In May 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville and his friend Gustave de Beaumont landed at Newport RI after 37 days at sea. Tocquevile was a deputy royal prosecutor, Beaumont his immediate superior. The two had been granted leaves of absence from their duties in the French judicial system to study American prisons, and a book-length report they co-authored upon their return, Du systeme penitentiaire aux Etats-Unis et de son application en France, testifies to the earnestness with which they undertook their mission. But the letters they wrote from America show them avidly observing everything around them. Prison reform was their passport to the New World; it legitimated what proved to be a cultural enquiry of seminal importance. Here, Tocqueville's that reflect his anxieties ar...
... Louis Philippe, a monarch whom his father couldn't abide, felt like an act of betrayal. But not to ...To our indulgent eyes, the town seemed quite pretty. It is a cluster of ...She was naked, except for a threadbare blanket revealing, here a...
...; when did he live; where did he travel; could he possibly, in fact, have met and transmitted had... in the case of many hadith the isnad can be shown to have "grown backwards": given the growing prest... may have been a bit too laborious in his eyes; it struck him that they could effectively be shor...; each presents himself for examination, naked and with all the frailties of humanity about him. ...
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...You could guess that much from her narrowed eyes and her lip... leaves screeching as if stabbed, a sudden shower started rattling on the tin roof, and in the end s... the motion couldn't be detected with the naked eye. All you could see was the effect: whenever sh...
... an investigating officer discovered that he could not observe from ground level the contents of a gr... at the height of 400 feet and made naked-eye observations through openings in the greenhous... law enforcement officers to shield their eyes when passing by a home on public thoroughfares." I... of alleging and proving facts necessary to show standing could ordinarily be placed on the defenda...
...It's been shown to help reduce symptoms like your runny nose and iitchy eyes.. Just pop it up your nose for a couple of minutes... claims in the ad were misleading and could be substantiated. . Lloyds argued that they had co... removed her T-shirt revealing that she was naked underneath, with a large black rectangle covering ...
An excerpt from Cinzia, con i suoi occhi (From Cynthia with her eyes...: An Autobiography of Sextus Propertius) by Pietro Zullino and translated by David Lummus.
... who knew how Hostia really was and who could truly recount it. Recount it? Why don't I say: con... and that-making us see our misery-would show us the right way to come out of it! Maybe!. Instea..., I call on Cynthia not to use make-up: "naked is Love and he does not love artificial exteriors ...
... especially those of the Hip Hop generation, could help advance approaches to teaching and popularizi...creating powerful music, and keeping our eyes on the prize." (38) The brief commentary also feat... series of verses: "Africa was almost robbed naked. Slavery was money, so they began making slave shi..., but you won't know this if you weren't shown. The point I'm gettin' at, it might be harsh, 'cau...
While some sources of shame were clear (an early illness followed by teasing for her withered "peg leg," being the child of a German-Jewish immigrant father with a foreign accent, abandonment by family and a young lover after the horrific accident, having a mutilated body, repeated betrayals by a womanizing husband, remaining childless in a culture that defined women by their capacity to reproduce), my antennae went up when I read her biographer's description of the dramatic changes evidenced in photographs of the child Kahlo taken before and after an injured leg confined her to bed for many months. The patriarchal structure of the Kahlo household, with its facade of respectability and its traditional, gendered division of labor (as well as a mother described bv the daughter as "cold a...
...Of strangers' watchful eyes. Misreading the evil. -Frida Kahlo, Diury. Visual ... more from my work than the satisfaction it could give me from the very fact of painting and saying ... that is also streaming blood; a voluptuous naked woman with long black hair, with full belly, breas...Illustrations in this book show Jewish women were forced to "lie upon torture beds...
...In a brief note of 1902, he had shown how many of the peculiar features of Durer's Nemes... the end of a story unfolded before our eyes in the foreground. It rejects a link between the i... the Italians very high praise for their naked figures and especially for their perspective." (26... the aid of which he maintained [the] art could not attain perfection." (35) This was the view ado...
..., where they are lined up, forced to strip naked, and listen to the nuns make degrading and ridicul...In the nuns' eyes, they are shameless vessels of sin, morally weak o...Except for one shot, the film shows us only what the women themselves would have witne... dramatic effect, because, clearly, things couldn't have been as bad as all that. When the film's hi...
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