompanied James
Callaghan to Buckingham Palace when he presented
the Queen with the Governments silver jubilee
gift. After we had discussed a short list of
suitable presents, including a saddle and a clock
set in Welsh anthracite, we had decided on a
silver coffee pot. The gracious...
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19 Th Century Nineteenth Century
820 words
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper is
a short story that deals with many different
issues that woman in the 19 th century had to deal
with on a daily basis. In general the mistreatment
of women was so commonplace that most of the time
it wasn t even noticed. The two main characters of
the story, taking place during the 19 th century,
are the narrator and her husband, John. Life for
the two is like most other marriages in this time
period, except for the fact that the narrator is
not...
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