Coradella Collegiate Bookshelf Editions. Around the World in 80 Days. Jules Verne. Open Contents Jules Verne. Around the World in 80 Days. About the author Jules Verne (February 8‚ 1828 March 24‚ 1905) was a French writer and a pioneer of the science fiction (scientific romance) genre. Verne was born in Nantes to attorney Pierre Verne and his wife Sophie. The oldest of the family’s five children‚ he spent his early years at home with his parents‚ on a nearby island in the Loire River
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Jules Ferry: On French Colonial Expansion (1884) 1 According to Ferry‚ what recent developments in world trade have made it urgent for France to have colonies? Jules Ferry states that France is in need of outlets to be able to export. He incorporates the fact that they do have major industries such as textile but that they are in urgent need of what he explains as outlets. He goes on by saying that Germany who is their neighbor have set up trade barriers and across the ocean the United States
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made leads to growth and maturity which provides new insights and experiences. The aspect of a journey providing valuable experiences are evident in Robert Cormier’s novel “After the First Death”(1979) and “Around the World in Eighty Days”(1872) by Jules Vernes. Characters face challenges and obstacles throughout their journey and eventually learn to overcome them through self-discovery. In “After the First Death” the two characters Miro and Kate have different challenges‚ but when placed in the
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skilled‚ highly educated generals to battle bred‚ tacticians who were always one step ahead of the enemy in the battles. Today‚ I will be writing about one of the generals that does not get enough recognition in writings about the Civil War‚ General Winfield Scott Hancock. Hancock was one of the bravest‚ most liked commanders of the Union army who was definitely a top three behind Ulysses S. Grant and George Meade. He participated on many battles through the war most notably the Battle of Williamsburg
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Phileas Fogg is the main character in the 1873 Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Fogg attempts to circumnavigate the late Victorian world in 80 days or less‚ for a wager of £20‚000 with members of London’s Reform Club. He takes the wager and leaves with servant Passepartout‚ vowing to return by 8:45 pm on Saturday 21 December 1872. Under suspicion of robbing the Bank of England‚ he is followed by a detective named Fix. Fogg has no idea about Fix’s true intentions and Fix‚ in order
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essay will analyze what the journeys symbolized and their significance on the characters and the overall them of both novels. The Novels Around the world in 80 days and The journey to the center of the earth are written by the famous author Jules Verne. Jules Verne’s novels have been noted for predicting modern times. The two novels are based on different journeys; one is around the world and the other towards the center of the earth. Journey to the center of the earth sounds more fictional than
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of the photograph’s first benefits to the painter was its possible use as a sketch. The photograph could capture exactly a face‚ a pose‚ a scene and even actions of different motion. The earliest work by photographers Eadward Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey influenced among many painters such as Edgar Degas‚ Giacomo Balla and Marcel Duchamp. “When in the late 1870’s‚ Muybridge’s snapshots of the animal locomotion‚ specially the studies of horse’s different gaits‚ came to be known in France and
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1881 EADWEARD JAMES MUYBRIDGE and ETIENNE-JULES MAREY | | | | |These men unite in Paris to begin collaborating in the study of motion. Muybridge had by now‚ constructed a series of pictures depicting motion by the use of a single camera. He | | |then alongside Marey‚ shows these photos using a Uchatius lantern and could possibly have acquired picture-motion this way. The Zoopraxiscope has been‚ albeit rarely‚ called
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A Spectrum Through Time; The Museum of Moving Image Museum of the Moving Image is the country’s only museum dedicated to the art‚ history‚ technique‚ and technology of the moving image in all its forms. It is one-of-a-kind destination for audiences of all ages and interests‚ from connoisseurs of classic cinema to children and families to avid gamers. The Museum is located the state of New York in Astoria Queens and has a collection of approximately 130‚000 artifacts relating to the art‚ history
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The book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is written by Jules Verne. This book like other books of Jules Verne‚ is a science fiction book which mentions invention that a head of their times. In this book the main character‚ Pierre Aronnax‚ narrates the story. In the time of this story‚ 19th century‚ there was an unknown object in the ocean that disturbed the ships and caused some of them sink. Mr. Aronnax companied with other peoples‚ were sent to identify this object. By an accident‚ Mr. Aronnax
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