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    Napoleon Bourgeois Power

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    Unlike the previous monarchy in 1789, the Napoleonic Empire had a social base of support from the bourgeoisie. The principles of bourgeois power were expressed in the Napoleonic Civil Code, enacted in 1804. In it, Napoleon commenced land redistribution, getting the sympathy of the peasants. He reformed the tax system and created the Bank of France, controlling the coin issuance process

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    A contemporary French-American artist, Louise Bourgeois was born on December 25, 1911 in Paris, France as the third daughter of Louis and Josephine Bourgeois. During the weekdays, Louise and family would live in their St, Germain apartment in order to sell tapestries; but they also owned a villa, in which their repaired the tapestries. As a child, Louise would often help in drawing, sewing and painting in the workshop, and with that she attended many academies, unfortunately her mother contracted

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    proletariat, and a controlling class, the bourgeois. The bourgeoisies are made up of an elite middle class that controls most of societies production. The proletariat is made up of a lower-class labor force. The proletariat has labor-power that they sell for a salary. This is on the basis that the laborer freely chooses the contract they enter with an employer. The bourgeois are those who hire the labor power. After the proletariat is hired, the bourgeois then owns any goods produced by that worker

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    all had different ways of creating their works of art. The artist Louise Bourgeois was a French American who was born in Paris on December 25th, 1911, and was named after her father (Louis Bourgeois). Most of Bourgeois’ childhood was spent with her mother helping to sustain her health. By the age of ten, Bourgeois had begun to draw missing parts of tapestries and also became an expert in drawing feet and legs. In 1968 Bourgeois decided to paint a portrait of a penis. It was called “Fillette”, which

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    not mean that the experiences of every individual in a society will be the same. These experiences are driven and influenced by structural forces and local dynamics. This essay will explain what these two concepts are and how they are evident in Bourgeois ethnography. This will be followed by an elaboration of the relationship between these two concepts and how they affect individuals whom Bourgois surrounds himself with a lot during the period. Namely, Primo, Caesar, Ray, and Maria. Finally, concluding

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    Louise Bourgeois is an artist provided the keys that opened the door for female artists in the twentieth century. She was born in Paris 1911, and immigrated to New York, New York in 1938 after she married Robert Goldwater a young American art historian (Getlein, 2012), where she lived until her death on May 31, 2010 (Layayo, 2015). The blood of being an artist has flown through her since her conception. She was born into a family that repaired seventeenth and eighteenth century tapestries (Layayo

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    In the video segment of “Identity” Louise Bourgeois explains her art pieces of hands and what they represent. The subject behind the hands is autobiography she explains the small hands represent the helplessness of a child and the larger hands represent the help a grownup could give a small child, as one takes care of the other the whole art piece mean “we are together”. Louise Bourgeois describes her work as showing real emotion and how she swings from being a child to the guiding one. I think

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    materialistic conception of history. · “The bourgeois monarchy of Louis Philippe can be followed only by a bourgeois

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    with opera,inappropriate jokes and inferior special effects, due to a lack of technology and low resources. However, when imagining twenty- first century films an individual often invisions high graphics,HD,3-D, action, just altogether better. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme was written by Mollière in the 17th century.It was about a middle class man who had recently come into “new money” and his attempt to live the noble man lifestyle. Although these two time periods are viewed at being complete opposites

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    Friedrich Schiller, a German playwright most notable for his work within the Sturm und Drang movement, held a belief that directly contradicts what many might expect of a piece of literary work: that “sight is always more powerful to a man than description”. He goes on to state how this is what makes theatre such a unique medium, allowing it to hold “more [power] than morality or law”. One of Schiller’s predecessors that agreed with him on this concept was Gotthold Lessing, a fellow German writer

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