Les Misérables

The Seven Years War produced a numerous amount of historically significant events in Europe, and also took place in the American Colonies as what we know today as the French and Indian War. The French and Indian War was a conflict between Britain and France due to contested land claims over the Ohio River Valley, which eventually lead to Britain's declaration of war in 1756. At the beginning of the war, the British suffered major losses. Though in 1758, the tables turned with the arrival of…

The movies that leave you crying almost every time are the movies people usually watch either with someone they can cry with or in the safety and comfort of their homes. These sad movies are seen as romance movies, tragedies, and others. The movies are known more for their dramatic and incorporating the audience’s feelings into the movies. The feelings are relatively the same, but also very different; the most popular examples can be sad, and empathy. Certain events in the movies can or could…

can see the opposing views they believed in within the medieval christian beliefs. Being a Pope, Lotario had a clear ecclesiastical agenda (McBrien 1997, p.210) towards his views and reasoning, he like many “man of middle ages was obsessed by sins” (Le Goff 1990, p.28). In contrast Pico, famous for being a syncretic, tied in many of his renaissance influence to his medieval christianity influence. His philosophies were humanistic on a philosophical level (Miller 1998, p. xiv). Pico “often…

empire, and domesticity. These ideologies can be considered to be representations of the history of the United States or the current state. Through the examination of Andrea Smith’s “Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy,” Clyde Woods’ “Les Miserables of New Orleans,” Dylan Rodriguez’s “Forced Passages,” and the film Glory, it is clear that the state maintains power over indigenous people. Evidently, one can see the physical actions orchestrated by the state to maintain power. In…

In today’s times, one cannot go outside without hearing news about bullying, poverty, and hate crimes. These are all examples of modern day social injustices. The Berkley Social Justice Symposium defines social justice as, “ a process, not an outcome, which (1) seeks fair (re)distribution of resources, opportunities, and responsibilities; (2) challenges the roots of oppression and injustice; (3) empowers all people to exercise self-determination and realize their full potential; (4) and builds…

significantly over the last decade; the League’s program to increase the Hispanic audience size, called Viva Broadway, is chaired by Mr. Miranda’s father, the political consultant Luis A. Miranda Jr (Paulson).” From shows like In The Heights, Les Miserables, West Side Story, On Your Feet and Hamilton we have seen a tremendous increase in cultural and racial diversity among the casts of these musicals within the past few…

The famous fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast originated from the French story, La Belle et la Bete, written by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve in 1740. In 1756, Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont, a French novelist, shortened the fairy tale and revised it to be appropriate for children. Gabrielle-Suzanne's original version of Beauty and the Beast was over 300 pages and included the history of the characters, several dream sequences, and complex subplots, which Jeanne-Marie removed. Despite…

Paris may be known worldwide today as ‘the city of lights’ and home to the unmistakable Eiffel Tower that dominates the city, but there was once a time when Paris was a medieval town, with ancient buildings and streets. Prior to the drastic actions of Georges-Eugène Haussmann to modernise the city, the river Seine was the centre of commerce. This was until his boulevards became the new highways of the city. Haussmann’s renovation of Paris took place between 1853 and 1870, and saw buildings like…

Of the two cities, in a Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, I would have rather live in Paris. I would fight for the food and voice the people lacked. The hunger and the want that people had was so strong it could spark a revolution, and it would. “The time was not come yet”(pg 45), but when it was, I wanted to be among the scarecrows who finally frightened the birds (pg 45). I would also rather live in France because the people know they are suffering and thus, “there is a special…

able to move from one spectrum to another, not a lot of people know that she had her share of higher education. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Anne Hathaway was inspired to pursue acting because of her mother. Her mother, Kathleen, appeared in ‘Les Miserables’ - during the first U.S. tour. But she was never always concrete with her career path. When she was eleven years old, she admits that she felt like she was called to be a nun because of her strong religious values. For her primary education…