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Women in Early Literature, 2002.
An examination of the representation of women in medieval and Renaissance english literature.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper discusses the attitude towards women in the Middle ages. It shows that women were considered to be inferior to men and that they were also believed to be the cause of the humanity's downfall. Much of this caricature of women was rooted in the Church's attempt to control the human body. More than anything else, this effort was founded on a deep discomfort that the Church felt with sexuality.
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Women in Early Century Literature, 2001.
This paper compares four literary works of the late 19th century and their attitude to women.
3,300 words (approx. 13.2 pages), 5 sources, $ 94.95
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This extensive paper compares "Northanger Abbey" by Jane Austen, "Louisa" by Elizabeth Herley, "The Mysteries of Udolpho" by Ann Radcliffe and "Silly Novels" by Lady Novelists by George Elliot. It analyzes their attitudes to women placing it in a historical context.
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Jane Austen is often thought of as a writer whose works provide a refreshing and bracing antidote to the common literary themes of overheated romance and destiny. Her novels often revolve around the plot of two or three women who are unlucky, then lucky at love?but with an ironic twist that fundamentally deflates commonly accepted mores and notions of deeply held romantic cliches such as love at first sight. (In Austen's most famous novel, Pride and Prejudice, the main romantic hero and heroine, Elizabeth Bennett and Mr. Darcy hate rather than love one another at first sight.)"
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Early Feminist Literature, 2007.
An analysis of the early feminist literature of Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Stanton, and Virginia Woolf.
3,296 words (approx. 13.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 94.95
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The paper discusses how Mary Wollstonecraft's 1792 work, "The Vindication of the Rights of Woman", shocked many of its early readers equally for what it said about men and women and for the reputation of the author. The paper further discusses the 1848 "Seneca Falls Women's Convention Declaration", prepared by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The paper analyzes how the document echoes many of Wollstonecraft's ideas, but had more credibility due to the women who created it and the style in which it was written. The paper examines Virginia Woolf, who also discusses many of Wollstonecraft's ideas. The paper explores Woolf's treatise, "A Room of One's Own", which discusses many of the same ideas about women's education and the relationship between men and women as does Wollstonecraft.
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"The Seneca Falls Declaration came from a meeting held in the summer of 1848 in upstate New York. This was one of the first meetings to address women's rights and issues. Stanton and fellow feminist and abolitionist, Lucretia Mott, organized the meeting after Mott had been refused permission to address the assembly at the world anti-slavery convention that had been held in London. This made the women questions the position of women in society in general and brought a variety of women and men together to discuss the issue and form this declaration."
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Early Irish Literature, 2004.
Analysis of the early literature of the Irish, particularly the stories known as "The Ulster Cycle".
1,272 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 43.95
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This paper looks at an early part of Irish literature, "The Tain", which is part of Irish literature known as "The Ulster Cycle". The paper explains that "The Tain", as was typical of Irish literature of that period, is an attempt to explain events that occurred around the time it was written. Virtually all of the stories in "The Tain" refer to the strife between Ulster and the Connaught, the rest of the island. The paper discusses the characters and events in the different stories in "The Tain" and explains how they very much relate to how people actually lived their lives at that time and the historical events that actually took place.
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"One has only to look at the ancient literature of a region to find significant hints about the character and its current condition of that region, as well as its history. A close look at the early literature of the Irish, particularly the stories known as The Ulster Cycle, goes a long way toward explaining the partition of the landmass of Ireland today. Indeed, a look at the stories makes it seem that what is happening now is not only logical from an historical standpoint, but relatively mild compared to the events narrated in the literary history of Ireland. These tales are filled not only with symbols that have become standard in literature, but with the seeds of current events."
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Early American Literature, 2004.
An exploration of early American literature and the characters that otherwise would not have their views heard.
3,884 words (approx. 15.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 106.95
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This paper discusses how people for all time have struggled to find their voice and their own individuality. It looks at how, many times, it is foreign to people because they are being denied it by superior powers. This is the case in "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass, "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs, and ?Rip van Winkle? by Washington Irving. It also examines how, other times, it is individuals' own views of the world that prevent them from finding their own individual voice, as is the case in ?My Kinsman, Major Molineux? by Nathaniel Hawthorne and ?Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville. It shows how, in either instance, these works prove that once these boundaries have been overcome and the struggle of perfecting the use of one?s voice is complete, a person is much better off and more whole if they speak out with their own voices, their own opinions and accept the consequences, good or bad.
