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17th Century France and French Literature, 2005.
An analysis of three 17th century French works: Jean Racine's "Andromache" and Jean Moliere's "Tartuffe" and "The Misanthrope".
1,044 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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Through a comparison and contrast of these works, this paper explains how each one reveals a richly layered analysis of 17 century France, its politics, culture and society.
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"Moliere's work is greatly respected and vastly studied by contemporary academia, but in the author's time it was frequently shunned and even banned for its elements of harsh criticism against the religious and social status quo. A satirical work, Tartuffe was found so offensive to its audience that it was banned after its seminal presentation (Slater xviii). Not only did Moliere's exposure of the hypocrisy he observed in his environment, but also his discussion of religious wrong-doings gave the French public-not to mention the French bureaucracy-much to criticize."
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Blue Jeans and Society, 2006.
A look at the history of denim jeans and the impact denim has had on society.
2,325 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 11 sources, APA, $ 71.95
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This paper reviews the intertwined, complicated history of denim jean fabric and how the name came about. This paper also takes a look at how the denim jean fabric has had an impact on society, fashion and culture.
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Introduction
The Origin of Jeans
Technical Aspects: What is Denim?
The History of Blue Jeans
Impact on Society
Conclusion
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"There are several sources which ascribe various meanings to the word denim. Many of the source books on the subject state that denim is derived from the English translation of the South of France French phrase 'serge de Nimes'. Denim fashion history has therefore become associated with Serge de Nimes. (Denim Jeans - Fashion History). The Serge de Nimes was originally a wool silk mix, twill weave. There was also fabric which was known as "nim" in France and both these fabrics were composed partly of wool. (A history of Denim)
The word "Jeans" is considered by most source to come from 'Genoese'. This was the name give to Italian sailors in Genoa who "...when at sea dressed in blue fustian fabric composed of a cotton and wool or linen blend." (The Blue Jeans Story) Another European fabric made from a cotton, linen and wool blend "... was known as 'jean' after the sailors of Genoa, Italy, who wore it." (Denim Jeans - Fashion History)"
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Culture of Jeans, 2000.
A look at the ideology and symbolic meaning behind jeans and how this has changed over time.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 60.95
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The ideology of Jeans in the United States has been changing for decades due to the shift in pop culture. Because of the diversity of American culture, the idea behind the jeans has evolved from hard-working to self identification. The author examines the changing symbolic significance of jeans for American society over time and the symbol they serve for popular culture.
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"Jeans, or to be exact, blue jeans, have been carrying its very symbolic significance for America over the last 150 years. For the past century and a half, the culture of jeans has changed the ideological symbolism from initial proletarian wardrobes (toughness, independence, and hardworking) in the mid-nineteenth century to modern twenty-first century representation of selfness (uniqueness, individuality, and personal styles). Not only has the ideology changed over time, but the jeans per se, its design, style, embellishment, or even marketing strategy also change from 'western-era' plain style emphasizing durability, through 'rebellious-period' creative style stressing anti-tradition, to 'post-war epoch' advocating casualness, following neck-and-neck along the societal pulsation. Jeans therefore can serve as an accurate barometer of trends in contemporary, now and then, popular cultures."
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Comparing Michel Foucault and Jean-Francois Lyotard, 2007.
This paper compares the philosophies of Michel Foucault and Jean-Francois Lyotard through two of their works.
2,832 words (approx. 11.3 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 84.95
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This paper compares Michel Foucault and Jean-Francois Lyotard, both early postmodern philosophers, through the use of two of their works, as well as other sources. These works are Foucault's "The Body of the Condemned" and Lyotard's "The Postmodern Condition". In addition to these works, other information about Foucault and Lyotard is used to indicate the similarities and differences between these two works, their philosophies and their beliefs. While the two works are analyzed, the overall philosophies of Foucault and Lyotard are also addressed.
