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No matter the culture of a country, there are always remorseful people who detest certain features about themselves. Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano De Bergerac focuses on this idea by exhibiting the main character, Cyrano as an unattractive yet wise man who is severely disgruntled with his considerably large nose. The classic story of the brave and witty Cyrano expresses that Cyrano’s nose is more a source of pain than pride. Although people tend to grapple that Cyrano’s nose was a prideful factor of…

“The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant, is a story about a young married woman, Mathilde Loisel. Mathilde is infatuated with her appearance, so the moment she loses her old friend’s necklace she flips her whole life around to prevent telling her friend the truth. Guy de Maupassant uses third person limited omniscient as the point of view and Mathilde’s symbolic and stereotypical character to convey the central idea of vanity. Mathilde’s an egocentric and jealous character. Mathilde constantly…

Rhetorical Analysis of In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez, in her novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, emphasizes the humanity of the Mirabal sisters, that many portrayals of leave out, in favor of highlighting their heroism. In order to make the Mirabals more relatable and to show that there’s a hero hidden in all of us, she (Alvarez) shows us their weaknesses, their fears,and most importantly, their faults. Alvarez’s purpose in my selected passage (pages 108-112), is to show that…

Antonio Barberini SR Antonio Barberini is the younger brother of Maffeo Barberini, who became pope in 1623. In 1624 he made a cardinal and spent the whole day in religious devotions in Rome and eventually became a secretary after being an Inquisitor in 1629 following the death of Gian Garzia Millini. Barberini “conducted the final phase of Galileo’s trial” and sought to dominate his order with illegal actions such as appointing “one of its friars as consultor to the Inquisition” forcefully. At…

Panchito faces many problems in the circuit,such as financial, he and his family are poor,and educational problems because he couldn’t go to school until cotten season was over. Another problem Pinchito and his family face is that they kept moving to different places, and the places that they would move to weren't exactly “nice”. some evidence for these statements is that in the story it states “ Papa took out a pencil and began to figure out how much money we had earned our first day. he…

From War Zone to Holy Land: Rostand’s symbolic settings in Cyrano de Bergerac Throughout Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand purposefully implemented symbolic settings to foreshadow the actions of the characters. Each of the symbolic settings either introduces a motif, creates an allusion, or is a metaphor; all of these further develop the theme. The earlier light-hearted settings in the book juxtapose with the somber settings later in the book. This shift in setting is purposeful to represent…

St. Catherine of Siena was known as a Christian reformer and mystic who had a significant impact on the church. She is the patron of fire prevention. Her real name was Caterina Benincasa. She was born March 25, 13447 in Siena, Italy. Catherine was the daughter of Giacomo Benincasa. St. Catherine wrote a book called “Dialogue” which talks about the love of neighbours as an expression of love for God. Catherine received a vision of Jesus Christ when she was 6 and at the age of 16, she spent most…

De Beauvoir, Simone. "The Second Sex." Anatomy and Destiny. N.p.: n.p., n.d. 117-24. Print. Beauvoir’s text The Second Sex serves as the main focal point for my research. This piece is highly feministic and explores many of the discriminatory aspects that women experienced during the specific time period in which the text is written. Beauvoir’s main criticism is that women are characterized as the Other by society as a whole. Meanwhile, man assumes the role of the Self. Throughout the text…

In the Times of the Butterflies is a novel written by Julia Alvarez. The novel followed the four Mirabal sisters contrasting roles as females that sets their decisions on whether−or not−they wanted to follow the anti-Trujillo movement throughout this movie. The sisters are, Dede, Minerva, Maria Teresa, and Patrai. Dede and Minerva are the most conflicted on the whole movement, while Maria Teresa and Patria’s was less conflicted and their participation in the Trujillo movement was more of an…

“Some consider it a new thing, they hope to be able to stop it; whereas others judge it irresistible because to them it seems the most continuous, the oldest, and the most permanent fact known in history” (Democracy in America 3). Here Tocqueville presents the inexorability of democracy. In essence, democracy is a continuously expanding force where “all events, like all men, serve its development.” (Democracy in America 6). Most importantly, Tocqueville argues that democracy is not upheld…