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"The story of ?Bartleby the Scrivener? shares a common theme with ?My Kinsman, Major Molineux? because Bartleby eventually comes to the realization that he must stand up for himself, use his voice, and take the consequences that result, that speaking up and paying for it is better than having no voice at all. Bartleby?s voice is denied to him not by any individual, but by the type of work he has chosen for himself and his own views of the world. He is a scrivener for a lawyer. His days entail nothing more than copying the boring words of others several times, and then re-reading the same words to make sure they are correct. He cannot use his imagination; his job does not call for it. He cannot even look out the window for stimulation, for it is a brick wall outside the window."
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Cooper and Brown: Early American Literature, 2002.
This paper discusses in detail James Fenimore Cooper?s ?The Last of the Mohicans? and Charles Brockden Brown?s ?Wieland? and their contributions to the development of American literature.
1,690 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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The author reviews in detail the ?The Last of the Mohicans? and ?Wieland?. She concludes that they are different in style and genre. Both Cooper and Brown contributed greatly to the development of a distinctly American literature. Cooper adapted the Romance; Charles Brockden Brown adapted the European Gothic novel to the American context. Cooper's influence is seen in frontier fiction; Brown's influence, in the works of Poe and Hawthorne.
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"James Fenimore Cooper wrote in the vein of European Romantic writers like Walter Scott, while Charles Brockden Brown recreated the new form of the Gothic novel. Both adapted the original forms to the American experience, which meant not only embedding them in the land but also shifting the focus from aristocratic European characters to the common man in the democratic social order in America. Both Cooper and Brown elevated the common man over any ideas about the superiority of the aristocracy and did so in the American setting."
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Early British Literature, 2007.
A discussion on the hero as the savior of his own kind as depicted in early medieval epics.
2,115 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper discusses how legends, tales about heroes and their supernatural thrilling adventures have always attracted people regardless of the age. In particular, the paper focuses on early medieval epics such as "Beowulf" and "The Song of Roland" and the heroic fight between good and evil. It also looks at "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and how the protagonist struggles for his own ideals to become a perfect knight. Finally the paper examines the theme of selling his or her soul to the devil for knowledge, which is centered upon in Christopher Marlowe's "Doctor Faustus ".
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" In terms of social and cultural values with a great influence upon the heroes, Beowulf must be placed in relation to the structure of the society in those times. It was a Germanic warrior society in which the relationship between the king and his thanes was of great importance; the thanes defended the interest of the king in return for material provisions: weapons, armor, gold, drinks and food. It was an environment based on values like honor and respect in which the duty to revenge the death of someone close was a a question of high morality. If Beowulf fights for saving his people, as he is aware of the fact that being commemorated in songs contains the only immortality a warrior from Beowulf's society could attain, in later medieval romances as " Sir Gawain and the Green Knight " the hero is no longer fighting for his people but for his ideals."
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Black Women on Early Television, 2004.
Examines the roles that black women played in the early era of television.
2,246 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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This paper discusses the negative roles that black women played in the early days of television. The paper takes a look at how, in the early days of television, the roles of black women were limited to playing mammies; it then takes a look at the roles of black women that were labeled as being too white. Additionally, the paper examines the stereotypical roles that were portrayed on television throughout the 70s. The paper begins with a brief discussion and synopsis of the types of roles that black people played on television and how it affected the way they were treated in everyday life.
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"As we can see from the aforementioned research, during the early era of television Blacks played very limited roles. These roles were not an accurate depiction of Black people or Black life. The perpetuation of these images was controlled by White producers and writers and Black actors were forced to choose between having a job and not playing roles that propagated stereotypes of Black people. Many people were opposed to the images that they saw on television and these images have been studied and scrutinized in the years since these images were first seen."
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"Galileo's Daughter" and Social Roles for Women in Early Modern Europe., 2002.
This paper examines the concepts and the laws that governed women during the period of early Modern Europe.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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The two texts that are used in order to investigate this concept is the work, "Galileo's Daughter" by Dava Sobel and "Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe" by Merry Wiesner. These two texts clarify the differences that occurred in the treatment of men and women, where the role of women was established through unbendable social norms that were intricately woven into the fabric of society.
