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Black Studies - Philosophy

Victorian Era

Words: 1370
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Victorian Philosophical Anti-Rationalism -- the anti-practical and anti-Utilitarian philosophy of Newman, Pater, and Arnold The Victorian era in England gave birth to Jeremy Bentham's utilitarian philosophy of social governance,…

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Essay

Family and Marriage

Victorian Era Literature

Words: 580
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

Dr. Jekyll and Victorian Literature England during the reign of Queen Victoria was a very rigid, prudish, and regulated society, very different from the world today. In Victorian England,…

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Case Study

Film

Victorian Era Ireland Miss Julie Depends on

Words: 925
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Case Study

Victorian era Ireland, Miss Julie depends on effective costumes. Costume designer Consolata Boyle delivers, providing the titular protagonist with the requisite garb of the era. Issues of gender and…

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Essay

Art  (general)

Victorian Era and Early Modernism

Words: 1391
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

Art Nouveau & Modernism The time period following the Victorian era was marked by widespread changes in design, styles, and art in general. Two of the most important movements…

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Essay

Literature

Victorian Female Sexuality Victorian Sexuality George Bernard

Words: 2004
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Essay

Victorian Female Sexuality Victorian Sexuality: George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. arren's Profession and Thomas Hardy's "The Ruined Maid" omen in the Victorian era must have suffered enormously under the massive…

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Term Paper

Children

Victorian Childhood and Alice in Wonderland

Words: 3889
Length: 9 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Alice in Wonderland as Victorian Literature -- Being a child in Victorian England was difficult. They had to behave like the adults did, follow all rules, they had to…

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Sports - Women

Victorian Women During the Victorian

Words: 3277
Length: 10 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Meanwhile, Melmotte introduces Marie into the matrimonial arena at an extravagant ball for which, in hope of favors that will come, he gains the patronage of several duchesses and…

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Literature

Victorian the Significance of Love

Words: 1072
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Term Paper

In the face of this awareness of human decline and despair the protagonist pledges love to his partner. This love is described as "true," which implies a love that…

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Literature

Influential Victorian Literature Scott and Historical Fiction

Words: 2772
Length: 10 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Sir Walter Scott was a writer a part of the romantic era, roughly 1797 -- 1837. Scott was born slightly before the beginning of this era, in 1771, and…

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Thesis

Urban Studies

Kitchen Stairs Final Ext Victorian

Words: 4730
Length: 15 Pages
Type: Thesis

dining room. day. MOTHER, ALICIA, and BOBBY are seated around the table. ALICIA and BOBBY are eating hungrily; MOTHER is staring at the wall vacantly. ALICIA What's wrong, Mom?…

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Literature

Treatment Representation of Women or Children in Nineteenth Century Victorian Literature

Words: 3472
Length: 10 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Victorian literature was remarkably concerned with the idea of childhood, but to a large degree we must understand the Victorian concept of childhood and youth as being, in some…

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3 Pages
Term Paper

Literature

Realism and Compromise

Words: 1189
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Victorian Prose and Poetry, by Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom. Specifically, it will discuss ealism and compromise in Victorian Literature. How do Victorian writers search for realistic compromises with…

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Essay

Literature

Alone Are Wanted in Life

Words: 1496
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

Stephen lackpool, on the other hand could be considered to be from the other side of the tracks. He was a poor man and worked in ounderby's factory as…

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Literature

Vic Women as Outsiders A Comparison of

Words: 625
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Thesis

Vic Women Women as Outsiders: A Comparison of Jane Eyre and "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" Women are often portrayed as a marginalized "other" or outsider in literature, reflecting the…

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Literature

About Controversial Science

Words: 1676
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Research Paper

Scientific Objectivity and Scientific Irascibility: Melvin Harris' rhetoric on the perpetration of the fraud of the Maybrick Ink test According to author Melvin Harris, one of the most infamous…

