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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...

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...

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...

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...

Anthropology and Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios

as treasurer. With two other Spaniards and an Arab Moor, he was the only survivor who remained on the mainland," thus setting the ...

François de La Rochefoucauld and Blaise Pascal

pessimistic about human beings and their propensity toward self-love. He thinks of virtually all human relationships as being driv...

Saint Augustine of Hippo and Plato's Influence

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

Literature and Class Division

tells her friend the story until years later when they ran into each other by chance. What Mathilde Loisel did was difficult an...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Literary Critique of Guy de Maupassant's 'The Necklace'

the money she had borrowed to buy her friend a necklace that she lost.....All of her work was really for nothing" (Cortez ss1.html...

Goods, Free Movement, and European Union Law

however, it is also very definite in the way that it is only to be used where there is a genuine case, and not as a form of trade ...

Don Quixote

In looking at who Don is the reader can see quite a bit of his chivalrous and romantic ideals in the following: "So then, his armo...

FARC The Colombian Rebels

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the terrorist organization...

Nicholas Copernicus and His Times

the duty of an astronomer, which is to observe the motion of celestial bodies and then devise explanations for these motions (Osia...

Fantasy vs. Realism in Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote

In ten pages this paper examines the realism and fantasy aspects of Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. Eleven sources are cited ...

Mexico's Zapista Movement and the North American Free Trade Agreement's Influence

In fifteen pages this paper examine's NAFTA's involvement in the Zapista movement during which '2000 indigenous guerrillas had tak...

Jurgen Moltmann's Eschatology

In five pages this paper discusses the eschatological views of Jurgen Moltman and compares them with those of writers Sallie McFag...

A Review of The Princess of Cleves

An 8 page essay reviewing the novel by Marie de La Fayette. This so called women's novel provides interesing insight into French h...

Jackson Pollock and Harry Callahan

who had fled Europe--to create that future. Almost overnight, then, New York became the sole remaining outpost of the modernist mo...

Simone de Beauvoir's Feminist Philosophy and Theories

maintained that gender was more social and psychological than biological. In other words, girls grow up to be feminine largely bec...

Irigaray's Spiritual Concepts Analyzed

way to change. She has come up with a way of looking at things that transcends traditional feminist thought. The thesis of this pa...

Medieval Literature's Portrayal of Honor and Dishonor

In seven pages this paper examines how Medieval literature thematically portrayed honor and dishonor in a comparative analysiis of...

An Analysis of the Novel, Princess of Cleves

This paper analyzes Madame de Lafayette's book, Princess of Cleves and the French court during the sixteenth century. This five p...

The Writings of Three Mystics

This 15 page paper discusses the way in which three religious writers, Sor Juana Ines De La Cruz, Martin Buber and Teresa of Avila...

Democracy Meanings According to Plato and Alexis de Tocqueville

In five pages this paper examines Plato and de Tocqueville's views regarding democracy in a contrast and comparison of what democr...