United States 1915 Sailors and fishermen have historically faced grueling hours, hazardous conditions, and low wages. During the nineteenth century, they were also confronted with corporal punishment, poorly maintained vessels, and few la...

We always weaken everything we exaggerate....

Can it be possible for someone to have everything stacked against them, until the point of breaking, and still strive on to survive the everlasting hurdles that they are faced with daily? Well, it must be possible because La Joe did. In the...

Luna is a dreadfully poseurish film, whether Caterina, stopping at the gate to the Villa Verdi, improbably apostrophizes the filmmaker's favorite composer, or whether the neurotic homelife of mother and son is shown in the most superficial ...

La Mothe Le Vayer, Fran cle. 2 vols. Paris: Boivin, 1943. Popkin, Richard H. The History of Scepticism: From Savonarola to Bayle. Rev. ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003....

SOURCE: “Tarare” and “La Mere Coupable,” in Beaumarchais and the Theatre, Routledge, 1995, pp. 196-220. In the excerpt below, Howarth, a noted Beaumarchais scholar, places Tarare and La Mère coupable in the context of Beaumarchais'...

[La Peau Douce] is a trap: there have been plenty of films about adultery, but few have ventured to take the mechanism so methodically to pieces…. Through his use of disconnection (light switches, camera shutters, gear-changes), Truffaut ...

Romance language (Indo-European family) spoken by more than 358 million people in Spain, the Americas, Australia, and Africa. In the early 21st century, Mexico had the greatest number of speakers (more than 85 million), followed by Colombi...

La mayoría de las representaciones del encuentro de las Américas retrata los españoles como cruel a los nativos americanos.  Estos representaciones también describen los indigenos como desnudos y como no muy intelig...

La Rochefoucauld, Duc FranÇois De(1613–1680) Duc François de La Rochefoucauld, the French epigrammatist and moral critic, was born in Paris; he was known as the prince de Marcillac until he succeeded his father in 1650....

SOURCE: "Ophuls and the Romantic Tradition," in Yale French Studies, No. 17, Summer, 1956, pp. 3-5. In the following essay, Archer identifies Ophuls as the most controversial figure in French cinema. La Ronde opens with the introduction of ...

L.A. Story is a 1991 English language movie directed by Mick Jackson and written by Steve Martin . This film article needs cleanup. Please review , especially the standard format of film articles , to determine how to edit this article to ...

With La Terra Trema, Visconti developed the neo-realist approach to a dramatic subject in its most extreme form: the players, the lines they speak, the places they live in, the whole social background and motivation, depart hardly at all fr...

The audience responded to separate theatrical moments, touches, stunts in [La Turista], though it could not follow the alogic of the play, to use [an] appropriate term. It did follow the play's drift, its strident tone, its attitude of abus...

Labeling theorists explore how and why certain acts are defined as criminal or deviant and why other such acts are not. As such, they also who is identified as a criminal, and who is not. They question how and why certain people become d...

To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty. To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty....

Marie Laberge belongs to a new generation of Quebec dramatists. The author of some seventeen plays, twelve of which have been produced in theaters in Quebec and sometimes elsewhere, she has also written a novel and taught classes in theate...

in the United States and Canada, holiday (first Monday in September) honouring workers and recognizing their contributions to society. In many other countries May Day serves a similar purpose. In the United States, Peter J. McGuire, a unio...

By the time of the Civil War, most American workers were wage earning employees, rather than independent farmers or business owners. Although only a minority of these workers belonged to unions, organized labor movements had powerful effec...

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