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Michel Foucault
Jean-Francois Lyotard
Conclusion
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"Foucault fits into the general philosophical tradition, but it is the critical tradition, similar to Kant, and most of what Foucault writes about and proclaims is a very critical history where human nature and thought is concerned (Foucault, n.d.). This does not mean that the history of ideas that he discusses is also an analysis of the errors that might be seen when issues are examined after the fact. Instead, it should be taken to mean that Foucault's work is an analysis based on the relationship between object and subject, and what conditions are seen to either form or modify those relationships (Foucault, n.d.)."
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Apple Bottoms Jeans, 2005.
An analysis of the company and product, "Apple Bottom Jeans".
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 10 sources, $ 97.95
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The paper reports on the company and the product "Apple Bottoms Jeans", a line of women's jeans designed by a rapper named Nelly and sold through a distribution company. The paper examines how Nelly designs the clothing and his cousin operates the company. The paper further examines how the company does its own marketing, and the product is sold through an association with the music world, as well as other endorsements and methods of marketing.
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"Apple Bottom Jeans is a company that has had considerable success in a relatively short period of time. It is also a company with an unusual genesis, having been created by a hip-hop artist who designed a pair of jeans for women and has since marketed those jeans in a very effective manner."
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Jean Lafitte: The Gentlemen Pirate.
This paper discusses Jean Laffite, a pirate who played a heroic part in the Battle of New Orleans.
850 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 30.95
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This paper explains that the legendary pirate, Jean Laffite, who lived from 1780 to 1825 (approximately), was born in Bayonne, France. The family eventually migrated to the Island of Espanola from where the Laffite brothers sailed the Gulf and the Caribbean and were involved in many privateering missions. The author points out that a pardon was offered to Laffite in 1814 by the British if he would assist them in attacking New Orleans, but Lafitte refused and informed the U.S. of the plans, which resulted in Lafitte fighting for Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 and receiving a pardon from President James Madison. The paper relates that Laffite sailed to Mugeres Island, which is off the Yucatan coast, where he continued his pirating activities until sometime around the year of 1825 when he became "mortally ill," returned to the mainland, and died.
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Jean Laffite
Laffite and Governor Claiborne
Laffite and General Jackson: The Battle of New Orleans
Laffite: The Hero
Conclusion
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"The U.S. Army and Navy attacked Laffite and captured some of his ships. Laffite still announcing his loyalty to the United States offered his assistance to the worn and weary troops of General Andrew Jackson defending New Orleans in exchange for a full pardon for himself and his men. General Jackson accepted the proposition and Laffite and his men, now called the Baratarians, fought with all their might in the Battle of New Orleans, which took place in December of 1814 and January of 1815. General Jackson said that Laffite was "one of the ablest men" in battle and a proclamation of pardon was issued by James Madison, President, for Laffite and his men."
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Jean Toomer's "Cane", 2002.
This paper discusses male isolation in Jean Toomer's "Cane".
1,270 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 43.95
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This paper reviews Jean Toomer's "Cane", including some powerful vignettes, which highlight just how damaging it can be for men when they do not understand and appreciate women as whole, three-dimensional beings. The paper stresses that each of the central male characters in Toomer's vignettes actually, themselves, create a distance and isolation from the very "thing" they obsess about: getting close to women. The author believes that looking at each of Toomer's vignettes and seeing how each of the male characters creates his own isolation by not seeing the whole woman clearly opens up new questions about the author himself. Maybe Toomer perceives women as flatly as some of his fictionalized male counterparts.
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"The anonymous "young men" and "old men" in "Karintha" all long in vain to have the lovely young beauty whose "skin is like dusk, when the sun goes down." Karintha is put on a pedestal, her idyllic beauty allowing men to project onto her all the ideals associated with beauty, like goodness and innocence. They ignore any aspect of her personality which doesn't fit with their idea of Karintha; her mischievousness, even her proclivity for cruelty. The men adore Karintha blindly, faun over her and give her money, but instead of making her love them, they cause the opposite affect. We are told that Karintha "has contempt for them." "
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The French New Wave and Jean-Luc Godard, 2003.
