During the nineteenth century, children were desired, and enjoyed by parents. ... This paper will examine some characteristics of childhood in rural Nova Scotia during the nineteenth century. ... Life in the nineteenth century was not a time of all work and no play. ... , and during this century, that idea was held to be true. ... Although the girls differ in age, and as well in the time that they have written about, it can be concluded that children in the nineteenth century were needed. ...

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Woolf's depiction of the change between the eighteenth century and the nineteenth century mocks our conception of the exclusive moment when it was stated that "all was darkness; all was doubt; all was confusion. The Eighteenth century was over; the Nineteenth century had begun" (Woolf, 2000, p.156). As Orlando entered the nineteenth century, she observed "widow's weeds and bridal veils; hooked on to other excrescences were crystal palaces, bassinettes, military helmets, memorial wreaths, trousers, whiskers, wedding cakes, cannon, Christmas trees, telescopes, extinct monsters, gl...

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African Americans were looked down upon in the south during the nineteenth century and were viewed as impure based on skin color. ... The subject of sexism throughout "Desiree's Baby" displays the struggles of women in the nineteenth century as they attempt to live up to their fullest potential. ... In the nineteenth century women could not reach their full potential because of social restrictions. ... In the nineteenth century, to question your husband in that era meant that you were being a rampant, out of control wife. ... This showed me that a woman in the nineteenth centu...

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 Comparison and Contrast: Roles and Struggles of Women in "Charulata" and "Jane Eyre" Abstract Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre and Sattyajit Roy's movie Charulata are the products of taking materials from the nineteenth century throw two different societies. ... The name of the places like "Millcote" and "Morton" in Jane Eyre are seen which resemble lots of places in 19th century north-central England. ... Shyam Dua believes that "Charu is the model of nineteenth-century women in this film Charulata.... In nineteenth century,...

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The late nineteenth century saw a historic change in the emergence of feminism and the question of the position of women. Martha Vicinus contends that "the debate over the position, role, and purpose of women in society certainly predates 1880, but the late nineteenth century focused on this subject to a degree that was not equalled again until early 1970s" (496). ... Until the second half of the nineteenth century women were also relatively disadvantaged in the sphere of education. ...

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In nineteenth century, there appeared many great names in the art world of America such as George Catlin, George Healy, and Mary Cassatt. Among that, William Morris Hunt emerged as one of the most important American artists of the second half of the century, bringing a new influence and art to America. ... Martin Brimmer, one of Hunt's good friends, bought so many paintings of Millet in the early fifties of nineteenth century after being persuaded by Hunt (Shannon 36). ...

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Throughout the nineteenth century, China possessed a superior view of itself when compared to Western countries. ... Earlier than the nineteenth century it had to defend itself from other countries that were looking to settle into the land to make a profit in trading. ... In the early nineteenth century England traded with China through the East India Company. ...

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One thing that has carried through the centuries is athletics. ... " Large crowds would assemble to watch horses race long before the nineteenth century, but in the nineteenth century they became more popular. "During the first half of the nineteenth century, public schools became converts to "muscular Christianity," inspired by organized team play in rowing, cricket, and two forms of football (rugby and soccer), as well as competitions in track and field and a variety of racquet games. ...

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Women were valued very little by nineteenth century society. ... Henrik Ibsen uses Nora Helmer in A Doll House to portray the negative treatment of all women throughout society during the nineteenth century. ...

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America in the late nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented levels of immigration from central Europe, which in turn ignited equally unprecedented social and political tensions in the United States. ... My Antonia explores the lives of immigrants on the United States frontier in the second half of the nineteenth century. ... The melting pot, as McNall called Nativism, had been present from the beginning of the century of Immigration. ... Not only was nativism "present from the beginning of the century of immigration, but infected all sections of the country and every class"(Wells 6). ...

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Many American authors all throughout the nineteenth century portray naturalism. ... Women during the nineteenth century are treated as children. ... Like many nineteenth century authors, London and Gilman use naturalism to create conflict for their characters. ...

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For years, it has been argued whether or not Henrik Ibsen's A Doll House is a play presenting the feminist arguments of the Nineteenth century. ... Nora fulfills the perfect image of the Nineteenth century woman. ... He also has something to say about the role of men during the Nineteenth century. ...

