Essays Tagged: "Paris"

The Trojan War

nscribed "For the most beautiful." Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite each claimed the apple as their own. Paris judged the quarrel and awarded the apple to Aphrodite because she had promised him Helen, the ... autiful woman in the world. Helen was already married to Kin Menelaus of Sparta but when visited by Paris, she fled with Paris to Troy. Menelaus organized Greek war against Troy to get Helen back. The ...

(5 pages) 162 1 3.1 Oct/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Georges Seurat: The Neo-Impressionist

Anchorage,AKGrade: ANovember 7, 1995Georges Seurat: The Neo-ImpressionistGeorges Seurat was born in Paris on December 2, 1859. As a youth, he attended a municipal art school where he copied plaster ca ... g Seurat was strongly influenced by Rembrant and Francisco de Goya. Seurat spent his entire life in Paris except for trips taken in the summer and a year in the military at Brest. He began his career ...

(4 pages) 103 0 3.0 Nov/1995

Subjects: Art Essays

Alexis Charles-Henri-Maurice Clérel de Tocqueville

cedil;aise en 1841.Alexis Charles-Henri-Maurice Clérel de Tocqueville est né à Paris, le 29 Juillet 1805. Il était un vrai Norman. Tocqueville, l'endroit de château q ... eur des rois Louis XV et Louis XVI. Il a passé son enfance à Verneuil, prèt de paris, puisque la Normandie étant prefet et pair de la France. Alexis a suivi une carri&egrav ...

(4 pages) 59 0 3.8 Feb/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Romeo and Juliet, Love or Infactuation

iet takes the elixir she wonders if might be poison, or maybe it won't work and she'd have to marry Paris instead, maybe Romeo wouldn't be there to open the tomb and she would suffocate, but she didn' ...

(1 pages) 46 0 4.2 Feb/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet

Mozart

orchestra and fell in love with AloysiaWeber. His father promptly told his son and wife to come to Paris. His mother died inParis, on July 1778. he was rejected by Weber and the neglect from his girl ... s, on July 1778. he was rejected by Weber and the neglect from his girlfriends madeMozart's trip in Paris the most miserable moments in his life. The success of Mozart'sopera, 'Idomeneo re di Creta,' ...

(1 pages) 151 1 3.8 Jan/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies > Performers & Composers

Term Paper on Aaron Copland

nts. Because of his family's financial status, he started formally training as a teen, and moved to Paris where he became the first American student of Nadia Boulanger. It was here that Copland develo ...

(3 pages) 117 0 4.6 Apr/1995

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Jules Verne

es were discovered.His father was a lawyer and wanted young Verne to be one, too. Jules was sent to Paris to study law and while he was there, he became interested in literature. He graduated with a d ... re. He graduated with a degree in law in 1850. Jules began to write and give private law lessons in Paris. His father voiced some concern in pursuing literature as well as law.When Jules was in his yo ...

(4 pages) 53 1 4.6 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Betrayl of the Adults to Juliet

her. Juliet's parents, Capulet and Lady Capulet, fail to understands Juliet's decision not to marry Paris. The Nurse fails Juliet by not supporting Juliet's decision to remain married to Romeo. The fi ... first to betray Juliet is her parents, Capulet and Lady Capulet. Capulet decides to marry Juliet to Paris. When Juliet refuses to do so Capulet threatens to disown her. '...you shall not house with me ...

(2 pages) 28 0 4.6 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet

A great article on the early and late life of Karl Marx....also includes information on the communist manifesto

and soon afterward the Rheinische Zeitung was forced to discontinue publication. Marx then went to Paris. There, as a result of his further studies in philosophy, history, and political science, he a ... , history, and political science, he adopted communist beliefs. In 1844, when Engels visited him in Paris, the two men found that they had independently arrived at identical views on the nature of rev ...

(2 pages) 88 0 3.0 Apr/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

information packed resumé with some reflections over Jean Paul Sarte's book "La Nausée"

il;oit une letter de Anny une fille qu'il n'a pas vu depuis six ans. Ellevut qu'il vienne la voir a Paris. Roquentin devin un peut déprimé et troublé, il pense tant qu'il ne peut ... par ce que il change d'avi au sujet de la réalitée de temps en temps.Roquentin part a Paris pour encontrer Anny. Ils ont de longues converstion très intérésantes mai ...

