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Guy De Maupassant’s “The Diamond Necklace” is a story set in the 19th century. The main characters are Mathilde and her husband. The story talks about how the wife of a common household - Mathilde Loisel, borrows a diamond necklace for an upcoming high class party and subsequently loses it afterward, only that she found out after working for ten years to pay back the debt of the necklace it is but a fake. Mathilde’s clash between the reality she faces and fantasies she longs for demonstrates the…

with the help of the movie Bicycle Thieves. Despite having been released during the middle of the 20th century, its continuing relevance in the present makes it an interesting topic of discussion. Bicycle Thieves is an Italian film directed by Vittorio De Sica released in 1948. This film is widely regarded as one of the best films of the 20th century and has been applauded for the realistic portrayal of post-war Italy and its effect on the lower class of the Italian society. Bicycle Thieves is…

Simone de Beauvoir begins the opening of Volume II in her book The Second Sex with the line “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” (de Beauvoir, 1949/2010, p. 283) In this line, she summarizes her viewpoint that femininity is a societal construct. By this, she means that it is not a biological, psychological, or more importantly, intellectual one, but that it is rather formed by society. Specifically, that an individual is qualified to subjectivity regardless of their gender and that…

Describe Machiavelli’s life and the political climate in Italy while this book was being written. Machiavelli was a bureaucrat under the Republican government before he lost his job to the supporters of Medici during 1512. At the end of 1513 or even the early 1514, the time period when Nicolo Machiavelli, wrote The Prince. During that time period, Machiavelli was seeking to regain his status in the Florentine government. Meanwhile, the Medici family had been driven from power in Florentine.…

Zeenat Adams Bolivar Comp 10 June 10, 2016 Doping in Sports In the 2012 London Olympic Games, more than half of the athletes were disqualified for taking banned substances. They were caught taking drugs such as steroids and human growth hormone (HGH). Athletes should not dope because it ruins their career, as well as their bodies and the integrity of the sport that they play. Performing enhancing drugs are any substance taken by athletes specifically to improve their athletic…

What might one do in Mathilde's laborious situation which caused such despair? Mathilde succumbed to the evil of desire and the hunger for luxury. In Guy de Maupassant’s The Necklace, the desire for wealth may subsequently result in the most unfavorable consequences. At the beginning of the story, Mathilde indicates that she is not worthy of attending the ball. She presumes that nothing she owns is deserving of wearing. Mathilde claims that, “It annoys me to not have a single jewel, not a…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go to France? Try all the delicious foods see all the amazing sights. I’m going to tell you all about it. First I’m going to tell you about the geography of France. France is the largest country in western Europe. It is made up of high mountain ranges that separate it from Spain, Italy, and Switzerland. And it’s a large flat plain with several rivers. The rivers were mostly navigable (maneuverable or crossable) and they are also wide and deep…

analysis approach. Furthermore, it analyses the conglomeration of connotations, denotations, indexical signs, symbolic signs, syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations represented throughout the advert. It additionally explores the approaches of Ferdinand de Saussure and Charles Peirce’s and their views on signs within advertising. Moreover, it considers the deeper ideological representations of wealth, power, beauty and authority along with freedom, justice and prosperity the ad connotes in an…

In general, humans want to be happy. To not worry about food, shelter, clothes; to make ends meet. But people who already has these things want more. They want to let people know, friends especially, that they have things that ordinary people don't or just others in general. Humans are so driven by societies image, they forget who they truly are. They go as far as changinbg the people around them, what they're comfortable with, how they act. They want or want to be, what's trending around them…

Catherine de Medici was an Italian-born, French queen who became very powerful and even more controversial during her time at the helm of France. Orphaned as an infant, used as a pawn in her family's vicious power games, saddled with an unfaithful husband, and forced to suffer the untimely deaths of several of her children, Catherine managed to maintain control of the true power of the French throne in an effort to protect her family and preserve her birthright. Her methods of doing so,…