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Term Paper

Literature

Realism of George Eliot George

Words: 1709
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

From these examples there is a varied sense of the realism of Eliot in both her prose and her poems. The realism of Eliot demonstrates a reflection of the…

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9 Pages
Thesis

Literature

Knowledge and Peril Explored in

Words: 2257
Length: 9 Pages
Type: Thesis

He tells alton he was "surprised that among so many men of genius . . . that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret" (37).…

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6 Pages
Term Paper

Sports - Women

Old Nurse's Story by Elizabeth Gaskell

Words: 1943
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Old Nurse's Story Elizabeth Gaskell's "The Old Nurse's Story" uses gothic imagery and Victorian themes to elucidate the role and status of women. Online critics claim the story is…

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Essay

Literature

British Poetry

Words: 1309
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Essay

"The Sleeping Beauty" by Lord Alfred Tennyson uses several narrative techniques. The first of which can be seen in the second line of the first stanza. "She lying on…

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Term Paper

Literature

Symbolism in Children's Literature Animals

Words: 2131
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

I should wish her to be brought up in a manner suiting her prospects," continued my benefactress; "to be made useful, to be kept humble: as for the vacations,…

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4 Pages
Essay

Literature

Being Earnest This Play Is

Words: 1433
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

Jack proceeds to let the audience know "…the vital importance of Being Earnest." Distortion, Moral Conduct, and Restoration Comedy Of course, deception and frivolity are part of a farce,…

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Essay

Literature

British Literature Romanticism to Present

Words: 580
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Essay

British Lit. Romanticism to Present Following the liberating Age of Reason, the Enlightenment, the age when humanity was triumphing through literature and Rousseau's philosophy was inspiring revolutions, the age…

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12 Pages
Essay

Literature

Metonymics in Little Dorit Metonymy

Words: 5420
Length: 12 Pages
Type: Essay

One cannot build the right sort of house -- the houses are not really adequate, "Blinds, shutter, curtains, awnings, were all closed and drawn to keep out the star.…

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5 Pages
Essay

Family and Marriage

Matthew Arnold British Liberalism and

Words: 1404
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Essay

hile the contemporary society might regard an issue such as one's marriage with the sister of his deceased wife as being absurd, this problem dominated affairs in Great Britain…

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Term Paper

Literature

Interpretation Analysis Evaluation of a Poem

Words: 1431
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Idyllic, Idolizing, Late Victorian Tears The poem by the Victorian poet laureate Alfred Lord Tennyson entitled "Tears, idle tears," has the unfortunate status of having its become such a…

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6 Pages
Essay

Sports - Women

Female Sexual Subjugation and Domesticity

Words: 1848
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Essay

Particularly, as slavery and segregation had contributed to the establishment of a wealthy ownership class in the United States, so had the nature of its 20th century consumer culture…

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Women's Issues - Sexuality

Gender and Science

Words: 840
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Term Paper

gender have influenced the historic development of science in the west, as reason and science have long been seen as male traits. Similarly, gender ideals such as the characterization…

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Architecture

Architecture of Boston Is a

Words: 1481
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

com). Sedate it is definitely not. e read, "Even from this distance the tower's abundant ornamentation is clear. Its Northern Italian Gothic style adds exotic elements to the neighborhood's…

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4 Pages
Book Report

Family and Marriage

Embattled Paradise by Arlene Skolinck

Words: 1183
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Book Report

Embattled Paradise by Arlene Skolnick Embattled Paradise Title, Author, Publication Date Arlene S. Skolnick, Embattled Paradise: The American Family in an Age of Uncertainty, 1993 Book Summary The conflation…

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5 Pages
Essay

Psychology

What Made Virginia Woolf Mad

Words: 1512
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Essay

Virginia Woolf knew there were deaths visible to the public and deaths that occurred deep within one's heart and mind to which no one else is witness. The Victorian…

