Regions of France

Anyone who owns a camera phone can take Instagram-worthy pictures of all the famous monuments. My favorite memories of France are the spontaneous, “we don’t know where we’re going, but we’re gonna go” ones. Like when, after stuffing ourselves with cheese and bread that somehow qualified as dinner, my friends and I unearthed a secret staircase to an elevated walkway leading…

“In late spring, 218 B.C., Hannibal marched through the Pyrenees toward Gaul (southern France) with more than 100,000 troops and nearly 40 war elephants.” Hannibal was a strong and powerful man. He won many fights and conquered cities. He was one of Carthage’s strongest and most famous generals. His father was Hamilcar Barca also a Carthaginian general. In Carthage, Hannibal held a lot of power, he was born into a Carthaginian military family and swore to show his hostility to Rome. He was the…

The existing culture was inconsistent with ours. In a North American environment you can decide whom to keep after an acquisition at a cost you can determine in advance on the basis of case law. In France, the only certainty is that you cannot replace the employees. You are acquiring the entity as a going concern. Unless you do certain things, you simply inherit the employees, including their legal rights based on prior service. To be able to reduce…

name, its anthem, geographical layout and national identity. I was waiting in line in the arms of my mother to get some milk, I have survived an awful authoritarian regime, but I also witnessed the building of the first democratic revolution in this region. I do not mention all of this because I like to deal with the past. No, I mention it only to point out how these political and social circumstances have influenced the…

and perceived by society as a security threat because of the different influences not only in cultural, language, religion but also self and nation identity. In the article by Simon Kuper, the Belleville is packed with Muslim immigrants with Paris region having many Muslim immigrants. Therefore, the national values of the host country become the major object of the threat. Generally, this threat is caused either legally or illegally by immigration as immigrants pose the challenge through…

Claude Monet, a french painter, painted the Church at Varengeville, Grey Weather, in the year 1882, in the midst of his artistic career. Varengeville-sur-Mer is a small commune in the Seine-Maritime of the north-western region in France. The painting is oil paint on a modest sized canvas about 25 by 32 inches. This oil landscape hangs directly on the wall, at a horizontal orientation, and is in a simple ornate frame. Monet’s painting is currently located at the Speed Art Museum, in Louisville,…

“We are on the brink of a civil war,” said Patrick Calvar, Head of France Domestic Security Agency, after the numerous terroristic attacks in 2016. The growing coalition of ISIS has caused an increased number of terrorist linked attacks throughout Europe. After the 2015 attack on Paris the attacks continued in Nice, Germany, Normandy and Brussels.The first and bloodiest of a sequence of attacks taking place within two weeks took place in Nice, 84 people were killed when man drive a truck…

exodus. The number of refugees in Syria is nearly 60 million as of fall 2016, surpassing the amount of refugees in Night, a story about WWII. The refugees have caused some problems in the European community. (1) With the terrorist attacks in Paris, France in November 2015 there has been a debate on whether it is a countries duty to receive these refugees. The wave of migrant sexual assaults on new years even in Cologne, Germany is another example of issues with migrants. (1) Although not all…

Europe is now facing an unprecedented refugee crisis with nearly 60 millions refugees from Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and other Middle East and North Africa districts demanding places of asylum. However, different countries in Europe hold different attitudes toward whether they should shelter more refugees. The intention for sheltering refugees or not is not only about the humanitarian spirit between the countries, but also about political and religious considerations. Many refugees flee…

Currently, there are 8,000 refugees and migrants entering Europe each day fleeing from war zones from the Middle East and poverty in Northern Africa. This adds up to almost 3,000,000 migrants: those who are genuine refugees and those who are pretending to be refugees. All of these people are attempting to reach the shores of Europe. This is a controversial issue and one that has challenged European morality and responsibility to a level that has rarely been seen. There has been no single…