Émile Zola

Being a naturalist writer means that one must accurately depict the details of everyday life. Perhaps one of the greatest naturalist authors in the United States of America was Frank Norris. Norris took what he knew from his life in San Francisco, found great inspiration, as well as what was going on in the time period, and put it onto paper. The critics of the time did not acclaim Norris’ novel, they condemned it. Was this portrayal of real life too authentic for the people at this time period in

of progress for ideas of liberty, of justice, and of social solidarity” (Dreyfus 241). Although Alfred Dreyfus was not directly advocating for political, economic, cultural, social, or military change, the primary source, an open letter by Emile Zola “J’accuse” advocated for these things. “J’accuse” was published in defense of Alfred Dreyfus in L’Aurore, a popular French newspaper. The French press both helped to convict and acquit Alfred Dreyfus to Devil’s Island; during the

The Realism Movement in France Gustave Courbet, a major influence of the Realism movement, defined Realism as a "human conclusion which awakened the very forces of man against paganism, Greco-Roman art, the Renaissance, Catholicism, and the gods and demigods, in short against the conventional ideal” (New World Encyclopedia). According to the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, the definition of realism is the theory or practice in art or literature of fidelity to nature or to real life and to

Rampant child rape, indiscreet public sex, gangs of thieving children, mobs of murderous men and women, these are the images that characterize the mining community set forth in Germinal, by Emile Zola. The graphic images presented by Zola leaves the reader wondering about a society that could allow such harsh conditions for their young. Everyone worked yet they could afford not meat but just bread from their earnings. Food was scarce and the only activity besides work was sex. The workload increased

the north, the Mediterranean Sea to the south as well as the countries of Spain, Andorra, Monaco, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg and Belgium. France is the largest country in Western Europe with a total land area of around 213,010 square miles (551,695 square kilometers). Two-thirds of the country is made up of fertile plains with about half of the land under cultivation. The physical map in Figure 2 shows that France’s major mountain ranges are mostly in the south, including the Alps,

Zola opened her exhausted eyes and woke Lulu, her sister. The two grabbed large tin buckets and tiptoed out of their tiny living space, to avoid waking their family. They crouched under the tiny door, their eyes blinded by the rising sun from the outdoors. They looked at each other with wide eyes, preparing themselves for the hours of walking they would be doing today. This is the daily life of an individual child in places such as Sub Saharan Africa, like Zola and Lulu, with no access to safe water

Mark Twain was the first major American writer to be born away from the East Coast in the border state of Missouri. His regional masterpieces were the memoir, Life on the Mississippi and the novels Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain's style influenced by journalism, wedded to the vernacular, direct and unadorned but also highly evocative and impudently humorous changed the way Americans write their language. His characters speak like real people and sound peculiarly

The social development of Jazz from the early 1900’s to present time proves what everyday racism and commercialization do to a beautiful and uprising tradition. Most would say Jazz music is just another genre that has a “swing” to it, although that may be true there is something spectacular that makes it more than just another type of music. “Jazz is a type of music of black American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning

When people look at an elephant they see this enormous animal with large ears and a long trunk, but not many people realize the interesting features these amazing vertebrates have and how much this mammal has changed in the course of time. Vertebrates are chordate animals that possess a backbone or spinal column. All animals from the kingdom Animalia such as elephants, are vertebrates. The kingdom Animalia comes from the domain Eukarya, and the phylum Chordata is divided into six main classes: Mammals

A style of music that was created in the 20th century, Jazz has had a major impact on American culture. Originating from work songs African American slaves used to sing on plantations, the foundations of jazz first began as a three piece music group using instruments like the Fiddle, Banjo and the drum. These instruments formed a style known as Ragtime, which can be recognized as one of the first styles that marked the birth of jazz. Although jazz grew out of a lifestyle shaped by plantation life