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Essays 211 - 240

Barbara Tuchman's A Distant Mirror

Crusades, insurrection, the Schism of the Church, and massacres of Jewish people were but part of the horrors of that century. Th...

French Literature and Nationalism

emerge when nations do not coincide in terms of ideology (1993). Explanations as to the spread of nationalism in postmodernity als...

Eamon de Valera and Irish Politics

run in Ireland. Perhaps it was his earliest experiences in America that led to his stubborn refusal to accept the Irish political ...

Leadership According to Kathleen Sanford and Max DePree

receive a portion of the financial gains that result from their ideas (OToole, 1995). Also, at Herman Miller, 100 percent of all f...

Nineteenth Century American Racism and Alexis de Tocqueville

new "homes," black slaves suffered. Plantation overseers thought nothing about whipping slaves to make them work faster (they wer...

Considerations on France by Joseph de Maistre

his own mind is anarchy. "The churches are closed, or opened only for the noisy discussions and drunken revels of a frenzied peopl...

Michel de Montaigne Essays

out of these thoughts. The essays are deliberately unstructured,...

Cinematic Neorealism

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

Italian Literature and the Themes of Escape, Alienation, and Entrapment

first the expulsion from the tennis club, then from the fascist party, then academic anti-Semitism, then more and more direct insu...

4 Brief Literature Essays

Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...

Steven Warbeck's Film Review of Captain Corelli's Mandolin

they were loosely allied to the Nazis. The Italians viewed the circumstances of the war somewhat differently than did their allie...

English Criminal Law's Function

or threat may cease to be a threat yet still remain a crime (James, 1984). The English Criminal Justice system is unlike ot...

Three Artistic Masterpieces Compared

However, the light strikes each man in varying degrees of intensity. This becomes the means by which Caravaggio penetrates the "su...

Arthurian Romances of Cretien De Troyes

and determines to set himself right in his wifes eyes. He leaves the court, taking only Enide for company, and warns her not to sp...

Biography of Evita Peron

old enough to venture out on her own, Evita - whose beauty helped open many a door of opportunity - sought an acting career in Bue...

Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre, and John Stuart Mill

facilitate a persons physical or moral good. In other words, laws should be formulated only in so far as one persons actions inter...

Identifying William Shakespeare

never formally addressing any attacks on his work, commenting on his popularity or penning any eulogy to any of the members of the...

Metaphors and Themes in Works of Louis De Bernieres and Primo Levi

make an appearance in the book until nearly mid-way through. However, it is quickly understood, once he appears, that he and his m...

Anthropology and Linguistics

One of these pioneers was Claude Levi-Strauss, Strauss, an influential man within the fields of social studies, philosophy, relig...

Sexual Politics in Women in Love, The Rainbow, and Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

it is just a game, lacking serious verity" (219). Sons and Lovers focuses on artist Paul Morels troubled relationships with women...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

stir" as it was the date of a double festival: that of the Festival of the Three Kings and that of the Feast of Fools (Hugo, I, I)...

The State and Virtue According to Alexis de Tocqueville and Aristotle

Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...

Ferdinand de Saussure and His Contemporary Linguistics Contributions

But as a structuralist, de Saussure was most interested in how words acted as separate units which constructed the whole of langua...

Comparing 'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess with Stanley Kubrick's Film A Clockwork Orange

other supporting characters. In order to streamline the storytelling even more, the screen adaptation of A Clockwork Orange focus...

Oscar Wilde's Trials and His Incriminating Writings

providing a checklist, as it were, of characteristics and traits which are noted in the degenerate nature. This, of course, did ...

Overview of Famine Theories

value, it changed the way in which famine theories were examined and bought the study, in academic circles, back into the realm of...

Overview of Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

light of that, what would Tocqueville say about democracy in America today? Likely, he would say the same things but would be much...

Composition of a Higher Renaissance Religious Mass

the opening, your next task is to turn to a declamatory delivery of the words "ut animalia viderent Dominium natum" (that the anim...

Chicano Author Sergio Troncoso

can be different for different people with the interpretation being subjectvie. By looking at this work there is a reflection of...

Humility in Oscar Wilde's De Profundis

This, of course, did not set well with the Marquess of Queensberry, since Sir Alfred Douglas, his son, was involved closely, and i...