15. “He is the Subject; he is the Absolute. She is the Other” (Beauvoir‚ The Second Sex‚ 6). Discuss. Despite having a relatively conservative childhood in which she was raised a Catholic daughter to a bourgeois family‚ Simone de Beauvoir steered away from the traditional familial roles and became a pioneer for modern feminism. Perhaps to the distaste of her family‚ she attended university and always placed the autonomy of the intellectual life above the traditional values of
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40113810 El Camino de Santiago Cover Photos: Autor: Peter Andren Tourism‚ Society and Visual Culture TSM11109 Rory MacLellan Assessment 2 Student No. 40113810 Word Count: 3‚488 Page 1 40113810 Your own way Page 2 40113810 Table of Contents 1. Appraisal of the impact of the development of tourism‚ over a period of time‚ on El Camino de Santiago. 2. References. 3. Appendices: 3.1. Appendix 1: Historical Overview. 3.2. Appendix 2: Overview of the main authors that examined
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Simone-Lucie-Ernestine-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir‚ commonly known as Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris the 9 of January 1908 and died in paris too the 14 of April 1986‚ She was a French writer‚ intellectual‚ existentialist philosopher‚ political activist‚ feminist‚ and social theorist. While she did not consider herself a philosopher‚ Beauvoir had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory. Beauvoir wrote novels‚ essays‚ biographies‚ an autobiography‚ monographs
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Samuel de Champlain Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer. He was born in 1567 in Bourage‚ France. He was a Protestant who converted to Catholicism and fought in the religious war for King Henry VII. Samuel learned skills of sailing‚ navigation‚ and cartography at a young age. Champlain became a famous explorer and is known because he founded Quebec and a lot of Canada‚ which was New France at the time. In 1603 Champlain was invited by Francis Grave Du Point to sail and visit the River
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Salar de Uyuni Salar de Uyuni is the world’s largest salt flat located in Bolivia. It is over twelve thousand square kilometers in area‚ which makes it the largest salt flat in the world. It also has the distinction of being the highest salt flats in the world at three thousand seven hundred meters above sea level. From a distance the salt flats look like a huge white sea. When there is rain then something magical happens. The salt flats become a mirror of the sky. The origins
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in 1888‚ De Beers followed a strategy of supply control. In addition to mining its own diamonds‚ it bought diamonds from other producers and had what it called the "central selling organization‚" controlling some 90% of the world’s diamonds. Its tight control over such a vast amount of supply enabled De Beers to keep prices high for a commodity that is neither particularly scarce nor useful. If a competitor offered diamonds on the market outside of De Beers’ central selling organization‚ De Beers would
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Although‚ diamond is surely a luxury good‚ De Beers has tried to inject necessity into it. From this idea‚ De Beers has implemented the tradition that diamond is needed for any couple. De Beers has being convinced every woman that she should receive a diamond ring from her fiancé and convincing each groom-to-be to pay "two-months salary" for that ring to show how much his love is worth. De Beers has actively promoted diamonds as being symbolic of eternity and love‚ and therefore the ideal jewel for
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Mothers’ Fight for Visibility The Madres de la Plaza de Mayo of Argentina were a pivotal group of mothers rising against being silenced by the military dictatorship during the Dirty War‚ between 1976-1983 at the time when thousands of children and adults disappeared. In March 1977‚ the mothers began a march in the square of the Rosada presidential palace to break the silence and expose the truth of uncovered lies told by the authorities. Argentineans either looked the other way when it came to the
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The poem is well known for a number of reasons. The extensive judicial scene gives a degree of insight into the legal system of the period‚ which is also well documented from a technical point of view in various Anglo-Norman texts of Henry I and Henry II of England. In contrast to Marie’s other lais‚ such as Guigemar and Le Fresne‚ nothing is made of the mistress’s intellectual or spiritual qualities. Rather the description is of the opulence of her wealth and her beauty. Guigemar: "She was
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