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6 Pages
Essay

Literature

Robert Browning's Poem My Last

Words: 1650
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Essay

Chekhov employed an attitude similar to most nineteenth century short story writers, as he attempted to captivate the reader's attention through putting across concepts that would make it especially…

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20 Pages
Term Paper

Literature

Holly Bilski English 130b Dr

Words: 5197
Length: 20 Pages
Type: Term Paper

" Instead of establishing a set rhythm as with his rhyme scheme, he punctuates in order to delineate an end of a particular episode within the poem which also…

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4 Pages
Essay

Literature

French Lieutenant's Woman Book &

Words: 1111
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Essay

Karel Reisz' 1981 motion picture The French Lieutenant's Woman is based on the novel and the director also seems to be appreciative in regard to postmodernism and existentialism when…

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10 Pages
Term Paper

American History

Changing World of American Women's

Words: 2900
Length: 10 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Even though many sought change, it took many decades for their reform to take hold and of course, like all change there were many set backs along the way.…

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Essay

History - Asian

Analyzing the Wuthering Heights

Words: 1184
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

uthering Heights Emily Bronte is an author who was born in 1818. She is known for publishing her only novel, uthering Heights, in 1847 under the name of Ellis…

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Term Paper

Literature

Great War on Modern Western

Words: 477
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Further, the modern novel also focuses on issues of social and historical change and the use of such points-of-view as stream of consciousness. Other typical characteristics of modernism are…

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6 Pages
Essay

Art  (general)

Manchester Town Hall and St Pancras New Church

Words: 1609
Length: 6 Pages
Type: Essay

London has a rich architectural history. Some of the most popular buildings today come from the 19th century when Victorian Gothic architecture was popular. St. Pancras New Church offers…

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8 Pages
Term Paper

Literature

Nights at the Circus Is a Fairy

Words: 2611
Length: 8 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Nights at the Circus" is a fairy tale in the modern times. It revolves around the circus star, Sophie Fevvers, who is half-human and half-swan, and who is the…

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10 Pages
Term Paper

Other

Coco Channel

Words: 2803
Length: 10 Pages
Type: Term Paper

CO Chanel Today, the term "designer" is too often associated with people who churn out clothing lines every season. In this sense, Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel stands as a breed…

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Essay

Psychology

Self Is Empty Toward a

Words: 1612
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Essay

An empty self wishes for nothing more than to e guided and taken care of, easy prey for an abuse therapist, or even one who is not intentionally abusive…

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20 Pages
Research Paper

Health - Nursing

Environmental Theory and Emancipatory Knowledge

Words: 5800
Length: 20 Pages
Type: Research Paper

Nightingale met a friend Richard Monckton Miles in 1842. Then in 1844, Nightingale asked Dr. Howe if she could do a charitable job in a hospital like the catholic…

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Thesis

Sports - Women

Sarah Orne Jewett and Feminism

Words: 2040
Length: 7 Pages
Type: Thesis

Throughout her novels and short stories, Jewett uses the weakness or malicious of the male characters to allow her female characters more power and therefore independence. Many scholars also…

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Literature

Parenting in Henry James's Novels

Words: 1202
Length: 4 Pages
Type:

Henry James's work is not only a book about bad parenting, as it is not a book about relationships. It is about a fragmented and decadent society where normal…

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Term Paper

Urban Studies

Memory and Place of Carlton

Words: 3276
Length: 12 Pages
Type: Term Paper

). Waverley Park was designed for and reflected a demographic shift in Melbourne's population away from the inner suburbs to the south and east. Waverley Park was a symbol…

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Sports - Women

Cather a Quote From a

Words: 2302
Length: 7 Pages
Type: Term Paper

This reveals the more liberated ideals of the west and of the pioneer culture. First, Alexandra envisions herself "being lifted and carried lightly by some one very strong. He…

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Sociology

White on Black

Words: 729
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Term Paper

accepting slavery in the west may never be uncovered to a level of acceptance of those who suffered under the terrible treatment. Slavery was an unjust and evil order…

