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    Le Grotte Chauvet

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    REPORT Le grotte Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc is the French name of the Chauvet cave. Chauvet cave is the most monumental and historical value cave in art circles in the world. This majestic cave is found by a team of three speleologist in 1994. It is 25 meters deep in the ground‚ length about 500 meters located in the Ardeche region of the southern France. When in 1998‚ the Franch archeologian Dr. Jean Clottes is the first research leader to leaded the research team in Chauvet cave. Chauvet cave is very

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    Le Loupgarou Poem

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    LE LOUPGAROU’ The poem begin with a ’curious tale’ which ’threaded through the town’ (note the use of alliteration). Through greying women sewing under eaves. These ’greying women’ (meaning old women) may not have been literally sewing under the trees‚ but were ’threading the tale’; meaning‚ they were gossiping. Was how his greed had brought old le brun down. (what comes next is a tell of how his greed brought him down’ Greeted by slowly shutting jalousies (refers to the people who shut their windows

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    Les Demoiselles D'Avignon

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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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    November 19‚ 1863. Pennsylvania was the site where the brutal battles of the Civil War were taken place. He was dedicated to the proposition that all men were created equally and soldiers that died for that cause should obviously continue to fight. The sacrifices that were made during the Civil War were the beginning of a new freedom to the land‚ preservation of the Union‚ which was created in 1776 and self-government for the most part. However‚ the boasting of the Union created in 1776 was tested to see

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    What is Love? “I’m not supposed to love you‚ I’m not supposed to care‚ I’m not supposed to live my life wishing you were there. I’m not supposed to wonder where you are or what you do...I’m sorry I can’t help myself‚ I’m in love with you.” (Quote from Lord Byron) What is love? Scientists would simply call it a magnificent chemical war inside the brain causing us to feel the way we do about another person. Famous poets Lord Byron and Shelley would argue that it is beauty that makes us feel love

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    The word sacrifice is defined as the act of forfeiting one thing for another thing considered to be of greater value. The theme of sacrifice is one that is exemplified throughout both Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac‚ the story of a selfless hero‚ and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House‚ which depicts the life of a woman in the 19th century. In these two plays‚ sacrifice takes many forms: the entity that is given up can be a something material‚ something physical‚ or even something abstract. Comparable

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    Pierrot Le Fou

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    going on in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1965 film Pierrot le Fou? Godard is known for his contribution to the French film “New Wave” movement‚ and this film is no different. Through the use of a nontraditional narrative style‚ in combination with an experimental film form‚ it is insanely difficult to keep this plot straight. Then again‚ what is a plot? Does the plot even matter? In Pierrot le Fou it appears that it does not. At its simplest form Pierrot le Fou is the story of Ferdinand Griffon a.k.a “Pierrot”

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    Is Hate the Opposite of Love or Is the Opposite of Love Indifference? Not long ago a friend asked me‚ “What is the opposite of love?” Immediately‚ I answered‚ “Hate. (Hate is the opposite of love.” I could not foresee how that very simple and universally accepted premise would generate a heated debate lasting two hours. You probably are saying to yourself‚ “How could he argue about the opposite of love is hate for two hours. I know were I in your shoes‚ I would be. So‚ imagine my reaction when

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    Love Love Love

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    Love can last a lifetime if you are willing to understand that it requires maintenance. Ups and downs‚ meeting in the middle‚ sacrificing.. Just don’t give up. -- Some things just aren’t meant to last. They take up a little space in your heart and leave you a little smarter for next time. -- ------------------------------------------------- You can leave me Take away all that I have You can want me Love me for who I am Choices‚ romance Takin’ me high in the air Flying‚ so scared Afraid

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    an ex-slave African American woman named Sethe‚ living in Ohio in the 1800s told from both third person omniscient and limited. But even more it explores sacrifices‚ particularly shown with Sethe. Throughout many events Sethe sacrifices continuously to benefit her children and the ones she loves. One quote that displays this sacrifice can be read here; “I got a tree on my back and a haunt in my house‚ and nothing in between but the daughter I am holding in my arms. No more running--from

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