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Pricing Model for Capital Assets

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

Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer

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

Early Modern Society of France and Men's and Women's Status

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

Operation Iraq and History of France Since the Renaissance

to Europe as a whole was indeed phenomenal. To understand the internal impacts of Louis XIV it is necessary to understand the soc...

Self Discovery and French Literature's Evolution

good deal of the literature at the time. Lyric poetry more than likely arose from the songs of the minstrels and the singers whi...

Contrasting and Comparing Sixteenth Century French and Dutch Painters

the old ways. During this time, it was determined that mankind was capable of being redeemed, that contrary to what the church sta...

Holland and France During the Baroque Art Period

in 1640 Poussin returned to Paris and to decorate the Grand Gallery of the Louvre and receive royal favors. However, he soon becam...

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...

Overview of the French Realist Period

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

French Composer Charles Gounod's Life and Music

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 ...

Roland Bathes and S/Z

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...

Parodying the Knight in Song of Roland and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso

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

O Canada/The Canadian National Anthem

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

Twentieth Century History of France (1940-1944) and the Impact of Vichy on the Modern French State

defeat and foreign occupation France suffered between 1940 and 1944 form one of the darkest and most controversial chapters in the...

Sexuality and Gender in David Henry Hwang’s Madame Butterfly

roles and how to identify themselves accordingly (Warmoth). Through experience, interaction, and acculturation, they develop perc...

Carles: “A Life of Her Own”

her father was scheduled to go and get a bull from the commune, and because the bull was vital to the village, he went on with his...

Historical Aspects of Russia, Austria, and France Between 1815 and 1919

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

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

American Popular Foods History

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

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,...

Beckett's "Endgame" - Theatrical Passage

as audience members question the correctness of snickering at something so obviously bleak. Still, they are hard pressed to avoid...

Trubek's Haute Cuisine

from the idea of royalty and excess and there was no place that was attached to that concept like Versailles. France has a rich hi...

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 ...

Why the French Withdrew from Vietnam

under French rule" (Vietnam, 2007). The French named the colony "Cochinchina" (Vietnam, 2007). It took them 16 more years to bring...

Marguerite Duras, A Biography

This essay provides an overview of the life and career of Marguerite Duras, French novelist and film maker, specifically focusing ...

The Spring/Summer Before the Reign of Terror

After the execution of Louis XVI there was an air of change in Paris. The writer looks at the mood in the French capital as the c...

Director Chris Marker

This paper discusses the work of French film director Chris Marker. The writer address his cinematic style, his topics and his psy...