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Empathy, Altruism, And Prosocial Behavior In Humans And Primates, Renee Dale May 2013

Empathy, Altruism, And Prosocial Behavior In Humans And Primates, Renee Dale

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No abstract provided.


L’Autre De Montaigne: Vers Une Vision Tolérante De Nos Perceptions, Brita L. Midness Jan 2013

L’Autre De Montaigne: Vers Une Vision Tolérante De Nos Perceptions, Brita L. Midness

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Cette étude examine Les Essais de Michel de Montaigne en focalisant sur le concept de « la peur de l’autre ». Montaigne a vécu pendant les guerres de religion, une époque tumultueuse en France, où les peurs se manifestaient le plus souvent par la violence. En dépit des conflits religieux qui se déroulent à l’époque de la rédaction des Essais, Montaigne a réussi à regarder au-delà de la violence afin de redonner un sens à l’humanité. L’auteur insiste sur le scepticisme, l'éducation et la liberté de conscience, comme moyens qui permettent de comprendre cette peur, et d’en minimiser les conséquences …


Les Contes De Fées Oubliés: Vision D'Un Monde Plus Égal, Deborah Amato Jan 2013

Les Contes De Fées Oubliés: Vision D'Un Monde Plus Égal, Deborah Amato

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J’ai toujours aimé les contes de fées et j’ai toujours été intéressée par la question de l’égalité entre les sexes. Il y a deux ans, j’ai suivi un cours intitulé « Women in Myth and Fairy Tale». Nous avons lu et analysé des contes de fées aussi vieux que Cupid and Psyche, qui date du IIe siècle, et aussi récents que la version de Disney de la Belle et la Bête (1991). J’ai examiné alors pour la première fois les stéréotypes masculins et féminins que ces contes présentaient. Après cette expérience, j’ai voulu approfondir ma connaissance des premiers contes de …


France's Soul-Searching: Finding National Identity In Political Metaphors During The 2012 Presidential Election, Cody Leblanc Jan 2013

France's Soul-Searching: Finding National Identity In Political Metaphors During The 2012 Presidential Election, Cody Leblanc

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This thesis examines the ways in which French national identity was constructed metaphorically during the 2012 presidential election. Due to the increased controversy surrounding the overt utilization of the term national identity following the 2007-2012 Sarkozy administration, candidates in the 2012 presidential election used metaphor as a means by which to define their own competing conceptions of French national identity. The goal of this study is to examine the phenomenon of national identity creation by addressing the following question: How does each principal candidate (François Hollande, Nicolas Sarkozy) in the French presidential election of 2012 use metaphor in order to …


Hurlement: Une Traduction Du Poeme « Howl», Emilie Arseneault Jun 2012

Hurlement: Une Traduction Du Poeme « Howl», Emilie Arseneault

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I imagine that many people might wonder what a translation of the poem "Howl" of the famous American poet Allen Ginsberg. For me, the reason is obvious. A French translation of this poem is could contribute to the wealth of French literature, certainly. But my main goal is to recognize one of the great artists who has influenced multiple movements and at least three generations of American. The French will thus have access to this poem and this artist, influenced by French literary and philosophical movements that have even created an epidemic in the English language. The French surrealist movement …


Le Pouvoir De Médée: Une Analyse De Médée Comme Elle Est Perçue Dans La Culture Française, Emily Cassello Jun 2012

Le Pouvoir De Médée: Une Analyse De Médée Comme Elle Est Perçue Dans La Culture Française, Emily Cassello

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This thesis explores the character of Medea within three French adaptations spanning 19th to 21st century France. In particular, I examine different ideological influences at play in the representations of the character of Medea during specific time periods in French history. Beginning with early 19th century France, I analyze Eugène Delacroix’s Médée furieuse and how Medea’s character was heavily influenced by Romanticism. Afterwards, I analyze Jean Anouilh’s play Médée and I discover how his existentialist beliefs molded her character. Finally, I examine Le songe de Médée, a ballet choreographed by Angelin Preljoçaj. This 2004 ballet provides a modern and humanizing …


Trop Belles Pour La Science: A Brief Account Of French Female Scientists, Ramsey Steiner Jun 2012

Trop Belles Pour La Science: A Brief Account Of French Female Scientists, Ramsey Steiner

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France has a unique history of French women scientists dating all the way back to the antiquity. This account of French women scientists focuses on celebrated individuals and their impact on French culture and the Western world. The contributions of Madame du Châtelet, Madame Lavoisier, Marie Curie and Irène Joliot-Curie will be discussed by beginning with femmes savantes of the Enlightenment and finishing with France’s most famous scientific family, the Curie. This account will conclude with a discussion of French women scientists today and the struggles they continue to face.


