Marseille

As the months passed, the war and all that it brought with it, affected the citizens of France in varying ways, bringing prejudice, suffering and violence along with it. Nancy and Henri helped out wherever they could, helping their friends, their neighbours and even strangers the best that they were able to. Passively resisting and then overtly assisting in confounding and frustrating the Nazi and Vichy authorities at every opportunity. After all, they had been invaded, their Country was no…

The country of France is one of the world’s oldest nations. It is also one of the most important nations in the world, economically and politically. Historically, France has provided the world some of the greatest achievements scientifically, Today, France is one of the most advanced countries in the world, but underneath the surface, there is a cancer growing. In the last couple of years, the world has witnessed a series of horrific terrorist attacks in France. The rise of radical Islamic…

AP FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDY GUIDE: Unit 2 Test Paul Zuo Soyez Polis BE POLISHED Jacques Prévert It must be very polite with the land And with the sun We must thank the morning waking up We must thank them for the heat For trees For fruit For all that is good to eat For all that is beautiful to look at A touch We must thank Do not bother ... Criticize They know what they have to do The sun and the earth Then we must let them Or they can get angry And then after We changed In…

docking at the port of Messina was the cause for this dangerous plague. This terrifying disease was contagious and spread rapidly throughout Europe. According to history.com, “Not long after it struck Messina, the Black Death spread to the port of Marseilles in France and the port of Tunis in North Africa. Then it reached Rome and Florence, two cities at the center of an elaborate web of trade routes. By the middle of 1348, the Black Death had struck Paris,…

Trans-Shipment Container Management in the Port of Piraeus Theodoros Koromilas ABSTRACT As a mainly trans-shipment container port, the container terminal of the port of Piraeus has as a primary goal to provide equipment and facilities to deliver efficient and professional service. The commercial port of Piraeus consists of three (3) container terminals, of which one (1), Terminal I, is being operated Piraeus Port Authority S.A. (P.P.A) and two (2), Terminal II and III by the Piraeus Container…

Empire.” (Ibid, 95). That means he believes that trade remained equal to Roman times, or increased. However, his only evidence for this claim comes from Gregory of Tours, when he describes how a single ship spread a horrible plague into the town of Marseilles. His flaw in his argument is similar to believing Roman culture existed due to the existence of one royal poet: one ship is not enough to make a sweeping claim. While this demonstrates the existence of a Mediterranean trade in Merovingian…

Someone wakes you up in the middle of the night and asks you what are you doing?! You wake up confused and ask yourself the same thing. The person who woke you up is describing you doing some odd activity that you were not consciously aware of. If something like this has happened to you or someone you know, then you or that person was probably sleepwalking. As someone who used to experience sleepwalking first-hand, it can be a little scary at first but it is a natural sleep disorder.…

I have chosen to watch the film A Prophet and write a reaction paper about it. It is a French prison drama and crime movie directed by Jacques Audiard in 2009 and released in 2010. He wrote the script with the help of Nicolas Peufaillit, Thomas Bidegain, and Abdel Raouf Dafri. The main character in the film is Malik (Tahar Rahim), who went to prison because of a single petty crime and later becomes a drug trafficker and an assassin. The film compliments what I have learned about 20th-century…

Euthanasia, started in 1870. Euthanasia is known to have been debated and practiced long before that date. Euthanasia was practiced in Ancient Greek and Rome, for example as a means of hastening death on the island of Kea, a technique also employed in Marseilles. Euthanasia in the sense of the deliberate hastening of person’s death, was supported by Socrates, Plato and Seneca the Elder in the ancient world, although Hippocrates appears to have spoken against the practice, writing “I will not…

Philippe Halsman was an acclaimed picture taker. A representations' percentage he is acclaimed for included model Constance Ford, Albert Einstein, The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Marilyn Monroe. A survey led in 1958 by Popular Photography named Halsman one of the "World's Ten Greatest Photographers" nearby Ansel Adams, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Richard Avedon, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ernst Haas, Gjon Mili, Yousuf Karsh, Eugene Smith, and Irving Penn. Halsman was conceived May 2, 1906 in Riga,…