Essays 271 - 300
In five pages France's economic indicators of January to May of 2000 are examined. Four sources are cited in the bibliography and...
of any type of outstanding art, be it painting, sculpture or any other form, is the ability to hold the viewers gaze, to cause the...
the French Revolution, began a revolutionary spirit which spread through much of Europe. In 1848, the year in which Marx and Enge...
1937). Gounod was equally gifted in art and for a time seemed torn between the two but a musical epiphany he had at age 13 would ...
to Europe as a whole was indeed phenomenal. To understand the internal impacts of Louis XIV it is necessary to understand the soc...
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...
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...
the culture (CIA, 2003). There have also been numerous disputes over boarders with Brazil to the south and east and Suriname to t...
attitude which pervades most of her works, even today, it can be stated. This is because feminism was asking women to redefine the...
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 ...
normal size, resulting in a body that was normal from the hips up and rested on short little legs that kept his overall height at ...
some historians as the first world war (Ricks, 2000). In Europe, the Austrians were not satisfied with the War of Succession which...
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...
1997). The key to success for any investment manager would then be the identification of that portfolio of the worlds available as...
a patriarchal world would be a gross understatement and one that would also be staunchly supported by the likes of both Bertrande ...
semblance of order and productivity. He did not resign himself to mingling among his fellow Europeans in this vast new world, ins...
kind of holistic pattern, into which all experiences must be forced to fit....
Clearly, Louis defended his form of absolutism because of the accomplishments it allegedly produced. Under Louis, in many ways Fr...
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...
working class. Citing Theodore Zeldin, Sewell states that 1848 is important in French history because it was at this time that t...
he is crippled. And while the situation becomes a centerpiece of his life in some respects, in another way he can forget about the...
In twelve pages this paper considers how Christianity was introduced to Japan and its spread over a period of 300 years by British...