Treaty of Paris

Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty is located in New York City. “The Statue Liberty’s full name is Liberty Enlightening the world.”(www.telegraph.co.uk). It was given to the U.S by France in the year 1886. The entire Statue was completed in Paris between 1881 and 1884, with the help of tons of workers working ten hour days, seven days a week for nine years. It was completed in 1885, disassembled into 350 pieces, and then…

Albert Camus was born on November 7, 1913 in Mondovi, Algeria. He was the second son of Catherine Marie Cardona, a house-keeper and factory worker, and Lucien Auguste Camus, a military veteran. But, however, after the WWI in which Camus is only a less than a year old, his father suffered and died at the first battle of the Marne. Then after his father’s death, he, his brother and their mother moved and lived to his maternal uncle and grandmother in Algiers. At the local Ecole Communale Camus…

A. Introduction and Summary Charles Foster is a national sales manager for a large U.S. technology company that is headquartered in France. The company has just released a new product. This product is a disk drive. The drive is selling better than expected which causes Foster to worry about the availability of the product and the repercussions if they cannot find a solution to the inventory problem. The product line could potentially become extinct if a solution is not reached, which would…

the heritage of the Spanish couturier: “Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion.’. The project is timed to the 100th anniversary of the opening of the first studio Balenciaga in Spanish San Sebastian and the eightieth anniversary of the founding famous salon in Paris on George V. The conceptual display of creativity will combine more than 100 items of clothing and 20 headwear created by Balenciaga, as well as the outstanding outfits of his contemporary followers, working in the same innovative key. Most of…

grandfather famous artists. When he was growing up, he created jewelry out of wire for his sister. This was his first look into sculptures. He wanted to become a mechanical engineer, so he studied at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He then moved to Paris after becoming fascinated with…

Achilles is now in possession of the new armor that has been forged for him. Agamemnon and Achilles reconcile with each other at the pre-battle meeting that Achilles called. Before heading into battle, he allows his armies to eat. Achilles refuses to eat anything, since he has not yet slain Hector, but eventually has his stomach filled by Athena. This occurs after he sits near Patroclus reminiscing. Achilles enters the battle accepting his fate and ready to fight for his fallen friend. The Gods…

Paris, in Full Bloom and Color, in the Early 1900s. No one is a stranger to the black and white vintage photographs back in the day. Despite that exhausting trend, Leon Gimpel, Stephane Passet, Georges Chevalier, and Auguste Leon set out in 1909 under the strict instructions of a French banker Albert Kahn and went on a journey around the world armed with only an Autochrome Lumière. Their rule was simple: go out to the world and document it in vivid and alive colors. These photographers took…

Characters of Mythology A. Paris / insolent B. “The ties between guest and host were strong. Each was bound to help and never harm the other… shamed the hand that gave him food, stealing away a woman.” (Hamilton 257) C. Although he was entitled to Helen by Aphrodite, she had already been wedded to another man. The god of beauty had no other choice but to grant Paris his wish. The way that he had taken the wife of Menelaus, however, was cowardly and dishonored the sacred ties between host and…

it. Chatou is a long, narrow island in the midst of the River Seine and is a nice getaway from the crowds in Paris. You can travel to Chatou by taking a flight into Paris and then taking a short train ride to get here. Many flights leave from Houston in the late afternoon so you would fly all night and arrive in Paris early the next morning. It is a ten-hour flight, and the time zone in Paris is seven hours ahead of Houston. Round trip flights are somewhere around $1700 (Travelocity) and the…

Paris is a soldier who serves his Master, Achilles, a legendary soldier of the country of Valhalla. He had always adore Achilles and dreamed of one day becoming a legend himself. Back in his hometown of Troy, Paris is mesmerizing his childhood past in the playground where he used to play with his best friend Helen when they were younger. He took off his helmet and lay it in the ground and continue thinking about the promise that he made to her on the night before he left to become a soldier. He…