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Fitzgerald's Literary Influences, and His Influence on Literature

and actually wrote several novels and short stories during the period ("F. Scott Fitzgerald"). Interestingly, his novels were neve...

Napoleon Bonaparte: The Influences on Him and How He Influenced the World

might say in fact that he was slightly ahead of his time. Yet, in addition to having been an important figure and brilliant strate...

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...

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 ...

Britain and America Up to the Revolution

a position of great economic need. They had borrowed a great deal from bankers, British as well as Dutch, in order to pay for the ...

The Diary of Madeline, the Comtesse de Lyon

Lyon, Madeline has moved up in society. But now she is looking at a series of events unfolding around her that will change her li...

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...

Essays on Absolute Monarchy, the French Revolution, and the Effects of Mechanization on the Working Class

- such as whenever he needed funding for one of the many wars he was fighting. This constant in-fighting between the English mona...

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...

"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...

The Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution

populations of such places as England and Germany and the United States seemed to increase, in France the population remained rela...

Clust; Group Buying

market. The company with the first mover advantage was Mercata, however, they followed a slightly different model closer to tradit...

Revolutions: America and France

2007). These events were The three most important events that led up to, and caused it, were "the Boston Massacre, The Boston Tea...

Defending Robespierre

of the twelve?man Committee of Public Safety elected by the National Convention, and which effectively governed France at the heig...

A Frenchman at Vesalius College

life and work in Brussels, the opportunity is there to learn a great deal about international relations. I do find myself wonderi...

Master of the Rohan Hours

("Master"). It is also believed by scholars that the extensive biblical cycle contained in the Rohan Hours is based on the Bible m...

Pierre Bourdieu and Art Analysis

field of "taste and aesthetics," and among other things, repudiates the idea that there is a "universal transcendent conception of...

French, Spanish, and British Colonists

who were most oppressed by the British rule. One author notes that the history of this goes back, beginning: "[I[n 1215 at a place...

French, Spanish, and British Colonists: Labor

the French generally ventured "from their base around the Great Lakes...drawn south along the rivers which drain into the Mississi...

German Unification, Bismarck, the Treaties of Frankfurt and Versailles

grew and many citizens signed up with the Prussian army. Prussia also began the climb from the primarily agrarian lifestyle that ...

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...

The French Revolution and Enlightenment

wherein people began to argue that logical and scientific thinking were the answer to lifes questions. It was a form of thought th...

Contemporary Egyptian Art in a Global Context

been contemporary Egyptian art. 2. Contemporary Egyptian Art and its Historical Western Influence Egypt has been influenced by w...

Informal Versus Formal Power In Organizations

authority (Rayner, Hoel and Cooper, 2001). These people have the authority to make things happen so they have both authority and p...

The French Revolution: Causes and Effects

century and the first part of the eighteenth century (Lossky 7). Officially, he held Frances throne from the young age of five to...

French and Russian Revolution

fought and ruled over by many different people, most notably ethnic German nobles, Poland, Sweden, and finally Tsarist Russia" (Li...