Frances Harper

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.…

The main character Mme. Loisel in the short story “The Necklace” written by Guy de Maupassant is dishonest and jealous. First off, Mme. Loisel is a dishonest lady. One evening when she went out with a borrowed necklace, she lost it and did not say a thing to Mme. Forestier (her friend) until she replaced it. On page 32 Mme. Loisels husband writes," Mme. Loisel decides to replace the necklace by saying we must take the steps to replace the piece of jewelry." Instead of being honest about it she…

During the beginning of the twentieth century immigration laws became increasingly harsh, especially towards Mexican immigrants. Many historians cite the Immigration Act of 1917 as the beginning of these exclusions, but Grace Pena Delgado argues that this exclusion began in the preceding decades. In her essay “Border Control and Sexual Policing: White Slavery and Prostitution along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1903-1910”, Delgado explains how the border became a site of gender and sexual…

night with an invitation to a dinner party. The invitation had upset Loisel because she did not have an evening dress or jewelry to wear. The husband was so thrilled to go to the dinner party he was willing to buy her a simple dress for four hundred frances. That money was being saved for the husband to buy a rifle for the following summer. The husband had set aside what he had wanted and focused on what would make Loisel happy. Loisel was also worried about looking like a pauper because she…

century, there was a huge movement to renovate theater architecture in France. Philosophers, politicians, and playwrights, including Louis XV, noted that France needed to discard the past theater structure and had started to debate about which structure of playhouse could appropriately support the new age of French theater. They debated on the different modified theater forms to find the ultimate stage design and structure for France. In The First Frame, Pannill Camp explains that every artistic…

timeless look, a look that has survived the ages. The typeface is utterly timeless and elegant, its look having survived through the centuries. The typeface Didot has a very interesting history. It is a font whose roots lead back to eighteenth century France. Didot is a group of typefaces named after the acclaimed French printing Didot family. They were printers, distributers, typeface planners, and innovators. Around 1800, the family owned the most essential print shop and textual style…

A refugee is someone who is forced to flee their home country due to war, prosecution, natural disaster, or any other reason that made them leave. Some universal experiences they have to go though are learning the language, finding somewhere to stay, and eventually getting used to a new life with the help of others. It is a long process, but almost all refugees are able to finally get back into the daily grind and adjust to their new lifestyle at some point. Ha and her family came from South…