Marie Antoinette

“Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful,” noted Pierre Curie; a Nobel prize winning physicist who's work in radiation helped develop cancer treatments and nuclear energy. Dr. Curie observations on life can be applied to the reclaimed Elizabethan era tragedy Romeo and Juliet. Secrecy was an essential part of this play, as the famous lovers kept their affair a secret from…

Marie Salomea Sklodowska, other wise known as Marie Curie. Marie Curie was a french woman who worked in physics and chemistry. Marie is the most famous for her work with radioactivity, and the discovery of Polonium and Radium. Marie Curie was born November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. She is the daughter of Wladyslaw and Bronislava, who were both teachers. (Famous Scientists) Marie was the youngest of five children. As she grew up, she faced many obstacles such as, her family did not have a lot…

To my thought, North by Northwest is Alfred Hitchcock's most charming film. It has an affable lead in Cary Grant, a hazardous, hot blonde in Eva Marie Saint and a super smooth scoundrel in type of the radiant James Manson. It has a gleaming script, marvelous set pieces and, since I'm obviously being alliterative and exciting score. It is a genuine great of Hollywood silver screen. In North by Northwest, Hitchcock utilizes a blend of these two types of portrayal to tell what a generally complex…

morning in England for all but me. Today my friend Marie de France was asked to be a court writer for the court of Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, and she chose me as her lady in waiting. We were walking in the marketplace when we got this news, and Marie was ecstatic. No one knew why they chose Marie, some say that Eleanor wanted to have someone in the court who had a french background besides herself. Others say that Henry and Marie were having an affair, but who would believe…

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take” has become a very well used quote in the hockey world, all because of one person who came up with it. This former Canadian professional hockey player was born up north in Brantford, Ontario. He was welcomed to the world by Walter and Phyllis Gretzky.(“Gretzky’s ” 1) Little did they know he would be a legend one day.This man is Wayne Gretzky. The roots of Wayne Gretzky’s hockey career may seem unusual but they helped him grow up to be the athlete he is…

for the couple. Priscilla had their first and only child Lisa Marie Presley. Elvis, while he may have had a loving relationship with his wife in the public eye, he was anything but faithful to his wife and the mother of his child. Known to have numerous affairs, even with his Hollywood co-stars form numerous movies in his acting career. This was one of the many factors that lead to the divorce of Elvis and Priscilla in 1973. Lisa Marie Presley was born in 1968 and is the only child of Elvis and…

Marie De France’s uncanny, whimsically lai “Lanval” satirically challenges and reverses the themes of love through stereotypical gender roles, which are unique and romanticized to traditions of the 12th century. Women for eternity have been rendered as beautiful, physical objects, who where inferior to men, and needed nothing more then a body. Marie De France depicted these same stereotypes in her writing but just in a reverse methodology. She criticizes the stereotypes of women with very…

One of Marie de France’s lais, Eliduc, represents a knight whom finds adventure in two lands. In the lais, the hunt for love is looked at from two different perspectives. Eliduc, the knight, finds himself in a tangle of relationships. At the beginning of the poem, Marie introduces Eliduc along with two women: Guildeluec and Guilliadun. The first happened to be Eliduc’s wife, whom he loved…

“Eveline” is the story of a girl who is unable to move forward in life. No matter what she does, she finds herself paralyzed and stuck living the unfortunate life she believes she is destined. The short story, written in 1914, is the fourth short story in a collection written by James Joyce called “Dubliners.” Each story in the collection portrays a part of the life of a middle-class family living in Dublin, Ireland in the 1900s. “Eveline” depicts the story of a young girl, Eveline, who is…

In Marie de France’s “Bisclavret and “Yönec” she tells two distinct stories with supernatural elements and fairy-tale like qualities. In both, she tells the story of two unhappy marriages full of betrayal and deceit. Although the specific situations in both stories are distinctly different, there are abundant similarities in how the characters behave. All four of the main characters in the two act out of their own self interest, whether it is by betraying their spouse or through blatant…