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Charlotte Brontë'S Spiritual Vision, Andrew James Weiler
Charlotte Brontë'S Spiritual Vision, Andrew James Weiler
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In this thesis, I explore the Victorian poet and novelist Charlotte Brontë’s remarkable understanding of scripture and powers of analysis. As a daughter of the notable reverend Patrick Brontë, Brontë’s dissenting feminist views of the Bible are particularly significant. Although Brontë demonstrated a lifelong belief in God, and in the individual’s right to develop and maintain a direct relationship to God, personal tragedies in her life shaped the ways in which she interpreted scripture and informed her ideas regarding the spiritual realm. As the number of personal tragedies increase, Brontë’s spiritual vision, which migrates from one novel to the next, …
On The Right Side Of History: How Lesbian And Gay Activists Galvanized Culture And Politics To Make Massachusetts The First State With Legal Same-Sex Marriage, Jaime Mccauley
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In November 2003 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court sent issued a controversial ruling in favour of same-sex marriage in Goodridge v. Massachusetts Department of Public Health. In the decade preceding the Goodridge decision, the majority of US states had passed Defense of Marriage Act statutes, barring recognition of same sex marriage, and in the years following Goodridge many states passed constitutional amendments to define marriage between one man and one woman. What sets Massachusetts apart from the rest of the United States on this issue? Through the analysis of Massachusetts newspaper reports, archival material, and interviews with lesbian and gay …
The Pattern And The Significance Of The Travel Metaphor In "Walden"., Geraldine Payne
The Pattern And The Significance Of The Travel Metaphor In "Walden"., Geraldine Payne
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