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Definitions of Social Order in Early American Literature, 2002.
This paper looks at the works of William Bradford, Mary Rowlandson and William Byrd, three writers from the Colonial period in America.
1,825 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 58.95
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The paper studies settlers' views on religion, outsiders, and what they believed their mission in America to be. These three authors expressed the widely-held idea of doing the will of God in the world in several ways. They stressed community values and the role of providence in their everyday world. They related feelings of uneasiness and superiority to nature and toward the outsiders living close to them.
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?Bradford was one of the first settlers to arrive in this new country, and he led his people into a frightening, unknown world. His community of settlers, separatists from England and Holland, were a perfect example of the importance of community values, starting even before their feet touched the soil. While on board their ship, the settlers signed the Mayflower Compact, a civil contract that later helped lead to the constitution, for the common good of the people, by common consent. They knew that in order to survive in this new land, they had to work together, or die alone. Thus, they made this contract for ?better ordering and preservation? [to] frame just and equal laws, ordinances, acts constitutions and offices?for the good of the colony.?(251) Once the colony was in place, disaster was narrowly averted by an even greater display of community values, namely, the placing of the whole community before the self, when many members began to starve to death."
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Women in Early Medieval Society, 2006.
This paper looks at how, during the early medieval period, women had few opportunities to advance in society due to the strict rules that governed them.
1,695 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper explains that, although there were a few women who were writers, artists, religious leaders and even saints, the vast majority of women during the medieval period, whether they were upper class, merchant class or peasants, were expected to perform domestic functions with their chief duty being reproduction and the care of children. The author stresses that one of the key problems women faced in any situation was simply the belief of their inferiority derived from a strict adherence to religion in which women were overtly blamed for Eve's sin. The paper relates that the restrictions, which kept aristocratic women on their estates and merchant women in their shops, did not apply to peasant women who enjoyed greater freedom of movement; however, peasant women did not have real rights or opportunities to improve their status in any way because they were limited by a lack of education, which would have been deemed unnecessary, and a lack of money.
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"One of the key problems with evaluating women's position in medieval society is simply a lack of available information. Very little has survived in written form from the period and what does exist does not mention women very frequently. The job of the scholar is to read what little material is available and read and study between the lines of written documents and artistic renderings of the period to determine exactly what role women were playing in the society. Women had no independence of thought or idea, but once married or connected to a religious order, they could hold quasi-positions of leadership."
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Renaissance Women and Literature, 2004.
Examines Renaissance voices and counter-voices of women in early modern literature through works by William Shakespeare.
2,563 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 12 sources, APA, $ 77.95
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This paper provides evidence from the Shakespearean plays, "A Midsummer Night?s Dream" and "The Taming of the Shrew", that there was considerable opposition to women who wanted to express themselves or have their own way in Renaissance times. In "The Taming of the Shrew", it is Katherine who was the deviant, but eventually conformed to the norms of society by obeying her husband. This was because everyone wanted her to do so, including the women around her. Similar to this situation was Hermia?s, where she was ordered to marry a man against her wishes. Women around her and generally everyone else wanted her to obey her father?s wishes. However, she revolted and eloped with her lover. From these examples in the play, this paper shows that the voices of women during the Renaissance were greatly opposed. However, it notes that, in the case of Hermia, it can be seen that women finally manage to emerge victorious.
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"The manner in which some women were in fact reinforcements to misogynistic attitudes is reflected in the Shakespearean texts, ?The Taming of the Shrew? and ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream?, as both these texts demonstrate the way that women in the Renaissance reinforced their social positions by repeatedly adhering to what was expected of them. It is clear enough that this attitude on the part of women had caused men to feel elevated and powerful (Belsey 1985, pp 12-15). Men realized that they could get women to act in accordance with what they expected of them, and they reinforced or justified these expectations through religious indoctrination. Particularly, the Christian bible was used in order to get women to conform to what men wanted."
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Italian-American Women in Literature, 2005.
This paper discusses the evolving and multifaceted roles of Italian-American women in literature through the eyes of Italian-American male and female authors.
