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    woman as villain is to make the audience feel sorry for them. In all three examples I use the villain have a back story that is not their fault. The Exorcist the young girl taken over by a demon. The Grudge another young girl that the farther killed her whole family and then the curse of the young girl is made. All these backstories get use to feel sorry for them. I believe by using young women and portraying them and the killer is psychological and confuses the audience because young innocent women

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    Women’s Portrayal in 19th Century Literature In the 19th century women were suppose to be the perfect wife‚ mother‚ and lady. Women were set to a standard by Coventry Patmore in his poem The Angel in the House. In which he describes what the perfect woman does‚ inspired by his wife Emily’s actions. The Angel in the House is meant to reinforce the Victorian ideal of feminine self-sacrifice‚ submissiveness‚ and motherly devotion. In novels like Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre the idea of the Angel

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    Immigration and the Industrial Revolution in the Twentieth Century The influx of immigrants in the late nineteen hundreds was the factor most directly responsible for the Industrial Revolution in the United States at the turn of the century. As the poor immigrants of Europe flooded America‚ they quickly needed jobs and transportation. To supply these to needy immigrants‚ more and more factories were needed‚ leading to the rise of industrialism in America. Following the Civil War‚ the United States

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    Feminism The feminist movement can be broken into 4 waves; first-wave which spans from the nineteenth century to the early twentieth century‚ second-wave which spans from the early 1960 ’s through the late 1980 ’s‚ third-wave which started in the early 1990 ’s and extended into the twentieth century‚ and the fourth-wave which started in the early twentieth century to our present time. Each wave is connected and provides a foundation for the next wave to build from. The first wave

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    The history of the 20th century can be defined by the biographies of six men: Franklin Delano Roosevelt‚ Winston Churchill‚ Vladimir Lenin‚ Adolf Hitler‚ Mao Tse Tung‚ and Josef Stalin. Each of these men had a lasting significant involvement in world affairs. This essay will focus on the significance each individual had on the ideologies of Democracy and Totalitarianism. Four of the six individuals were leaders of a totalitarianistic state‚ and three of these led a communist country. Also four of

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    Sources This investigation will explore the question: How did Cleopatra VII Theo Philopator of ancient Egypt utilize her sexuality to gain political power? The years 51 B.C. to 34 B.C. will be the focus of this investigation‚ to allow for an analysis of Cleopatra’s political gains through her relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony/Antonius. The first source that will be evaluated in depth is Duane W. Roller’s book Cleopatra: A Biography‚ published in 2010. The origin of this work‚ Roller

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    What does this passage suggest about the relationship between Cleopatra and Antony? Compare this with how the relationship is portrayed in the other written source material from the classical period in Book 1‚ Chapter 1. The relationship portrayed in the extract‚ between Anthony and Cleopatra seems at first to be one sided. Anthony is depicted as an ‘insensitive brute with a heart of stone’ in comparison to Cleopatra who is ‘utterly devoted to him alone’. This show of devotion is a continuous

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    Topic: How did Fashion affect changes in female perception is the twentieth century? Introduction - to be written “The end of the nineteenth century saw tremendous growth in the suffrage movement in England and the United States‚ with women struggling to attain political equality. ”In 1837‚ Queen Victoria made a great impact on how men perceived themselves and how women perceived themselves. At that time‚ a women’s “job” was to be a homemaker‚ wife and mother. The wealthier of the lot‚ followed

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    ericanJerin kurian Period 3 April 19‚ 2012 “African Americans’ life during the twentieth centuryTwentieth century was the time when African Americans faced most of the troubles from the southern United States legislature and the white land owners. They experienced degradation‚ poverty and hardness living in the South’s countryside either in farms or in rural communities. White Dominated Blacks in south during this period of time. If this was the situation in the Southern countryside

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    Anyely Avila History 131 Question # 2 March 12‚ 2014 The typical attitude held by the U.S. government officials‚ military officers‚ reporters‚ and businessmen toward Latin Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century‚ was the same as today. The U.S. and all the above parties mentioned‚ have always been in a position of gaining as much benefits as possible out of Latin America. It has been the tradition of the U.S. government and its most prominent and powerful people to have

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