LES MISÉRABLES Directed by: TOM HOOPER Les Misérables is the story of four people—Bishop Myriel, Valjean, Fantine, and Marius—who meet, part, and then meet again during the most agitated decades of 19th-century France. It also tells the story of the 1832 revolution and describes the unpleasant side of Paris. The movie is in essence a plea for humane treatment of the poor and for equality among all citizens. Bishop Myriel is a kind and generous bishop who gives Jean Valjean aid when everyone else
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The convict Jean Valjean is freed from a French prison after serving nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread and for his attempts to escape from prison. When Valjean travels to the town of Digne, no one is willing to give him shelter because he is an ex-convict. When Valjean knocks on the door of M. Myriel, a kindly bishop, he invites him in and gives him shelter and food. Valjean repays the bishop by stealing his silverware. When the police arrest Valjean, Myriel covers for him, saying that
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past each other at a conservative plate boundary 4. Where were the epicentre and focus? * The focus of the earthquake was 13km (8.1 miles) below the surface of the earth. * The epicentre was 25km west of Port-Au-Prince and 130km east of Les Cayes, Haiti 5. What has been the historical earthquake activity in the region? * There have been roughly 7 major earthquakes in Haiti since the 1960’s 6. What causes amplification and liquifaction? Why were these processes significant
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tyranny of Guilt An Essay on Western Masochism • P r i n c e t o n u n i v e r si t y P r e s s Princeton and Oxford english translation copyright © 2010 by Princeton university Press First published as La tyrannie de la pénitence: essai sur le masochisme occidental by Pascal Bruckner, copyright © 2006 by Grasset & Fasquelle Published by Princeton university Press, 41 William street, Princeton, new Jersey 08540 in the united kingdom: Princeton university Press, 6 oxford street, Woodstock,
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A potent social document of poverty, ignorance, and brutality of man by Victor Hugo, Les Miserables is also a rousing adventure of the hapless victim of French society - Jean Valjean, and his valiant struggle to redeem his past. The movie had been so well done. The opening had been rather grand. The actors and actresses had played their part and portrayed the characters in a way that the audience could really relate to. While I was watching it, I can't help feeling so engrossed, as if I were on
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India Lewis Greenwell AP English 30 October 2013 Les Miserables: The Significance of Sacrifice Sacrifice is a prominent part of human living. In order to get what is needed or wanted, sacrifice is necessary, whether it is small or great. In the novel, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, he shows that in society, those with less must often sacrifice more. Hugo conveys sacrifice through the characters Fantine and Jean Valjean, by showing how they sacrifice in order to gain and also how their poverty
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UNITE D’HABITATION By the late 1940s Le Corbusier was well established in the CIAM and promoted Modernist architecture for public housing. Unite d’habitation (1947-52) in Marseilles is a large single 12 storey block consisting of 337 apartments, shops, a hotel, a restaurant, a kindergarten, and a rooftop area for leisure and exercise. The Unite illustrates the neo-Platonic Modular system which he developed post 1945, creating careful proportions and bright, spacious apartments. It is comparable
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the Americas. The painting that has moved me so much and seems so different than anything I have seen before in its style and composition is by an artist name Claude Monet, and the name of the painting is “Sunrise”. This painting displays the port of Le Havre and is set in the morning. I have visited this place personally a week ago, and it is quite lovely. In the background, there are some ships set with their anchors cast into the water. Their silhouettes seem to disappear into the mist, however
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University of East London, School of Architecture Computing and Engineering Architecture Level One 2013/14 History and Theory, Technical and Professional Studies Module AR 1002 History and Theory Essay 1 Choose a building built before 1900 which you can visit or have visited, and on which you can find at least two relevant published accounts in books, journals or the Internet. Discuss what others say about the building, be critical and reflective and relate them to your own experience
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ALEX KITNICK “New Brutalism” remains a tricky term for the student of postwar art and architecture, both too specific and too general. On the one hand, it is associated with a small number of writings and projects carried out by a group of architects, artists, and critics in 1950s London. Alison and Peter Smithson first used the term to describe a residential project in Soho that was to be characterized by a “warehouse” aesthetic and unfinished surfaces, and, in a famous 1955 essay, Reyner Banham
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