Edward Bellamy

the novel Julian West is told women in the 2000’s were able to work outside of the house hold the reader never sees the main female, Edith Leete, fulfill any role besides that of an emotional supporter. This may be a product of the time period Edward Bellamy was writing in where a women’s job was to run the house while the men went off to work. Utopia is different from both because it is the closest any of the novels come to regarding gender equality. The main character, Raphael, stresses the…

restricted”. With their place in society as women, they couldn’t bring about the change they truly wanted. What change was going to happen if nobody ever took into consideration what they had to say? A famous author of this time that inspired Gilman, Edward Bellamy, also had plenty to say about equality and peace between the sexes. In his story, Looking Backward, the main character of the story wakes up from a hypnotic sleep in the year 2000, to find he is living in a socialist utopia where…

Nathan Buning IAH 201 Dr. Magee Section 22 –Paper 2 10/26/14 From Relative Isolation to Increase Global Involvement From the time of the Spanish American War until the beginning of Cold War, the United States went from relative isolation to increased global involvement because of geopolitical interests, the roaring twenties, and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. The consequences of this increased global involvement on American society was anti imperialism…

November 1996 researchers working with Intersal Inc. found a mound of cannon, anchors, and ballast stones off the coast of Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina. What the researchers discovered Queen Anne’s Revenge, the flagship of Blackbeard, real name Edward Teach (Wilde-Ramsing:2006). The ship, which sank in 1718, was not professional excavated by archaeologists till 1997 when the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources (NCDCR) to control of the site. The site has been split into three…

What is a text that transforms you? This question was substantially more difficult than I anticipated. Of course my mind instantly went to some of the most influential and powerful texts composed by a number of famous authors, like Plato’s The Republic or Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince, however after much contemplation I settled on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Now I know what you are thinking, this text is simply a science fiction novel that cannot possibly compare to deeper texts that reflect…

Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle in 1906 during the Progressive Era (1890-1920). In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century a vast rift between the upper and middle/working class began to develop. As a result of this growing division, a group of activists stood up for the voiceless society. These people were known as “progressives”. The progressives believed that Social Darwinism was immoral and that government should provide solutions to the social and economic problems of the…

Industrialization in the nineteenth century brought about many changes to the US economy and new perspectives among employers and their workers. The divide between the social classes became more prominent with the growth of big businesses and monopolies. William Graham Sumner’s A Defense of Laissez-Faire contained ideas many corporate leaders supported. Sumner explained that the government should not help the poor otherwise it would cause a decline in social progress. In addition to the…

In this poem Kipling writes, “Freedom for ourselves and freedom for our sons/ And, failing freedom, war” (19-20). This, according to Said, unveils the real Orientalist’s (White Man’s) intention and shows that beyond his angelic-like mission “there is always the express willingness to use force, to kill and be killed” (Said 226). Orwell, in his first paragraph of his essay about Kipling, argues that no one should agree with Kipling’s ideology toward imperialism or even exonerate him as he is…

prisons were introduced in medieval times. These prisons were more for containment instead of punishment. This introduced the start to modern prisons (Sharpe, 1988). During this time the death penalty had a main focus in regard to the penal system. Bellamy (1973) stated that even though it appeared that capital punishment rates were alarmingly high, it was significantly lower than the previous two centuries. Towards the end of the seventeenth century, rates of imprisonment declined quite…

America: Divided by Class It’s all about the money—who hasn’t heard of the Rockefellers, Carnegie, or the Vanderbilt’s? The Gilded Age was a time when wealthy elite amassed their riches and built their opulent mansions while their workers often lived in squalor. Three distinct social classes emerged as life in America changed from rural to urban and immigrants poured into the nation. The Gilded Age is a term coined by writer Mark Twain in The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today (1873), a book…