General Custer as a scout at Fort Russell‚ Wyoming. She thought of herself as reckless and one of the best shots in the West. When they returned from Arizona‚ she was order to the Muscle Shell Indian outbreak. This is where she earned her name‚ "Calamity Jane." Over the next few years‚ she was ordered around‚ still continuing to dress and act like a man. She was found out to be a woman after being seen swimming nude. Later‚ she got severely sick and was in the hospital for 14 days. After regaining her strength
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It took a group of journalist called muckrakers‚ such as Jane Addams and Upton Sinclair‚ to bring attention to labor and living conditions and make a difference. President Theodore Roosevelt coined the name muckrakers‚ because they “raked the mud of society” by uncovering and reporting the nation’s issues. Jane Addams cofounded Hull-House‚ which attracted reformers that were committed to social service‚ challenged boss rule and the
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Hillary Clinton and Jane Addams both saw a need for labor reform nearly one hundred years apart. Clinton and Addams’s progressive ideas are similar in which they want all workplaces to be safe for the employees‚ a day’s wage to increase in order to satisfactorily provide for employees families‚ and a stable future for when the workers reach retirement. Jane Addams drew her focus on child labor. The industrial revolution brought the concept of child labor. Children were working in places such as mills
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The novels Jane Eyre and Little Women are strikingly similar in many ways‚ and the characters Jane Eyre and Jo March are almost mirrors of each other. There are many similarities between Jane and Jo‚ and also some differences‚ as well. From childhood‚ although they find themselves in completely different situations‚ both girls experience many of the same trials in their younger years. Jane is an orphan who has no family to call her own‚ and lives with an aunt and cousins who despise and dislike her
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Jane Eyre as Cinderella In charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre‚ there are several paradigms that are used throughout the story; one of the most obvious is the Cinderella template. When looking at Jane Eyre through this template‚ the ideas of an orphan child‚ the stepfamily‚ and the fairy godmother seem to be all the characteristics of Cinderella. Jane Eyre is the orphan child‚ which symbolizes Cinderella. Jane‚ like Cinderella lost both her parents and is dependent on others to care for
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Eve Grigware 11/30/12 Persuasive Historical Essay In the early 20th century‚ many social and political movements demanded the attention and action of the United States. During this time‚ Jane Addams became an accomplished philosopher‚ author‚ peace advocate‚ feminist and sociologist during the Progressive era‚ who was unique from other reformers during this time because she didn’t prioritize the social‚ economic‚ and political inequalities that plagued America’s minorities;
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Jane Eyre The novel Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman work that illustrates Jane’s coming-of-age. Each location in the story: Gateshead‚ Lowood‚ Thornfield‚ Moor House‚ and Ferndean provide realization of Jane’s growth and development‚ both spiritually and morally. The novel started off in Gateshead. Jane was ten years old and she lived there with her uncle Mr. Reed‚ who soon died‚ and his family. Mrs. Reed had great animosity toward Jane‚ mainly because of Mr. Reed’s favoritism toward Jane. Because
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Journal Prompt #1 In the novel Jane Eyre there are two main male characters that are introduced to us‚ one being Mr. Rochester and the other‚ St. John. Mr. Rochester’s rude and abrupt personality reflects in the way he treats every women in his life and the same goes for St. John’s marble like appearance. As the reader can see Mr. Rochester is utterly the opposite of St. John. He isn’t handsome like he is‚ he doesn’t have a charming appeal to him as St. John does and he is not based on a tight religion
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CRITIQUES OF JANE EYRE (a) Matthew Arnold – “The writer’s mind is full of nothing but hunger‚ rebellion and rage.” 1847 (b) Postmodernist critics would say that Jane Eyre is an expression of the writer Charlotte Bronte. (c) Marxist Approach to the novel – socioeconomical conditions of the time the book was written? (d) Lord David Cecil – “a sophisticated Cinderella story” (e) Gilbert and Gubar -“Women in Victorian novels are often presented with some type of anger or madness‚ which doesn’t accurately
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relationship portrayed in Jane Eyre? Jane Eyre is fundamentally a novel about the conflict between love‚ and the artificial context of relationship‚ which introduces impediments and pain to what should be pure and unconstrained. It is the pain of love forbidden by the constraints of societal morality which drives Jane to leave Thornfield Hall‚ and it is love’s attraction which pulls her back there at the end of the novel‚ overcoming this barrier. The love that blossoms between Jane and Rochester is
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