Hugo Weaving

Victor Hugo helped to define the romantic movement in France through his writing. His works include many poems, books, and plays revolving around love and politics. Many of his works were either published or performed during his life. While Victor Hugo is known for his many works during the romantic movement, he wrote his most famous works around the time of the French Civil War. Victor Marie Hugo was born to an aristocratic mother and a father who was a major in Napoleon’s army (“Victor Hugo:…

The consensus among many Venezuelans is that “something big is going to happen, and it will be bad.” The author perceives that it will almost certainly be a civil war involving a coup d’etat. Also, the author of the article believes that the future of Venezuela will be characterized by generalized looting (by mobs, policemen, and soldiers). Word is that they won't shoot them like in 1989. However, if recall of President Maduro is postponed, then there might be a Civil War -the first one since…

Introduction Venezuela is a constitutional republic that allows the people to vote for the president, and politicians into office. If the people of Venezuela see something that is wrong in the government, then they can protest, or vote out the politicians in office. Cuba is the complete opposite. Cuba is a communist country and the government is ran as a dictatorship. There are no elections, or different politicians which allow the same people to stay in power throughout the years. Venezuela’s…

The Polarized Court Prior jurisprudence says a lot about the Supreme Court today. The Warren Court—one of the most memorable Court’s in our nations history—hit many hot button issues of its time. An interesting juxtaposition is looking at the Roberts Court, who has had equally hot button issues of more recent times, and its approach. When I reflect on the Warren Court I am mesmerized by its legacy and impact on a more equal society, specifically, Brown v. Board of Education. The unanimous…

understanding of how international law is to be executed. This paper will take a thorough look at how two different philosophers have explained the concepts and principles that make up international law. Specifically, analyzing how Niccolò Machiavelli and Hugo Grotius present contrasting ideas of the original principles of international law and propose different ways through which international law should be justly…

Napoleon III’s banishment of the French writer Victor Hugo for creating writings that were deemed critical of the government incentivized English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s crafting of a letter to the emperor, in which she employs various rhetorical strategies in order to implore him to pardon Hugo. In her petition, Browning constructs her argument with strong diction that emphasizes the intensity of her emotions as well as reverent appeals to the emperor’s noble authority and legacy in…

Venezuela is officially known as the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. It is a federal republic comprising 72 federal dependencies, 23 states, two federal territories, and one federal district. Located on the northern coast of South America, Venezuela is bordered by Colombia on the west, Brazil on the south, Guyana on the east, and the islands of Trinidad and Tobago to the north-east. Venezuela is spread out over 916,445 km2 (353,841 sq mi) and has a population of over 31 million (31,775,371)…

Victor Hugo is an extraordinary writer that uses many rhetorical devices throughout his writings to emerge the readers into the book The Hunchback of Notre Dame, when he tells of how the Cathedral in France is being redecorated and the gothic theme is being removed to make it seem more romantic. As said in the book the narrator says “What has time done, what have men done with with these marvels? What has has been given to us in exchange for all this for all this, - for all this ancient French…

since their economy is dominated by the oil industry. The deterioration of the industry is a direct result of their president, Chavez, policies. This leads to inflation and food shortages, causing the people of Venezuela to protest. Their president, Hugo Chavez, tried to improve the country’s social condition by nationalizing the entire Venezuelan economy. He raised the prices of oil and moved out all private competition. During his rule, he tried to alleviate poverty by controlling prices and…

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