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Pierre Bourdieu and Art Analysis

field of "taste and aesthetics," and among other things, repudiates the idea that there is a "universal transcendent conception of...

Master of the Rohan Hours

("Master"). It is also believed by scholars that the extensive biblical cycle contained in the Rohan Hours is based on the Bible m...

French, Spanish, and British Colonists: Labor

the French generally ventured "from their base around the Great Lakes...drawn south along the rivers which drain into the Mississi...

Parodying the Knight in Song of Roland and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso

of knight. He was the kings representative in battle, and his role as the protector of freedom was assumed with honor and uncompro...

O Canada/The Canadian National Anthem

the 2010 Olympic Winter Games draws on the lyrics of the two versions of "O Canada" ("Olympic mottoes"). These lines are: "With gl...

Twentieth Century History of France (1940-1944) and the Impact of Vichy on the Modern French State

defeat and foreign occupation France suffered between 1940 and 1944 form one of the darkest and most controversial chapters in the...

Roland Bathes and S/Z

the reader is the consumer. A writerly text is at the other end of this spectrum, as in these texts the reader is also a co-produc...

Trubek's Haute Cuisine

from the idea of royalty and excess and there was no place that was attached to that concept like Versailles. France has a rich hi...

Carles: “A Life of Her Own”

her father was scheduled to go and get a bull from the commune, and because the bull was vital to the village, he went on with his...

Sexuality and Gender in David Henry Hwang’s Madame Butterfly

roles and how to identify themselves accordingly (Warmoth). Through experience, interaction, and acculturation, they develop perc...

Revolutionary War Turning Point at the Battle of Saratoga

In five pages this paper discusses how French support was won as a result of this Revolutionary War conflict and also considers it...

Meditations on the First Philosophy by Rene Descartes and 'Freeing the Mind'

In five pages this paper examines the French philosopher's text as it explains his approaches to recognizing knowledge that is 'tr...

San Francisco's City Hall Architecture

In five pages the influence of the French Renaissance is emphasized in this consideration of the City Hall in San Francisco with t...

German Unification, Bismarck, the Treaties of Frankfurt and Versailles

grew and many citizens signed up with the Prussian army. Prussia also began the climb from the primarily agrarian lifestyle that ...

Montreal and Poverty

In this paper, well examine a variety of issues pertaining to poverty in Montreal specifically, and poverty throughout Canada as a...

Napoleon and Kutuzov in War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

kind of holistic pattern, into which all experiences must be forced to fit....

Life and Philosophy of Denis Diderot

considered his philosophy to be heresy. Abbey (2004) notes that the work which gained Diderot the charge of disseminating pornogr...

Evolution of Rap Music in France

both French and American rappers see themselves as expressing the frustration and anger of oppressed minorities towards establishe...

Seventeenth Century French Absolutism

Clearly, Louis defended his form of absolutism because of the accomplishments it allegedly produced. Under Louis, in many ways Fr...

French Influence Upon the Slave Trade in the Transatlantic

number of slave workers needed to supply this demand. By way of a history lesson, it should be noted that it was the Portuguese w...

French Literary Relationships Between Males and Females

he is crippled. And while the situation becomes a centerpiece of his life in some respects, in another way he can forget about the...

Japan and Christianity's Spread

In twelve pages this paper considers how Christianity was introduced to Japan and its spread over a period of 300 years by British...

Jean Jacques Rousseau and Charles Montesquieu

doing whatever one wants, with no regard to law (Krause, 2000). If independence must be sacrificed in order to achieve political ...

Napoleon Bonaparte's Life and Achievements

power. In 1806, Napoleon acted as a self-appointed leader of Europe, and changed the Batavian Republic into the Kingdom of Hollan...

Statistical Analysis of the S.S. Titanic

journey to the United States. One problem is that the passenger and crew lists have been inaccurate due to misspellings and inaccu...

Jean Baptiste Colbert and Louis XIV

believed that internal commerce was wholly useless for State wealth and, therefore, did absolutely nothing to promote it. As such...

French Politics in 1848

working class. Citing Theodore Zeldin, Sewell states that 1848 is important in French history because it was at this time that t...

Romanticism, the Influence of the French, and the American Art Movement

comparable power? How was it to claim a place among nations producing art of real consequence?" (Cohen-Solal PG). After pulling...

Cinematic Gender Representation

choice to live and abide by a certain set of unwritten expectations. The movie, Menage, directly challenges this idea. Powrie al...

Louis the Fourteenth Bureau Mazarin of the 18th Century

1700s ushered in the French stylistic period known as the "Regence" (Faniel 36). During this era, the writing table, or bureau in...