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Essays 271 - 300

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...

Leadership According to Kathleen Sanford and Max DePree

receive a portion of the financial gains that result from their ideas (OToole, 1995). Also, at Herman Miller, 100 percent of all f...

Nineteenth Century American Racism and Alexis de Tocqueville

new "homes," black slaves suffered. Plantation overseers thought nothing about whipping slaves to make them work faster (they wer...

Considerations on France by Joseph de Maistre

his own mind is anarchy. "The churches are closed, or opened only for the noisy discussions and drunken revels of a frenzied peopl...

Michel de Montaigne Essays

out of these thoughts. The essays are deliberately unstructured,...

Cinematic Neorealism

neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...

Italian Literature and the Themes of Escape, Alienation, and Entrapment

first the expulsion from the tennis club, then from the fascist party, then academic anti-Semitism, then more and more direct insu...

4 Brief Literature Essays

Pontellier, though she had married a Creole, was not thoroughly at home in the society of Creoles...There were only Creoles that s...

Steven Warbeck's Film Review of Captain Corelli's Mandolin

they were loosely allied to the Nazis. The Italians viewed the circumstances of the war somewhat differently than did their allie...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and the Role of Sancho Panza

Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) donqu2.html). He was beaten, and he returned home where he approaches Sancho and pleads with him...

Structuralism and How It Evolved During the 20th Century

that are related to cultural phenomena ("Structuralism," 2003). It examines elements of infrastructures and sees them as "relatio...

Comparing Socialism and Liberalism

to public hands which would be the beginning of communism. The Communist Manifesto was a statement on how capitalist society exis...

Overview of Famine Theories

value, it changed the way in which famine theories were examined and bought the study, in academic circles, back into the realm of...

Overview of Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

light of that, what would Tocqueville say about democracy in America today? Likely, he would say the same things but would be much...

Composition of a Higher Renaissance Religious Mass

the opening, your next task is to turn to a declamatory delivery of the words "ut animalia viderent Dominium natum" (that the anim...

Chicano Author Sergio Troncoso

can be different for different people with the interpretation being subjectvie. By looking at this work there is a reflection of...

Poullain de la Barre's Three Cartesian Feminist Treaties and Natalie Zemon Davis' The Return of Martin Guerre

that "Nothing happened in Bertrandes marriage bed, it seemed, neither that night nor for more than eight years afterward. Martin G...

Sixteenth Century Abandoned Wife Bertrande de Rols

precludes any acknowledgement of anyone outside of the upper classes of any society, however. The "common people" receive little ...

Ferdinand de Saussure and His Contemporary Linguistics Contributions

But as a structuralist, de Saussure was most interested in how words acted as separate units which constructed the whole of langua...

Anthropology and Linguistics

One of these pioneers was Claude Levi-Strauss, Strauss, an influential man within the fields of social studies, philosophy, relig...

Sexual Politics in Women in Love, The Rainbow, and Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

it is just a game, lacking serious verity" (219). Sons and Lovers focuses on artist Paul Morels troubled relationships with women...

Fictional Literature, Determinism, and Free Will

the books noted above we find several themes which are common to much of the worlds greatest literature. Among these themes are h...

An Analysis of the Arthurian Legend

and the Lion which he saves from a snake dragon. ANALYSIS: The story of Yvains reconciliation with Laudine mimics that whic...

Comparing 'A Clockwork Orange' by Anthony Burgess with Stanley Kubrick's Film A Clockwork Orange

other supporting characters. In order to streamline the storytelling even more, the screen adaptation of A Clockwork Orange focus...

Oscar Wilde's Trials and His Incriminating Writings

providing a checklist, as it were, of characteristics and traits which are noted in the degenerate nature. This, of course, did ...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

stir" as it was the date of a double festival: that of the Festival of the Three Kings and that of the Feast of Fools (Hugo, I, I)...

The State and Virtue According to Alexis de Tocqueville and Aristotle

Virtuous action was defined by Aristotle as what a person with practical wisdom would choose. The golden mean, as defined by Ari...

Consciousness in Olympia by Manet

another nude he had done. The fact that Manet was surprised at the reaction to his work, and considering that Manet was consider...

Existence and the Philosophies of Simon de Beauvoir, W.E.B. Du Bois, John Rawls, and William James

were distinguished in the nineteenth century with the "natural" sciences. To a great degree, James was attempting to create and/...

New World Journey of Cabeza de Vaca

to make it clear that this communication was primarily by sign language. He writes that "when we asked they would answer by signs,...