Sous Le Macadam Deviancy, Abuse, And Underlying Hope In The Works Of Gisèle Pineau, Haley Bove May 2012

Sous Le Macadam Deviancy, Abuse, And Underlying Hope In The Works Of Gisèle Pineau, Haley Bove

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No abstract provided.


C'Est Ouf : L'ÉVolution De La Langue FrançAise Et Les ConséQuences Sociales, Hannah Kelley Apr 2012

C'Est Ouf : L'ÉVolution De La Langue FrançAise Et Les ConséQuences Sociales, Hannah Kelley

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Cette dissertation vise à explorer le raisonnement complexe linguistique derrière la langue française officielle et le verlan, pour qu’on puisse mieux comprendre ce que le verlan est en train de faire socialement pour la communauté beur duquel il est venu. Pour nous situer d’abord un peu, on commence avec une histoire brève de l’immigration maghrébine (ou l’Afrique de Nord : l’Algérie, la Tunisie, et le Maroc) ainsi que les idéaux républicains de la France qui ont apporté la fierté légendaire en une langue française pure. Après, on examine la façon dont ses histoires interagissent aujourd’hui, ce qui laissent les identités …


La Dernière Reine: L’Histoire D’Anne De Bretagne, Andrew N. T. Churchill Jun 2011

La Dernière Reine: L’Histoire D’Anne De Bretagne, Andrew N. T. Churchill

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The king, Charles VIII, is dead. The year is 1498. In Brittany, people are delighted that their sovereign Anne will return. Long live the duchess! In France, there is a new king, Louis XII. Long live the king ! In the eyes of the Britons, Anne was enthralled in France after the defeat and death of her father, Francis II of Brittany, in the hands of the French armies at Saint-Aubin-du-Cormier. The Treaty of the Orchard, signed after the battle, gave the King of France, Charles VIII, the right to decide the fate of Anne of Brittany. After some attempts …


Féminisme Français : Fait, Fiction, Jennifer Granina Jun 2011

Féminisme Français : Fait, Fiction, Jennifer Granina

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What gives power to an idea? What makes it real in the hearts and minds of people who believe in it? What creates the desire to struggle for this idea, an ethereal and elusive conception? These are the questions that must be considered by philosophers, by those who believe enough in an idea to make it a reality. It was the mission of feminists in France since the beginning of the 19th century. For them, feminism was not a movement that had a beginning and an end, it was a force, present in the world since the creation of the …


Coco Chanel : De La Rue À La Haute Couture – Adaptant La Nouvelle Femme, Shannon R. Funkhouser Jun 2011

Coco Chanel : De La Rue À La Haute Couture – Adaptant La Nouvelle Femme, Shannon R. Funkhouser

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The current project sought to analyze the life and work of the designer Coco Chanel. Through investigation into her life course, values, contributions to art, theater, dance, fashion, and women’s rights, it is argued that Chanel embodied the time period in which she lived ; she both influenced, and was influenced by the cultural forces that predominated. Particular attention is paid to the time periods following World War I and World War II, two events that drastically changed artistic aesthetics, social norms, and life values. The post-war eras provided the fuel for the women’s liberation movement, ushering in the idea …


Le Moi Double: Les Inconscients (Post)Coloniaux Chez Césaire Et Breton, Emma A. Krosschell Jun 2011

Le Moi Double: Les Inconscients (Post)Coloniaux Chez Césaire Et Breton, Emma A. Krosschell

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This thesis analyzes the poetic works of two French-speaking surrealist poets of the twentieth century, Aimé Césaire and André Breton. Despite their common point of surrealism, Césaire and Breton's poems differ because of their identities in a society afflicted by Western colonization. Using the literary theories of postcolonialism as a perspective for the analysis of Breton and Césaire's poems, I show that both men have a double consciousness based on the complicated influence of a colonizing society. Literary criticism of postcolonialism examines individual identities in colonial societies in relation to their symbolic position as "colonist" or "colonized." Césaire, a Martinican …


Une Exploration Du Retour Impossible D’Aimé Césaire Et De Pham Van Ky, Nicole Horne May 2011

Une Exploration Du Retour Impossible D’Aimé Césaire Et De Pham Van Ky, Nicole Horne

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No abstract provided.


