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- 1011: A Tale Of Two Cities (theme Of
- Reflection of Theme of Resurrection In A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens uses a variety of themes, including, revenge, revolution, fate, imprisonment and more. Though these are very important themes, and were integral elements of this novel, resurrection served as the main theme aside from the obvious one which is revolution. The reason I chose resurrection instead of revolution, is because it is applicable outside of this novels setting (though Dickens made some very good points about mob-mentality). It is also important to note that the theme of a second chance, and ...
- 1012: An Analysis Of Heart Of Darkne
- ... in ivory and other minerals, including diamonds. For this reason, it is natural for Europeans to be jealous of others and to be in competition with other countries in exploitation of the area. The British, French and Germans were jealous that King Leopold owned such a vast rich area of Africa. To resolve the controversy they set up an international conference in Berlin in 1884. The conferencees, not an African among ... Boats fall apart and there are no rivets to fix them. Roads just don't get built, and bricks just don't get made. In Heart of Darkness' Congo, the very essence of the industrial revolution rots, and the most basic structures which define the modern world are frustrated. The Europeans who try to bring roads or make bricks or fix boats are defeated, and their original purposes in going to ...
- 1013: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... for masks when the enemy sends gas; by day, they cower in stiffness to deceive observers in balloons. Terror is their companion through deafening barrages; Paul's dugout survives a direct hit. One night the French infantry attack. All through the next day Paul's company fights in a frenzy, the men armed only with grenades and sharpened shovels. For days, attacks and counterattacks alternate. Once Himmelstoss panics until Paul shouts ... s group badly needed extra rations. Twice, Paul, Kropp, and another classmate, Leer, swim a closely guarded canal, not for the brief pleasures of a soldiers' brothel but for the luxury of hours with three French girls. When Westhus dies after all, Paul is due for leave and temporary reassignment and wonders in agony who will be there when he returns. On leave in his hometown, Paul relishes the way his ... with his friends. He is briefly separated from them in the dark trenches and panics until their distant voices steady him. Only comradeship sustains him now. Later, trapped by shelling, he blindly, repeatedly, stabs a French soldier who falls into his foxhole and must listen and watch for hours as the man's life slowly ebbs. He is guilt stricken at having personally killed a plain soldier like himself. It ...
- 1014: Candide The Satire Of An Age.
- ... are really idiots and says they are only smart because they have philosophers. This is typically Enlightenment, because nobles, are stupid and must have philosophers to make them Enlightened. For example L’Hospital’s a French Noble had in his “possession” mathematicians that developed new ways of taking limits (a Calculus idea). Yet in today's society we call this way “L’Hospital’s Rule,” not Bernoulli’s rule who is ... Thus Voltaire is using a charming story to attack the people of his time who are against or are not Enlightened. Many other writers also attacked the ignoramuses of their time. For example Montesquie, a French philosopher use The Persian Letters to bombast French culture. Hence one reason that Candide is typically Enlightenment is because it makes fun of the reader who thinks that it is merely a comical story of a man and a quest for his ...
- 1015: Disney
- ... concept to keep in mind when marketing a service to the entire world. I found out that Disneyland Paris had a little bit of touble with concept, and the problem was solved only after getting French assistance in designing certain aspects of the park. WHICH CLASSES WOULD HAVE ENRICHED MY EXPERIENCE Foreign Language Classes I am International Business and Marketing major, and I have had most of my marketing classes required ... marketing aspects of my internship. However, I would like to have had more language skills than I possessed going down to Disney. I took three years of Spanish in High School and two years of French in college. This was useful in communicating with guests, but a better grasp of these languages would have open the doors to communication a bit wider. I would have been able to better serve customers ... if I could have spoken their native language - - representing the magic of Disney. I did have someone tutoring me with my Spanish skills, and cast members from the Moroccan Pavilion were teaching me Arabic and French. In fact, I have been back to see my Moroccan friends already, and they continue to help me with Arabic, especially since Illinois State University doesn’t currently support an Arabic language program. Other ...
