Marseille

A few years later, after his father’s sudden death, Jean made another great escape. This time, he didn’t come back. It is most likely that he went to the port of Marseilles when he found the “Fox”. He loosened the tarp on one of the lifeboats and slipped inside. He waited until the ship was too far out at sea to turn around to make his presence known. Since the boat was too far out at sea, the captain of the ship had…

Over the course of my four years studying at Santa Clara University, I have found that sustainability is a practice which is learned over time, and it takes effort. The triple bottom line is social, ecological, and financial and it emphasizes people, planet, and profit. As a finance and economics major, I found that economics and sustainability are relevant because of how sustainability helps not only the physical environment, but also the economic environment. In order to achieve the best…

Gilberto was Mexico’s consul general to Marseilles, France in 1939, he would charter ships saving over 40,000 thousand Jews. Col Jose Arturo Castellanos Contreras was a Salvadoran diplomat Geneva who save 30,000 to 50,000 thousand Jews issuing documents issuing them as if they were citizens of El…

Within legendary author, Ernest Hemingway’s work, a concept called the Iceberg Theory is present. The Iceberg Theory is the concept that within a story, only twenty percent of the information is directly written, the rest is not given straight to the reader, but the meaning is there. Much like an iceberg, with the majority of it underwater. This theory is demonstrated effectively through Hemingway’s short stories. Hemingway’s “A Canary for One” is a prime example of the use of his Iceberg Theory…

complaining about the doctors he had seen: one said that he is already dead, the second said that he is dying, the third said that he was about to die. Seeing the bad weather and its effect on Chopin, he moved to many different places, Barcelona then to Marseilles, where Chopin stayed for a couple of months to convalesce. In the years 1839-43, Chopin found peaceful and productive days when he could compose many works, and Raindrops was one.…

memoir as a sea level waterway running across the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt to connect the Mediterranean and the Red seas. Dahl states that, "The voyage from the Port of London to Mombasa would take two weeks and on the way we were going to call in at Marseilles, Malta, Port said, Suez port Sudan and Aden." (1). Without the Suez Canal this two-week trip would've taken twice the time. In fact, the Suez Canal is important because of its rate of transportation, its key location, and the price rates…

intensity rattle through my bones. The Bruins won the opening faceoff and started with a couple good shots on goal. The Blues gained possession of the and passed the puck around in our defensive zone. The puck was passed behind the net to Frank St. Marseille who was slammed into the boards right in front of me. I repeatedly banged my hands on the boards well screaming at the top of my lungs. The B’s took the puck and moved it up the ice where they turned the puck over. Derek Sanderson stole the…

In 1935 she visited Vienna and Berlin where violent formed in her a desire to oppose Nazism. In November 1939, she married Henri Flocci, a wealthy man, in Marseilles so then France. Six months later Germany invaded France. Nancy and henry her husband joined the Resistance after France's surrender in 1940. she started helping with the Resistance more Nancy and her husband helping in the escape of army men to…

In Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo, a young sailor by the name of Edmond Dantés is wrongly accused of being a Bonapartist and is thrown in jail where he discovers the truth of his enslavement and concocts a plan for revenge. The choices that Edmond Dantés makes drastically twists his once ordinary life into a whirlwind of secrecy, such as deciding to take a letter to Napoleon, from there delivering a message from Napoleon to one of Napoleon’s allies. Once imprisoned, Danéts meets a…

Stephen how been instructed to preach the crusade that would later be known as the Children’s Crusade. Stephen had intention to peacefully convert Muslims in the Holy Land to Christianity, and the bands of children who had flocked to him marched to Marseilles, where the sea that kept them from the Holy Land would dry, allowing them to cross. When the crusaders eventually reached the sea, many of them having already died due to…