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Have you ever thought about where power comes from? Often times, the more money you have the more powerful you are. I have come to this conclusion by using Social Power Theory to understand the short story, The Necklace, by Guy De Maupassant. In the story the main character, Mathilde, is depressed because she doesn't have the same influence on people that a person with expensive things would. To cheer her up, her husband buys her a dress and takes her to a fancy ball. She decides she needs an…

greater things in Brazil. Example, the book tells about the tropical climates in the different regions, which are North, Northeast, Central West, South and Southeast. Each of the regions has a great place to meet such as the statue of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro in Southeast, The Amazonas in the North, and the better beaches and climate in the Northeast. Who would not want to visit Brazil after reading all the great and beautiful places that it has. Furthermore, it was for lovers of reading…

History of Brazil’s Government After gaining independence on September 7th, 1822, Brazil became a Federal Republic (University of Oregon, 1995). When under Portugese rule, Brazil’s capital was Salvador, but after gaining independence from its king, son of a Portugese monarch, Brazil’s capital went inland to Brasilia (Gale Sites) (Pimlott, 1988). Today, a female president governs Brazil, her name is Dilma Rousseff. Economy Brazil has an extended amount of exports due natural features in the north…

As an intro in The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant, Mme. Loisel is described as an elegant and beautiful girl who may have been “mistaken by destiny” as she is born in a family of clerks. She is quite self-conscious about the poverty that she is dealing with and because of that she got married, also, to a clerk without any dowries. Feeling like she had fallen from her “proper station”. As the reader, we can assume that Mme. Loisel is an arrogant character who is full of herself and believes that…

Cinco de Mayo stands for the fifth of May. This is a more minor holiday in Mexico, in the United States Cinco de Mayo has turned into a celebration of Mexican culture and heritage, particularly in areas with large Mexican-American populations. Cinco de Mayo traditions include parades, mariachi music performances and street festivals in cities and towns across Mexico and the United States. Benito Juarez was born in 1806 and died in 1872. He became the president of a country in financial ruin.…

King Arthur is a hero and continuing legend, who established the code of chivalry and the round table. King Arthur was the man who founded the Knights of the Round Table. Merlin and the lady of the like helped King Arthur become the hero and continuing legend he is today. King Arthurs right hand man Merlin helped king Arthur by helping discover the first Excalibur. After many years of searching Merlin took King Arthur to the lady of the lake, and she then gave King Arthur the real Excalibur.…

The first person to play the role of Marty Mcfly was Eric Stoltz’s. Crispin Glover did not return for the two sequels because he asked for too much money. Tom Wilson (Biff) gets asked the same questions so many times he wrote a song. The Executive producer Steven Spielberg sent back a thank you note for the “Humorous Memo.” Ronald Reagan was offered the role of the Hill Valley’s mayor in Back to The Future 3. Marty sees a clothes iron and a dustbuster in the window of the cafe. Elijah wood made…

Alexis de Tocqueville delivers a unique observation and perspective on the development of American identity. As a distinguished aristocratic Frenchman who was hit hard by the French Revolution, de Tocqueville does not use this book as an argument for anything, but rather he uses it as an opportunity to inspect American character and its evolving identity. He treats democracy in the United States comprehensively in order to relate it to America's history, national life, and perspectives toward…

Terrorism, bloodshed and power status sums up the focal points embedded within the movie, City of God, directed by Fernando Meirelles, and Kátia Lund. These themes create definitions for several theories. The first theory in comparison to the movie is Strain Theory. Because of the economic strain of the people within the film, most turn to criminal activity. “Many families were homeless due to the flooding and acts of arson in the slums” (Meirelles, 2002). The government shipped their homeless…

Olympe De Gouse was a political activist, who was thought less of automatically because she was a woman. The hectic and shifting events of her era lead her to develop ideas that were evolving along with it. During the French revolution the rights of man and citizens was created which is sexist and leaves out half of the other population. The declaration of the rights of man and the citizen was written in 1879 during the climax of the French revolution and proclaimed that all men are born and…