d’après-guerre en 1948‚ Clément Mathieu‚ professeur de musique sans emploi‚ accepte le poste de surveillant au Fond de l’Étang‚ un internat de rééducation pour mineurs. Le système répressif appliqué par le directeur‚ Rachin‚ bouleverse Mathieu. Il décide d’initier ces enfants difficiles à la musique et au chant choral‚ malgré les règlements sévères du directeur. Par la musique‚ Mathieu réussi à changer les comportements de chacun. En filmant l’histoire de ce musicien raté qui transmet
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LE CORBUSIER ( 1887-1965) Le Corbusier has an original name Charles Edouard Jeanneret who was born in Switzerland in 1887. He was the second son of a dial painter‚ and a musician teacher. He is the most influential architect of the 20th century. He was an architect‚ designer‚ painter‚ writer‚ and city planner‚active mostly in France . He was one of the pioneers of modern architecture‚ which he considered as International Style. In 1907‚ after completing his first building project‚ Villa Pallet
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The Role of Economics in Human Life In the film Les Miserables‚ most of the scenes focus on how human strives for his own survival. Like in the character of Fantine who symbolizes the powerless and discriminated women at that time due to lack of education and wealth. They are also those who are good but poor and hopeless women condemned by the cruel society. Moreover‚ through the character of Fantine reveals the hypocrisy of the society that ostracizes and discriminates women. Through these miseries
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Zachary Pichoff Mr. Broussard English IV February 18‚ 2013 The Wife of Bath Analysis The Wife of Bath is a nontraditional female character. She claims to be somewhat of an authority in the subject of marriage‚ because her first marriage was at the age of 12. She continued to marry four more times after‚ being widowed each time. The Wife was very opinionated when she spoke of women and what little authority they actually had. The Wife says how she has been criticized for her numerous marriages.
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Khazhyki Alena Wife of His Youth (by Charles Chesnutt) The story under analysis belongs to the pen of the famous American author‚ essayist‚ political activist and lawyer Charles Waddel Chesnutt. First of all I would like to tell about the author. Charles Waddell Chesnutt was born in Cleveland‚ Ohio‚ on June 20‚ 1858‚ the son of two free African-Americans who had moved north from Fayetteville‚ North Carolina‚ two years earlier. Both of his grandmothers were of mixed-race‚ while it is probable that
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Le Nozze di Figaro or The Marriage of Figaro is known as an opera buffa or comic opera that is broken into four acts. Wolfgang Omodeus Mozart composed this piece in 1786‚ along side an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo de Ponte. It premiered May 1‚ 1786 at the Burg Theater in Vienna. It was Mozart who originally selected Beaumarchais’s play and brought it to Da Ponte‚ who was able to turn it into a libretto in just six weeks‚ rewriting it in poetic Italian and removing all of the original’s political
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Ethical Theories Reflected Upon the Main Characters from the Film Adaptation Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Non-Consequentialist theories of morality are best expressed by the character Inspector Javert. His actions are lead by the theory that it is better to lead a life where rules are followed. It is your duty to obey the laws and it is your duty to always act in this manner. Consequences are not to be considered when judging a persons actions (Thiroux‚ Krasemann‚ 2012‚ p. 46). Inspector
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A Wife’s Story Ursula K. Le Guin gives a new perspective to the somewhat classic werewolf story. Le Guin put aside the typical view point as one of the wolves. Instead‚ it’s in a fist person narrative which is very effective. The author changes her voice throughout the story for the reader to see that this is not your average werewolf story. In Le Guin’s story‚ when looking back‚ the wife feels as if there was much more that she could have done to see that her husband was a werewolf. There are
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LES MISERABLES --Victor Hugo‚ published 1862 --the Miserable‚ the wretched‚ the miserable ones‚ the poor ones‚ the victims -- French Revolution About: Novels follows the lives and interactions of several characters‚ focusing on the struggles of ex-convict JEAN VALJEAN and his experience of redemption. Hugo explains the work’s overarching structure: * A progress from evil to good * From justice to injustice * From falsehood to truth * From night to day * From corruption to life from
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Pierre Corneille’s Le Cid focuses on a legendary hero of the twelfth century Spain‚ and his feats of heroism‚ rivalry‚ and honour. It is Corneille’s opinion that dramatic poetry is a portrayal of the actions of men‚ that is to say‚ his writing was intended to depict‚ or imitate the actions of men. But a more pervading definition that is evident in the play‚ is that man’s actions are the result of fate‚ not of man’s own will or action. It seems that Corneille’s primary function is to demonstrate
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