YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Boule de Suif by Guy de Maupassant
Essays 271 - 300
In six pages the history of ideas is examined within the context of Democracy in America in an evaluation of de Tocqueville's argu...
the phrase "I came, I saw, I conquered" is, in short, the essence of the spirit of adventure, adaptability, and advancement that d...
replete with meaning, should be required (Smidt 176). That statement is rather strong but Tocqueville did not mean that the govern...
In four pages the Parisian modernity period is examined in a consideration of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec's art and his influence. ...
to consider that the concepts of honor and dishonor, as they pertained to Medieval women, were dictated by the attitudes that wome...
high point of sensuality and complexity of emotion; the expressions showed nuances of feeling. This period of sensuality saw the ...
that part of human behavior; however, this text is not primarily a satire, as such, but rather a complex analysis of European soci...
Although he served in the Franco-Prussian war, he was also accused of being part of the short-lived Paris Commune. Consequently t...
Onate was accompanied by a garrison of troupes including, at a lesser rank, his own nephew. They arrived at the Acoma pueblo in 1...
1431) and Jean Foissart ( c 1330 - c1404). Yet we will see different pictures of the same society from their point of view as we ...
In five pages paintings by artists de Hooch and Rembrandt are analyzed to explore the importance of portraiture to life in Flemish...
that this is a new country where breeding and birth rights are nit of primary concern in the formation of society, it is a land of...
were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...
to make it clear that this communication was primarily by sign language. He writes that "when we asked they would answer by signs,...
who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...
to Yvain goes even further than the loan of the invisibility ring. Lunette considers an alliance between her lady and Yvain to be ...
altar, they represent Jesus human and divine natures. Believers are also called to be the light of the world. In the Smoking Flame...
King Arthur was the only one who could have united all of England because he was the embodiment of the old and new ways. As such, ...
to drop, though it often seems to hold them loosely." He admires them for these qualities and then discusses how the American peop...
that "Nothing happened in Bertrandes marriage bed, it seemed, neither that night nor for more than eight years afterward. Martin G...
precludes any acknowledgement of anyone outside of the upper classes of any society, however. The "common people" receive little ...
and find neither peril nor advantage in the free interchange of their thoughts. If they meet by accident, they neither seek nor av...
generally viewed as a precursor of the Gothic style of church architecture, which began in 1140 with the re-building of St. Denis ...
a dramatic shift in perception in regards to fortune, and what was once believed to be a pre-ordained right was now considered to ...
But as a structuralist, de Saussure was most interested in how words acted as separate units which constructed the whole of langua...
One of these pioneers was Claude Levi-Strauss, Strauss, an influential man within the fields of social studies, philosophy, relig...
it is just a game, lacking serious verity" (219). Sons and Lovers focuses on artist Paul Morels troubled relationships with women...
the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...
and the Lion which he saves from a snake dragon. ANALYSIS: The story of Yvains reconciliation with Laudine mimics that whic...
other supporting characters. In order to streamline the storytelling even more, the screen adaptation of A Clockwork Orange focus...