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Mansfield Park: Stasis Validation or Social Critique?, 2001.
A critical analysis of 'Mansfield Park" by Jane Austen. The author gives a brief outline of the main themes of the book and provides an analysis of the criticisms by various writers.
4,070 words (approx. 16.3 pages), 5 sources, $ 109.95
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An examination of the criticisms of Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park". The author gives a brief outline of the main themes of the book and provides an analysis of the criticisms by various writers.
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"Most critics seem to agree that the novel Mansfield Park is somehow alien to both Jane Austen?s personality and the tone of her other works. Lionel Trilling remarks that it is not possible for him to observe how different Mansfield Park is from Austen?s works both before and after, particularly from Pride and Prejudice, without supposing that she had undergone a spiritual crisis in the intervening period between the two novels. He postulates that ?fatigue? must have played a part in that crisis, apparently suggesting that Austen wrote the novel during a profoundly depressed state of mind (Trilling 433). Trilling further asserts that Austen?s other works are essentially ?modern novels,? but that Mansfield Park ?scandalizes modern assumptions about social relations, about virtue, about religion, sex and art? (Trilling 426). Trilling?s presumption is that Austen wrote Mansfield Park as a sort of atonement for the levity she had exercised earlier and that the book is to be read as a primer of behavioral attributes, without irony."
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Jane Austen's 'Mansfield Park', 2002.
This paper is an analysis of Austen's 'Mansfield Park' using Roland Barthes' literary criticism book 'S/Z'.
1,748 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 56.95
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The following paper examines the five codes and ideas that appear in Roland Barthes' 'S/Z' and applies it to Jane Austen's novel 'Mansfield Park'. Barthes' codes apply both on the small scale, to the language and on the larger scale, to the whole novel. This paper demonstrates the application of the codes, specifically the cultural and symbolic code, to both the novel as a whole and to certain selected texts.
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"Roland Barthes writes about different characters in Sarrasine fitting into different roles, such as passive/active or mother/father. In Mansfield Park, many of the characters fit into these roles or actant. Fanny can definitely be classified as "passive". She is not a radical, she stands for silence, tradition, tranquillity, manners and for acting upon what one knows, not what one feels. Mary Crawford is "active" and an advocate of change. She acts on her emotions and stands for movement, modern ideas, progressiveness and speaking one's mind instead of remaining silent."
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Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park", 2006.
An analysis of the heroine Fanny Price from Jane Austen's novel "Mansfield Park".
918 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper describes and analyzes the character of Fanny Price from the novel "Mansfield Park" and contrasts her character to other characters in the novel. The paper explains that Fanny Price's character feels her position in society deeply and acts according to what society expects of her but does not sacrifice her morals or integrity in doing so.
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"While Fanny Price of Mansfield Park is hardly Jane Austen's most flamboyant heroine, she does embody certain positive traits, which distinguish her from the Bertrams and from the rest of her immediate society. Fanny's deep sense of morality contrasts sharply to the self-centered habits of her adoptive mother, Mrs. Bertram, as well as to the conniving, indulgent behavior of Aunt Norris. Her humility and kindness set her apart from her cousins and from the Crawfords as well. In the world of Mansfield Park, only one person treats her kindly - her cousin, Edmund - and it is in her love for him that Fanny comes to embody her most heroic aspects."
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Motivations in "Mansfield Park", 2005.
An analysis of the success of Henry and Mary Crawford's seduction of Fanny Price and Edmund Bertram in Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park".
1,896 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 60.95
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This paper focuses primarily on the methods used by Henry and Mary Crawford to seduce Fanny Price and Edmund Bertram, respectively, and why these methods succeed in some instances-and with specific characters-and fail in others. It looks at why Edmund and Fanny turn down their seducers for a more fulfilling relationship together: After being raised as brother and sister, but only sharing blood as cousins since they have an unparalleled and sincere love which cannot be found or forged outside of the family bloodline.
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"Austen creates a novel version of the morality play in which Fanny and Mary personify the characteristics with which they are associated. Fanny represents every trait that will enable Edmund to live a spiritually enlightened and fulfilling life. Mary represents material and physical temptations that frustrate and prohibit spiritual growth and development. Throughout the first two volumes of the text, Edmund symbolically leaves Fanny to pursue Mary and her overwhelming temptations: Fanny is first left to cut roses under the ascendancy of Mrs. Norris while Edmund teaches Mary to ride Fanny's horse (63-5). "
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Austen: "Mansfield Park", 1995.
