Essays 961 - 990
PG), yet they yearned for something much more intimate, something that just did not exist in their homeland. What they found, how...
nude, reclining on a chaise lounger. This can be said to have rocked the art world. Olympia, painted in 1863, and subjected to ha...
semblance of order and productivity. He did not resign himself to mingling among his fellow Europeans in this vast new world, ins...
a patriarchal world would be a gross understatement and one that would also be staunchly supported by the likes of both Bertrande ...
out of Hitlers stated aim to restore greatness to Germany after the humiliation inflicted by the Treaty of Versailles, and the wea...
Expressionist, a cave painter (and poet) with a yen for existentialist texture" (Adams 126). In his earliest works, 1917 to 1936...
also during this period when Renoir adopted what would become his trademark style of filmmaking, by using a core ensemble cast of ...
good peacetime leader, and the connotations between his leadership and the recently ended war may have helped the downfall of the ...
attitude which pervades most of her works, even today, it can be stated. This is because feminism was asking women to redefine the...
to Europe as a whole was indeed phenomenal. To understand the internal impacts of Louis XIV it is necessary to understand the soc...
good deal of the literature at the time. Lyric poetry more than likely arose from the songs of the minstrels and the singers whi...
in 1640 Poussin returned to Paris and to decorate the Grand Gallery of the Louvre and receive royal favors. However, he soon becam...
the old ways. During this time, it was determined that mankind was capable of being redeemed, that contrary to what the church sta...
she stands at the coast, watching the stormy sea, hoping that her lover would return" (The French Lieutenants Woman (1981)). Fr...
doing whatever one wants, with no regard to law (Krause, 2000). If independence must be sacrificed in order to achieve political ...
journey to the United States. One problem is that the passenger and crew lists have been inaccurate due to misspellings and inaccu...
believed that internal commerce was wholly useless for State wealth and, therefore, did absolutely nothing to promote it. As such...
the culture (CIA, 2003). There have also been numerous disputes over boarders with Brazil to the south and east and Suriname to t...
forces (Lewin, 1951). The position of an organisation, in this model, is always under some form of pressure to change. The way in ...
than money and position, but in the end, it is the money and position which sentence her to the only action left to her. A woman c...
In twelve pages this paper considers how Christianity was introduced to Japan and its spread over a period of 300 years by British...
he is crippled. And while the situation becomes a centerpiece of his life in some respects, in another way he can forget about the...
1700s ushered in the French stylistic period known as the "Regence" (Faniel 36). During this era, the writing table, or bureau in...
comparable power? How was it to claim a place among nations producing art of real consequence?" (Cohen-Solal PG). After pulling...
choice to live and abide by a certain set of unwritten expectations. The movie, Menage, directly challenges this idea. Powrie al...
In fifteen pages this paper examines the French concept of cohabitation between its President and Prime Minister with its polity i...
Armande and Henriette, sisters and daughters to Chrysale and his wife Philaminte. In this scene, Moliere presents both sides of th...
This 5 page paper discusses the viewpoints of French film critic and auteur Andre Bazin, and Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, o...
In six pages Ulrich's 'A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812' and Darnton's 'The Great Cat M...
In five pages these two modes of narrative cinema are examined in terms of the differences between classic and art cinema as revea...