From The Middle Ages To Modernity: The Intersecting Supernatural Worlds Of Melusine And Today's Popular Culture, Sarah Stark Jan 2011

From The Middle Ages To Modernity: The Intersecting Supernatural Worlds Of Melusine And Today's Popular Culture, Sarah Stark

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While some may scoff at fairy tales as juvenile, primitive, or superstitious, they have always held a special fascination for me, and I am not alone in this- stories about magicians, monsters, and mythical creatures have captivated their audiences' imaginations for thousands of years. Feeling myself consistently drawn toward this type of story, I began several months ago to study supernatural tales from the medieval era as well as those popular today, and I have since discovered numerous worlds in which the natural and supernatural coexist. Creatures seemingly human are, in fact, sometimes more-or less, depending on one's perspective. Families …


Thelō, Thelō, Manēnai: De La Traduction Poétique D’Après Une Étude Métrique, Regina Claire Chiuminatto Jun 2009

Thelō, Thelō, Manēnai: De La Traduction Poétique D’Après Une Étude Métrique, Regina Claire Chiuminatto

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This thesis explores the possibility of poetic translation that prioritizes metrical forms. Specifically, I have sought to represent the formal character of poems by Baudelaire and Anacreontic poets in metrical English translations. I have translated and discussed the 6th, 9th and 37th Fragments of the Anacreontics and Baudelaire’s poems “La Fontaine de Sang,” “Tristesses de la Lune,” and “Le Vin de l’assassin.” From this translation process I have been able to draw conclusions more generally about the difficulties posed by the translation of poetry. In the case of the Anacreontics, I have had to depend on generic considerations as well …


Femmes Politiques En France : Une Comparaison Des Femmes Politiques De La France Et Des Antilles Françaises, Sarah F. Stiles Jun 2008

Femmes Politiques En France : Une Comparaison Des Femmes Politiques De La France Et Des Antilles Françaises, Sarah F. Stiles

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Les femmes françaises et antillaises se sont battues interminablement au cours d’une longue histoire des luttes féminines pour qu’elles puissent avoir de l’égalité dans la société et dans la politique. Cette lutte a pris beaucoup de formes selon les cultures des femmes, et une étude sur la situation des femmes révèle que ces différences culturelles aussi bien que les stéréotypes et les vues traditionnelles des femmes, en plus d’une domination des hommes en politique, ont créé ses barrières redoutables pour les femmes qui s’intéressent à s’engager dans la politique. En même temps, il existe une tendance, notamment en France, d’oublier …


In Black And White: The Effect Of Race On Listener Judgments Of Cajun And Creole French, Alison Landry May 2007

In Black And White: The Effect Of Race On Listener Judgments Of Cajun And Creole French, Alison Landry

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No abstract provided.


Introduction To A Poetics Of Diversity: English Translation Of Édouard Glissant’S Introduction À Une Poétique Du Divers, Julee Rebecca Laporte Apr 2007

Introduction To A Poetics Of Diversity: English Translation Of Édouard Glissant’S Introduction À Une Poétique Du Divers, Julee Rebecca Laporte

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No abstract provided.


Anti-Americanism In France, 1914-1945: Hollywood As Cause And Cultural Symbol, Louise G. Hilton May 2004

Anti-Americanism In France, 1914-1945: Hollywood As Cause And Cultural Symbol, Louise G. Hilton

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No abstract provided.


Allusions And Historical Models In Gaston Leroux's The Phantom Of The Opera, Joy A. Mills Jan 2004

Allusions And Historical Models In Gaston Leroux's The Phantom Of The Opera, Joy A. Mills

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Gaston Leroux's 1911 novel, The Phantom of the Opera, has a considerable number of allusions, some of which are accessible to modern American audiences, like references to Romeo and Juliet. Many of the references, however, are very specific to the operatic world or to other somewhat obscure fields. Knowledge of these allusions would greatly enhance the experience of readers of the novel, and would also contribute to their ability to interpret it. Thus my thesis aims to be helpful to those who read The Phantom of the Opera by providing a set of notes, as it were, …


Sainte-Beuve French Literary Critic 1804-1869, Sylvia Colon Jul 1971

Sainte-Beuve French Literary Critic 1804-1869, Sylvia Colon

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No abstract provided.


Quatre Oeuvres De Jean-Paul Sartre, Judy Grider Jan 1971

Quatre Oeuvres De Jean-Paul Sartre, Judy Grider

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Four works of Jean-Paul Sartre are summarized and discussed in French.


Eugène Ionesco Et "Rhinoceros", Judy Grider Dec 1970

Eugène Ionesco Et "Rhinoceros", Judy Grider

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Written in French, this paper gives a short biography of Eugene Ionesco and describes his first works. Then explores Ionesco's inspiration for his play "Rhinoceros" and gives a summary of the work.


A Et La Fête Des Amis, Anne Coppenger Jan 1970

A Et La Fête Des Amis, Anne Coppenger

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This is an original children's story in French, with original illustrations.


Panorama De La France Moderne By Camille Bauer, Susan Murray Jan 1969

Panorama De La France Moderne By Camille Bauer, Susan Murray

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Dans ce livre il y a des vues difféentes de la culture de la France contemporaine. Panorama de la France Moderne contient des articles des journaux français et des journaux américains, des études sociologiques, et des extraits des oeuvres littéraires, des manuels, et des autres livres.