Not long after the publication on the polka, Chopin's first literary piece was published. ... The Awakening was Chopin's first noted novel, and also her last. ... Chopin finished writing The Awakening in January 1898. ... Two weeks after the original publication date, the first review was printed. ... She was even accepted back into the Wednesday Club, a society of intellectual women, who had omitted her after the publication of The Awakening (Ewell 25). ...

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Her first attempts at writing were brief sketches for a local newspaper which were short descriptions of her life in Louisiana. ... However after her publication of the infamous book "the Awakening" in 1899, success in her writing career quickly and drastically declined. ... She begins to realize for the first time that she is an individual. When she realizes this, she feels as though she has had her own awakening. ... At the time of the publication of the book, desire for another person while you are married was morally wrong and considered a great sin. ...

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He was a prominent member of the community and was riding in the first train across a newly built bridge, when it collapsed. ... For several years they lived in New Orleans and vacationed on the Grand Isle like the characters in The Awakening. ... Her first story, "Wiser than God" was published in 1889. ... Her first novel was entitled At Fault (1890). The publication of The Awakening (1899) met with a good deal of controversy and negative reviews because of its anti-traditional depictions of female sexuality. ...

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Edna Pontellier: Breaking Society's Barrier Kate Chopin, an author of the nineteenth century, is most famous for her novel The Awakening, which is often categorized simply as a feminist work. Yet, from the time of its first publication in 1899 to the present day, the story continues to be scrutinized for what the specific message is that Chopin tries to convey. ... Thus, one important aspect of Edna's "awakening" is that she does not try to fit the image of perfection that women are supposed to have. ... At this point, Leonce once again proves that his place in society is ...

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The first phase was the Great Awakening of 1740-44. ... The second phase was the female evangelism of the Second Great Awakening of 1797-1840. ... Youmans who was the first Canadian WCTU president. ... The WCTU is the first woman's organization in the world. It also was the first position to struggle for their right. ...

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(American Enlightenment [1], 2) Other political ideas reached America, such as John Locke's publications on contractual government and the divine right of kings. ... Rationalism in ethics is the claim that certain primary moral ideas are innate in humankind and that such first moral principles are self-evident to the rational faculty. ... Franklin, for instance, founded the first library and created a fire department. ... Enlightenment publications, such as Locke's The Reasonableness of Christianity, in which he questions the belief in an all-powerful, all-knowing God, further less...

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(American Enlightenment [1], 2) Other political ideas reached America, such as John Locke's publications on contractual government and the divine right of kings. ... Rationalism in ethics is the claim that certain primary moral ideas are innate in humankind and that such first moral principles are self-evident to the rational faculty. ... Franklin, for instance, founded the first library and created a fire department. ... Enlightenment publications, such as Locke's The Reasonableness of Christianity, in which he questions the belief in an all-powerful, all-knowing God, further lessen...

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His first job was an architect and he worked in London and Dorset for ten years. ... His novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure, received negative reviews upon publication and Hardy was criticized for being too occupied with sex. ... Moule was one of the first supporters of Hardy's writings before he became a writer. ... Threw the use of imagery it shows us the brutality of war, so bad that it was awakening the dead. ...

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The publication of Cable's s collection of seven stories, Old Creole Days (1879), established the genre of southern local-color fiction with its use of regional dialect, settling, and character. ... By 1889, Chopin had written four short stories and was in the process of writing her first novel, At Fault. ... The Awakening allows readers to see the mature and developed novelist, Kate Chopin, come into her own. ...

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Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird has remained enormously popular since its publication in 1960. ... Lee's first and only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird was published during the Civil Rights movement and was hailed as an exposé of Southern racist society. ... In the fall, Dill returns to his family in the North and Scout enters the first grade. ... To Kill a Mockingbird also can be read as a coming-of-age story featuring a young girl growing up in the South and experiencing moral awakenings. ...

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Smith claims to have had the blessing of the divine power to guide him to a location of golden plates, which entails scriptures of ancient American prophets, and they became the foundation for his publication, the Book of Mormon. ... This had become a core movement to the Great Awakening, and Marty does an exceptional job at creating Whitefield's stand point in religious freedom of that time. ...

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It was later, in 1620, that a group of Dutch Separatists took action with regard to this desire to break from the church, securing rights to a ship known as the Mayflower, which would later carry some 102 of America's first settlers, the least of whom were separatists, to the rocky coast of New England. ... These people were in a sense the first "true Americans" as they believed that all men are in fact created equal, or as any doctrine may have stated that all men are were children in the sight of God. ... Pennsylvania was, in spite of this, the first of the American colonies to pract...

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Two years later, he took over The Pennsylvania Gazette from Keimer and turned it into a successful publication with tools from London. ... The first, William Franklin, was born approximately one year later; he is the man to whom the Autobiography is addressed in Part One. ... Part One, first section (Read: Section 1) Summary The Autobiography opens with a salutation to Ben Franklin's son, William Franklin, who at the time was the royal governor of New Jersey. ... He had four more children with that wife, and ten more children with Abiah, whom Josiah married after his first wif...

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The vampire began to appear in English literature after 1800 and it achieved its first real literary importance with the publication of Sheridan Le Fanu's novelette, Carmilla, in 1872. ... The Angel in the House is a narrative poem by Coventry Patmore, first published in 1854 and expanded until 1862. Following the publication of Patmore's poem, the term angel in the house came to be used in reference to women who embodied the Victorian feminine ideal: a wife and mother who was selflessly devoted to her children and submissive to her husband. Adèle Ratignolle, a character in ...

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In this story, Kate Chopin focuses on a late nineteenth- century American woman's striking hour of awakening into individuality, which allows her to live the last moments of her life with a consciousness of life's extensive beauty (Jami 215). ... By the time The Story of an Hour was written, like most of her other short stories, it was rejected from different publications on moral grounds because editors noticed in the text an improper interest in female self-assertion and sexual liberation. ... The story is written in first person, for the unnamed protagonist is the narrator tellin...

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Although she was the first child of Abraham and Taube Bienowitch Goldman, that didn't make her the oldest one, since Taube brought two older daughters - Lena and Helena - from her first marriage into the family. ... During this part of her life, she became aware of the role women could play in revolutionary activities for the first time. ... The reality of work in the factory in which she first worked quickly disillusioned her about the American political system. ... Also Emma Goldman's first experiences with employers attitudes in the factory in Rochester showed the abuses whi...

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There is an empirical evidence indicating, that subjects better remember and more regularly recall ads awakening fear, than they do warm or with no emotional content ones (Thorson and Friestad, 1985). ... Each of these functions helps companies sell products/services, and that is precisely the reason for using ads in the first place, right? ...

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First of all, it is necessary to introduce the Victorian four elements in the total situation of a work of art: the artistic product itself, the universe representing nature, the audience and the artist. ... In the first four lines of the preface, there are three characters: the Son of God, Love and human being. ... But in the following lines, the poet contradicts what he had said before in the first stanza, "we have but faith" and he writes that it is just for knowledge and trust that we believe in things we see "it comes from thee", moreover in line 22 when man has no fear, "we mock ...

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CONTENTS Introduction . . . . .1 Chapter Part I. Racial Issues: From the Origins of Blacks to Slavery 1. What is Race . . . .3 2. Race and The Bible . . .6 3. Slavery . . . . 10 Part II. From Christianity to Black Religion 4. Influence of Christianity . 14 Concludi...

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After first kissing Juliet, she tells him "you kiss by th' book,"" meaning that he kisses according to the rules, and implying that while proficient, his kissing lacks originality (I.v.107). ... Rosaline, of course, slips from Romeo's mind at first sight of Juliet. ... Of course, though, had Romeo not had such depths of feeling, the love he shared with Juliet would never have existed in the first place. ...

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