Education in France

Shakespeare’s seminal classic Henry V is the culmination of the Henriad tetralogy, and is an allusion to the aphorism that “the pen is mightier than the sword,” for despite being renowned as a warrior king in the Bard’s tale, King Henry fought his battles with the mettle of his rhetoric rather than the metal of his blade. This can be seen in the way in which he utilises orotund oratory to intimidate the citizens of Harfleur into surrendering, but perhaps his most monumental use of magniloquence…

from the government that they are working. Most of them live in the country as an outsider. From 1950 to 1990 is a massive migration era, most of the migrations is in France and Germany. Because after the Second World War, France and Germany as the main battlefield have been destroyed and need to be reconstructed. Also, as France and Germany used to the colony the Islamic countries, the migrants from these countries can…

The question on whether the cost of legal immigration outweighs its economic benefits has been a topic for debates for sometime now. Some people argue the immigration is the cause for more spending in areas such as education and public assistance. Another argument is that immigrants are taking jobs away from native-born citizens resulting in higher unemployment rates, which results in more people needing money from public assistance. There are others who argue that legal immigrants help us by…

John Rindlisbacher Mrs. Miller English 12 September 20 2016 Good or Bad? Originally the 2014 winter olympics in Sochi were planned to cost around $12 billion, however they ended up costing Russia $50 billion. The extremely large investment that is the olympic games, rarely pays off. There have been few games that bring financial good for a host country. The olympics require constructing new venues for sports that aren’t traditionally common, and upgrades on the hosts transportation, sanitation…

asylum to protect them from the unfit conditions of their country. The system should also have more compassion toward future citizens to understand the circumstances these people live in everyday. Children should not be forced to grow up without an education because of fear and a father shouldn 't have to shut down his business for the same reasons. The compassion would reflect to the people and make the country an overall less judgmental…

Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), French author of the naturalistic school who is generally considered the greatest French short story writer. Some would even say that he is the father of the modern short story. Though he didn't invent the short story genre, he perfected it, popularized it, and greatly expanded his audience's understanding of what could be done with it. It helped that he wrote some three hundred short stories, all mostly between 1880 and 1890. Maupassant was also famous for his…

The film Le Havre (2011), directed and written by Aki Kaurismäki and starring André Wilms, follows Marcel Marx, a poor shoe shiner living in Le Havre, France. Early in the film, the French police find a group of African immigrants hiding in a shipping container. One of them makes a run for it and escapes their capture. Idrissa, the young boy who escapes, ends up running into Marcel, who offers him food, lies to the police about seeing him, and invites him into his home. Throughout the film,…

If anyone does a generic search of the words “Muslim Immigration” through Google you will come up with more than twelve million different sources on this issue. Likewise, if anyone does a search on the “Syrian Refugee Crisis” you will get well over seventeen million different sources. This search gives a small glimpse into how large this issue is. This is why many people are interested in how the United States is going to respond. There are many different views on what should be done given the…

Refugees have existed ever since there has been conflict in the world; both World Wars, displacement of Jews and Palestinians, the India and Pakistan border conflict, and even the aftermath of Japanese imperialism. Although refugees have been a huge issue throughout history, the recent crisis has brought over one million refugees into Europe in just 2015. Today, more than 65 million people are forced out of their home country as a result of persecution, violence or natural disasters. The…

Ever since Adam and Eve ate the bearing fruit of Good and Evil from the Tree of Knowledge, humans have long desired to possess exponentially more than what they require. “How Much Land Does a Man Need?” by Leo Tolstoy and “The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant, the characters in view are discontented by their current lifestyle. They ruin every spark of a fulfilling life by adding materialistic notions to every aspect, by discrediting their close ones and feeling worse off than they actually are.…