Essays 361 - 390
This film review pertains to the "Joy Luck Club," which premiered in 1993 and was directed by Wayne Wang. The reviewer discusses t...
This essay concerns Albert Camus' novel "The Plague," which describes the impact of bubonic plague on an Algerian town during the ...
This essay pertain to Kafka's Metamorphosis and analyzes the narrative from a psychoanalytical and a socio-economic perspective. S...
This essay offers summaries and comparisons between the autobiographical narratives of African American nineteenth century preache...
This essay pertain to the film Amelie (2001) and what the narrative tells viewers about French cultural assumptions and ethnocentr...
This essay pertains to the characters of Gilgamesh and Achilles and how they each warrior-heroes representing their culture. The w...
of ways, including its formal structure. Though the text is routinely considered to be historical in nature, it is not exactly an ...
not necessary, as the filmmakers have portrayed a hooded red cloak and made reference to a wolf. The semiotic meaning is clear as ...
arise out of unexpected and irrational contradictions faced by the main characters on virtually every page. The absurdity is not j...
she grimaces, indicating that this is not an easy task fro her, she never gives the slightest sign that she feels that caring for ...
instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read. To use hi...
Circumstance," the author changes the narrative perspective twice, using three perspectives in total. A close reading of this pass...
talked about decorators and expert gardeners and even wrote to some, and banged tennis balls against the large new garage (Gallant...
individual humans relate to one another, as well as how cultures and groups relate to one another to establish the construct colle...
of the regimen of behavior that is required to obtain and maintain a position on the upper rungs of the social ladder. Ivan does n...
not easy to explain why individuals are motivated to act in the ways they do. This is why there are a number of competing theories...
This research paper begins by relating the topic of food production to Exodus 16 and 17, i.e., the narratives associated with the ...
the closing shot of "The Shining", where the camera again slowly pans, this time from a wide view of the wall of a hotel ballroom ...
to achieve dramatic effect. In Shaaras book, Armistead simply comments to Longstreet that he would like to see his old friend one ...
pregnant (Ozeki 20). Jane is also affected by beef. When her mother was pregnant with Jane, she was prescribed growth hormones tha...
moving about in a city going about their everyday business. In particular, one can observe movements in just the first installment...
and he refuses to do so. Mary Kate abides by her brothers wishes, which confuses and frustrates Sean. The plot complications tha...
course of these exchanges, indicating that he does this easily due to similarities between the tongues. However, the fact that he ...
he will abstain until all votes are in. If they still unanimously vote for conviction, he will go along with the majority, but if ...
isolation in the woods comes into contact with the more traditional culture of the people from the nearby town where she is taken ...
Whitelaw from their hometown, and the narrator imbues this physical artifact with a great deal of emotional significance. In parti...
therapeutic value primarily because it is built upon a foundation of solid psychological premises and ideas. It is these ideas whi...
entirely different media. It is unfair of movie audiences to expect a director to put their favorite book on screen, scene-for-sce...
lighting, color, camera angle, types of shots, music and set design, to underscore the theme of self-determination and individual...
as "jolly, slapstick comedy," but also criticizes it for lacking the "almost eerie humanity that infused" the earlier movies, writ...