- 1016: The Little Prince – A Closer L
- ... and “child”. The building blocks in the novel are: imagination, life of Antoine, novel, movie comparison, childlike and grownup characteristics, heady stuff and the secret found on page 87. Antoine de Saint Exupery is a French man born in Lyon, France in the year 1900. Being born into a poor aristocratic family, he became a pilot and worked as a mail carrier. Antoine had none to very little of a social ... would doodle on the napkins drawing cartoons. Antoine’s friend would keep all of his drawings. Consuela bought him a doll along with Antoine’s drawings “The Little Prince” was written. While working for the French government in 1944, Antoine’s plane was shot down while flying in German territory taking pictures. The wreckage has never been found. After reading and watching the work The Little Prince, one should notice some ... a beginning a middle and an end. At the end there is a distinct message that is part of the novel. The similarities between the novel and Antoine are: Both Antoine and the pilot are French nationality, both have the same interest/occupation of being a pilot, in real life and in the novel he crashes in the Sahara desert, The drawings are all from his real life drawings, the ...
- 1017: Work Force
- ... of production is bound to diminish in the same way that the role of horses in agricultural production was first diminished and then eliminated by the introduction of tractors." Obviously, the effect of the computer revolution and re-engineering of the workplace in manufacturing sector is more than elsewhere. In this article, management consultant Peter Drucker estimates that "employment in manufacturing is going to continue dropping to less than 12 percent ... are declining gradually as computers, e-mail, and fax machines produced. On the contrary, optimists counter with the argument that additional employment will be provided by the new products and services of the high-technology revolution and they point to the fact that earlier in the century the automobile made the horse and buggy obsolete but created millions of new jobs. In truth, the new products and services replace much more employment than they provide. As machines takes over more work, Americans fear for their financial futures. So the violent crime is going to increase as the new industrial revolution spreads through the economy. As employment is likely to be phased out, Rifkin makes three recommendations to restructure the work force. In his first recommendation, he suggests an idea, which is from Europe, that ...
- 1018: Trends In Policing
- ... become enormously complicated and the need for more professional officers critical. It is said that change is the only constant. Alvin Toffler draws an analogy between the three revolutions which have changed the world (agricultural revolution, industrial revolution, and the technological revolution) and waves in the ocean in his book The Third Wave, Tafoya notes: A rough correspondence to Toffler s wave analogy can be drawn with respects to the historical changes in law enforcement. Passage ...
- 1019: The Real World Of Technology B
- ... cultures in the past. She uses examples from China before the Common Era to the Roman Empire, with a majority of examples coming form the last one hundred and fifty years. Such as the Industrial Revolution and the invention of electronic mail. Franklin contends that for society s sake, people must question everything before accepting new technologies into their world. In the book, Franklin s argument urges people to come together ... is there to accommodate us, to facilitate or be part of our lives, subject to our planning. (p.85). Franklin writes in-depth about infrastructure and especially technological infrastructure. She claims that since the Industrial Revolution, corporations as well as governments using public funds have invested heavily into technological infrastructures and that: the growth and development of technology has required as a necessary prerequisite a support relationship from governments and public ... that is indivisible benefits. (p.66). When governments do not attempt to stop the destruction caused by the creation of these infrastructures, the government is doing a disservice to its citizens. Just as the Industrial Revolution led to productive and holistic (p.12) divisions of labor, she fears that new technologies non-communication technologies (p.42) are disrupting the natural ways that human beings communicate. Franklin insists that there is ...
- 1020: The Development Of The Prison
- ... public in order to discourage people from breaking the law; this falls under the theory of deterrence. Some prisoners were punished by being made to row the oars on ships called galleys. However, English and French rulers kept their political enemies imprisoned in such prisons as the Tower of London and the Bastille in Paris. In addition, people who owed money were held in debtors' prisons. In many such cases, offenders ... to work, and there was really no reason for it to change. Bibliography: G.M. Trevelyan, History of England, 1985 Sir L. Woodward, The Age of Reform; 1815-1870, 1962 L. Stone, Social Change and Revolution in England, 1965 James Walvin, Victorian Values, 1987 Microsoft, Encarta, 1998 Sydney Wood, Living in Victorian Times, 1985 Roy D. King, The Future of the Prison System, 1980 Kenneth O. Morgan, The Oxford Illustrated History ...
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