Movie Report for Les Miserables Les Miserables is a master work of Victor Hugo‚ one of the most prestigious novelists in the field of French literature. Under the background of nineteenth century‚ the novel has clearly appeared the plot by describing the tragic life of the impoverished people in England. The hero‚ Ran A Rang‚ a poor worker who had been sentenced to prison‚ once successfully crawled towards the higher class of society in his endeavors through disguising himself and doing good
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Case Analysis: Merton Truck Company Linear programming techniques can be used to not only determine the best production mix‚ but also to provide clues and data suggesting ways to improve profits. In 1988‚ Merton Truck Company was searching for ways to increase profits and ultimately its poor financial performance. Options being considered included changing their product mix by either removing or adding a product line‚ or renting capacity. In the following pages‚ the product mix and capacity
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Title: Energy Content of Foods Your Name Lab Partners: Period: Lab Done: Turned in January 28‚ 2013 Background Information: Heat is energy that transfers from one object to another because of a temperature difference between the objects. Heat is measured in a calorimeter and the units for heat are joules or calories. The calorimeter uses the Law of Conservation of Energy which states that energy is never created or destroyed but is transferred between objects. Temperature is a measure
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“Barn Burning” Analysis Paper Faulkner’s short story “Barn Burning” is about a young man coming of age and being forced to decipher between right and wrong as life and his family constantly test his morality. Throughout this short story Faulkner shows how both external and internal forces play an important role in Sartoris’s changing perception of what is morally right and wrong. Sartoris is a ten year old boy that is constantly faced with the external force of his father trying to corrupt and
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Les Miserables: Analysis of the Characters Philosophy 1C December 06‚ 2013 Abstract Four characters from the 1998 film Les Miserables are analyzed. Jean Valjean‚ Fantine‚ the Bishop‚ and Inspector Javert are the characters for this study. Each character’s moral decision making will be examined. Using the consequentialist and nonconsequentialist theories discussed in the book Ethics: Theory and Practice‚ a particular theory will be matched to each character with supporting
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Page One The theme of this book is the importance of love and compassion‚ and social injustice. Three genres that affect the theme in Les Miserables are: Historical Research‚ Literary Analysis and Creative Element. The historical research gave you knowledge of the author‚ and what was going on when Victor Hugo was writing this book. The literary analysis allowed you to get content from the book and provided examples of the theme. The creative element allowed you to present it as how you pictured
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In the short story Barn Burning by William Faulkner the main character is Colonel Sartoris Snopes‚ or other wise known as Sarty. Sarty starts as a flat character and grows to be a round character. He is a young ten year old boy living with his family in the South after the Civil War. Though he has little to no book-knowledge that he shows in the story‚ he has the knowledge of right and wrong. In the beginning of this short story Sarty is put on the witness stand to testify against his father
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Is It Love? “Burning Bright” is a story about an older woman marrying a man young enough to be her son. Marcie is almost sixty. When her husband Arthur died and the local help fell away‚ she endured incredible loneliness at the end of a five-mile dirt track until the church recommended a handyman‚ Carl‚ who could help out on the farm. This silent man from nowhere marries Marcie‚ but remains mysterious. In the twenty-first century‚ seeing an older women and a young man is common. For most people
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MISSISSIPPI BURNING Mississippi Burning (1988) is a hard hitting action drama designed to shock and educate the viewers on the topics of racism‚ justice and the law. When three people are killed in the state of Mississippi‚ two FBI agents are sent in to investigate‚ only to find out that people are being terrorised brutally in an unfair justice system. Using tactics that are considered ‘low’‚ they find a way to arrest those responsible in a federal court because the state courts were unjust. The
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CONTEXT Victor Hugo was born in 1802 in the French town of Besançon. His father was a general in Napoléon’s army‚ and much of his childhood was therefore spent amid the backdrop of Napoléon’s campaigns in Spain and in Italy. At the age of eleven‚ Hugo returned to live with his mother in Paris‚ where he became infatuated with books and literature. By the time he was fifteen‚ he had already submitted one poem to a contest sponsored by the prestigious French Academy. Hugo wrote prolifically in all
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