Gustave Whitehead

TITLE Enchanting Nighttime Activities At The River Seine, Paris LEAD PARAGRAPH If you take a look at our planet from the universe during the nighttime, you’ll easily distinguish North America and Europe as the shiniest regions. By focusing on Europe, the spot in the northwestern part stands out as one of the most brightest. It is how Paris, among many other epithets, acquired its “The City of Lights” title. Day and night in Paris reveal two opposite faces of the French capital. While the…

become the icon of the city, although it wasn’t intended to be a permanent structure. The Eiffel Tower was built as the entrance arch to the 1889 World’s Fair to celebrate the 100th year anniversary of the French Revolution. The tower was built by Gustave Eiffel along with Maurice Koechlin and Emile Nouguier. Eiffel was an architect…

Only Street in Paris by Elaine Sciolino is bestseller travel guide book. Sciolino reveal the charm and the strangeness of this road and it is time to make longtime resident of Paris come alive in all it is unique. This book will make the reader hungry for Paris, for cheese, wine and kind of street life that are too fast disappearing. Sciolino, former Paris bureau chief of the New York Times, as the author is a joy to live in the Rue des Martyrs in Paris. Sciolino is attentive jelly every one…

The nineteenth century was a time of change in the artistic world. Artist started testing limits to see how they could introduce a whole new world of art. Some people considered the art to be a kind of culture shock and a scandalous way to express the artist talents. Scandalous is something that is considered improper, shocking, disgraceful, etc. (dictionary.com). There were three artist that really started this “scandalous” time period and they were Coubet, Daumier, and Manet. These three…

Most people are not born wealthy. They usually come to terms with the fact that they do not have a lot of money and are in a low social class, but some people do not. Guy de Maupassant’s “The Necklace” tells the story of Mathilde Loisel. Mathilde Loisel is a woman of lower economic status who lives in France. She is deeply troubled by the thought that she can not have all of the riches she believes she deserves, although she is blessed with beauty. Her husband, Monsieur Loisel, on the other hand…

Pride is the state of holding one's self or another in high esteem. In the short story “ The Necklace” the main character, Madame Loisel, learns the role pride plays in her life. Although she lived in the upper middle class, Madame Loisel felt she was poor and became unsatisfied with her life. She wanted the world and all its riches and believed she deserved better. Being so hungover in what she didn’t have or what she couldn’t have she lost sight in how good her life already was. She had so…

Living in The Shadows Since the beginning of time women have been presumed to hold certain titles such as “a good housewife” and “supermom”. Expected to be exemplary mothers and wives while managing a home, bringing up children, pleasing and answering to the requests of their husbands, sometimes even having a full- time job. It’s no wonder how one can lose their self to all the demands and wants of the people in their lives. The events in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of An Hour” and…

Today’s interactive oral helped develop my understanding of the cultural and contextual considerations of the work by making me second guess my opinions on the titular character, Madame Emma Bovary. We discussed whether or not the issues in Emma Bovary's life are caused by herself, or whether or not they were caused by society. Before today, my opinion on Emma was that she was an incredibly unlikable character with a severe lack of redeeming qualities, but after our discussion it became…

Gustave Flaubert’s “A Simple Heart” tells the story of a maid named Félicité who endures hardships and heartbreaks one after another. Throughout her life, she loses her nephew, the children of her mistress Mme Aubain, and her parrot, Loulou. In his essay, “ Flaubert’s Un Coeur Simple,” James Reynolds argues that the story of Felicite demonstrates satire and that her actions are just too good to be true. In Victor Brombert essay, “Un Coeur Simple: Tenderness and Irony,” he acknowledged that A…

Paris is one of the world’s most famous locations! It is best known for its amazing monuments and amazing attractions. The city of Paris, France, goes way back to more than 2000 years back in time. Lots of people think Paris has some of the most interesting history to it in all its years. In 52 B.C. Julius Caesar took control of the city of Paris when it was just starting to grow into a huge civilization, and it was just a little fishing village for the new people there. Back then when it was…