American Authors

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This paper explains that, in "Journal of the First Voyage to America", Christopher Columbus describes the process of exploration and discovery and shows how the most significant part of his voyage is his encounter with the Native Americans. The paper also reviews Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" and explains that Paine writes strong and clear arguments to justify why New England should be free of Great Britain. The paper then relates that, in the mid-nineteenth century, Fanny Fern (Sara Willis Parton) stood up for women's rights in her book "Hints to Young Wives". The paper explains how, in this book, Fern provides examples of how a young housewife must cater to her husband's every need and then points out that the more a woman caters to her man's every need, the more her man will take her for granted. The paper includes quotations.

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"Lastly, was the Nineteenth Century. The Nineteenth Century lasted from 1801-1900. The time period of the Nineteenth Century was one of social change. I view this period as the period of "voice". Women's rights, for example was one of the leading issues that faced this period. Women of this period were not at all treated as equal as the men. In the mid-nineteenth century the pertinent questions were whether women should be able to vote, keep control of their property even when they were married, have access to a wider array of jobs, and cast off some of the stays and multiple skirts that encumbered their twenty five pounds of clothing."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Lauter, Paul, ed. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company., 2006.

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