Michel de Montaigne

From the beautiful mountains of Toledo to the vast cliffs of Cuenca, and bordered by the rolling hills of the Sierra Morena, the city of La Mancha is where our adventurous and romantic hero resides. Miguel Cervantes describes the setting where chivalric romances are mocked and characteristics of old are mixed in the wrong time in his novel Don Quixote. The novel focuses on a chivalrous knight who adventures through the cities of Spain fantasizing about love and fighting to regain his sanity.…

Mr. Quepps was daydreaming about all the happy memories he had about the bakery but was rudely interrupted as security guards rushed in and reminded him that demolition was about to begin, pulling him out of the bakery and leaving the gold box abandoned on the counter. The bakery had existed longer than anyone remembered. It was the only bakery in the small town, and it had become a meeting place. The owner was Mr. Quepps, and he had kept his bakery open for as long as possible. His livelihood…

Andrew Chen Ms. Bergen AP European History 4 June 2018 Josip Broz Tito: The Rebel Communist Josip Broz, more commonly known as Tito, was born on May 7, 1892 in the village of Kumrovec in the Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern-day Croatia). He was the seventh of fifteen children in a large peasant family, with a Croat father and a Slovene mother. At the early age of seven, he began working on his family’s farm. He entered primary school in Kumrovec at…

No matter the culture of a country, there are always remorseful people who detest certain features about themselves. Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano De Bergerac focuses on this idea by exhibiting the main character, Cyrano as an unattractive yet wise man who is severely disgruntled with his considerably large nose. The classic story of the brave and witty Cyrano expresses that Cyrano’s nose is more a source of pain than pride. Although people tend to grapple that Cyrano’s nose was a prideful factor of…

“The Necklace,” by Guy de Maupassant, is a story about a young married woman, Mathilde Loisel. Mathilde is infatuated with her appearance, so the moment she loses her old friend’s necklace she flips her whole life around to prevent telling her friend the truth. Guy de Maupassant uses third person limited omniscient as the point of view and Mathilde’s symbolic and stereotypical character to convey the central idea of vanity. Mathilde’s an egocentric and jealous character. Mathilde constantly…

Rhetorical Analysis of In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez, in her novel, In the Time of the Butterflies, emphasizes the humanity of the Mirabal sisters, that many portrayals of leave out, in favor of highlighting their heroism. In order to make the Mirabals more relatable and to show that there’s a hero hidden in all of us, she (Alvarez) shows us their weaknesses, their fears,and most importantly, their faults. Alvarez’s purpose in my selected passage (pages 108-112), is to show that…

Antonio Barberini SR Antonio Barberini is the younger brother of Maffeo Barberini, who became pope in 1623. In 1624 he made a cardinal and spent the whole day in religious devotions in Rome and eventually became a secretary after being an Inquisitor in 1629 following the death of Gian Garzia Millini. Barberini “conducted the final phase of Galileo’s trial” and sought to dominate his order with illegal actions such as appointing “one of its friars as consultor to the Inquisition” forcefully. At…

Panchito faces many problems in the circuit,such as financial, he and his family are poor,and educational problems because he couldn’t go to school until cotten season was over. Another problem Pinchito and his family face is that they kept moving to different places, and the places that they would move to weren't exactly “nice”. some evidence for these statements is that in the story it states “ Papa took out a pencil and began to figure out how much money we had earned our first day. he…

From War Zone to Holy Land: Rostand’s symbolic settings in Cyrano de Bergerac Throughout Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand purposefully implemented symbolic settings to foreshadow the actions of the characters. Each of the symbolic settings either introduces a motif, creates an allusion, or is a metaphor; all of these further develop the theme. The earlier light-hearted settings in the book juxtapose with the somber settings later in the book. This shift in setting is purposeful to represent…

St. Catherine of Siena was known as a Christian reformer and mystic who had a significant impact on the church. She is the patron of fire prevention. Her real name was Caterina Benincasa. She was born March 25, 13447 in Siena, Italy. Catherine was the daughter of Giacomo Benincasa. St. Catherine wrote a book called “Dialogue” which talks about the love of neighbours as an expression of love for God. Catherine received a vision of Jesus Christ when she was 6 and at the age of 16, she spent most…