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Showman and Composer Franz Liszt

noted novelist George Sand (women novelists in the nineteenth century often wrote under male pseudonyms). One of his most signific...

Dead Composers and Their Lasting Appeal

describes the state of music performance prior to the 18th century, noting that music was much more personal at that time and was ...

Giuseppe Verdi and His Life's Influence on His Music

its pointless...misfortune rules the world" (Rosselli, 2000, p. 30). In later life, Verdi admitted that in a "sudden moment of des...

The Saver

could serve to sever Fern from her First Nations heritage. Fortunately, that turns out to not be the case. Fern actually grows s...

Scott Joplin & George Gershwin

time," then shortened to "ragtime" (Porter, 1973, p. 2). The innovations that Joplin brought to ragtime were remarkable and uniqu...

Chopin, Pianist & Teacher

pianists hand that the "music seems almost to play itself" (Machlis 84). Therefore, it is probably not surprising that so many o...

Strategy for Emirates Airline

as a top airline due to its geography and technology with the only factors hampering its further growth and global impact being ca...

Maurice Sendak

10). The first section of this exhibition was entitled "The Old Country" and featured the Eastern European familial ties that are ...

Toronto's Lakeshore Village

for the "sum total" of the structure of urban artifacts (Rossi 140). In addressing this, Halbwachs looks at the various social g...

1920 and 1992 Cinematic Adaptations of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans

was shot on location at Big Bear Lake and Yosemite Valley in California (Magills-1920). In an interview with film historian Kevin ...

The Antebellum Economy of the United States

until the outbreak of the War Between the States during the middle of the century), the country almost seemed to be two polar oppo...

Literary Religious Themes, Symbolism, and Imagery

rejected this kind of philosophical process. In Chapter 27, Forster wrote: The chief point was that God lives inside the sun,...

Literature and Homosexuality

`Omit: a reference to the unspeakable vice of the Greeks" (M 50). By insistently linking Greece to a physical realization of homos...

Canadian Parents for French

The Canadian Parents for French movement's promotion of French as a second language is the focus o this report consisting of seven...

French Polity and the Impact of the French System of Cohabitation

In ten pages this consideration of French polity and political affiliation systems are examined as they affect the cohabitation sy...

Love in Novels by Agnes Desarthe, Raymond Plante, and Michele Marineau

In ten pages this paper examines the images of love depicted in three French novels by authors Desarthe, Plante, and Marineau. Th...

German Occupation and French Cinema

such, "the French government, recognizing the need to entertain the troops and the civilian population, allowed certain film produ...

German Occupation of France and French Films

?vident que le Fran?ais avait appris quelque chose de WWI quand beaucoup dindustries ont ?t? arr?t?es et ont nui ? la nation. En t...

Religious Experience of the French Revolution

to further examine the statement, however, we must also look at the conditions experienced by the people, experiences which would ...

Two Decades of Couture Fashion in France from 1919 until 1939

such as Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1976) who catered primarily to the Parisian aristocracy (Bourque et al, 1986). However, even Vion...

Fragile Glory by Richard Bernstein

In eight pages questions are answered relevant to this text on France and include comparisons between French politics and American...

French History and the Causes of the French Revolution

young age of five to his death, (1643 to 1715). His mother, however, made the actual decisions regarding the country until her de...

France and Wal Mart

for protecting intellectual property rights (U.S. Commercial Service, Investment, 2003). Action Plan: Wal-Mart needs to place the...

European History and Class Struggles

In five pages changing social class is examined from the time periods of the Scientific Revolution until the Enlightenment and fro...

18th Century Jewish Population in France

In five pages this paper examines the French Jewry that existed during Napoleon's reign and considers religious communities in an ...

Comparative Analysis of French Modernism and French Impressionism Art

led the way to new forms of automatic and purely abstract painting (Stuckey, 36). If the Impressionists opened the door for new t...

Indochina and French Colonization

In six pages Indochina is examined in terms of French colonization of the region and the factors leading to the Dien Bien Phu defe...

Impact of the American Revolution on the Subsequent French Revolution

In fourteen pages these revolutions are contrasted and compared in order to demonstrate the differences between the American and F...

The French Revolution and Enlightenment Principles

his most famous sayings is "If God did not exist, he would have to be invented," which we can interpret to mean that man tends to ...

French Culture and Fragile Glory by Richard Bernstein

carried out. The man was sent home to France when he developed a stomach ailment and the woman was sent home when she became pregn...