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substances regarded as nutriments, its status as a foodstuff is somewhat ambiguous (2002). Water has actually been considered bo...

note that the king was somehow able to alienate all sides. This required a direct approach in the form of legislation: "Revolution...

of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...

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...

reforms to France, however, it did not make France a democracy. The socioeconomic structure of pre-Revolutionary France was at th...

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...

radical of all times. These changes are particularly interesting in regard to the manner in which they changed the artistic depic...

Cobb argues, "In other words, is not the average revolutionary in reality the professional super-revolutionary, the man who quite ...

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...

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...

a patriarchal world would be a gross understatement and one that would also be staunchly supported by the likes of both Bertrande ...

1997). The key to success for any investment manager would then be the identification of that portfolio of the worlds available as...

Enlightenment era and one where fruitful writing came about. In exploring revolutionary France, one can say that certain writings ...

semblance of order and productivity. He did not resign himself to mingling among his fellow Europeans in this vast new world, ins...

would be succinct diction since, as a scientist, precision was essential. There would also be, in all likelihood, an economy of p...

conversation begins when Marie arrives at the table and seats herself with her guest, Ian and not far behind them is an older frie...

due to lack of support from the homeland and the natives, whom the Vikings did battle with. Centuries later the English decided to...

changed to reflect equality between men and women - but in comparison to countries such as women it is evident that French women a...

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

brilliant people rising from this abyss" (book 3, ch 15) which would seem to indicate that Dickens held out some degree of optimis...