Essays on Alain

Book Review: The Village of Cannibals, Rage and Murder in France

Corbin, Alain. The Village of Cannibals: Rage and Murder in France, 1870. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1992.

Introduction

Historian Alain Corbin explores the political and social significance of the killing of a young French nobleman in the remote village of Hautefaye in France. Corbin’s chronicle describes the gruesome event that happened in broad daylight involving the villagers accusing the young nobleman of shouting republican slogans that angered the villagers. What followed in the trail of events is the sparked indignation of the entire country. Rumors of cannibalism have circulated in the country and the author’s fascination of ...

Multinational Enterprise and Foreign Production Multinational firms exist because of certain economic advantages that enable it to be profitable by producing a good or service in a foreign country. It is important to understand the difference between Vertical expansion and Horizontal expansion of a multinational firm in order to understand the underlying principles of their economic activities. Vertical expansion happens when a firm finds assets in a foreign country it wishes to pursue. These assets can be either in the form of natural resources or other raw materials that it can use for inputs in its own production or ...

1. Introduction This thesis shall be limited to a critical analysis of Alain de Botton’s book, The Consolations of Philosophy; of the year 2000 which introduced a new perspective not only to the study of philosophy but also its application in our day to day lives. It is significant to point out that this book was a follow-up of the original Consolation of Philosophy that was written by Boethius in 524 A.D. basically, Boethius personified philosophy as a woman whereby he asserted paradoxical relationship between fortune and misfortune especially in relation to the phenomenon of human happiness. Therefore whilst the latter ...