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beneficial to Florence, in my opinion. The Medici family started out as bankers and wool merchants. Both businesses were very successful, making quite a bit of money, causing the family to become wealthy. The Medici were first brought to power by Giovanni de Medici in Florence, by opening the Medici bank. They are most known for their patronage of the arts. The Medici patronage has a major impact on the Renaissance, granting artists a chance to concentrate on their work without having to worry…

Guy De Maupassant’s short story,”The Necklace” portrays Mathilda, a French middle-class woman, as someone who is very unhappy with her life. Throughout the story, the protagonist’s actions and Maupassant’s direct characterization demonstrate Madame Loisel’s transformation from a shallow and insecure girl, to a matured self-accepting woman. The theme, pride can be a personal obstacle, is reflected throughout Mathilda’s journey into becoming a strong, and changed woman. Initially, Mathilda is…

well-known dictum that everyone has heard and everyone has found conflicting. Mom always said it is true. Not everyone is honest if the truth could cause trouble. Madame Loisel struggles with being honest in the short story “The Necklace.” The author, Guy de Maupassant, displays the reality that honesty really is the best policy in the story through the use of irony. Mathilde Loisel was embarrassed about being poor, but if she was honest about her wealth she would not have had the initial…

Paying a greater debt than necessary is utterly ridiculous. In the story The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant, the protagonist and in a sense the antagonist as well, Mathilde Loisel, loses a borrowed necklace that she believes costs 40,000 francs which in today’s dollar amount is approximately $151,000! She foolishly does not think about her situation, and immediately starts working to pay for an assumed synonymous necklace (the necklace was in fact worth only 500 francs). Her prideful attitude…

Tiffany Macio Professor Ronson English 1 28 September 2016 Section 1: Introduction In Guy De Maupassant’s short story “The Necklace”, Mathilde suffers emotionally and physically because of her decisions concerning the necklace. In “The Necklace” Mathilde was a beautiful and “charming” woman (Maupassant 163). One day Mathilde and her husband got invited to a ball, but she owned nothing elegant enough to attend it. Her husband offers her funds to purchase a gown, Mathilde was still unhappy,…

first instead of thinking of the group as a whole. When it comes to voting, citizens are very politically apathetic, which is not the most ideal behavior in a direct democracy, but is more suitable under representative democracy. According to Alexis de Tocqueville, Americans tend to have the same views that go under representative democracy: liberty, equality, democracy, individualism, the rule of law, nationalism, and capitalism. Americans believe in the right to be free, as long as…

Imagine that you are a nineteen-year-old boy working in a grocery store. How exciting, but honestly not at all. It is summer time and you live five miles from the beach, you want to be out having fun enjoying your teenage youth. Instead you are stuck in a boring A & P and working. You just stepped into the life of Sammy, the main character from John Updike’s short story “A & P”. To conclude this short story Sammy quits his job, but why? Sammy quits his job at the A & P because Sammy is…

normal. Authors include these characters to interest the reader. Three authors, in particular, have developed characters to keep readers intrigued. Richard Connell created Rainsford; a man who is determined to find his was out of being murdered; Guy De Maupassant created Matilde; a self-centered woman who doesn't pay attention to what she has ad only focuses on what she does not have; James Hurst created Doodle; a disabled boy who has one of the biggest hearts imaginable. Authors provide strong…

An Insatiable Appetite “A Sweet Devouring” by Eudora Welty is a descriptive essay. Welty describes how she indulged in reading numerous books as a child. She says, “The pleasure of reading itself – who doesn’t remember? – were like those of a Christmas cake, a sweet devouring” (Welty, 247). She compares reading books to eating pieces of cake on a special occasion. The title is significant because it represents Welty’s insatiable appetite for repetitive consumption of engaging adventures hidden…

Alpha Males: Natural Born Leaders There are several movie characters that hold great standing, but then, they are fewer characters that possess a reputation that is erected on just moments that would reflect on how I feel about myself; Robert DeNiro is that person whose on-screen body language makes him a natural born leader, and the mannerisms help to boost his alpha male persona, which propels his characters to another level. Furthermore, he captures the personalities that he is projecting,…