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Essays 571 - 600

Ninteenth Century French Feminism and Madame de Stael

prominent salonniere" (Kale 54) - gained significant insight as to the perceived value of class, gender and social stature, partic...

Justice and Ethics II

it is likely that he is carrying a significant amount. If he reaches his destination in no worse physical condition than that whi...

France and the Law on Cloning

is preferable, especially since the problems of transplant rejection can be avoided if the cells used for culture are replaced in ...

Drudgery and Housework

women. It is also true that cleaning can be drudgery and that wealthy people have maids to do such chores. At the same time, there...

Society and Women

writes this in the 1950s when things were quite different. De Beauvoir examines women through the ages and how they have been seco...

Democratic Historian Alexis de Tocqueville

some sense, by our lack of perspective. Most of us live in a democracy like fish who live only in water and are therefore blinded ...

Female Psychology in the Plays of Tirso de Molina

de Molina). Tirso showed direct hostility toward the "culterianismo" in plays such as Amar por arte mayor and La Celosa de si mi...

St. John De Crevecoeur's Essay 'What Is An American'

from the soil and the sweat of their labor. European society, in contrast, had institutionalized class divisions that kept the ric...

Robert Altman and Jean Luc Godard

Altman dusted Mr. Marlowe off and brought him back, but his vision was very different from the earlier films. This Marlowe was a d...

Aristotle and Sebastian de Grazia on Leisure

In fact, he suggests that work is done for the "sake of leisure" (267). More completely, Aristotle believed that it is important ...

Aspects of Formulating the US Government

majority" (Publius). That is, the largest faction will be able to impose its will on others, whether they are in agreement or not...

Letters from an American Farmer and the Writings of J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

Once the American Revolution ended, Cr?vecoeur was appointed French counsel at New York, where he remained for a long time. While...

Individualism in Knight of the Lion by Chretien de Troyes

the first prolonged first-person account is given by Calogrenant and tells of how he ventured into the "forest of Broceliane" (De ...

A Biography of Carlota Lucia de Brito

of Joaquim Jose dos Santos Leal (Meznar). This comfortable position could well be seen as a position that involved some level of ...

Documento de Ropa Campesina Medieval

al parecer a mucho del tiempo (Learner.org, 2005). los "capotes de la zalea y los sombreros y los mittens de lana fueron usados e...

England and France During the 17th and 18th Centuries

was played out by their government. It has been contended that English land was a critical element in most all of the...

France and England During the 16th and Seventeenth Centuries

of other lands and consequently the subjugation or at least the exploitation of the indigenous peoples in Africa, Asia and the Ame...

Three Short Stories and the Nature of Love

this relationship, which is entails infidelity and, therefore, mistrust and lies. Similarly, miscommunication and infidelity pla...

Michel de Montaigne's On the Education of Children

truly speak to hear themselves talk, as the saying goes. Some people see conversation as a means to show others how grand and impo...

Arthur Lefkowitz's George Washington's Indispensable Men

for the daily running of a large army, was still more than a century in the future. Washington had only the "rudimentary elements"...

Indians: Columbus and Smith

a general look at what seems to be many different tribes of people, not just one. He indicates that, "the people differ very much ...

Conquest of Mexico

of possible later interpretations of the "historical record after the conquest" (Schwartz 129). Also, other scholars assert that t...

Francisco de Quevedo/Sonnet 478

hope for ever having his love requited has evaporated, but he persists in his quest regardless because it has become too late to b...

The Iroquois and their War with New France

to wage the most effective fight they had to ally themselves with one or more of what in actuality was the enemy. Interestingly, ...

Women's Defender Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

library (Oregon State, 2006). By the time she was six years of age she had read everything in his library (Sor Juana Ines de la Cr...

Pedro Salinas' Razon de Amor

woman. The narrator states, for example, "If the skies illuminate/ trasluces of paradise,/ islands of color of ed?n,/ it is that i...

Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville and Objects

a true democracy, de Tocqueville noted, quantity or reproductions of objects are necessary to satisfy equal need. In his consider...

Analyzing Guy de Maupassant's Short Story 'The Necklace'

she is the sort of woman who would love to go to such an event, but could not possibly go to such without looking regal and wealth...

Dreyfus Affair's Impact on France

of poverty lived on. In the early twentieth century, there was a significant depression and French farmers were hit hardii. One c...

Comparison/Contrast: Art: Harmensz, Velazquez, and Hals

face and bust, with no other activity taking place, as the background is very dark and inconsequential, it is clearly a portrait. ...