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August Bournonville, 2002.
This paper takes a look at the life and achievements of August Bournonville, the most celebrated Danish choreographer in history.
1,180 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 0 sources, $ 40.95
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The following paper discusses August Bournonville's family life, the way in which he got to be the principal for the Copenhagen Royal Theatre, as well as their ballet-master and dance teacher. It examines the way in which Bournonville took a very contrasting humanistic approach to dance - he tended to focus on the beauty found in the ordinary things.
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"His third daughter, Mathilde, was a teacher; his fourth daughter, Therese was a homemaker, and his son Edmond was a doctor with a successful practice in both Sweden and Denmark. Wilhelmine was the Bournonville's adopted daughter, who seemed to perhaps ease his guilt about his daughter whom he had abandoned so many years earlier in France. It is important to interject that Bournonville did keep in correspondence with the adoptive parents of his first-born daughter, and he even corresponded with her after she was on her own. He never revealed to her that he was her father, but he aided her economically at any chance that he had."
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The Decrees of August, 2005.
An analysis of the effectiveness of the Decrees of August, 1789 in France.
4,104 words (approx. 16.4 pages), 17 sources, MLA, $ 110.95
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This paper examines how, in August of 1789, the National Assembly, in response to peasant revolts, abolished the feudal system and created a declaration of rights. It looks at how the parish cahiers and the actions of the peasants suggest they were more concerned with subsistence than feudal issues, with anti-feudal riots being the result. It also looks at how the bourgeois class, in contrast, were more concerned with social mobility and the protection of property. It attempts to show how the decrees of August, 1789, while benefiting the peasants in some real ways, were essentially designed to promote the interests of the moneyed classes.
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"Less concerned with subsistence, the Third Estate was able to voice its grievances in the cahiers much more effectively than the peasantry. While the leaders of the Third Estate shared many demands with the peasants, particularly taxation, the frequency and emphasis of other specific concerns stands in contrast to the parish lists. It is often noted that the bourgeoisie of the Eighteenth Century generally aspired to join the nobility. This desire was fostered largely by a lack of social mobility available to the Third Estate16 and was a frequent issue in the cahiers. The Third Estate of Carcassonne, for example, suggested that "the general or particular regulations which exclude members of the Third Estate from certain positions, offices, and ranks which have hitherto been bestowed on nobles either for life or hereditarily [should be abolished]."17 Another major concern of the Third Estate was the payment of the franc-fief, a tax on land passing from a nobleman to a commoner. This tax, argued the bourgeoisie, interfered with the sale of property."
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"Light in August", 2002.
This is a critical analysis of William Faulkner's "Light in August".
2,543 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 77.95
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This paper provide a thorough review of Faulkner's novel. It focuses on the theme of crises and shows how these are prevalent along most of the story line. The writer shows how in "Light in August" the main characters move through their individual crises and accompanying changes in their circumstances with no alterations in their personalities. The crises of each character is discussed while analyzing their personalities and how these were effected by the changes.
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This statement is especially curious when it is studied along side the main characters of Light of August, for though Faulkner has created in this novel a hero, a coward, someone tender and someone cruel, he forms their nature in them at birth or early childhood. He then allows them to pass through their lives more as a victim of their own nature than their circumstances. Tender Lena Grove, cruel Joe Christmas, cowardly Gail Hightower and heroic Byron Bunch are not "capable of almost anything" but are subject to the innate disposition with which they are disposed in early life, and not even in a crisis are they allowed to change."
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Form and Dramatic Structure in August Wilson's Plays, 2006.
A discussion regarding the lack of dramatic form and structure in August Wilson's plays.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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According to this paper, August Wilson wrote his plays in a non-sequential manner that set about depicting the lives of African Americans over the course of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries by decade. Yet, the paper shows how as Wilson wrote the plays, the ideas for the work became vivid in his imagination instead of through a planned and organized presentational manner. Like his manner of writing the ten cycles of plays, his work was often composed through a series of multiple changes that he made while the plays were in production.
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The Works of Auguste Rodin, 2002.
This paper examines the contributions of Auguste Rodin to the world of art including his pieces "The Man with the Broken Nose", "The Thinker", "Adam and Eve" and "The Inner Voice".
670 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper discusses the many works of art by the French sculptor, Auguste Rodin. The author gives a brief biography of his contributions and feels that Rodin was responsible for the resurgence of the popularity of sculpture as an art form. According to this paper, the one common thread among all of his works was the realistic nature of his sculptures and the care he took in preserving this in all of his works.
