Brent hardly embodied the ideal picture of true womanhood painted by white, upper class and later middle class women: pious, pure, submissive, and delicate. ... Flint, who feels self-pity for her husband's licentiousness, but no empathy for the author, her husband's victim. ... Sands as a lover, Jacobs goes against the ideal image of womanhood and shows independence. ... The male narrator could write his tale as reclamation of his manhood, but under the terms of white society's ideals of sexual ignorance for women Brent cannot claim "true" womanhood. ...

• Word Count: 1190
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Douglas did not give up when his master's wife, who had been teaching him the alphabet, was reprimanded for doing so by her husband. ... The man who would one day create the "happiest place on earth" experienced a less than ideal childhood. ...

• Word Count: 1009
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

The U.S. responded with Harassment and discrimination and it stayed like this even after the war. "...even though the woman out numbered the men" said Zeinert Karen "..in the labor force three to one they still had problems with the new ideal of women as wage laborers." ... With strong Confucian ideals, the girls that would have been more valuable would be virgins . ...

• Word Count: 1906
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

These two questions are ideal thematic rhetorical statements that both Crevecoeur and Douglass write about in various ways. ... Auld's wife did not know how to mistreat a slave, so instead of beating him, she secretly taught him how to read and write, but was caught soon by her husband who eventually made her stop. ... In this period, he wrote his Letters from an American Farmer, a series of delightful self-accounts of his own ideal existence as an American citizen. ...

• Word Count: 2927
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

"Douglass Proves the American Dream" The American Dream is the ideals of freedom, equality, opportunity, and a life of personal happiness and material comfort, traditionally held to be available for every American. ... He learned from the mistress's husband that the knowledge of a black man was a white man greatest fear. ...

• Word Count: 1886
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The South was ideal for growing tobacco due to the warm climate and the fertile soil. ... Their ideals included hard work, education, economic independence, and the belief that the community had the right and responsibility to decide whether an action was moral or immoral. ...

• Word Count: 4026
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: High School