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"The Little Prince" of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the Fable and in the Reality

some critics believe that "post-colonialism" implies, mistakenly, that "colonialism is over when in fact most of the nations invol...

Politics is Everything According to Alexis de Tocqueville

the 1920s" (Zaretsky, 2004, p. 39). Thanks to Lincolns brand of politics, America was well on its way to achieving superpower sta...

French Films La Regle du Jeu, Zero de Conduite, Meaning and Ending

another toots a miniature horn through his nose. When they arrive at the station, the boys join the rest of their peers, who are...

Miracles of Our Lady (Milagros de Nuestra Senora) by Berceo

in miracle I, "The Chausuble of Saint Ildephonsus," Berceo, first of all, describes the piety, humility and service of the venerab...

The Concept of Ambition in Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Essays by Michel de Montaigne

he was aware of; they are both of them things pre-eminently vain glory also, like a shadow, goes sometimes before the body, and so...

Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Marx on Equality and Liberty

Marx, the freedom was not in the ability to acquire wealth, or the opportunities, but rather in equality. It was the ability to li...

Levi Strauss' Myth Analysis by Applying Ferdinand de Saussure's Structural Linguistics

but an anthropologist and he made use of the theorist in his studies, including kinship and myths. The idea of Saussures t...

Paintings Seated Woman and Woman I by Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning

art. The "master style" that is featured in both paintings is invariably Cubism, despite de Koonings protestations, "I never made...

De Bono's Six Thinking Hats

care their loved one would want at this point inasmuch as she has no directives. The most significant of potential problems in ha...

Analyzing Machiavelli in Hell by Sebastian de Grazia

This is actually a very interesting perspective and one which definitely lends an air of authenticity to the arguments of the auth...

'Eugenie Grandet' by Honore de Balzac

In three pages this essay considers the 1833 novel by Balzac in an overview of plot that also includes a discussion of the protago...

Magdalen with the Smoking Flame by Georges de la Tour

second of course has the flame smoking and Mary just beginning to show the signs of pregnancy. The third has Mary obviously pregna...

Film Comparison of Sergei Eisenstein's The Battleship Potemkin and Vittorio de Sica's Bicycle Thieves

realistically with the rise of Fascism in Italy, as well as with the war itself and with the social problems that it left behind"....

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Social Criticism

this political cruelty that is shown nearly crushing his characters in every novel has the danger of becoming common place, and th...

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 ...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote

service...sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth" (Cervantes). One of his next foes is a flock of sheep. Don Quixot...

Tiempo de Silencio by Luis Martin Santos and La Colmena by Camilo J. Cela

discover hidden truth in the world, he can aim to create his own different world in whatever terms he wishes through the medium of...

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...

Women's Aspects Concerning Marriage and Equality in Excerpts from Wollstonecraft, Ibsen, Mill, Chopin, and de Pizan

is considered a step in the right direction for women of the era who were trapped in unhealthy and unequal marriages. Regardless o...

Transience and Elasticity of Love

characters and their quest for happiness, despite the fact their lives are typically mired in chaos and confusion. Carver presents...

Psyche, Cupid, and Plato's Definition of Love

between Psyche and her other two sisters was that Psyche was appreciably more beautiful than they. By all accounts, the sisters we...

Alexis de Tocqueville, Auguste Comte, and Karl Marx

faced with the problem of having to decide who has control over this surplus and this provides the seeds of class struggle. Mark ...

Hunger in California in Texts by Maria Ruiz de Burton and Josiah Royce

Harvard. In this text, Royce combines romance and storytelling with an historical subtext that denounces, rather than romanticize...

Book of the Three Virtues by Christine de Pizan

of women in medieval society, De Pizan wrote two of her most significant works, The Book of the City of Ladies and The Book of the...

'Ball of Fat' and 'The Necklace' by Guy de Maupassant

meant to be - mixing with society people and being decorated with fine jewelry. However, she ends up losing the necklace...

de Tocqueville and Crevecoeur

However, as Lauter (2004) points out, Crevecoeurs perspective that all nations were represented and that these were being transfor...

Satire in Candide by Voltaire and Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

this particular case emphasized the role of the hero. Sancho is reminiscent of the modern world that cannot conceive or begin to f...

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

womens lives were a measurement in comparison to these male priorities and values. The life of a woman, in other words, was that ...

Aging in 'Minuet' by Guy de Maupassant

his poor little puppet-like body" to be rather pathetic and ridiculous. Nevertheless, he is intrigued and he becomes "wildly anxio...

Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan

as adjuncts of male society, defined through the male gaze and the male cultural perspective....