... of Czar Alexander II became her "heroes and martyrs, henceforth my guiding stars" (2) A significant aspect of her brief education in St.Petersburg, is the impact nihilism - most notably Cherenyshevsky's novel "What is to be done" - had on Emma Goldman. His nihilism had an especial appeal to Emma because it promised, among other things, individual autonomy, sexual freedom and the possibility ... American political system. The realization that the American society tended to be a closed community of Protestant, Anglo-Saxon origin and that the economic paths were littered with obstacles for...

• Word Count: 7067
• Approx Pages: 28
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... in the New Mexican territory. Setting - Territory of New Mexico, the American Southwest Theme - -History-personal history of Archbishop Lamy and the development of his huge diocese. -Immigrants, Pioneers, Europe - Religion spirituality-throughout her life and especially after 1922, Cather was concerned with the decline of spirituality in an increasingly materialistic American society - Nature, Catholicism/Protestantism ... in the 1960s by French structuralist writers. Narratology's purpose, according to Gerard Genette, is to provide critical categories "a little trimmer than the traditio...

• Word Count: 7335
• Approx Pages: 29
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... and India become metaphors for the human experience in Mistry's fiction. Full Text: COPYRIGHT 1999 University of Oklahoma The title of Rohinton Mistry's second novel, A Fine Balance, suggests a worthwhile way to explore his fiction. Even Mistry's biography constitutes a kind of balancing act. Born in India in ... as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that depicts a Parsi family in Lah...

• Word Count: 4673
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... and India become metaphors for the human experience in Mistry's fiction. Full Text: COPYRIGHT 1999 University of Oklahoma The title of Rohinton Mistry's second novel, A Fine Balance, suggests a worthwhile way to explore his fiction. Even Mistry's biography constitutes a kind of balancing act. Born in India in ... as Parsi life goes, though, Mistry has some competition, because the Pakistani writer Bapsi Sidhwa, now a United States citizen, has written a robust novel that portrays this community during the colonial period, The Crow Eaters (1980), another that depicts a Parsi family in Lah...

• Word Count: 4675
• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... in Paris. Although the very few decades of Brazilian films were not very striking, film productions continue and improve significantly over the years. The very first films were done by immigrants such as Alfonso Segreto, he was the one who first introduced film making equipment in 1895 and was one of the pioneers in establishing the film industry (Stam and Johnson ... resulting effect was the production of films with non political content such as Dona Flor e seus Dois Maridos (Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands) by Bruno Barreto, which was based novel by Jorge Amado however, it was the best...

• Word Count: 3080
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... talked of 'the right to work' and thought of insurance against unemployment-the final step to the welfare state of the twentieth century." "These ideas were too novel for Biz's contemporaries. Most resisted them on the basis of liberal economics (laissez faire, free market capitalism). Even when social insurance was carried, the Reichstag defeated Biz on one essential ... numbers of mostly orthodox Jews from the Russian Empire migrated into Germany after 1880. The newcomers were unwelcome to many Germans and assimilated Jews alike. Philanthropy toward the mostly poor immigrants oft...

• Word Count: 10254
• Approx Pages: 41
• Grade Level: Undergraduate