Les Miserables at its most basic is the story of Jean Valjean. He lived with his sister and her family in extreme poverty in France after the French Revolution. In one act of desperation he broke a window and stole a loaf of bread. His sentence was lengthened by multiple escape attempts until he was finally released 19 years later. His hardness and bitterness increased by the response he got when he was required to show his papers at each new town he visited‚ resulting in lower pay and refusal of
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MOVIE REPORT I. TITLE Les Misérables II. DIRECTOR Tom Hooper III. SCREENPLAY WRITER William Nicholson& Alain Boublil for the original French text Claude-Michel Schönberg for the script book Herbert Kretzner for the lyrics IV. PRODUCTION OUTFIT Paco Delgado is the head costume designer for the movie. The production created almost 2200 outfits. The costume play had to create a whole world‚ and used a lot of color and texture to bring the movie to life the way it was in France 1800s.
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The Chivalric Code in Le Morte d?Arthur An act of chivalry is described as the qualifications or character of the ideal knight. Knights were expected to uphold this code of conduct. In the English literature Le Morte d?Arthur‚ French for ?The Death of Arthur?‚ by Sir Thomas Malory‚ the characters display acts of chivalry from beginning to end. Though the code of chivalry contains many qualities or acts‚ nevertheless bravery‚ loyalty‚ and courtly love are demonstrated more throughout this literature
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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon – Pablo Picasso The following essay will be written about the modernist painting; ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’‚ created by the Spanish expatriate artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso in 1907. Firstly‚ I will describe the work as I saw it in the MOMA in New York in 2010 and I will also describe my initial reaction to seeing it. Secondly‚ I will write what I have found out about this piece after conducting research in the college library and on the internet‚ discussing its style and
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Introduction Les Mills is fully New Zealand owned operated‚ Les Mills are a team of passionate‚ positive professionals who have been making a difference in people’s lives since Olympian Les Mills opened the Auckland Club in 1968. Les Mills International was founded by Phillip Mills and named after his father Les Mills‚ four times Olympian and founder of the Les Mills World of Fitness chain in Auckland‚ New Zealand‚ Phillip and his team developed new programs and distributed it via DVD to improve
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Les Demoiselles d’Avignon Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (The Young Ladies of Avignon‚ and originally titled The Brothel of Avignon) is a large oil painting of 1907 by the Spanish artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881–1973). The work portrays five nude female prostitutes from a brothel on Avinyó Street in Barcelona. Each figure is depicted in a disconcerting confrontational manner and none are conventionally feminine. The women appear as slightly menacing and rendered with angular and disjointed body shapes
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Written by Victor Hugo after the French Revolution‚ Les Misérables is a story that examines the many levels of social injustice in nineteenth-century France. Its protagonist‚ Jean Valjean‚ is central to the understanding of this injustice. Sentenced to 19 years in prison for committing a petty crime‚ Valjean comes to observe the law as an arbitrary force lacking in compassion and equality. However‚ Valjean’s view is fanatically contradicted by Inspector Javert‚ a man whose commitment to the law
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to every design engineer . In fact‚ Le Messurier inventive use and positionning of the big columns bent a "design marvel" (Hegarty) ‚ but those very fundamentals might have been the source for a collateral disaster and engineering scandal. Capitalizing on good fortune‚ the ruinous end of LeMessurier’s profession was prevented and‚ as a substitute‚ his importance in the design professional society increased to new heights. In this essay we shall examine how Le Messurier failed or succeeded to abide
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January 11‚ 2010 English II All Encompassing Assignment Jean Valjean “He strained his eyes in the distance and called out . . . “Petit Gervais! . . .” His cries died away into the mist‚ without even awaking an echo. . . . his knees suddenly bent under him‚ as if an invisible power suddenly overwhelmed him with the weight of his bad conscience; he fell exhausted . . . and cried out‚ “What a wretch I am!” (page 43) Monsieur Madeleine “To remain in paradise and there become a
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A REACTION PAPER OF THE MOVIE LES MISERABLES St. Thomas Aquinas once said‚ “It is not theft‚ properly speaking‚ to take secretly and use another’s property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.” This quotation is really applicable to the life of the life main character who is Jean Valjean. Though stealing is an erroneous act but he extremely needs it and by this reason he may be free from sin. Remember
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