France

Though he hadn’t set foot on the battlefield, Lafayette would play an important role in the creation of the United States of America. Marquis de Lafayette was born on September 6, 1757, in, Chavaniac, France. To Michel du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette and Marie Louise Jolie de La Rivière. He moved in 1759 when his father was killed and his mother moved themselves to Paris. He was raised in Chateau Chavaniac in the mountains of Auvergne until the age of twelve. A fun fact about Marquis de…

A play by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, The Diary of Anne Frank, is the main text that will be focused on in this learning segment. The play has two acts. The main characters in The Diary of Anne Frank include Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl who is hiding with her family from the Nazis from persecution. Mr. Frank, also known as Otto Frank, is the father of Anne and Margot Frank. Mrs. Frank is the wife to Otto Frank and the mother of Anne and Margot. The Van Daan family are also play…

Napoleon Bonaparte is one of the most well known military leaders and emperors to walk the earth. He rapidly rose through the military ranks during the French Revolution, and eventually crowned himself emperor. The intelligent and hard working Napoleon managed to conquer much of Europe in the early 19th century and dominated in many battles. One famous battles is the Battle of Austerlitz, or the Battle of the Three Emperors. In this battle, Napoleon demonstrates his genius military strategies,…

African American poets, with whom one being Frances Ellen Watkins Harper. Though she did not live a troublesome life like most of the African American’s during her time, she was heavily impacted by the lives of the unfortunate. Through the lives of others, she was inspired to write many of her greatest works. In Harper’s poem, “The Slave Mother,” there comes full recognition of a woman’s desire for freedom, and a better life for the one she loves most. With Frances Harper’s use of imagery…

On August 15th, 1769, Napoleon Buonaparte one of the most renowned military leaders of all time, took his first breathe as he entered the world. He became the second surviving son of Carlo Buonaparte and Letizia Ramolino. Born on the Island of Ajaccio Corsica, which at this time was occupied by the French forces running it, grew up quite wealthy by the local standards. Both his mother and father were a part of the Corsican Bourgeoisie. Once Napoleon’s parents were involved with the Corsican…

Napoleon returned to Corsica with his family, but found opposition in his involvement in Corsican politics3. After his exile from Corsica for unpopular politics, Napoleon took widowed mother and siblings back to France, where he continued with the French army. Commanding as an alterity officer, Napoleon 's first victory was during the Siege of Toulon4 in 1793. Already notorious for his leadership skills and military potential at 26, Napoleon took the place of the…

humans acquire those high morals and good through life, specifically with life experiences. In her famous letter, “ A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, occasioned by his Reflection on the Revolution in France” she explained that this good called virtue is demonstrated trough three important factors; wisdom, and morals. The definition of virtue is very simple; it’s the quality of doing things right and avoiding things that are wrong. Nobody can…

has been considered by many people an ideal ruler, and a model for other rulers. Charlemagne, also known as Charles I, was the son of King Pepin the Short. Later when he became King of the Franks, his country already occupied nearly all of modern France, all of Belgium and the Netherlands, most of Switzerland, and large areas of Germany. To expand the country even more he added Saxony, Bavaria, large parts of Austria, the Kingdom of Lombardy, which was all of northern Italy, and an area of Spain…

Frances Bartkowski’s “Apes ‘r Us,” is an essay showcasing how our treatment and relationships with animals says a lot more about us then it does about them. Humans create these boundaries between themselves and animals and through these boundaries we draw out our differences and we make of them the portraits we desire and deny. Current literature, in areas such as cross-species medical technologies, transgenic identities, and other chimeric beings, is growing rapidly and forcing us to rethink…

excessive force of the vengeful people. While I by no means commend the barbarism, it is possible to sympathize with their reason for rebellion. There is no single cause of this revolution, but rather several motivations to cause this turmoil within France. So far, the facts as we know them are as follows. In the 17th and early 18th centuries, Louis XIV (the self proclaimed ‘Sun King’) took possession of vast quantities of lands in North America, this managed to create a deep debt in France’s…