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3 Pages
Essay

Film

Version of Wilde's Play and

Words: 821
Length: 3 Pages
Type: Essay

People living double lives and the adult themes associated with many of the main characters' forays were hard to talk about openly at the time of its writing. But…

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7 Pages
Essay

Literature

Gender in Poetry Literature Lesson Duration

Words: 1983
Length: 7 Pages
Type: Essay

Gende in Poety / Liteatue Lesson Lesson Duation mins Rational: This is an intoduction to the gende issues which wee so pevalent in the Victoian ea, and a backdop…

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10 Pages
Thesis

Literature

Domestic Prison Gender Roles and Marriage the

Words: 3215
Length: 10 Pages
Type: Thesis

Domestic Prison Gender oles and Marriage The Domestic Prison: James Thurber's "Secret Life of Walter Mitty" and Kate Chopin's "The Story of an Hour" James Thurber's "The Secret Life…

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5 Pages
Term Paper

Sports - Women

Down East and What Society

Words: 1826
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

In this scene Anna points at Sanderson and identifies him as "the man who betrayed me," but it makes no difference. She is banished. Sanderson is not. David, the…

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4 Pages
Term Paper

Architecture

Architectural Analysis Unidentified Brick Building India

Words: 1002
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

Indian Architecture In the photographs provided, the building's architectural context has quite obviously changed over time. The oldest-looking photo of the three shows little development in the surrounding area,…

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4 Pages
Term Paper

Literature

Hawthorne's Rejection of Puritan Values

Words: 1337
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

" Mather 22) Hawthorne clearly stepped away from the Puritan ethic by consistently alluding to the existence of the earthly supernatural. Though this was a fear of the Puritans,…

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5 Pages
Essay

Feminism

History of Psychology and Hysteria 1

Words: 1603
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Essay

History Of Psychology and Hysteria Hysteria, symbolize women in the field of psychology during history and in many different cultures for the reason that the issues that society goes…

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Term Paper

Sports - Women

American Moderns Fashioning a New National Culture

Words: 1613
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

American Moderns: Fashioning a New National Culture Literature and historians alike look to the past to define the present. In many ways, one can look at the defining moments…

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Military

Sarah Emma Edmonds Private Thompson Sarah

Words: 1631
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Term Paper

These changes would not come to fruition until the omen's Suffrage Movement. However, the treatment of Sarah demonstrates that although she broke law and strict gender roles, rather than…

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Term Paper

Literature

Goblin Market - Christina Georgina

Words: 1546
Length: 4 Pages
Type: Term Paper

40"Lie close," Laura said, 41 Pricking up her golden head: 42"We must not look at goblin men, 43We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they…

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Annotated Bibliography

Literature

Armstrong Tim 1992 Hardy Thaxter

Words: 593
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Annotated Bibliography

Graves, R.N. (1995). Hardy's "The Convergence of the Twain." The Explicator, 53 (2): 96-99. In this essay, the eventual unity of the iceberg and the Titanic is described as…

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Term Paper

Sports - Women

Improvements in the Educational Provision for Women

Words: 3358
Length: 11 Pages
Type: Term Paper

woman's rights were little recognized. As a creative source of human life, she was confined to the home as a wife and mother. Moreover, she was considered intellectually, emotionally…

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Book Report

Sports - Women

Britons Forging the Nation Linda

Words: 524
Length: 2 Pages
Type: Book Report

In chapter "Majesty," Colley argues that with George III in the late eighteen-century, the British began to define royal culture as interlinked with patriotism. The royal family became a…

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5 Pages
Essay

Literature

Psychoanalytical Reading of the Turn

Words: 1503
Length: 5 Pages
Type: Essay

James does imply in the prologue of the Turn of the Screw that there is a deeper meaning to the governess' narrative than merely a straightforward ghost story. So…

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