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France and American Art During the Revolution, Romantic Era and Nineteenth Century

PG), yet they yearned for something much more intimate, something that just did not exist in their homeland. What they found, how...

Ousmane: “God’s Bits of Wood”

earliest in 1881, and again in 1920, 1925, and 1938; the strike that Sembene uses in his novel is the one that took place in 1947 ...

Career of Henri Phillipe Petain

allowed him to keep French troops from fighting alongside the Nazis. The alliance of the French troops was indeed a matter of spe...

French Director Jean Renoir

his daughters fiance, Anatole. They are observed by two young men, Henri and Rodolphe, who propose to seduce the women in the part...

French Immersion Programs, Politics, and Pros and Cons

subculture had its own unique way of speaking and that it should be embraced. Language in fact is important to those who have one ...

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...

American Interpretations of Film Noir

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

American Popular Foods History

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

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Battles According to George Lefebvre and Roland Mousnier

In five pages Lefebvre's and Mousnier's views on what contributed to the French uprisings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centur...

French Romantic Literary Works and Their Similarities

separately and then are followed by a discussion about their similarities. The novels discussed are "Madame Bovary," "Pere Goriot,...

The Red and the Black by Stendhal and the Characters Mathilde and Julien

him in a more manipulative and frequently hypocritical light....

Henri de Toulouse Lautrec

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 ...

Umberto Boccioni and Jean Dubuffet

Expressionist, a cave painter (and poet) with a yen for existentialist texture" (Adams 126). In his earliest works, 1917 to 1936...

Jean Renoir's Movies

also during this period when Renoir adopted what would become his trademark style of filmmaking, by using a core ensemble cast of ...

1756 to 1763 French and Indian War

some historians as the first world war (Ricks, 2000). In Europe, the Austrians were not satisfied with the War of Succession which...

France, Great Britain, and Postwar Europe's Left Wing Political Parties

good peacetime leader, and the connotations between his leadership and the recently ended war may have helped the downfall of the ...

Chantal Ackerman and Her Films Je, Tu, Il and Elle and the Eighties

attitude which pervades most of her works, even today, it can be stated. This is because feminism was asking women to redefine the...

Erich Maria Remarque and Maximilien Robespierre Compared

This research report compares and contrasts these two historic French figures. Different ideas about each of these characters are ...

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...

Thomas Eakins' The Swimming Hole and Pierre August Renoir's The Great Bathers

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares Eakins' American Realist painting with Renoir's French Impressionism work. Three...

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...

Eugene Weber on Fascism

In five pages French and German fascism is considered from the perspectives offered by Eugene Weber in Varieties of Fascism. Ther...

Fictitious Nuclear Accident and Congressional Reactor Shutdown

Congress has called for the closure of light water reactors throughout the United States. A legislator in the State of Wisconsin ...

The Death of the Earth by J.H. Rosny

An analysis of this French science fiction novel is presented. There are no other sources cited in the bibliography....

Development of Modern Day Restaurants

In six pages this paper discusses how French restaurants in particular have evolved and influenced restaurants in Australia and wo...

Life and its Meaning

In five pages this paper examines life's meaning in a consideration of such philosophies as Albert Camus' French existentialism, s...

The Three Musketeers and Themes of Heroism and Loyalty

In six pages this paper considers the powerful themes of loyalty and heroism in this French novel classic and its contemporary soc...

Contrasting Views Expressed by Edmund Burke in Reflections of the French Revolution and by Thomas Paine in Rights of Man

only sector to benefit from Burkes totalitarian stance is that of the feudal elite (Paine PG). And if one is to be informed and i...

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...

New World Huguenots

In six pages this paper examines the French Huguenots and considers why they left for America in a discussion of their 17th centur...