Discusses Jane Austen's use of irony, interpersonal relations governed by status and the rules of social class in her novels of manners, specifically "Mansfield Park".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 23.95
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"Jane Austen was noted as a novelist of manners whose works are structured around irony and interpersonal relations governed by status and the rules of social class. Mansfield Park is a novel abut Sir Thomas Bertram and his family, representatives of the landed gentry in the time of the writing of the novel. It might seem then that the story was so much a product of a time and place that it had little to say to our contemporary society, but this is not the case. Austen above all is a novelist who delves deeply into human character, and people then and people today are not that different in what they want from life or in how they relate to other people at a basic level.
We may have little in common with the landed gentry in terms of their economic or social position. For one thing, the stratification of British society in general is foreign to us ..."
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The Importance of Place in Jane Austen?s "Mansfield Park", 2001.
A woman's physical residence and status in the social hierarchy in "Mansfield Park."
1,115 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This essay questions whether one?s innate nature or the environment in which one is raised determines one?s character according to Jane Austen. The essay explains the historical background of the great estates that had traditionally been symbols of social and familial stability. Now the new commercial classes were trying to buy their way into society by acquiring great estates. The essay deals with the conflict between tradition and improvement and concludes that Austen leaves us with the sense that while place is not an absolute determinant of success, there is value in trying to continue the great estate system with those that truly understand and appreciate what it can do.
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"Like most women of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Fanny?s ?place? will be determined by the status and position of the man she marries. This is true both in terms of her place in the social hierarchy as well as the physical place where she will live in society. Her mother, for example, married ?unwisely? for love and ended up with a low social and family position. She lives in poverty in urban Portsmouth. Fanny?s aunt, Lady Bertram, on the other hand, married for social position and lives in comfort at Mansfield Park, a member of the landed gentry."
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Venous Stasis Ulcers, 2007.
This paper reviews the role of WOC/ET nursing in treatment and patient outcomes for individuals diagnosed with venous stasis leg ulcers.
2,354 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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The paper examines the prevalence, etiology, prevention, assessment, care and treatment by WOC/ET nurses in various settings, including acute care and home care settings. The paper includes details about recent studies reflecting modern treatment approaches and looks at guidelines to help nurses provide adequate care for patients with venous stasis ulcers, CVI and related conditions. The paper concludes that WOC/ET nurse professionals face many challenges when assisting patients with venous stasis ulcers. The paper asserts that it is vital for nursing staff to embark on continuous education plans to ensure they can provide optimal patient care in all situations and settings.
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Introduction
Prevalence/Etiology/Assessment
Prevention
Treatment
Care/Treatment by WOC/ET Nurse in Different Settings
Recommendations
Summary of Literature
Areas For Future Research
Conclusions
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"Venous insufficiency ulcers or stasis ulcers typically form as side effects of complications with blood flow through the veins (Rastinehad, 2006). Leaky valves and obstructions are partly to blame for stagnated or incorrect blood flow especially to the lower extremities. Typically as blood from the lower extremities begins to college in the leg, tissues surrounding the veins and leg are damaged, and ulcers commonly result (Tyco, 2006). It is important when reviewing venous ulcers to understand the cause and the characteristics so a proper diagnosis may be made. Typically venous stasis ulcers are characterized by distinct symptoms including: ruddy color, shallow depth, irregular margins surrounding wound, infection causing pain or discomfort, capillary refill and advanced skin temperature."
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The Validation of the Totalitarian Theory, 2000.
An examination of totalitarianism under Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union in the 1920's until 1953. Extensively researched.
5,945 words (approx. 23.8 pages), 13 sources, MLA, $ 141.95
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This paper examines whether totalitarianism is a reality or a concept which is purely fictional. The author discusses the concept and development of totalitarianism in Soviet society and the state, the development of totalitarian ideology, the power of the Communist Party, NKVD and their effects on society, political infrastructure and daily life. Stalin's reign is the most oft-cited example of totalitarianism and is extensively analyzed.
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"From 1928 to 1945, a system of government developed in the Soviet Union which many scholars have termed totalitarian. Josef Stalin, the General Secretary of the Communist Party, initiated policies and campaigns throughout this period which provided him with an unprecedented amount of control over such a large nation as the USSR. The first step was taken in 1928, when the forced collectivization of the countryside was begun. Rapid industrialization followed, mobilizing the urban population, so that the entire nation was put to the task of building a socialist utopia. In December of 1934, the Leningrad Party leader, Sergei Kirov, was assassinated. Whether Stalin was involved in his death or not, it is undisputable that he took advantage of his comrades death by initiating a purge which affected all levels of society, from the poor to the privileged, those in and out of the government, the military, and even the secret police, which was the main tool of carrying out the purges. Purging continued to some extent in 1939 and afterwards when the Soviet Union went to war with Poland, Finland in 1940, and Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945. In this time Stalin's control over the government bureaucracy and the people came to a climax, at which it remained until his death in 1953."
