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…on to be reformers. Jane Addams opened the social settlement of Hull House in 1889. It offered an array of services to help the poor deal with slum housing, disease, crowding, jobless, infant mortality, and environmental hazards. For women who held jobs, Hull House ran…

…In the beginning of the novel, Michael Henchard sells his wife Susan and their baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane to a sailor for five guineas after drinking a great deal of rum-laced furmity--a sort of gruel made of wheat, milk, sugar, and spices…

…is very valuble and shouldnt be tampered with or even stolen by the cruelties and dirtiness of the adult world which he has seen. He tries to protect people like Jane Gallagher and Phoebe by not telling Phoebe anything harsh, or by not calling Jane Gallagher…

…Mayor of Casterbridge In the beginning of the novel, Michael Henchard sells his wife Susan and their baby daughter Elizabeth-Jane to a sailor for five guineas after drinking a great deal of rum-laced furmity--a sort of gruel made of wheat, milk, sugar…

…Elizabeth Bennet. Charles Bingley dissatisfies Lizzy in Volume 1. Elizabeth's sister Jane had been spending much time with him in the past few weeks and had been falling in love with him. He had the same feelings toward her and this Lizzy knew. She says…

…no motivation and flunks out of all the prestigious schools he's sent to. He recognizes everyone as a bastard, or a phony. No one is real to him, except Jane, Phoebe, D.B. and his late brother Allie. Those are the only people he truly cares for in the world…

…Women in the Military A few years ago, a film entitled “Courage Under Fire” depicted to American moviegoers a female Army helicopter pilot in Operation Desert Storm. Shortly after, Hollywood made Demi Moore into the title role of “GI Jane…

…Briar Rose Jane Yolsen produces a powerful and moving novel that deftly blends the legend of Sleeping Beauty with the historical tragedy of the Holocaust. To Rebecca, Sylvia and Shana, "Briar Rose" was simply a bed time story but in all reality the story…

…In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen the entire novel is designed around a running theme: pride and prejudice. The passage in the novel that best relates this theme is in chapter thirty-four when Darcy is proposing to Elizabeth. This chapter…

…Book Encyclopedia). Vonnegut attended Cornell University from 1940 to 1942. Next, he attended the University of Chicago from 1945 to 1947. He was awarded a masters degree in 1971 in anthropology. Also in 1945, he was wed to Jane Marie Cox. Kurt…