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    father took him to Nice where he apprenticed at a restaurant owned by his uncle, thus beginning the illustrious career that he enjoyed for the next 62 years. His culinary career took him many places, from the early years at the fashionable Le Petit Moulin Rouge and several other restaurants in Paris, to Monte Carlo, Switzerland, and London.   In 1870, when the Franco-Prussian War began, Escoffier was called to duty in the army where he served as Chef de Cuisine. It was during this period that he came

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    Primary Sources Duras, Marguerite. The War: A Memoir. Translated Barbara Bray. New York: The New Press, 1986. The war is a memoir based on the forgotten diary of French Novelist Marguerite Duras experiences as a married women in Paris and member of the resistance network headed by Francois Mitterland. This memoir covers Paris during the Nazi Occupation and the first few months after liberation. This memoir is deals with a women going through the hardship in the changing role of resistance

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    Abstract Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection is a cornerstone of the Art Institute of Chicago’s distinguished holdings of Post-Impressionist and modern art. Assembled by Frederic and Helen Bartlett in the early 1920s, it was presented to the museum and placed on permanent display in 1926—at a time when works by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and even Georges Seurat were still considered too radical for the collections of most American institutions. Today the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection

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    If I was to reduce my description of "Dancer in the dark" to one word, it would be daring. Its immediate effect on me was stronger than that of maybe any other film I've ever seen. It shook me, stirred my emotions, made me think and reflect, it disturbed me in the most positive sense of the word and it still does. Its radical make, boldness and consistency exceeds all expectations and probably everything that's come before. This is the perfect example of a director's vision uncompromisingly realized

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    father took him to Nice where he apprenticed at a restaurant owned by his uncle, thus beginning the illustrious career that he enjoyed for the next 62 years. His culinary career took him many places, from the early years at the fashionable Le Petit Moulin Rouge and several other restaurants in Paris, to Monte Carlo, Switzerland, and London.   In 1870, when the Franco-Prussian War began, Escoffier was called to duty in the army where he served as Chef de Cuisine. It was during this period that he came

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    Informative Presentation Outline Fundamentals of Oral Communication Topic: Coco Chanel General Purpose: To Inform Specific Purpose: By the end of my speech the audience will know better about Coco Chanel. Thesis: Coco Chanel brought the world of high fashion to the masses. Introduction I. Does anyone know what this logo is? A. I am assuming most of women in this room know what this is. B. This is Chanel logo, one of the most famous fashion brand in the world. C.

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    through Mr. Luhrmann has taken up an American source in an American setting (however his cast is for the most part British and Australian), and his vision of 1920s Manhattan is precisely as naturalistic as his representation of Belle Époque Paris in "Moulin Rouge" which is to state not in particular. Tom Buchanan (Joel Edgerton) is as yet a harasser and a biased person, gushing the prominent bigot pseudoscience of his day. The hoodlum Meyer Wolfsheim (Amitabh Bachchan) is somewhat to a lesser extent

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    “I know you’re longing to get out of here and explore on your own, and today your request is granted, but on one condition – you must take Sparkle with you, as she knows more than you do. She will make sure you return here safely. The ruling power has surely run your image through facial recognition software, and the dark elves are curious about you. “Before you go, you need to put this on,” Loki tossed me a black hoodie that had an insignia on the back – a design that seemed out of place – two congruent

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    Morphine: Preventative Pain Control Essay

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    Morphine: Preventative Pain Control I. Introduction Narcotic analgesics, especially morphine are underused for pain control with in the medical field. This underuse is because medical professionals, including doctors, fear patient addiction, side effects and possible lose of their licenses. These fears deny adequate healing and a better quality of life to those who would benefit from a more effective use of these drugs, as done in hospice care. II. PAIN: Pain not only involves the

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    reproduced to match the prose that has been written. Some lovers of the classic might be horrified at the big top-esque film that Baz Luhrmann has made it into, for this director is no stranger to flashiness and taking risks, as shown in his past films “Moulin Rouge!” and “Romeo + Juliet”; and the same desire in the both of them is still present in his installment of “Gatsby”: the want to capture the contemporary audience, even if it

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