1879

“A Doll’s House” is a play by Henrik Ibsen written in 1879. It’s a drama about a mother’s struggle with a bad lawyer who she struck a secret deal with to receive money for the sake of her husband’s health. However, she forged her father’s name on the bond a few days after her father had already passed away, and the story takes place years into her paying off this debt. The heart of the play is all a build to the climax of husband and wife where secrets come out and honesty is shared. It’s about…

Power Shift in the Dollhouse Changing and discovering who we are is what everyone does everyday, but can people and society influence shape who we are? A Doll’s House is a play written by Henrik Ibsen in 1879. The main character of the play is Nora, who goes through a big transformation, from being the obedient helpless wife, to deciding to leave and discover herself, freeing herself from the dollhouse she lives in to discover the woman she will become. Nora’s behavior was a reflection of the…

accurate representation of democracy, and is a tool to help candidates clearly hear the views of the people they are elected to serve. To begin, there was a time in our history when women did not have the right to vote. Suffrage leader, Lucy Burns (1879-1966), was imprisoned at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia, in 1917 after she and others were arrested for picketing the White House in support of a federal amendment granting women to vote. The right to vote wasn’t handed to women it, it had…

Manifesting meditations is a part of the theory of the Law of attraction. The Phrase "Law of attraction" was first used in the Colorado Gold rush as the NY Times described the wagon trains headed west in 1879. Since that time, the theory has seen several rises and falls. The law of attraction attempts to take scientific theories and apply them to life. It uses theories from chemistry and physics to try to explain the activities of the brain. In particular, the law of attraction tries to use…

Luce was born in 1858 to modest parents, Charles-Désiré Luce (a railway clerk), and Louise-Joséphine Dunas. Luce and his parents lived in the Montparnasse, a working class district of Paris, France. Luce attended school at l’Ecole Communale, starting in 1864. At the age of fourteen (1872), Luce began an apprenticeship with the wood-engraver Henri-Théophile Hildibrand (1824–1897). During his three year xylography apprenticeship, Luce also took oil painting classes at night with instructors…

The Abolitionist Movement The abolitionist movement is a movement to end slavery in the united states. This movement occurred in the 1830s. it’s important because it would give blacks more rights. Three of the people that were involved were William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Greenleaf whittier. These three people have to do with the start of the movement to end slavery.This is who they are and what they did. John Greenleaf Whittier born in Haverhill,MA 1807 he was a…

held in bars and saloons and excluded woman, Could you imagine, what the men thought when these prim and proper ladies entered a saloon, got down on their knees and started praying on the wickedness of alcohol? Very gutsy on the part of the woman. In 1879, Annie Wittenmeyer stepped down as president and Frances Willard took over, and in addition to protesting against the use of alcohol, she organized the WTCU to get involved in the political process to try to have alcohol banned. They were one…

But as the ‘dry light’ of history shows, he was neither a defender of ‘Bengal’s independence’, nor a hero, a ‘super personality whose bravery is worthy of our admiration’ (Chaudhurani [1879 Saka] 2010: 177). Pratapaditya was projected as the hero, I speculate, because he suits best the design of forming a Hindu Aryan identity in which a Hindu hero was projected as fighting to resist the invasion of a ‘foreign’ army. Certainly Bengalis…

Performance History of A Doll 's House by Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s House is a play written by Henrik Ibsen in Norway and first took place at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen on December 21, 1879. The play is set in an upper-middle-class home and demonstrates the importance of social class in late-19th century in Norway. Ibsen himself being born into the upper-middle class not only did he understand the importance of social class, but also the expectations placed on its members. Likewise, A Doll’s…

Brønsted–Lowry Left hand side: Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted (1879 - 1947) Right hand side: Thomas Martin Lowry (1874 - 1936) THEORY An acid is a proton (H+) donor A base is a proton (H+) acceptor EXPLANATION OF THE THEORY: Acids are proton donors and bases are proton acceptors. A hydrogen ion is the same thing as a proton since hydrogen consists of a proton and an electron. When hydrogen loses an electron all that is left is a proton. According to the Brønsted-Lowry theory of acids and…