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France's Natural Resources

an adequate and increasing budget allocated to environmental issues....

1999 French Banking Merger and Hostile Takeover

In fifteen pages the 1999 banking battle between France's Paribas banks, Societe Generale, and the Banque Nationale de Paris is ex...

19th Century US' Penitentiary System

more advanced in containing the criminal element than other states at the time. If not, why would the pair go to America to study ...

The Shipman in The Canterbury Tales

way down the social ladder. The Shipman, i.e., the "sailor," is placed between Chaucers description of the Cook and the "Doctor of...

Leadership of France's Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle and his extraordinary leadership are the focus of this paper consisting of nine pages. Seven sources are cited ...

L'attente de Vladimir sur Godot

continuellement interrompu par Estragon. Il ne finit jamais lhistoire. En dautres termes, il doit continuer ? attendre Godot, o? G...

'Medici Cycle' of Peter Paul Rubens

of understanding into a cultures ideals and belief systems. The purpose of art, the creation of art, the interpretation of art, an...

Madeleine de Scudery's Literary Salon and How It Influenced Marie Jeanne L'Heritier's Writing

of what we desire, we are only so much the nearer losing it; and when at a distance from it, we live in expectation of enjoying it...

A Review of The Princess of Cleves

An 8 page essay reviewing the novel by Marie de La Fayette. This so called women's novel provides interesing insight into French h...

Analysis of Rights of Citizen, Man, and Woman French Declarations

In one page this paper provides a comaprative analysis of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen of 1789 and ...

The Political Atmosphere in Paris Spring Summer 1793

This 3 page paper provides an overview of the major political events and players in France during the spring and summer of 1793. ...

Satire: 12th Night vs. Miller's Tale

This essay discusses Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale." The writer asserts that Chaucer's narrative ...

A Description of The Wife of Bath in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

the Wifes character, she obviously liked drawing attention to herself. Additionally, since the kerchiefs were of the "finest wea...

Chaucer's Alter-Ego in the House of Fame.

An observational essay dealing with the protagonist of Chaucer's House of Fame, Geffrey. The author asserts that the work is a pa...

Ninth Day, Sixth Story and the Reeve's Tale

as an "honest man" who kept a "little hut for the entertainment of travelers, serving them with meat and drink" but seldom offerin...

Boccaccio and Chaucer

A Pardoner, in medieval times, had the task of collecting money for the charitable enterprises that were supported by the church (...

Women and Geoffrey Chaucer

to some extent. One critics opinion seems to support such a perspective: "The Wife of Baths negative image seems only to have chan...

Justifying Authority

The ways in which authority has been justified in literature is examined in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Wife of Bath's Tale,' William ...

The Princess of Cleves by Marie de Lafayette

the end of her days, the Princess abided by societal expectations. For example, when the young heroine first comes to the court,...

Research Study in Marie Jeanne L'Heritier's Writing and the Influence of Madeleine de Scudery's Literary Salon

it again" (De Sevigne, 1982). Analyzing the literary insights of a number of these female authors, including Marie-Jeanne LHeriti...

Appearances and Looking Beyond Them in Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne Marie LePrince de Beaumont

would stay close to home and her beloved father, reading books and living a simple but personally rewarding life (LePrince de Beau...

Deception in Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale'

"General Prologue" of The Canterbury Tales, is one of only two pilgrims who tells no story of his own (Conlee 36). While critic J...

Medieval Manuscripts

wooden frames and written on with a stylus, as used in Roman antiquity, were used in the middle ages by students, accountants and ...

Wife of Bath’s Tale and Wedding of Sir Gawain

together and makes possible the fraternal and hierarchic bonds of chivalric solidarity" (Hahn). This contrasts sharply with the fo...

Medieval Christianity and the Cathedral

medieval periods, which involved numerous activities of economic import, such as the "quarrying, carving and laying of stone, the ...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote as Literature's 'First Novel'

as Garcia Marquez. These are often too artistic to really be a novel. While these are only a few of the types of written stories...

Chaucer, Beowulf, and Lifestyles

rural lifestyle. Lacey and Danziger comment that the popular image of the medieval hall, with its rush-covered floor and central f...

Development of English Literature from 'Beowulf' to Alexander Pope

very clear division between those who followed Christianity in the genuine way, and those who used it merely for their own advance...

Ancient Literature and Companionship

of common suffering or accomplishment. Once the student working on this project sees these factors, it becomes obvious throughout ...

Pardoner's Sexuality in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

In five pages this paper analyzes the Pardoner's sexuality in a consideration of the stories from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey...