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Women in Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Decameron

In seven pages this paper examines how Pasolini depicted women in his version of The Decameron. Three source are cited in the bib...

Europe During the Renaissance and Perceptions of Fortune

a dramatic shift in perception in regards to fortune, and what was once believed to be a pre-ordained right was now considered to ...

Poetry, Literature, and Justice and Freedom Themes

the theme that speaks of freedom from the perspective of the freedom of expression. Oscar is a young man who is curious, and intel...

Mozart's Genius

the worlds greatest artists were known to contribute to the decorations and set designs, including Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael. ...

Albert Camus' The Plague, Rats, and Fascism

In eight pages this paper comprised of 3 sections discusses how Camus' work is an indictment aganst fascist totalitarianism with t...

Human Potrayal in Art

In five pages the ways in which the human form has been artistically represented is considered in the forms, detail, and themes of...

Van Eyck and Velasquez

the bed (Jan Van Eycks Arnolfini "Wedding" Portrait). Finally, the light source is a window to the left, and the daylight illumina...

Globalization - Review Of Two Articles

in global trade, the less inequality there is. At this point in time, many Americans would not agree with this conclusion although...

Three Poems by Gary Soto, Nikki Giovanni, and William Blake

focus of the poem is on how the anger of the narrator as a corruptive influence that turns him into a murderer. As this illustrate...

Don Giovanni by Wolfgang Mozart

tragic figure, yet the buffoonery of Leporello keeps the work as a whole within the tradition of the opera buffa. As the following...

Two Operatic Compositions of Wolfgang Mozart

and Don Giovanni. In 1786 with his opera The Marriage of Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart reached the peak of his success durin...

Giovanni and the Literary Canon

African American poet of extraordinary power, skill and insight who is extremely deserving of inclusion in the American literary c...

The Decameron and The Canterbury Tales Parallels

In five pages this paper examines the parallels in these collections of stories especially as they relate to the charcoal of Friar...

Sex and Gender in Decameron

they established themselves in a small house in London. Pampinea then relates how the brothers scrimped and saved and started rebu...

Poetic Metaphors Used by Boccaccio, Aquinas, Sidney, Shelley, and Aristotle

In twelve pages the poetic metaphor and its value is assessed within the works of these varied literary and philosophical icons. ...

Portrayal of Women in Griselda by Boccaccio, Brothers Menaechmus by Plautus, and 'The Odyssey' by Homer

a distraction, as a goal, as a guide, and as an agent of social recognition (The Odyssey in Transit, 2000). Odysseus is indeed co...

Mozart's Don Giovanni and Figaro

the intrusion of evil in the form of the Counts illicit desires for Susanna (Till 141). This loss of innocence, which is equated w...

'Dreams' by Nikki Giovanni

In five pages this poetic explicaton considers the poem's meaning and examines the usage of tone, wording, images, and also discus...

Giovanni Paulo Pannini's St. Peter's Church Interior

In three pages a physical analysis of St. Peter's Church's interior is presented in a consideration of style, iconography, and phy...

Life and Mathematics Contributions of Giovanni Girolamo Saccheri

Omni Naevo Vindicatus (1733) Saccheris early work on non-euclidean geometry was considered to be very important, although he did n...

Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola's 'Oration on the Dignity of Man'

the brilliance of his intelligence the interpreter of nature, the nodal point between eternity and time, and, as the Persians say,...

Mozart's Don Giovanni and the Themes of Enlightenment and Class Conflict

the text should fit the music, not the other way around. His opera, La Nozza de Figaro, while following the parameters of the comi...

Mozart/The Appeal of Don Juan

While "Figaro" ends with marriage substantiated and the framework of society intact, "Don Giovanni" threatens that world with indi...