A study of James Samuel Stemons, using his letters and essays held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, reconstructs the feelings of a black laborer and intellectual.
This course will introduce the major historical, cultural, and artistic traditions of Japan
from the Neolithic period to the present. Our approaches will be both chronological and
thematic. First, we will consider how ...
The first group of Issei in the United States left Japan from the beginning of the Meiji Period through the time of the Immigration Act of 1924. The experiences of these first generation Japanese Americans were extremely ...
This thesis aims to explore the notion of identity in relation to Japanese
speakers as reflected in their use of first-person pronouns, given that the
first-person pronoun in Japanese has several varying forms (watashi, ...
Although both China and Japan had a tradition of four categories of people, it has been commonly believed that Japan, unlike China, did not have a literati class. However, by carefully analyzing the influence Chinese culture ...
In P.G. Wodehouse’s short stories, the valet Jeeves plays the same role as a servus callidus, or clever slave, in the Roman comedies of Plautus; both Jeeves and the Plautine slaves act as the driving forces of their works, ...
In a letter to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson wrote: "Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation ...