traditions of the French couture. As a young boy‚ Poiret was fascinated with color‚ design‚ and fabric. He experimented with scraps of fabric on a wooden mannequin during the first job for an umbrella maker. His first break came when the French designer‚ Madeleine Chéruit‚ accepted some of his sketches. Following apprenticeships with Parisian designers‚ Jacques Doucet and later with Charles Frederick Worth‚ Poiret established his own Parisian couture house in 1903. Other businesses and artistic interests included
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2012 PHILOMA DGE2 Tth 4:20-5:50 THE INSEPARABILITY OF ETHICS AND POLITICS: RETHINKING THE THIRD IN EMMANUEL LEVINAS I. Charity and Justice In the book‚ The Inseparability of Ethics and Politics: Rethinking the Third in Emmanuel Levinas by Madeleine Fagan‚ I was struck by the line “For Levinas‚ charity and justice cannot be separated‚” on the first paragraph‚ page 18 on the book. Levinas believes that charity and justice goes along together. But what disturbs him is the thought that some structures
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quote to a new extreme. Here is yet another eye grabbing dramatic monologue by Robert Browning where a jealous women takes revenge to the next level. Shockingly‚ there is some true events behind this poem. It was based off of a French women‚ Marie-Madeleine-Marguérite d’aubray marquise de Brihvillers. She had killed her father and two brothers‚ and after her failed attempt of trying to kill her husband‚ she was caught and later on beheaded. Robert Browning waste no time jumping into the conflict of
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doctrine furthered this view of the United States‚ ultimately leading to America regularly being referred to as the world’s policeman. “Today the only nation capable of playing an equivalent role is the US. Allies will be needed but America is‚ as Madeleine Albright said‚ "the indispensable
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Anthony Gross Wayne Smith Music 117 May 20th 2012 The Musical Life of Frederic Chopin Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) was born in a tiny village of Zelazowa about thirty miles away from Warsaw where he was raised as the son of a Polish mother and French father. While growing up in Warsaw much of his childhood compositions are known today as some of the most significant achievements for a composer in the Romantic era. At a very young age his original style of playing and composing astonished the
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A Brief Biography of Thomas Edison (Thomas Edison) People often say Edison was a genius. He answered‚ "Genius is hard work‚ stick-to-itiveness‚ and common sense." Thomas Alva Edison was born February 11‚ 1847 in Milan‚ Ohio (pronounced My-Lab). In 1854‚ when he was seven‚ the family moved to Michigan‚ where Edison spent the rest of his childhood. "Al‚" as he was called as a boy‚ went to school only a short time. He did so poorly that his mother‚ a former teacher‚ taught her son at home. Al learned
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Poiret’s wife Denise‚ who was his muse and wore his designs without concession to prevailing tastes – at the auction. While apprenticing in his teens to an umbrella maker‚ Paul Poiret entered the world of fashion when he sold some of his sketches to Madeleine Cheruit at her Paris fashion house. After stints with designers Doucet and Worth‚ he opened his own house in 1903 and was boosted by the patronage of Réjane‚ a famous actress of the period‚ among others. In his groundbreaking designs‚ he led the
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“Like and equal are not the same thing at all.” ― Madeleine L’Engle- A Wrinkle In Time. More specifically‚ A Wrinkle In Time is a book about a girl (Meg)‚ and how her father vanished. In the book‚ the government told them he was on a top secret mission‚ while in the movie‚ he disappeared after Charles Wallace was born. Meg‚ Calvin‚ and Charles work through Camazotz and Uriel to find Meg’s father. This happens in both the story and the movie. Mrs Which‚ Mrs. Who‚ and Mrs. Whatsit also helped them
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Les Misérables by Victor Hugo demonstrates a very important concept about how people change. Several examples exist of individuals who thought a certain way‚ but were shown that not all is as they thought. The novel demonstrations that everyone thinks they’re right‚ but when proven wrong‚ it greatly impacts their lives and beliefs. One person who thought he could never change was the novel’s protagonist Jean Valjean. His personality vastly changed after the bishop helped him realize he didn’t
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I find that as we go through life many of our expectation of trials or grief do not prepare us for the grief that is to come and sometimes the journey is not what others would expect. These things can be seen very clearly from the book or rather journal C.S. Lewis made called:‘‘A Grief Observed’’. This journal was definitely made for his own way of healing and was a way of writing down his thoughts and feelings that he had a hard time expressing otherwise. Through reading this I have gained a sense
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