French Indochina

A tale of Two Cities, is very unsympathetic to the French Revolution. Through his novel, he portrays his dislike toward the Revolution, and essentially war itself. His characters show how war turns humanity animalistic and pitiless. The French Revolution came about to free the French middle class and the peasantry from the oppressive aristocracy; however, after the overthrow, the people become oppressed under the new rulers, leaving the French Revolution not effective. In addition to the…

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, a Rococo era painter turned Neoclassical, was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. She lived to be eighty—seven as “one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth.” (NGA, web) (May, 1) Spanning a long career with over 600 paintings, Vigée-LeBrun is “characterized” and marveled “…as the much sought-after portraitist of not only European royalty and nobility, but also of notable…

La mayoría de los hispanohablantes de los Estados Unidos que son segunda or tercera generations often develop their own language among the English and Spanish languages. In most of these second and third generations, Spanish is commonly spoken in the house and English is learned through schooling or just interactions with other English speaking people in one's community. A stigma that derives from this homemade language is that the person who speaks Spanglish might not know enough Spanish or…

The French Revolution was a time of violence, chaos, and war. Through it all, one machine of destruction brought fear to almost every human being in France: the guillotine. Despite the bloodshed brought about by this large contraption, there is one person in particular whom the guillotine benefitted by supplying her with limitless heads and bodies. By using these severed body parts, Marie Tussaud created molds of the bodies of those taken by the relentless guillotine and put them on display in…

Many well known civilizations of Ancient Africa were Carthage, the Kingdom of Ghana, and the Mali Empire. Africa relied on trade for money. They traded rare jewels like diamonds, sapphires, and blue garnets. They traded with Portugal for objects that were hard to come across in Africa like luxurious animal skins, ivory, and ebony. Their economy had many incidents where it began to fail due to heavy taxes on gold and salt. In times of low income they'd rely on cash crops for income. When many of…

For those who enjoy steak, we know that when going out to a steakhouse, our judgment will be particularly high. Location, service, menu, and of course the food, are all factors that come into play. A restaurant I was once a regular at, was Longhorn Steakhouse in Victor, NY. With a spacious dining area, one can enjoy a nice private dinner with friends and family without the worry of overcrowding and unintentionally having a conversation with the surrounding tables. The log cabin décor adds to…

manipulate others into doing what they want with it. During the French and the Haitian revolution, middle-class minorities such as Robespierre and Toussaint were able to instigate the common people to fight against the order of their world by saying that they were fighting for the right of the majority. In the end, however, the ones who the revolution ultimately empowered were the instigators themselves, not the common people. The French Revolution is commonly thought of as a time when the…

Curfews In the article, “Minor restrictions” by Anthony Cowell from SIRS says that, the U.S. Department of Justice has reported the criminal offences made by juveniles from 1988 to 1992, has gone up by 26 percent. In 1992, the typical offender was younger than it was in 1988. Youth under 16 were responsible for 62 percent of of offences against people. By 2010, the number of juvenile arrests is estimated to double according to the Department of Justice. Murder alone, is expected to increase…

In Tennessee William's, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” he uses his main character Blanche Dubois, to demonstrate how her current experiences relate to her past. Throughout the play, Williams uses Blanche’s life experiences to illuminate that the hardships she has faced, were also faced by many women throughout history. In “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Williams was able to use Blanche’s story to call attention to the injustice of gender inequality. In the beginning of the play, Blanche moves in with…

Throughout chapter five of Charles Dicken’s “A Tale of Two Cities,” anaphora and asyndeton are utilized in order to depict how the poverty in France was driven into the minds and lives of the peasants due to the negligence of the rich, conceiving a revolution lead by the people. Dickens renders the situation for the peasants in France to be extremely impoverished, such that while describing the peasants’ lifestyles, he inserts the word “Hunger” at the beginning of each sentence. This use of…