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the very beginning of the story we see the political struggles involving the Risorgimento as an ongoing reality. The eventual outc...

womans plight in a turbulent time in history. "The Leopard", in comparison, is more of an outline of male expectations in regard ...

in some ways regrettable displacement of the aristocracy from their traditional position" (Horton). In this relatively simple desc...

be the case for Lampedusas novel which is set in Sicily, Italy during the 1860s, in the times when Garibaldi campaigned to unite t...

In five pages this paper discusses Jin Di's work and the Chinese government's position regarding Bible translations in Communist C...

This paper discusses the life and times of Giuseppe Verdi in five pages and includes a contrast and comparison of his operas Don C...

who introduces a new admirer, Alfredo Germont who admits to having adored the beautiful Violetta from a distance. He offers a toas...

In eighteen pages this paper examines the possible causes for the War of 1812 including war hawk pressure, 1807's Embargo Act, the...

our morbid curiosity about death continues, and in Hemingways story that curiosity is all too well satisfied. In The Snows of Kil...

been a scruffy collection of shabby hirelings and rich macho playboys who were footing the bill" (Hoaglund). Schaller is someone q...

of every family. For the most part the only way to relate this history from one generation to the next was through storytelling; ...

presence or a leopards sleek passage. One pertinent example of their dual power as animals in African art is the Cameroon elephan...

operatic arias. Those days are fading, and the Met is not giving up without a fight. And so those who cant afford the trip to New ...

of violence and vengeance. The author explains that it was when she was in Maglaj that she came to a full understanding of war; t...

structures, art, sculpture, glass works, decorative pieces and illuminated composition from the twelfth through the sixteenth cent...

the obvious contradictions between his life and his works (Candido Portinari, 2002). For example, although he was a staunch Commu...

of the "longitudinal, three-aisled basilica" (Church of San Spirito) that would come to be the foundation of Western church form. ...

In five pages J.M.W. Turner's 'Mercury and Argus' painting is contrasted and compared with Neri di Bicci's 'The Assumption of the ...

In five pages this research paper concentrates on the St. Francis frescoes of Giotto di Bondone, an important artist of the 14th c...

appears that they had been engaged in conversation. One wears a dress and balances a basket of flowers, or plant matter, on top of...

In five pages the basic ironic construction of this opera by Verdi is examined. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

Radames will be condemned as a traitor! Yet, a traitor he is not!" (p. 259). The piano accompaniment that is given with this score...

search of what she calls new delights, but she would soon realize that love was what gives life meaning (1998). One might think th...

(Scire et. al., 2002). Ungarettis accomplishments would be numerous. He would start writing after joining the Italian ar...

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

scenes," within the context of an exotic locale, in this case, ancient Egypt (Machlis 146). Aida concerns the love story of Rada...

(McGeary 152). Giotto replaced golden backdrops with hills, meadows and houses, which were familiar to his fourteenth century view...

that is, the "bourgeois," were not always a despised class in China. In 1949, when the Communist took over the government, they na...

This is a case study of the illnesses that affected Princess Diana. These were bulimia and depression. Each is explained. There ar...

with Barbarina who is the gardeners daughter. "The Count pursues Susanna but conceals himself when the gossiping music master Don ...