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    experiences and racism. One such story that envelops many of these subjects in its plot is “Desiree’s Baby.” This story was set in nineteenth century Louisiana, and the characteristics of this time period are apparent in the story. Chopin employs the tools of foreshadowing, symbolism, and irony to portray to her readers how women were looked down upon in the 19th century, how one’s race affects his or her place in society, and how the purity of Armand versus

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    views of the 19th century. The 19th century was most known for society's oppression towards the lower class and especially women. Jane Eyre, an award winning novel, depicts and vividly describes these stereotypical beliefs that the people of this time withheld. All these beliefs are told and persevered through one character, Jane Eyre. Eyre’s character and events throughout the story reveal the oppression towards women and the diffident feelings that the lower class in the 19th century endured.

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    “Story of an Hour” and “The Storm” are both written by Kate Chopin. Both of these stories display the desires of two women, who live in the 19th Century, for independence and happiness. Women were considered to be the weaker of the two sexes, therefore, they are better suited for domestic duties. Society assumed that women longed to marry because it granted them the opportunity to become mothers rather than to pursue sexual or emotiuonal satisfaction. There are many symbols used in these stories

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    Touch, Taste, Sight, Smell and Sound, five senses used to understand the world around us. Now limit the senses available to nothing but sight, forcing the individual to use their imagination as a replacement. As they immerse themselves into the image in front of them, a true experience of understanding interpretation, and connection ensues. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is occupied by a diversely cultured gallery presented with architectural aesthetics focusing on the theme of each exhibit, allowing

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    interpretations. Lawrence Kramer discusses this topic on two fronts: the late 19th century hypersexualizing of Salome and a more critical approach that stresses the study of the music itself. The author presents the works of many late 19th century artists and draws upon criticism/discussion of more modern scholars to help make his point. He concludes that though it would be easy to analysis Salome, especially in the late 19th century, as the Freudian trend towards sexualizing everything, it also provides

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    Is Greed Good? While being a greedy person can be bad, it can be good as well. For instance, in the gilded age greed helped multiple things like the economic, political, and social issues going on from 1860-1890 mainly during the industrial revolution. During these 20 years, many industries took off like the iron horse railroad, patents were increased by 28x over, and multiple groundbreaking electronics that would soon help to better communication developed. The gilded age was an important time for

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    nineteenth century, and, thus, whose complex answer was attempted by numerous artists. In the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Academy and private Salons were looked upon to provide a stable and traditional style of painting. However, soon artists began separating from the rigid personality of tradition. The Romantics began to describe the sublime. A large shift into history paintings became all the rage. An example of this shift being The Raft of the Medusa by Géricault. Then, mid-century, Realism

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    The Gilded Age of American History is defined as the time between the Civil War and World War I mainly from 1870-1900. This era saw a rapid growth in the population and economy involving the railroad, factories, new family grown farms and the banking industry. This era was also a time of corruption, greed and political venues that were so intertwined that following political parties and the government became difficult. In 1873 author Mark Twain penned the satirical novel the Gilded Age in reference

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    Melville was an American writer and literary scholar who had many views and opinions on different aspects of American life and culture during the 19th century. He was a well renowned literary who didn’t hold back any thoughts he had to any issues plaguing that time period. Something Melville was truly passionate about was how corrupt American business was at the time and how it served little interest in the people. Melville wrote many short stories and passages about his beliefs on the matter and

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    Europeans had been involved with africa since the 16th century. When the portuguese used their cannons to take control of cities on coast to set up trading post empires,but in the second half of the 19th century europe suddenly and spectacularly succeeded at colonizing basically all of africa. Why?, well, the biggest reason the europeans were able to extend their grasp over so much of the world was the same reason they wanted to do so in the first place: industrialization. Nationalism played its

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