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'The Plague' of Albert Camus

Rieux, who is preoccupied with the departure of his ill wife to a sanatorium, finds a dead rat. This event heralds the onset of on...

Saint Augustine of Hippo and Plato's Influence

Wisdom, and the Word of God. Therefore, intellectual knowledge is not the result of the gathering of data by the intellect, but a ...

Anthropology and Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios

as treasurer. With two other Spaniards and an Arab Moor, he was the only survivor who remained on the mainland," thus setting the ...

Don Quixote Character Analysis

servant and friend, Sancho Panza, he experiences successes and times of humiliation until he is finally forced by defeat to return...

Literacy and Religion

their function was only to labour. As Wood (2002) points out, historians tend to measure levels of literacy by the percentage of a...

Charles Manson's Personality Profile

It has also been pointed out those with active or high fantasy prone imaginations are more apt to be able to become serial killers...

Eighteenth Century Canada and Relations Between Great Britain and France

with the Iroquois in the seventeenth century and the Thirteen Colonies in the eighteenth."3 This author also indicates that a larg...

Culture of France

In three pages this research paper examines the culture of France in a topical discussion of diet, time concept, personal space, n...

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 ...

Medieval Individuality and Leadership

require freedom. It would not be until much later, during the latter part of the eighteenth century, that the world would see imme...

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...

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...

Biography of Evita Peron

old enough to venture out on her own, Evita - whose beauty helped open many a door of opportunity - sought an acting career in Bue...

World History and Ethnic Group Persecution

The main reason why the Huguenots were unpopular with the majority in France during the time period was because they were not of t...

Metaphors and Themes in Works of Louis De Bernieres and Primo Levi

make an appearance in the book until nearly mid-way through. However, it is quickly understood, once he appears, that he and his m...

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...

Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre, and John Stuart Mill

facilitate a persons physical or moral good. In other words, laws should be formulated only in so far as one persons actions inter...

Identifying William Shakespeare

never formally addressing any attacks on his work, commenting on his popularity or penning any eulogy to any of the members of the...

Three Artistic Masterpieces Compared

However, the light strikes each man in varying degrees of intensity. This becomes the means by which Caravaggio penetrates the "su...

Arthurian Romances of Cretien De Troyes

and determines to set himself right in his wifes eyes. He leaves the court, taking only Enide for company, and warns her not to sp...

Resumo de Ana by Modesto Carone

In five pages tis paper evaluates the author's presentation of his uncle and grandmother's stories in the 1999 novel Resumo de Ana...

Early Comedy's Birth and Development

plenty of time to waste" (Anonymous astudyof.htm). As well, the very nature of the prose and movement became based more in realit...

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...

Adolphe by Benjamin Constant

narrative. Eventually, however, he rejects her, and the pain of this separation results in her death. Instead of prospering, now t...

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...

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...

Michel de Montaigne Essays

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

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...