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    The Ways Jean Valjean both Helps and Hinders Cosette in Les Miserables In the 19th century of France most of the children were poor orphans because parents could not provide for their children. Usually they would throw the boys on the streets but keep the girls because they could make profit off of them. However, some orphans like Cosette as portrayed in Les Miserables found someone who would love and care for them. Upon careful research this paper will show not only how Jean Valjean helped Cosette

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    t      Les Miserables      Les Miserables is one of the most captivating plays of our lifetime! It grabs the audience and pulls you in head first. You can't take out eyes off of the stage, and even if you can, the music will take your breath away! I have seen the play 3 times and I don't think I enjoy anything in this world more than watching that play!      Les Miserables starts off on a chain gang in France. The sheriff

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    All humans have different morals that change based on their environment and circumstance. Jean Valjean, in the novel Les Miserables(1961), changes from someone with confused morals to a man with more morals than most whom with respect learns to love and share. The protagonist’s transformation begins when the bishop recognizes Jean Valjean’s human soul that is capable of goodness. When he is put out into the streets, Valjean goes from place to place being rejected for being a convict until he meets

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    Les Misérables: Journal Entries Fantine: * Theme: “You have left a place of suffering. But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over tears of repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred good men” (Page 27) * Heaven is gladder when sinners forsake of its sins, than with the good men just being the same all throughout. “He lived peaceable, reassured, and hopeful, having but two thoughts: to conceal his life, and to sanctify his life: to escape from men and

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    Essay European Romanticism

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    the monster could not succeed in making that connection, it was asking Victor to create another monster for its company. The author makes the characters to show deep desire and emotions even though those are not achievable which are romantic. Les Miserables is a characteristic romantic work in both theme and form. In theme the novel assaults the traditional social structure, glorifies freedom of thought and spirit, and makes a hero of the average individual. In this novel the several characters

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    definition) In that case, I strongly believe that free will does bring about a person’s fate or future. One is highly capable of achieving virtually anything regardless of the background in which they were brought up in. The characters in the novel Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo illustrate their free will through their actions. They are essentially given the chance to develop their own forthcoming. One particular character that falls into this category is Jean Valjean. Jean Valjean was born into

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    “Architecture or Revolution?” in Le Corbusier’s belief was the only way to avoid class-based revolution in industrialized architecture (Quirk, 2012). Le Corbusier, born Charles Édouard Jeanneret, was born into an artistic family in 1877 in a small village in Switzerland. His mother was a pianist and his father was a designer of watch dials. Even though he learned piano and father’s trade he got interested in the architecture when he was 13 years old. He learned from L’Eplatenier, a teacher in La

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    have been deconstructed, reconstructed and reproduced such as it complies with Le Corbusier’s five ideas of modernism, where it employs the use of “pilotes”, roof terrace, the open floor plan, the free façade and the horizontal window to his design. These major elements are key to the modernist movement and the international style movement. Rem Koolhaas has made conflict with these key ideas such as the slanted columns as Le Corbusier’s idea was to use simple forms discussed by the early modernist.

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    Did Le Corbusier herd cats: Totalitarian design in Post War Architecture Choose an architect or practice whose work is covered by or relevant to this course and discuss critically one or more of their design projects or drawings or urban proposals as precedent case-studies. Selectively situate this work in relation to their body of work, and against the practices and concerns of the period. Focus on the architectural qualities of a specific key aspect of the design of the projects. Selectively consider

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    architects are contrary to functionalism as they considered as a limit, but despite the controversy is still a reality in national architectural production. In the 30s, in a context of authoritarian rule, the Brazilian architects and artists marveled at the Le Corbusier ideas as Social Revolution instrument in the country. It was believed that to relate to Modernist Architecture to the national industrial production, it would-for the "social classes were gradually being integrated industrial production in

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