Alexis de Tocqueville

because he was considered an enemy of the Medici. This was unfair to Machiavelli, which later brought him with the idea of being an effective leader. Machiavelli was imprisoned and tortured but later was allowed to leave Florence when Giovanni, Lorenzo dé Medici’s son, was elected Pope Leo X in 1513 since the Medici family significantly impacted Italy. He spent the next fifteen years…

Necklace" by Guy de Maupassant and "The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry, the plot is very distinct and different. The characters in "The Necklace" are well off, while the characters in "The Gift of the Magi" are very impoverished. Though different in plot and characters, the theme and lesson learned in the end is very similar, showing the characters the difference between "true" and "false" values and how more important love is when compared to materialistic views. In "The Necklace" by Guy de…

Any object has value, but that value is determined by the beholder. “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant, is a short story about a woman, Mathilde Loisel, who wants more than she has, and because of this she ends up in a state which was worse than beforehand. “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, is about a woman, Dee, who visits her family and tries to take a quilt that would look good hanging in her home, but the quilt has sentimental value to her younger sibling, Maggie, and her mother, Mama. Both…

principle, if they can achieve the societal standard for beauty, they will finally be happy. However, oftentimes more basic elements bring this sought after state of contentment. In “The Necklace,” a short story set in 19th century France, the author Guy de Maupassant employs simple writing techniques to illustrate…

Emotionally, my life at 15 years old was a living hell with the damage already done. By now I had already been addicted, to something so wonderful, something so smooth and something so life changing. Maybe I fell in love with the color of it, since white has always been a favorite of mine, or maybe the way it ran through me, but I know for sure I loved the feeling it brought me. City lights wrapped around me as I headed towards Brookhaven, Georgia with two of the closest people I had. The driver…

For the purpose of this paper I will be explaining the reasons for the rapid fall of France in 1940. Some, if not most, of the attention is given to Hitler’s blitzkrieg style of invasion as a main reason for France’s crushing defeat, but there were many other factors that compounded the devastation that was associated with Hitler’s war on France. As I will highlight, the German advance via the “all new” tank tactics of the time was an extremely devastating driving force that was the tip of the…

If I had to choose one film that represents Hollywood’s involvement in the Second World War, it would have to be Michael Curtiz’s 1942 film “Casablanca” . Examining just this film demonstrates the reasons to study the war films, especially with those produced during the war. From this type of film, we get the producers, directors writers and actors viewpoint reflected in the story that they are producing. The film is, from the producers’ time view, about current events thereby the film will…

Miguel De Cervantes and Christine de Pizan through their writings condemn the way writers and society viewed women, opposing such writing by pointing out that women possess attributes that stem further than their beauty or connection with men. If women are depicted one way in written text, those ideas will then transfer into society. Specifically, chivalric tales had this effect because at this point in time, the idea of chivalry was well respected and so were the tales that told of chivalric…

surrounding forests.3 Around the same time that the Benedictine monks had founded the abbey, the relics of Saint James had been discovered in Spain. This discovery sparked a movement and many pilgrims began to make their way to the shrine at Santiago de Compostela in hopes of seeking forgiveness for their sins or cures for their illnesses. Conques was located along one of the pilgrimage roads leading from France to Spain and saw countless people pass through as this movement grew. This prime…

of Warsaw and later by the Allied forces in Berlin, was not realized and French troops loyal to the resistance fought off German forces and reclaimed the city without the use of urban warfare. On the same day that Paris was liberated General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French resistance movement and the future President of the Fourth French Republic, addressed the newly freed nation for the first time: Why do you wish us to hide the emotion which seizes us all, men and women, who are…