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Fictitious Nuclear Accident and Congressional Reactor Shutdown

Congress has called for the closure of light water reactors throughout the United States. A legislator in the State of Wisconsin ...

The Death of the Earth by J.H. Rosny

An analysis of this French science fiction novel is presented. There are no other sources cited in the bibliography....

Society and Politics of the French Speaking Portion of Africa

desires to assure those caught in both the ideological and the pragmatic, remained loyal to this new world and the similar rules, ...

Napoleon's Controversial Life and Rule

In five pages this paper examines the meteoric rise and humiliating exile of French conqueror Napoleon Bonaparte. Four sources ar...

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

In seven pages Dickens' differing depiction of the French Revolution in this novel through uses of characters as archetypes and me...

Herbert Marcuse and Alexis de Tocqueville

in certain ways it is a lot more difficult. Equality, he saw, was the key to the democratic enterprise. To de Tocqueville, the ide...

Cultural Differences in Business Techniques

Business practices throughout different countries are discussed in this guide. The paper provides many examples from a case study...

French Revolution and Civility

In four pages the French Revolution period is considered within the context of religion according to Alexis de Tocqueville and civ...

The Three Musketeers and Themes of Heroism and Loyalty

In six pages this paper considers the powerful themes of loyalty and heroism in this French novel classic and its contemporary soc...

Eugene Weber on Fascism

In five pages French and German fascism is considered from the perspectives offered by Eugene Weber in Varieties of Fascism. Ther...

French Revolution and Napoleon

Rather, they wanted what they called "enlightened despots" like Empress Catherine of Russia or Joseph II of Habsburg (18). They th...

American Revolution's Battle of Yorktown

In twelve pages this paper discusses the influence of the French and how this affected the outcome of this battle which ended the ...

Life and its Meaning

In five pages this paper examines life's meaning in a consideration of such philosophies as Albert Camus' French existentialism, s...

Modern Era Characterized by the French Revolution

In eight pages this research paper examines why several historians look to the French Revolution as the modern era's starting poin...

Thomas Eakins' The Swimming Hole and Pierre August Renoir's The Great Bathers

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares Eakins' American Realist painting with Renoir's French Impressionism work. Three...

Development of Modern Day Restaurants

In six pages this paper discusses how French restaurants in particular have evolved and influenced restaurants in Australia and wo...

Comparison of 1789 and 1848 French Revolutions

In seven pages this research paper compares these two French revolutions militarily, politically, and how social programs were aff...

San Francisco's City Hall Architecture

In five pages the influence of the French Renaissance is emphasized in this consideration of the City Hall in San Francisco with t...

Meditations on the First Philosophy by Rene Descartes and 'Freeing the Mind'

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

Revolutionary War Turning Point at the Battle of Saratoga

In five pages this paper discusses how French support was won as a result of this Revolutionary War conflict and also considers it...

Erich Maria Remarque and Maximilien Robespierre Compared

This research report compares and contrasts these two historic French figures. Different ideas about each of these characters are ...

On the Fiftieth Anniversary of 'The Second Sex' Publication A Letter to Addressed to Simone De Beauvoir

In this five page letter the books continued relevance through the acceptance of legalized abortion and birth control along with a...

Le Chambon's Heroic People and Pastor Andre Trocme

In five pages the struggles of these villagers and their French Protestant minister as chronicled in Lest Innocent Blood be Shed b...

Jewish People and the Impacts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution

In five pages this paper discusses how the Jews were affected by Napoleon's fall and the French Revolution. Five sources are cite...

Comparisons and Contrasts Between Herve and Alexis de Tocqueville

et la revolution (The Old Regime and the French Revolution) in 1856 (Tocqueville interleaf). Alexis Tocqueville died in 1859, wit...

France at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century

In five pages this paper considers such topics as reasons for the first French republic's failure, the commands Napoleon received,...

A Critique of A Tale of Two Cities

The first estate was comprised of the clergy, the second group was the nobles and the third was made of the rest of the people....

Impressionism in The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

In six pages this paper analyzes how tone and movement layering in the novel resemble those employed by such French Impressionist ...

Days of the French Revolution by Christopher Hibbert

government, one which would serve the needs of the common people, France still fell into a state of corruption. At the youn...

Analysis of Rights of Citizen, Man, and Woman French Declarations

In one page this paper provides a comaprative analysis of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789 and ...