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"The Kiss is another work created for The Gates of Hell project. The statue depicts Paolo and Fransesco, two lovers from Dante's The Inferno, who exchanged a stolen kiss and were seen and stabbed. The Kiss depicts the lovers and this first kiss. The Kiss was originally in bronze but later had copies made in marble, with three of the statues existing. Ugolino is a bronze statue depicting Ugolino della Gherardesca, a character in Dante's The Inferno. Ugolino was imprisoned in the Tower of Hunger with his children. Ugolino saw his children die of hunger and then ate their flesh before dying himself. The sculpture depicts Ugolino crawling over his children just after their death."
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"Light in August", 2003.
An analysis of the theme of existentialism in William Faulkner's "Light in August".
2,091 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper examines how the novel, "Light in August," represents two groups of people who clearly hold different viewpoints on free will and the role of God in their lives. The religious fanatics, like Doc Hines and McEachern, see themselves constantly influenced by the will of God and, at times, guided by His very hand. It looks at how Faulkner projects existentialism's philosophy through the characters of Christmas and Hightower, who represent a dramatic transformation at the end of the novel.
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"Christmas' life is not without the influence left upon him by the essence before existence philosophy. The District Attorney, Gavin Stevens, states, "the black blood drove [Joe] first to the negro cabin. And then the white blood drove him out of there" (449). Stevens fully accepts the notion of the "one-drop rule," and represents the mindset of those who would have an influence upon Christmas in regard to his racial identity. During much of the novel Joe is following this rule and the notion of maintaining the purity of white women by telling the prostitutes he is with that he is part black and expects their disgust."
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"Three Nights in August", 2006.
This paper reviews Buzz Bissinger's book "Three Nights in August" about Tony La Russa and the St. Louis Cardinals.
1,255 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 42.95
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This paper relates that Buzz Bissinger's "Three Nights in August" describes what life is really like surrounding major league baseball clubs, what it's like in the clubhouse before and after games and what baseball players do when nobody, especially the media, is looking over their shoulders. The author points out that, throughout much of the book, Bissinger's descriptions come from sitting behind La Russa in the dugout. The paper relates both sides of the media story---from the aspect of what media members go through to get access to players and what players do to keep the attention on themselves through the media.
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"Bissinger also wrote about several interesting tidbits, like the lives of Rick Ankiel, Albert Pujols and Cal Eldred. He also wrote about how clubhouse attendants unwrap sticks of Juicy Fruit so that the players don't have to unwrap them themselves, or that former pitcher Steve Kline spends an inordinate amount of time walking around in the nude, or that Bill Veek once built a hole in his wooden leg and used it as an ashtray. The best paragraph that Bissinger wrote in the book comes from Tony La Russa, when he is speaking to Kerry Robinson."
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"Light in August", 2006.
This paper reviews the thought-provoking novel "Light in August" written by William Faulkner.
757 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 26.95
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This paper examines William Faulkner's novel "Light in August." The book mostly revolves around the main character Joe Christmas whose unusual last name is both significant and deliberate. This paper discusses the similarities and differences between Joe Christmas and Jesus Christ as well as how Christmas becomes a dichotomy of Jesus and the Anti-Christ by embodying characteristics of both good and evil in one person.
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"The life of Joe Christmas, and certain facts about him, are directly related or connected to the life of Jesus Christ. Since the word "Christ" appears in his name, which he carries proudly through the novel, he becomes the "Christ" bearer. Another similarity is that Joe's initials are J.C., which are also the initials of Jesus. According to the Bible, Jesus was born to the Virgin Mary and was raised by her along with Joseph."
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Auguste Comte, 2005.
A review of Auguste Comte, his life and his work.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper takes a look at the history, life and work of Auguste Comte. This paper goes on to discuss his relationship with Saint-Simon, and how Comte's liaison with Saint-Simon led to Saint-Simon publishing Comte's work under his own name. This caused untold conflict.
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"Auguste Comte was born in Montpellier, France in 1798. His parents were Royalists and Catholics, though Comte rebelled against both of these ideologies once he was in his teenage years (Ellwood 359). After attempting to have a teacher dismissed from his position, Comte was expelled from the Ecole Polytechnique, and returned to Montpellier to begin his adult life. He began tutoring in mathematics, and then became associated with Saint-Simon who was considered an "original thinker" (Ellwood 359). Comte took Saint-Simon's ideas and gave them systematic substance that he turned into a work entitled, The Scientific Labors Necessary for the Reorganization of Society, published in 1824 by Saint-Simon. There was a great deal of conflict over the publication however, as Saint-Simon had altered the title, and claimed that each of the ideas within the publication belonged to him. "
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Faulkner's "A Light in August", 2001.
This paper analyzes in detail a passage from "A Light in August" by William Faulkner, the plight of Joe Christmas from what would have been his first sexual encounter.
1,505 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 49.95
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The paper states that this selection relations to the novel as a whole and provides immense awareness of the character of Joe Christmas in Faulkner's "A Light in August". The paper examines the image of Christmas as an eternal outsider of mixed heritage with a conflicted self-image, which plays itself out in the novel through his relationships with others.
