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Trop Belles Pour La Science: A Brief Account Of French Female Scientists, Ramsey Steiner
Trop Belles Pour La Science: A Brief Account Of French Female Scientists, Ramsey Steiner
Honors Theses
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.
Henry Miller À Dijon : L’Écrivain En Souffrance, Kayla O'Meara
Henry Miller À Dijon : L’Écrivain En Souffrance, Kayla O'Meara
Honors Theses and Capstones
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French Language Legislation In The Digital Age: The Use Of Borrowed English Telecommunication Terms And Their Official French Replacements On Twitter And In The American Foreign Language Classroom, Gina Caruso
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
How effective is language legislation? In the age of digital communication and increased globalization, is it possible to create vocabulary and enforce its use? In an effort to continue to develop and modernize the French language to compete with the influx of English technology terms, the French government creates replacement terms for borrowed relevant technological English vocabulary. To determine the use and result of these French replacement terms in "real-time" communication, the micro-blogging social media website, Twitter, was used as a means of gathering linguistic data from Twitter users within 15 miles of Paris, France. Then, three leading introductory French …