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FARC The Colombian Rebels

The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, the terrorist organization...

The Necklace/Guy de Maupassant

Necklace" is present the narrative within the context of the readers understanding of Mathilde Loisels character, who is described...

The Moral Hijacking of "Dangerous Liaisons" by Populist Sentiment

"Les Liaisons Dangereuses" in 1782, a number of years before the French Revolution, and it stands to this day as a masterwork of p...

Nineteenth Century Art and Modernity

During the nineteenth century, all aspects of European culture were affected by the advent of the Industrial Revolution and the ad...

The Mission, An Analysis

to the Indians in South America. This paper summarizes and analyzes the film. Discussion Summary: The story is set in 1750 in Sou...

Films of the Italian Neorealism Movement

This research paper focuses on the films of Roberto Rossellini, specifically on "Paisan" and "Germany Year Zero" and the films of...

Mexican Cement Company CEMEX

the latter 1980s and the 1990s, mainly through acquisitions (Podolny and Roberts, 1999). What also helped was liberalization of fo...

'Revolutionary' Citizenship and the American Experience

This paper considers how the modern concept of citizenship has been shaped by the American experience and also features a comparat...

Style and Substance: Analyzing the Film Scarface (1983)

Brian De Palma's film Scarface is analyzed in terms of aesthetics, narrative, cultural and historical contexts in 5 pages. The bi...

Existentialism vs Humanism

Numerous theories have been purported in an attempt to explain human personality. Existentialist and...

Pierre et Jean by Guy de Maupassant

Jean, which is evident from the picture of the family friend that his mother keeps on the mantelpiece. Unaware of the torturous th...

"Dr. Glass-Case" by De Cervantes

Cervantes "rather formulaic" descriptions of Italian cities were "perfectly in tune with the rhetorical canons of the time" (Cerva...

NORTH AFRICAN JEWS AND FRANCE

these Arabs carry with them anger over creation of the state of Israel (Smith, 2006). Furthermore, its the poorer North African Je...

Medieval and Renaissance Artistic Depictions of Women

womanly figure that offered men a very subdued connection to women. The fact that this connection with women was incredibly subdue...

Magical Applications of the Legend of King Arthur

King Arthur was the only one who could have united all of England because he was the embodiment of the old and new ways. As such, ...

Women's Contributions and Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

to drop, though it often seems to hold them loosely." He admires them for these qualities and then discusses how the American peop...

Historical Evaluation Death in the Venetian Quarter A Medieval Mystery by Alan Gordon

Constantinople during end of the Fourth Crusade. Theophilos the Jester, or Feste the Fool as his performing name, is placed in the...

Social Life and Intellect in Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville

and find neither peril nor advantage in the free interchange of their thoughts. If they meet by accident, they neither seek nor av...

'Yvain' by Chretien de Troyes and Relationship Reciprocity

to Yvain goes even further than the loan of the invisibility ring. Lunette considers an alliance between her lady and Yvain to be ...

Artistic Portrayal of Women

altar, they represent Jesus human and divine natures. Believers are also called to be the light of the world. In the Smoking Flame...

Simone de Beauvoir, Emma Goldman, Foucault's Power Structure, and the Film The Matrix

who is a software programmer by day and a hacker known as Neo by night. Becoming increasingly disillusioned with his life, Neo se...

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

Vol. 2. Boston, MA: Ginn, 1906. Hanover Historical Text Project. http://history.hanover.edu/texts/barth.htm (accessed May 18, 200...

Life and Theoretical Contributions of Pierre de Fermat

the work of Apollonius concerning plane loci (Ball Fermat.html). In his youth, Fermat was friends with the French scientis...

Medieval Christianity and the Arch Angel Michael Diptych

examination of one specific piece of sculpture of the time (a sculpture of the Archangel Michael as he was depicted on a sixth cen...

Differing View of Democracy

that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...

Kristin Ross/May '68 and Its Afterlives

down the entire country. Nine million people, "across all sectors of public and private employment-from department store clerks to...

Deviance Across Cultures: Girl Gangs Around the World

feud between rival families of the Camorra crime syndicate" exploded in a small town outside Naples (Israely, 2002, p. 32). The le...

Globalization, Localizations and Its' Manifestation in France

when undertaking international business must be the way in which any strategy is adopted internationally. For any product being so...

"The Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant: Short Story Analysis

the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...

Nicholas Copernicus and His Times

the duty of an astronomer, which is to observe the motion of celestial bodies and then devise explanations for these motions (Osia...