(2 pages) 53 0 5.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont France on June 19, 1623, anddied in Paris on Aug. 19, 1662. His father, a local judge at Clermont, andalso a man with a scientific reput ... father, a local judge at Clermont, andalso a man with a scientific reputation, moved the family to Paris in 1631,partly to presue his own scientific studies, partly to carry on the education ofhis on ...

(2 pages) 67 0 4.7 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Mathematics

"Down and out in Paris and London" by Orwell

The story of 'Down And Out In Paris And London' deals with the author's experience with tramps and the poverty stricken in Paris a ... rison.' (p. 130)I certainly felt that after reading George Orwell's experiences in 'Down And Out In Paris And London' that I have a better understanding of people who live at this level of society. I ...

(4 pages) 52 0 4.2 Nov/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

A Literary Essay on Romeo and Juliet, impulsiveness of the play

ness leads to tragedy.First off, Capulet was a prudent, well-balanced person most of the time. When Paris told Capulet that he wanted to marry Juliet, Capulet said "Let two more summers wither in thei ... ok out for Juliet and wanted to make sure she was ready. Though he did tell him to "woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart;/My will to her consent is but a part" because he was still not passing up this ...

(4 pages) 44 0 5.0 Mar/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Romeo & Juliet

Alfred Binet

ent psychologists in French history.Having received his formal education in both Nice and later, in Paris, at the renowned Lycee Louis -le-Grand, Binet went on to become a lawyer. This profession, how ... e found himself immersed in the works of J.S. Mill, Bain and Sully at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. He identified strongly with the associationism theory in following that his mentor was J.S. M ...

(5 pages) 107 0 4.2 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

"La symphonie pastorale" par André Gide

André Gide est né en 1869 et il est mort en 1951. Il habitait à Paris. Son père est mort en 1880, quand André avait seulement onze ans. Il est é ...

(4 pages) 30 0 5.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Napoleon and why he was a success

amily of radicals.        In 1784 to 1785 Napoleon attended the Ecole Militaire in Paris. That was the place where he received his military training. He studied to be an artillery ma ... French army when he was 16 years old. Soon after that his father died, Napoleon was stationed in Paris in 1792. After the French monarchy was overthrown on August 10, 1792, Napoleon decided to make ...

(8 pages) 147 0 4.8 Jan/1997

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Questions #27, 29: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (Ask me to e-mail original if you like the essay, as most mistakes in it are caused by the website).

tificial night (I, i, 131-37).A second reference to darkness or night was made when Capulet said to Paris:At my poor house look to behold this nightEarth-treading stars that make dark heaven light.Suc ...

(2 pages) 56 0 3.1 Jun/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing

In this Research paper titled "Jean-Luc Godard" I wrote about Godards life making artsy movies in France.

His parents sent him to live in Switzerland when war broke out, but in the late 40's he returned to Paris to study ethnology at the Sorbonne. He became acquainted with Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffau ... ndustry colleagues (his mutual disaffection with Truffaut, for example, is well documented).He left Paris for Switzerland, which has been his home for the last 20 years. Fascinated with developments i ...

(3 pages) 61 0 3.9 Nov/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Directors

Title: An Examination of the Character Achilles.

in revenge and soothe his injured pride.The Iliad centers around the Trojan War which was caused by Paris, the most handsome man in all the world, stealing Helen of Troy (initially from Sparta), the m ...

(3 pages) 156 0 4.4 Dec/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Karl Marx

nsequencely, the Rheinische Zeitung was forced to discontinue publication. Karl Marx later moved to Paris, where he further studied philosophy, history, and political science, and adopted his communis ... d adopted his communist beliefs. In 1844, a man by the name of Fredrick Engels visited Karl Marx in Paris. These two men had the same views on the nature of revolutionary problems, and set to correct ...

(5 pages) 156 0 3.2 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science