Hugo

authors compose books that go along with the morals of the audience. Many stories are written today include the typical love story; a girl falls in love with a guy or vice versa. Others are action packed with a climax and a predictable ending. Victor Hugo took a different stance while writing his book Les Miserables. Hugo's idea of action is presented through Jean Valjean, who is held in prison for many years because he stole a loaf of bread. He includes unique love stories unlike the typical…

In both of the books, Hugo Hamilton and Edwidge Danticat jump from one event to another, providing us with decent amount of information so we can put the puzzle pieces together. In The Speckled People, we are introduced to Johannes family being present in Ireland and Johannes…

Portinari Altarpiece Hugo van der Goes is credited with uniting the scholarly dexterity of Jan van Eyck and the sensitive feelings of Rogier van der Weyden, creating his own style of art. In Ghent, Hugo was the dean of the painters’ guild. An artisan guild was organized by occupation and exerted quality control of its members and administered education with an apprenticeship system. It was a master-apprentice system, where apprentices commonly finished the smaller details on a piece of work…

When I think about the meaning of community organizing, I recall a selective memory of my elementary school years. I recall being in Zamora, Michoacan and the teacher telling us that one of our classmate father just passed away. As I just want to point out that the elementary school was on the outskirts of Zamora, and everyone knew each others family. Personally, I knew the señor Francisco Peña but knew him as Don Pancho, he was the carnicero in the area of Valenica. Thus, as I heard the news,…

what happened to the girl angel. Upon closer inspection a viewer notices that the left wing of the angel at the bottom is slightly torn. Bright white wing slightly stained with blood. The overall feeling of the painting is peaceful and melancholic. Hugo Simberg never disclosed what was the painting about. Does it represent the earthly start, helping the spirit, and the spirit, immersed in the Earth's beginning? If…

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Hugo Grotius (1583-1645), the Dutch jurist who specialized on the philosophy of natural law, lived in tempestuous times (Bull, Kingsbury and Roberts 1990): the relations between independent political powers had become steadily more chaotic with the breakdown of the restraints which the medieval Church had fitfully applied; and the rise of absolute monarchies recognizing no authority above or beyond themselves had increasingly made sheer force the arbiter in the dealing of states with each other…

Hugo Bedau supports 5 arguments against death penalty in his writing, The Case Against the Death Penalty. He has been a leading philosophical critic of capital punishment, making him a good source for this topic. Badau starts with his first argument: Capital Punishment is not a deterrent to capital crimes. Capital punishment is being used as a deterrent for crime because if people know that certain actions result to death by punishment, they are less likely to commit the crime. Badau argues, "A…

In the beginning of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo we see a man once a slave in the galleys. A man broken and beaten, Jean Valjean a sliver of the man he was before. He is forced to beg even for a place to lay his head and find a bite to eat. Trudging house to house, looking for shelter here and there. Until, upon a cold, dark night there forms a light in the doorway, the light of the Bishop. The man who invites Jean Valjean into his church, feeds him and gives him a place to stay and, most…

Capital punishment is a very controversial issue where can be found with long standing application in countries such as the united states Hugo A. Bedau expresses his opinion that the death penalty is the form of human brutality and stupidity that goes against human dignity. Claiming that the death penalty is ineffective way to deter future offenses. Bedau also argues that the government uses death penalty in hopes of bringing fear to individuals and by displaying superior power that their fate…