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French Artist James Tissot

Although he served in the Franco-Prussian war, he was also accused of being part of the short-lived Paris Commune. Consequently t...

Statue of Juan de Onate in Alcade, New Mexico

Onate was accompanied by a garrison of troupes including, at a lesser rank, his own nephew. They arrived at the Acoma pueblo in 1...

Dominant Historical Discourse of Community and Self

Americans and women. Self-realization is one of the main concepts behind Douglass narrative; possessing the ability to read the w...

Life in the Medieval Era

1431) and Jean Foissart ( c 1330 - c1404). Yet we will see different pictures of the same society from their point of view as we ...

Flemish and Dutch Portrait Art of the 17th Century

In five pages paintings by artists de Hooch and Rembrandt are analyzed to explore the importance of portraiture to life in Flemish...

American Farmer Letters and Characters

that this is a new country where breeding and birth rights are nit of primary concern in the formation of society, it is a land of...

To Be A Slave In Brazil, 1550-1888 by Katia M. De Queiros Mattoso

In five pages the slave trade and the foundation of cultural and historical racial prejudice it cemented are examined within the c...

Culture and Society According to Marie Henri Beyle, a.k.a. Stendhal

In five pages this paper discusses how Stendhal regarded the culture and society of Stendhal's time as revealed in the text De l'A...

Denial and Slaughter in Three Accounts of Early American History

In five pages this paper contrasts the differences in the historical interpretations of early America by Mary Rowlandson, Bernal D...

Portrait Comparison Between Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres and Francisco Goya

In five pages this paper compares Ingres's Comtesse DHaussonville portrait with Goya's portraits of Don Pedro, Duque De Osuna. Fi...

Media Technology Pioneer Lee de Forest

In five pages this paper celebrates the virtually unknown film and radio contributions of inventor Lee de Forest. Six sources are...

Women and Liberty According to John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville

Stuart Mill (that is, if they had been contemporaries). Both men believed that the greatest threat posed by democratic rule was in...

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...

Martin Scorcese's Raging Bull and Jake La Motta

powerful subject for a director like Scorcese and an actor such as DeNiro. Based on La Mottas autobiography, the student working o...

The Significance of the Arthurian Legend

In eight pages this research paper discusses the impact upon the Arthurian legend upon medieval literature and includes The Weddin...

Tour de France Winner Lance Armstrong

In five pages this paper discusses the formidable obstacles Lance Armstrong has overcome in his quest to become a multi winner of ...

Century of Controlling Infections from 1850 until 1950

In five pages this paper discusses the milestones regarding the control of infections during this time period in a consideration o...

War According to Louis de Bernieres and Primo Levi

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the portrayal of protagonists at war that are featured in Cordelli's Mandolin by L...

Venezuela Independence and the Ideals of Francisco de Miranda

Both the similarities and the differences in conditions in the new United States and in Venezuela fascinated Miranda. He notes in...

Social Life and Intellect in Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

and find neither peril nor advantage in the free interchange of their thoughts. If they meet by accident, they neither seek nor av...

Simone de Beauvoir, Emma Goldman, Foucault's Power Structure, and the Film The Matrix

who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...

'Yvain' by Chretien de Troyes and Relationship Reciprocity

to Yvain goes even further than the loan of the invisibility ring. Lunette considers an alliance between her lady and Yvain to be ...

Artistic Portrayal of Women

altar, they represent Jesus human and divine natures. Believers are also called to be the light of the world. In the Smoking Flame...

Existence and the Philosophies of Simon de Beauvoir, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Rawls, and William James

were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...

New World Journey of Cabeza de Vaca

to make it clear that this communication was primarily by sign language. He writes that "when we asked they would answer by signs,...

Europe During the Renaissance and Perceptions of Fortune

a dramatic shift in perception in regards to fortune, and what was once believed to be a pre-ordained right was now considered to ...

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...

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...

Poullain de la Barre's Three Cartesian Feminist Treaties and Natalie Zemon Davis' The Return of Martin Guerre

that "Nothing happened in Bertrandes marriage bed, it seemed, neither that night nor for more than eight years afterward. Martin G...