2,110 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 66.95
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This paper explains that stereotypes from whores to the Holy Madonna incarnation encompass the multi-faceted and contradictory roles of Italian-American women in Italian-American literature written by both Italian-American men and women. The author points out that the literature relates that social class, differences in religiosity, the American tradition and construction of success and the often contradictory ways the familial and immigrant experience, have come into conflict with the female experience in American. The paper reviews Pietro di Donato's relatively early novel "Christ in Concrete", Mario Puzo's "The Godfather", Helen Barolini's novel "Umbertina" and her collection of personal and scholarly entitled essays "Chiaroscuro" and Evidge Giunta's text "Writing With an Accent" to demonstrate that beneath these narrow stereotypes more complex and individuated roles of Italian-American women's life do emerge.
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"These images emerge in the depicted reality of nonfiction as well as fictional life come forth, as these women are seen engaged in child rearing, showing impressive work ethics to enable their families to survive, laboring as well as suffering in the role of daughter, and as these women show their strength in their roles of mother as well as their silent compassion. Gradually, as Italian women themselves began to speak, Italian women and authors have grown fluent at showing female Italian working and middle-class sexuality as well as images of long-enduring Mediterranean fortitude, women alone in the role of a wife bent over a stove bubbling with red hot gravy and meatballs smelling of garlic and onions."
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Early German vs. Early Russian Filmmaking, 2004.
This paper discusses early German vs. early Russian filmmaking
in terms of a controlled versus an uncontrolled narrative perspective.
980 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 34.95
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This paper explains that the primary difference between the early Russian films of the first half of the 20th century and the German Expressionist movement, whose films exemplify an artistic ethos, is the significance given to narrative and to expressing a singular and coherent ideology for the viewer. The author points out that, in the case of Russian filmmakers such as Eisenstein, the narrative and descriptive sequences of the film are manipulated over the course of the film to invest particular images and aspects of the film with great importance. The paper relates that the German cinema creates a more ambiguous sense of meaning within its choice frames; the visual, rather than the story-based aspects of the film?s shot and the film?s overall plot arc, have greater significance.
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"The greater emphasis on narrative within early Russian cinema also is evidenced in the way that the Russian directors, most notably Eisenstein, create meaning between frames of narrative, rather than within frame in a miens-en-scene approach. In this approach, the meaning of a single scene has a meaning in and of itself and can be invested with different meanings outside of the filmed narrative sequence. For instance, ?Potemkin? makes use of what is known as a dialectic montage, or a composition of rapidly evolving scenes, too rapid for the viewer?s eye simply to apprehend just one. The composition and the apprehension of scenes all at once creates a singularity of emotion and intent regarding the action, as opposed to a sustained scene where the viewer is able to consider the image and come to his or her own conclusion regarding the events that are transpiring. Miens-en-scene or middle of the scene approach became very popular in postmodernist and post-structuralism critiques and film analysis. Even the most impressionist examples of Russian cinema, such as the ?Man with a Movie Camera,? have a highly ideological and uniform tone, that of the glory of Russia, in sequences where seemingly unrelated images are created."
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The Changing Face of Woman on Bob Dylan's Early Albums, 2003.
An exploration of the presentation of women in Dylan's early albums through a review of some of his songs.
2,714 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 81.95
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This paper discusses how Bob Dylan has exerted a lasting influence on our culture and has altered our conception of what is possible within a popular song and particularly within its lyrics. It looks at how it is upon his sixties songs that his reputation rests and how throughout these songs he covered and developed a broad spectrum of themes, an important and reoccurring one being women. It explores the presentation of women in Dylan's early albums using a selection of songs which the author feels to be representative of each record.
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"Another side of Bob Dylan (1964) was his last solo album until the 1990s. With the exception of one song, none of the songs had any overtly political theme. The album marked a shift from the public Dylan to a more private and introspective Dylan. The songs on the album offer personal explorations of love and focus on the nature of relationships.
To Ramona is fundamentally a break-up song in which the singer reluctantly takes his leave of a girl ensnared by the opinions of her acquaintances. It expresses feelings in a direct manner, yet is softened by reaching a moving and mature resolution in which he comes to accept the inevitability of the change, while refusing to shut the door completely on any future possibility of reunion."
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