An overview of the French New Wave film movement through an analysis of one of the key film makers of this period, Jean-Luc Godard.
2,031 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 64.95
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This paper examines the French New Wave, one of the most significant movements in cinema's history, which occurred during the period of around 1958 to 1964 and contained a whole new interpretation of cinema and narrative techniques. In particular, it analyzes Jean-Luc Godard's films "A Bout de Souffle" and "Le Mepris" and comments on the way these films show Godard's relationship with the classical Hollywood period through the visual style and techniques he uses.
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"European cinema is felt to have gained its greatest strength in producing smaller-budget films as a reaction to the big budget genre films produced by the Hollywood studios. These are called 'art-house' films, or 'art cinema'. Instead of the escapism and spectacle that Hollywood narratives offered, art cinema focussed on realism (nouvelle vague), ambiguity and innovative styles. A Bout de Souffle (Breathless), Godard's first feature length film, set the tone for the French New Wave as it was one of the first successes to come out of the period. It is still very much discussed today as it offers a good example of the period's conventions. The film also uses many conventions of Hollywood genre narratives, but whilst it can be seen as pastiche, it could also be said that placing conventions from different cinemas also creates distance between them to allow for intellectual criticism. The film is based on a Hollywood type script by Truffaut, with a 1930's film noir style narrative."
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Jean Paul Sartre's "No Exit" ("Hois Clos"), 2004.
This paper discusses Jean Paul Sartre and his contemporary masterpiece, "No Exit" (Hois Clos), first produced on stage in 1944.
2,815 words (approx. 11.3 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 83.95
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This paper relates that the existentialist plays of Sartre and his contemporary, Albert Camus, had a big impact on European and American theater as vehicles for the presentation and expression of existential ideas and beliefs. The author points out that Sartre's "No Exit", as existentialist theater, was a new perspective for audiences because, previously, theater had grown out of a surrealist tradition, led by writers like Jean Cocteau. The paper relates that there are many adaptations of "No Exit", but they all use Sartre's attitudes in their presentation of the play's relationships, language, indifference, desire, sadism, masochism, love, and hate.
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"The host of sufferings that evolved from World War II also led to the formation of a new ideology that affected the theater of entertainment at that time (Lein). A growing dissatisfaction over superficial entertainment could not be denied or stifled any more, along with the increasing rejection of the criteria of pure art in any field of the time. It was simply that the shattering effects of war bore on French complacency, hence a change of popular taste into or preference for serious entertainment, which satisfied audiences as artistic, useful and meaningful (Lein). Sarter's and Camus' existentialist theater was that literary theater that was grounded both on ideology and philosophy and, at the same time, responsive to the honest yearnings of a new public."
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Jean Toomer's "Cane", 2004.
An analysis of Jean Toomer's "Cane" and the issue of racial identity.
2,224 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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This paper reviews Jean Toomer's book, "Cane", explaining the book as an extension of the author's self, character, and beliefs that had been shaped by his rather affluent upbringing, the changing definition of race in 1920s, and by an inability to acquire one specific racial identity. The paper contends that Toomer had never experienced the negative impact of racial segregation and was given equal access to black and white social circles. This had resulted in weakening of a racial identity. The paper describes how Toomer refused to classify himself as a white or black and this laid the foundation of the non-racial ideology that was later found in his book, "Cane".
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"When Cane was published in 1923, critics and famous writers including W. E. B. Du Bois, William Stanley Braithwaite, immediately received it and Sherwood Anderson as part of new and emerging African American Literature since it's author was a black man. Toomer was seen as solid new voice for African Americans as Braithwaite claimed: "we come upon the very first artist of the race, who . . . can write about the Negro without the surrender or compromise of the artist's vision. . . . Cane is a book of gold and bronze, of dusk and flame, of ecstasy and pain, and Jean Toomer is a bright morning star of a new day of the race in literature." Similarly Anderson termed Toomer's work "the first Negro work I have seen that strikes me as being really Negro." Toomer appreciated such valuable observations but was still uncomfortable with the idea of being labeled a Negro writer. A man who had repudiated racial identity a long time back was not willing to let others put him in a certain categories of writers. He even denied James Weldon Johnson the permission to reprint some of his poems from Cane in The Book of American Negro Poetry saying: ""My poems are not Negro poems, nor are they Anglo-Saxon or white or English poems. My prose likewise. They are, first, mine. And, second, in so far as general race or stock is concerned, they spring from the result of racial blending here in America, which has produced a new race or stock. We may call this stock the American stock or race." "
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"The Social Contract" by Jean Jacques Rousseau, 2004.
