characteristics for future generations whilst those less-adapted organisms were more likely to be decreased in amount. Charles Darwin’s theory also established that all species of life were related and had descended over time from common ancestors. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of evolution suggested that organisms continued to become more complex through the inheritance of acquired characteristics, the idea that an organism can pass on characteristic changes that were acquired throughout their lifetime…

Perfume is about a man named Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He was born with an extraordinary sense of smell that is unlike any other as he can smell things at a faraway distance. He lived in an orphanage and was soon traded off to a man named Grimal. Through Grimal, he gained entry to Paris and began his quest to find every scent and make the greatest scent. He became an apprentice under a perfume creator and thus started to create scents. Baudelaire’s poem, To a Malabar Girl, is about a girl who is…

Ugolino and his sons, by Jean Baptiste Carpeaux Jean Carpeaux who was an astounding sculpture breaks away from tradition and other historical subjects to come up with a unique way of expressing his feelings and ideas. In the sculpture of Ugolino and his sons, Carpeaux incorporates his sculpture with a past unseen liberty and immediacy. Jean-Baptiste brings to the public a lively individuality with his sculptures to distinguish him from the rest. The Ugolino and sons sculpture was inspired by…

When these changes occur to their offspring’s, evolution has taken place. Whilst many scientists believed in the theory of evolution, alters to the belief extended to a certain extent. Throughout this essay two scientists, Charles Darwin and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, beliefs opinions and theories of evolution will be deconstructed. Charles Darwin’s theory “It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change” (good reads, Origin of…

Trends in Evolution Background information: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin both thought and had ideas on how life on Earth got to be the way it is now. Unlike lots other people at that time (1800’s), they both thought that life had changed gradually over many years and an extended time and was still changing, that living things change to be better suited and adapted to their environments. Lamarck is best known for his Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics. He said that change…

New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville. Forty-five years later, in 1763, France signed treaties ceding Louisiana to Spain to whom it remained for the next forty years. Due to Mexican, Cuban and Spanish influence, the race rules in New Orleans were more liberal, allowing for a class of free people of color. In 1803 Louisiana was sold back to the French, who then twenty days later sold it to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase. New Orleans had become the…

Jean Baptiste de Lamarck and Charles Darwin were two of the most notable evolutionary scientists in history. While Lamarck was known for his theory of inheritance by acquired characteristics, Darwin was also respectfully known for his theory of evolution by natural selection. While they did share some similar beliefs, they also disagreed on important aspects of evolution as well. The parallels and dissimilarities between the two theories can be highlighted by looking at the Trichobatrachus robustas…

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere wrote Tartuffe during the beginning of the Age of Enlightenment. One of the main characteristics of the Age of Enlightenment was a push towards using reason over emotions to make decisions. The leaders of the enlightenment truly believed that the world could be made a better place if people did this. In Tartuffe, when the characters use their emotions to make their decisions they find themselves in undesirable situations. While those who let their emotions rule them…

Tartuffe, a play written in 1664 by Jean-Baptiste Moliere, is a commentary about hypocrisy and transgression. The play focuses around Orgon and his family, including his wife Elmire, his son Damis, his daughter Mariane, and his mother Madame Pernelle. These characters interact with the servants of the house, Dorine who is maid to Mariane and their house guest, Tartuffe. The genre of the play is comedy and is separated into five acts. Orgon, the main character, starts off at the beginning of…

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux 1827 - 1875 The son and grandson of stonemasons, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux was born in 1827 in Valenciennes and moved to Paris at the age of eleven. Beginning in the early 1840s he studied at the Petite Ecole, the state school for training in the applied arts, formally called the Ecole Gratuite de Dessin, before entering the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1844, where he changed masters repeatedly, oscillating between typical student ambition (optimal credentials for the Prix de Rome)…