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she stands at the coast, watching the stormy sea, hoping that her lover would return" (The French Lieutenants Woman (1981)). Fr...

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

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

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

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

nude, reclining on a chaise lounger. This can be said to have rocked the art world. Olympia, painted in 1863, and subjected to ha...

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

1937). Gounod was equally gifted in art and for a time seemed torn between the two but a musical epiphany he had at age 13 would ...

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

out of Hitlers stated aim to restore greatness to Germany after the humiliation inflicted by the Treaty of Versailles, and the wea...

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

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

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

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

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

authority (Rayner, Hoel and Cooper, 2001). These people have the authority to make things happen so they have both authority and p...

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

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

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

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...