This thesis explores the lives of the women of Dawson City at the height of the Alaska Klondike Gold Rush of 1898. It will focus on women of all social classes to prove that the historical moment popularly represented ...
In the Meiji period (1868-1912), Japan went through a time of intense change and modernization. Within this process, Japanese women became a focus of debate and the prominent figure Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901) advocated ...
My thesis explores the representations of gendered voices in Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street (1984) and Maryse Condé's Traversée de la Mangrove (Crossing the Mangrove, 1989). I incorporate literary theories in ...
Since the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision legalized abortion in the Unites States, the debate over abortion has been a prominent feature of the American political landscape. While much research has investigated ...
The Narrator in Middlemarch is not solely a character in the novel, nor is she solely an omniscient narrator. She blurs the line between the two categories: she exists as a character for the reader's sake. Her presence is ...
Individual labor market decisions are a complex function of personal characteristics, cultural values, and occupational environments. Social scientists have tried to measure the extent to which an individual is invested ...
The purpose of this paper is to review previous research on different work motivation theories. Goal setting, Expectancy and Social Cognitive theories are reviewed in order to understand the multifaceted nature of motivation. ...
Both Little Women and Jacob Have I Loved focus on the time of adolescence, when young adults are beginning to experience sexual feelings, but cannot yet express them in socially-acceptable ways, such as marriage. Although ...
M. Nourbese Philip's book of abstract poetry Zong! tells the story of the murder of more than 100 African slaves aboard the historical slave ship Zong in 1781. Subsequent court cases culminated in an appeal document which ...
When we think of third world poverty we envision a slum with no running water or EP a hungry child with a bloated belly. Though there is no doubt that something must be done about the horrors of third world poverty, this ...
This thesis analyzes Leila Aboulela’s novel Minaret for its construction of female Muslim identity. Aboulela, a Muslim Sudanese immigrant to Britain, portrays a story of migration and conversion to break down the Western ...
Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger presents the perspective of a former war journalist and polemical historian, Claudia, dying in hospice. As she writes a "history of the world," she explores memory, history, and space as she ...
A study of adolescent journal writing was done to find out what sex differences exist in conceptions of the self and friendships, and also to test the validity of written self-report measures on studies of adolescents. ...