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Jane Austen as a Conservative Writer, 2005.
An analysis of "Mansfield Park" and "Pride and Prejudice" in order to display how Jane Austen uses conservative conventions to display subtle social criticism.
2,474 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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This paper examines Jane Austen's "Mansfield Park" and "Pride and Prejudice" in an attempt to argue that Austen is most definitely not a conservative writer. Concentrating specifically on her portrayal of women, the family, marriage, and her subtle criticism of patriarchal systems, the aim is to demonstrate how Austen uses conservative conventions to conceal her ambiguous feelings toward social customs. It contrasts surface meanings of the text with close critical readings of selected characters and events in order to show the subtlety Austen adopts to present social criticism. The characters of Fanny Price of "Mansfield Park" and Elizabeth Bennet of "Pride and Prejudice" are of particular importance to this argument.
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"On the surface, Mansfield Park appears to be a more conservative novel than Pride and Prejudice. The heroine, Fanny Price, seems to be an ideal conduct-book heroine, as she is what Hester Chapone terms 'private and domestic.' She is described in the novel as 'the perfect model of a woman' mainly because her emotional responses remain internalised and private as opposed to the open and frank mannered Elizabeth. Considering the contrast between the heroines of Mansfield Park and Pride and Prejudice, indeed, Fanny undoubtedly appears to be a more conservative character than Elizabeth. However, a closer reading of the text leaves Mansfield Park as the more radical of the two. Mansfield Park was the first of Austen's novels to be written and published in her maturity."
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"The Play's the Thing", 1999.
Jane Austen's use of lovers' vows in "Mansfield Park".
2,593 words (approx. 10.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 78.95
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One of the great debated questions in literature is, ?Is art supposed to reflect life as it is, as it should be, or is art for art?s sake enough?? Jane Austen uses a play in her novel to suggest that art has something to teach its hearers, readers, or watchers. Austen uses a German romantic play, Lovers? Vows, to hold up the mirror of reality on the world she creates at Mansfield Park. The novel?s characters have striking similarities in nature and situation to the characters they portray in the play. Jane Austen shows these similarities to her readers, and then, in an ironic move doesn?t allow the characters to see the similarities themselves. When the play is cancelled altogether, and social ?tragedy? strikes the family later in the work, the reader can?t help but wonder if the entire mess could have been avoided if the novel characters had learned something from the play.
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"Usually, when a play is introduced into a work of fiction, the author is asking his or her audience to think about the nature of drama in general. Although the implementation of the play Lovers? Vows into Mansfield Park does take some consideration on theatre in general, the play itself is much more important to the novel than as just any given piece of theatre. Lovers? Vows is introduced into Jane Austen?s book because it illustrates and emphasizes two major themes in the novel; first, the theme of a woman?s right to choose her own husband, and second the theme of marriage for love rather than marriage for money. The play Lovers? Vows illustrates both of these themes, but accomplishes a greater task by establishing the novel as a mirror to the society in which Austen lived."
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Illinois Association of Park Districts (IAPD), 2004.
This paper relates the history and function of the Illinois Association of Park Districts (IAPD) and other agencies relating to parks, recreation, and wildlife conservation.
3,900 words (approx. 15.6 pages), 14 sources, APA, $ 106.95
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This paper relates that the Illinois Association of Park Districts (IAPD)
was founded as the Illinois Association of Conservation and Park Districts 75 years ago to establish and protection parks and to conserve wildlife. The author points out that the historic ?Park Law Codification Bill?, signed in 1951, combines all the various laws pertaining to the issues of park conservatism into one single section of the state law. The paper relates that, today, each of the more than 40 park districts, forests, and conservation parks in the state of Illinois has a police force to patrol, routinely enforcing laws regarding recreation, hunting, and boating, and especially the use of drugs and alcohol.
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"The DNR or the Illinois Department of Natural Resources states that its mission is to protect and manage and to conserve the various natural resources that the state of Illinois can very proudly boast of, and to provide those recreational opportunities to interested people that would not harm or spoil these natural resources in any manner. The Educational Department of the DNR was launched in the year 1995, with the primary aim of the development of educational methods and of the training methods involved in the conservation of natural resources of Illinois. It also was to provide hands on training for those persons wanting to indulge in the various outdoor activities that Illinois offers, such as snowmobiling, boating and hunting methods."
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New Disneyland Theme Park, 2001.
Factors involved in Disney opening a theme park in Hong Kong. Location choice and market characteristics; traget market resources; political environment; marketing devices of Disney theme park in Hong Kong, theme park organization. Effect on Hong Kong.
4,275 words (approx. 17.1 pages), 16 sources, $ 135.95
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"In 1955, Walt Disney opened an amusement park in Anaheim, California, which changed the way that Americans, and the world, viewed such entertainment. Once the domain of carnival hucksters, amusement parks underwent a significant makeover at the hands of the head of the Disney Studios. Through shrewd marketing, including a tie-in to a national television program, Disney successfully marketed Disneyland as a unique entertainment experience and made his theme park world famous. In the mid-1960s, plans were made for a second park, this one located in Florida, which was significant larger than the Anaheim park and which opened in the early 1970s. A third theme park opened in the 1980s in Tokyo, and a fourth in Europe in the early 1990s. The company also operates resorts at each of the theme park sites (with the exception of ..."
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The National Park Service, 2007.
A critical look at the US National Park Service (NPS) and the National Parks under their jurisdiction.
3,271 words (approx. 13.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 93.95
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The paper discusses how national parks in the US have various problems, including pollution stemming from inside and outside the parks and a present management that is seen as insufficient and contradictory. The paper discusses the structure, history and mission of the National Park Service (NPS). The paper looks at park system powers and the politics surrounding them. The paper concludes that a restructuring in the administration of the NPS might be in order, if only to gain more protection for the parks against 21st century environmental problems.
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Structure
History
Mission
Powers
Politics
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"Since 1916, more than 370 parks of great natural beauty and grandeur from Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands to the Hawaiian Islands have been managed and preserved by the National Park Service (NPS) which is a bureau of the United States Department of the Interior. Such great historic and natural treasures as the Grand Canyon and Yellowstone; are now parks that preserve the pristine animal habitats or echo the nation's history, such as the Gettysburg Battlefield or preserve such notable landscapes as Mesa Verde and parks along seashores, lakeshores, and river-ways. They also provide opportunities for outdoor activities, such as at Assateague Island and Lake Mead. (National Park Service 2006)."
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Social Inequality, 2004.
Discusses whether social inequality is inevitable, looking at the theories of several social theorists.
1,889 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 60.95
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Every facet of human investigation, from spirituality to mathematics, suggests the inevitability of inequality. Stasis, in the natural order, does not last eternally; every natural system is always in danger of descending into chaos without intervention. This paper argues that should equality ever be achieved, it, too, would be in danger of disintegrating into inequality. The paper shows that, while a number of social reformers, including Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Karl Marx, espoused a society without inequality, in fact, it seems that each believed inequality was inevitable. The paper also uses an analogy from the series "Star Trek" to discuss a utopian society.
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"It is easy to conclude, then, that Marx?and to a lesser extent, Durkheim and Weber?were erroneous in their thinking that inequality could be eradicated. Indeed, from the unworkable premises they set forth?with their inherent quandaries about who is in charge of determining equality, and does that make the decider unequal??it is apparent that in human society, no less than in the porcine society of George Orwell?s Animal Farm, inequality is inevitable."
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"Rosa Parks: My Story", 2005.
A discussion on Parks' autobiography, "Rosa Parks: My Story"
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper analysis Rosa Parks autobiography. It offers a short summary of the book describing the inspiring story of Rosa Parks, who became a leading protagonist in the struggle of African Americans for equality. The paper explores a main character in this book is, her husband, who encouraged her to take part in civil rights activities, and supported her decision to fight against racial segregation. The author explains that many of the secondary characters in this book, such as the bus driver and police officials, are antagonists because they were against what Rosa Parks was trying to accomplish.
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"Rosa Parks: My Story is set in Montgomery, Alabama in December 1955, and tells the inspiring story of Rosa Parks, who became a leading protagonist in the struggle of African Americans for equality. A main character in this book is her husband, who encouraged her to take part in civil rights activities, and supported her decision to fight against racial segregation. Many of the secondary characters in this book, such as the bus driver and police officials, are antagonists because they were against what Rosa Parks was trying to accomplish. The plot of Rosa Parks: My Story began when Rosa Parks "was sitting in the front seat of the colored section of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama." (Parks) She knew that because of racial bigotry, an African American had to give up their bus seat if a white man or woman boarded ..."
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