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Le Lexique: French Vocabulary Sheets and Activities
This resource from Middlebury provides Frencn vocabulary sheets on topics from school to politics. Considerably more advanced and in-depth than most vocabulary sheets. Each section also includes activities for advanced students.
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Le Logement: Apartment Housing
This site gives a nice overview of apartment dwellings - the different rooms, kinds of terms associated with renting, how rooms or apartments might be described, etc. Very colorful site with photos - useful information and phrases.
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La Rue: The Street
Interesting and colorful site with information and vocabulary relative to streets, lanes, sidewalks, signs etc. Definitions are clear and in French, often accompanied by color photos. Site has links to search site where actual streets or...
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Le Quartier: Neighborhood
Overview of quartiers and arrondissmaents - includes relavant vocabulary (defined in French). Colorful site with photos and links to the Mairie de Paris, and parks and gardens.
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Middlebury College: Publius Vergilius Maro
This article surveys the life and epic poetry of Vergil.
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The Definitive Study Guide for the Brothers Karamazov
Middlebury College provides this site authored by a professor of Russian language and literature that provides summaries and analyses for all sections of The Brothers Karamazov, a biography of Dostoevsky, character analyses, and a...
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Middlebury College: Dostoevsky and the Devils
Authored by a professor of Russian language and literature at Middlebury College, this site has much to offer the student of Dostoesky's novel The Devils. The site contains plot summaries, character analyses, and links to related...
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Crime and Punishment Summary and Study Guide
Prepared by a professor of Russian language and literature at Middlebury College, this site offers a very useful study guide for the student of Crime and Punishment, including chapter-by-chapter summaries, identifications of the book's...
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Middlebury: New England Review
The New England Review is a quarterly journal that publishes short fiction, a variety of general and literary nonfiction, and poetry.
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Middlebury College: Roman Comedy: Plautus and Terence
This essay explores the origins of ancient Roman comedy came about and its masters, Plautus and Terence, whose work still influences satire to this day.
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Middlebury College: Roman Satire
Middlebury College provides a very brief site describing the history of Roman Satire and some Roman writers, including Juvenal, Percius, and Horace.
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Middlebury College: Trade and Barter in Ancient Greece
Middlebury College provides an essay that uses ancient Greek mythology to explain how the Greeks viewed economic practices like trading and bartering.
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Middlebury College: Poetry and Reading Verse
This Middlebury College site is a helpful guide for reading Latin poetry. Discusses how to pronounce Latin words and letters.
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Middlebury College: Apuleius and the Golden Ass
Middlebury College provides a sketch of Apuleius' life and an introductory discussion of his writing.
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Middlebury College: Vergil Aeneid Iv, Notes
Middlebury College provides excerpts from late 19th-century study guides created for students to read the Latin text of Vergil's "Aeneid."
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Middlebury College: Biography of Dostoevsky
This Midlebury College site offers an interesting account of the life of Russian author, Fyodor Dostoevsky. Stresses the tragedies and difficulties of his life, particularly the mock execution he was forced to endure before being exiled...
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Middlebury College: Study Guide for the Idiot
Written by students at Middlebury College, this study guide is a good resource for anyone interested in learning about Dostoevsky's The Idiot. Provides plot summaries, character analyses, and information on the historical background of...
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Middlebury College: Papers on Dostoevsky
This site provides links to nine essays written by students at Middlebury College for a Spring 1996 course on Dostoevsky. The topics range from "Dostoevsky and Social Issues" to "Dostoevsky and the Theme of Children."
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Middlebury College: Essays on the Latin Authors
Middlebury College provides unique and useful essays on a variety of Latin authors in ancient Roman literature.
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Middlebury College: Master & Margarita Terror
This article briefly describes the purges through which Stalin gained his total control over almost every aspect of Soviet life.
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Middlebury College: Master & Margarita Housing Shortage
This site provides insight into the shortage of housing that occurred in the Soviet Union during Stalin's reign.
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Middlebury College: Dostoyevsky and the Problem of God
A student-written essay entitled "Dostoyevsky and the Problem of God." Includes bibliography and references.
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Middlebury College: Plato, Mathematician or Mystic?
This Middlebury College site describes Plato's point of view on mathematics and how people are perplexed by his understandings even today.