Willem de Kooning 
Willem
de Kooning is a Dutch-American painter who was born in 1904 at Rotterdam and who first studied art in Amsterdam. He later ....
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Cinco de Mayo
The Mexican holiday of Cinco
de Mayo is more than just a day of celebration, it is a day when Mexicans around the world recall, maintain, and reaffirm their ....
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The Lai of Marie de France
What is most remarkable about the texts of The Lais of Marie
de France is that they seem representative of the medieval social mind-set and so emblematic of ....
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Observations of Alexis de Tocqueville
One of the earliest analyses of American culture was that of Alexis
de Tocqueville, who traveled the country in 1835 and 1840. In ....
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The Semiotics of Performance by Marco De Marinis
The Semiotics of Performance by Marco
De Marinis provides a thorough analysis of the theatrical communication process. I recommend ....
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De Maupassant's The Jewelry
In Guy
De Maupassant's "The Jewelry," the author provides us with the tale of a seemingly happily married couple who live within their means. ....
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Fin de Siecle
Eugen Weber's France: Fin
de Siècle (End of Century) covers the period of change and upheaval in France during the last two decades of the nineteenth century. ....
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Jacques De Molay
Jacques
De Molay, the last Grand Master of the Order of Knights Templar, was a martyr for his beliefs. .... Little is known about
De Molay's early life. ....
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Keats and De Quincey and Austen
2. Keats and
De Quincey show similar concerns about the way the artist perceives and shapes the material of this world through the application of imagination ....
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Lorenzo de Medici
.... Men like Cosimo
de' Medici spent heavily on public works because, according to Leon Battista Alberti, Cicero recommended public giving. ....
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Glaspell and de Maupassant: Characterization
The female characters in Glaspell's A Jury of Her Peers and
de Maupassant's The Necklace are influenced by status, diction, and character. ....
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The Jewelry (Guy De Maupassant)
In Guy
De Maupassant's "The Jewelry," the author provides us with the tale of a seemingly happily married couple who live within their means. ....
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Charles de Montesquieu
Charles
de Montesquieu, in his major work on social and political theory, The Spirit of Laws, explores, among other subjects, the impact of the physical ....
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Michel de Montaigne
Michel
de Montaigne: Since we find ourselves gathered here along this path - which, like so many other paths that the dead trod is not a conduit to any other ....
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Letters of Madame de Sevigne
Of the thirty-seven newly discovered letters by Madame
de Sevigne, thirty-six are primarily of literary and social interest. Since ....
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Runway De-icing Problem
THE RUNWAY
DE ICING PROBLEM: ARE PILOTS RESPONSIBLE?A RESEARCH PROPOSAL The recent crash (spring 1992) of an airliner at La Guardia Airport, in which icing on ....
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Fleur-de-Marie
.... presents his hero, the Prince Rodolphe, as a man who is intent on serving the ends of social justice (in this particular case by rescuing Fleur-
de-Marie) but ....
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The Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo
The Mexican holiday of Cinco
de Mayo is more than just a day of celebration, it is a day when Mexicans around the world recall, maintain, and reaffirm their ....
(1279
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De Facto School Segregation
.... This study examines how the encounter between patterns of
de facto school segregation arising from a history of
de facto housing segregation in St. ....
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de Maupassant Bret Harte
In two short stories entitled The Luck of the Roaring Camp and Boule
de Suif (Ball of Fat), Bret Harte and Guy
de Maupassant respectively provide us with a ....
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Fray Luis de Leon
Fray Luis
de Leon was both a scholar and an artist, a man who came to represent the most learned elements of his time as well as encapsulating in his personal ....
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Leonardo de Vinci
The purpose of this research is to examine Leonardo
de Vinci through a study of his history, style, influences and scientific and individualistic approaches ....
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Portraits by Picasso & de Kooning
Pablo Picasso's 1906 portrait of Gertrude Stein and Willem
de Kooning's 1944 painting Woman, are both fascinating in themselves and at least somewhat anomalous ....
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Cyrano de Bergerac
The five act drama Cyrano
De Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand, is the story of the swashbuckling swordsman soldier and romantic poet Cyrano
De Bergerac. ....
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Chretien de Troyes & Western Literature
Chretien
de Troyes was a twelfth century French court poet who played a major part in shaping both the tone and the subject matter of popular literature, not ....
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Simone de Beauvoir
Whatever else Simone
de Beauvoir wants to accomplish in the essay "Woman: Myth and Reality," she supplies a critique of the myth of the eternal feminine that ....
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De Tocqueville's Democracy in America
By giving his study of American culture and mores the title Democracy in America, Alexis
de Tocqueville was calling attention to what he considered the most ....
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Hamlet and Michel de Montaigne
This study will compare Hamlet, in William Shakespeare's play, and Michel
de Montaigne, in a number of his essays, focusing on their self-questioning and ....
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Madame de Pompadour & Enlightenment Art
Born Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson on December 29, 1721, the woman who history knows as Madame
de Pompadour gained fame not only as the mistress of King Louis XV ....
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Famine Crimes - Alex de Waal: Humanitarian Agencies Enable Bad ...
The argument adduced in Alex
de Waal's Famine Crimes posits that humanitarian agencies enable bad governments, occluding their own goals of advancing human ....
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