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"The selection begins with Christmas, once again, on the run. "He went down the road fast" when Bobbie tells him she has her period. He takes this as a sort of betrayal, that her menstruating was something that made her imperfect or unclean somehow. When Joe hears one of his more experienced peers describe the "physical ceremony" with nauseating detail he views it as some kind of dirty secret women use against men: "They all want to," the boy had said. "But sometimes they can't." "
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Auguste Comte, 2006.
This paper examines the life of philosopher Auguste Comte and the science of sociology.
2,030 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 64.95
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This paper analyzes the creator of sociology, French born philosopher Auguste Comte. The writer of this paper explores in-depth the "Three Stages" concept created by Comte which resulted in his being the first to develop and maintain a scientific approach to the role of individuals within society. This paper also delves into the philosopher's main contribution to a positivist philosophy.
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"In the decades that followed Comte's Positivism, the social scientists and thinkers expanded on them. On the liberal side, there was John Stuart Mill (influenced not only by Comte but by his father, James). His beliefs dealt with moral issues: the moral self-development of the individual becomes the ultimate value of ethics. On the opposite side was Karl Marx, whose radical theories were based on estrangement, and a violent overthrow of the status quo."
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Auguste Rodin's Sculptures, 2002.
An analysis of love and suffering in the works of Auguste Rodin.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper will discuss the revelations of suffering and love that abound in the sculptures of Auguste Rodin. In this manner, we can analyze the different sculptures that he is known for, and show these themes in his work.
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"A Light in August", 2002.
A look at the use of windows as an imagery in Faulkner's "A Light in August".
688 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 24.95
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A paper which shows how the image of windows serves as a divide between the innocent and the not so innocent William Faulkner's "A Light in August". It shows that those who dare to go outside the windows through which they gaze, are subject to the gossip and hypocrisy of society and those who remain inside are subject to this same torture as well. It discusses the character Gail Hightower chooses to stay inside, while Lena Grove chooses to venture outside. Lena is innocent because she has not experienced the falsehood of society while Hightower is not.
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"Windows play a major role in the first seventy- six pages of William Faulkner's novel, A Light in August. Faulkner first mentions a window on page five. It is through this window that the young Lena Grove climbs through during the night in order to see her boyfriend, Lucas Burch. Faulkner again mentions a window on page fifty-seven, while describing the daily life of former minister, Gail Hightower. According to Faulkner, by staying inside windows people are just as likely to be victimized by society as those who venture outside. The only thing that separates those who stay inside or go outside, is experience."
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August Strindberg and Dreams, 2002.
Examines the use of dreams in August Strindberg's plays, "A Dream Play" and "The Ghost Sonata".
1,198 words (approx. 4.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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The paper examines how August Strindberg makes use of the form of the dream in the plays "A Dream Play" and "The Ghost Sonata," with varied results. "A Dream Play" was written in 1901, and "The Ghost Sonata" in 1907. The paper shows how the structure of both plays is dreamlike and the characters experience the world as if in a dream. The subject matter of the plays, though, is life itself, with a strong religious and moral tone.
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"Much of the dialogue also makes the action of the play seem dreamlike, for though the dialogue could be taken as metaphorical, it has the tone of something surrealistic when the daughter says that the "castle keeps on growing up out of the earth" (Strindberg, "A Dream Play" 199). The action as well has a surrealistic quality, as when the daughter of Indra goes on her dream journey to the opera house, where a mystical door opens to show the four learned representatives of different faculties busily arguing over their disciplines and the great problems of human knowledge. This leads to the great fire that consumes the castle, followed by a wall of questioning human faces as the roof turns into a giant chrysanthemum. Such transformations are of the sort that occur in a dream, carrying symbolic meaning on a deep level."
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'Fences' by August Wilson, 2006.
A review of the play, 'Fences', by August Wilson.
2,091 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper takes a look at August Wilson's play, 'Fences'. The paper focuses primarily on the character Troy Maxson and his decision to live in a world of fantasy instead of reality.
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"This shows that Troy's problems are based in his character and not clearly linked to whether or not he accepts religion. Shannon also uses the character of Gabriel to make her point. She states that Gabriel represents God reaching out to Troy because of his claims that he is an angel. However, I find this meaning to be questionable. Most importantly, it is clear that Gabriel is not really an angel despite his claims. Therefore, if Troy did accept Gabriel's statements it would seem unreasonable. As it is, refusing to accept that your brother really is an angel seems like a logical choice. I see Gabriel as serving two purposes. Firstly, he shows that Troy can see reality and is not accepting of all fantasy. This emphasizes that Troy is sane and understands the difference between what is real and what is not. However, he chooses to see fantasies when it is related to him. This shows that Troy's decision to live in a fantasy world is how he chooses to cope with the world. "
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