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Women's Roles and Rights Starting the nineteenth century, the U.S. was still a man's world. ... Gender differences were strongly emphasized in nineteenth-century America mainly due to the economy. ... Although a number of small manufacturing enterprises existed in America, the value of the output of factories did not exceed that of farms until well past the middle of the nineteenth century. ...

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Structure in the nineteenth - century English novel is comprised of several intricately designed components that fit together to create a seamless narrative. ... The English novel of the nineteenth century depended highly upon the structure of the narrative. ... Character, plot, and theme are built upon, and played against, one another in order to create the carefully devised works of fiction which captured the attention of the reader in the nineteenth century and still engages readers today....

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Being black in the nineteenth century was a crime in itself. ... Unfortunately, this was every day life, and well believed customs in mid nineteenth century America. ... The nineteenth century was a time of oppression, that caused a lot of hardships for many people. ...

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That inventor is Eli Whitney, whom which could be considered the most important inventor of the nineteenth century. ... In the early nineteenth century there was one invention that would be originally created to help and make the country more efficient. ... By the end of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth slavery was on the decline and many people thought that there would no longer be a necessity. ...

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Paul Laurence Dunbar is a well know African American, classical poet of the nineteenth century, who writes poems in standard English or black dialect, seeks to recreate the Negro, and cries out to freedom form slavery to all of the Negroes who read his work. ... The image of Dunbar was defaced because they censured him for tarnishing the symbol and meaning of the plantation tales of the nineteenth century (Redding 129). ... Paul Laurence Dunbar is a well know African American, classical poet of the nineteenth century, who writes poems in standard English or black dialect, seeks to recreate...

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Women's poetry in the late nineteenth century was very sentimental and death was a common tool in provoking pathos in the reader. ... Women's poetry in the nineteenth century wasn't just about love, death, and expression. ... Nineteenth century female poets had a lot to say. ...

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On a less grand scale, the book is certainly a representative of 1920s society, a time when the values and morals of the eighteenth and nineteenth century were declining in favor of the materialism and narcissistic attitudes following the First World War. The American Dream of the eighteenth and nineteenth century was a proper place in society, which could be realized through self-reliance and self-confidence. ... The tide began to shift in the early twentieth century. ...

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During the late nineteenth century and during the twentieth century came personal narratives. ... One of the best known Indian writers of the twentieth century was Charles Eastman. ... The only Pueblo Indian to have a book published in the first half of the twentieth century was James Paytiamo, who wrote Flaming Arrow's People: By an Acoma Indian. ...

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It is unique because Native Americans were the original inhabitants of the Americas and experienced all the stages of its settlement by Europeans since the first colony in the seventeenth century and ending with the completion of the development of the western borders by the end of the nineteenth century. ... At the same time, Native Americans, although they were deprived of their ancestral lands during the nineteenth century, survived and were able to establish themselves in their political and economic rights, maintained their national identity and culture in spite of the invasion of modern...

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The beginning of the nineteenth century marked a major growth of art in America and the beginning of art as a profession. ... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, black artists in America were often craftsmen by trade. ... In the later half of the nineteenth century, there were movements for black education, which included some art education. ... At the beginning of the twentieth century, African American artists were still an isolated group. ... Between the turn of the century and 1920, many blacks emigrated to northern cities to escape the South, despite poor living conditions and fi...

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the best known and most conspicuous advocate of woman's rights in the nineteenth century. ... Stanton was the first person to launch every major advance achieved for woman in the nineteenth century and many of the reforms occurring in the twentieth century. ...

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This paper will compare all these important issues which came from the Victorian era with the late 20th Century and 21st Century. ... As for the late 20th and early 21st Century is known as a Postmodernism era, the time of the changes taking place and it refers to the growth of knowledge in all fields, including philosophy, literature and more. ... As stated earlier, this novel has taken place in the nineteenth century. This will make readers of late twentieth century and early twenty first century wonders if the situation that are portrayed in this novel is still relevant to the people in th...

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A Man with Many Skills Have you ever heard of Walt Whitman? I have. Walt Whitman can be considered one of the greatest writers because of his great attributions to literature, one his different view of life and two his unique writing methods in which you can observe from many of his works. Us...

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