This paper discusses how Jean Jacques Rousseau addresses the problem of political obligation and individual freedom in "The Social Contract".
850 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 30.95
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This paper explains that, in "The Social Contract", Jean Jacques Rousseau clarifies the idea of the social contract and the way the state should work together with its subjects to create a perfect and peaceful society. The author points out that Rousseau's opening statement that "Man is born free" is intriguing because, according to the rest of the section, this statement is not true; a child is obliged to be in bondage to its parents until it can leave the home on its own. The paper contends that, until lessons from the past can be recognized, books like "The Social Contract" will have academic value only; practical applicability is entirely dependent upon the human ability to recognize lessons, to adjust, and to evolve accordingly.
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"Rousseau makes a strong argument in his first book when he states, "One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they." (Book I; ch.i). This is applicable to current society, which is more often than not subject to some or other less than laudable human trait such as greed or addiction. People are slaves to money, drugs, success or any other of a maze of possible enslavements. This was also true in Rousseau's time, and he recognized that human beings are in bondage since birth."
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Jean Watson's Theory of Nursing, 2004.
An examination of the breakthroughs in the nursing profession, which came about due to Jean Watson's theory of nursing.
2,451 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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This paper argues that the perception of the nursing profession changed after the introduction of Jean Watson's theory of nursing. It defines this theory, which addresses this perception by accurately identifying that the nurse's career as much more than just being a doctor's helper. It explains that the nursing profession carries a different responsibility in the healing process. Watson views nursing as both an art and a science. While the science is focused on performing medical procedures and assisting doctors and other health professionals in their work, the art of nursing encompasses the whole human person. The art of nursing, according to Watson, is preserving the worth of humankind through the process of caring.
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"During a time when educational standards are being reevaluated as to the content, clarity and purpose of ht educational process, many fields are also undergoing refinement. When a particular field encounters a speed bump in its ongoing progress, like education, it is appropriate to reevaluate where the organization has been, where it is currently, and in what direction the field needs to be pointed in order to regain its effectiveness. The nursing field is a sector of the educational system which is currently suffering from a reduction in recruitment. The nursing field has long carried the stereotypes of a career path that is 'less than' a doctor's status, and therefore less desirable."
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Jean Chretien, 2002.
An overview of the leadership of Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien on his Liberal Party.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 9 sources, $ 80.95
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This paper will take an in-depth look at the control or command that Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien has over the members of his Liberal Party. His remarkable rise to power and in-party support will be examined, and the internal feuds that have recently erupted within the party will also be delved into, in a bid to assess his authority over members of his own party.
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Jean Fritz, 2002.
A biography of the life of the author Jean Fritz.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper looks at the life of prolific writer Jean Fritz. This paper will detail and examine her work as well as look at the numerous awards she has received for insightful work on biographies and on other educational materials.
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Existence and Human Freedom According to Jean-Paul Sartre, 2002.
Explores Jean-Paul Sartre's theory of existence and its significance to his concept of human freedom.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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The concepts of existence and human freedom have been presented by Jean-Paul Sartre in his book entitled "Being and Nothingness", and they represent essential parts of his theory. However, Sartre also presents other related concepts, such as bad faith which as been referred to as a device that protects us from the anguish of realising that we are freer than we like to think we are. With this in mind, the purpose of this paper will be to examine why Sartre thought that existence is absurd, as well as the significance of this idea to his view of human freedom.
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