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Thomas Jefferson’s election in 1800 can be called the “Revolution of 1800” because it was the first time in America’s short history that pow...

Unlike the Socs, who come from affluent families that can afford nice clothes and possessions, the Greasers grow up poor and are considered ...

Juliet Capulet is generally obedient to her parents, but their somewhat distant relationship becomes increasingly strained throughout the pl...

There are many important quotations from The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.  First, let us look at a few that have to do with the characterizat...

Night and Farewell to Manzanar are two memoirs written by individuals persecuted during the Second World War. For an American, it is eerie t...

In Act 5, scene 1, Lady Macbeth is seen to sleepwalk as a result of her guilty conscience.  Ironically, it was Macbeth who -- immediately af...

Perhaps the most obvious way the Enlightenment affected the lives of ordinary people is the role it played in fostering revolutions in the e...