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Cinematic Techniques and Narrative in The Graduate

by the same name and so was translated to the silver screen. When this is done it is always a touchy business. Much of the motivat...

Analysis of J.S. Gordon's Article 'What We Lost in the Great War'

that WWI started because "a lunatic murdered a man of feathers and uniforms who had no real importance whatsoever" (p. 81). Gordon...

Political Culture and Music of Haiti

shores of the US. It was 1974 and the US government was still allowing Haitians to freely enter the country as immigrants at that ...

Ancient Times to Middle Ages and Religious Development

epic is a rendition of the ancient flood narrative that predates that of the biblical Noah. The Babylonian flood narrative pictu...

An Analysis of The Long Discourses Of The Buddha: A Translation Of The Digha Nikaya

& of themselves... the mind in & of itself... mental qualities in & of themselves -- ardent, alert, & mindful -- putting aside gre...

Dealing with the Effects of Child Abuse, Overcoming Obstacles, and Friendship in Barbara Kingsolver's 'The Bean Trees'

life choices. Deciding to leave was easy; figuring out where she was heading proved a more difficult choice, one that would ultim...

'The Bridegroom' by Ha Jin

concerned for the welfare of his rather homely adopted daughter, Beina. First of all, Jin makes it clear that women within Chinese...

Divorce's Impact on Children

the authors cited believe that divorce, in and of itself, causes major emotional breakdowns. Psychologist Gary Neuman, for ...

The Importance of the Chinese New Year

not occur on the same day each year. In contrast, the Western New Year celebration always occurs on December 31-January 1. B...

Celebrating the New Year in China

The first point to be made here would be that the Spring Festival (Chinese New Year) is one of the major traditional national holi...

Richard II and Richard III by William Shakespeare

the latest fashions, spending money on his friends, and also pursuing wars against Ireland and elsewhere that his realm cannot af...

Moralist and Modernizers by Steven Mintz

medical societies of the power to license doctors. Family patriarchs also saw their legal rights diminished. In reaction to this...

Double Consciousness Theory of W.E.B. Du Bois

anothers eyes, as it creates a sense of "twoness" (Perkins and Rice, 2000). In other words, African Americans saw themselves both ...

Sam in Fugard's Master Harold...and the Boys

son, Hally, who is young and in desperate need of both attention and guidance. In this regard, Sam plays the role of a surrogate ...

Time Poetically Portrayed by Andrew Marvell and John Keats

his argument thus far, which is -- of course -- that human beings are not immortal. It is no his fault that "Times winged chariot"...

Flannery O'Connor's 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' and Its Literary Deconstruction

son and shoots her repeatedly. Mama is the important character in the story, though the Misfit certainly plays a strong secondary...

S. Foss's Inviting Transformation, Presentational Speaking for a Changing World and Public Speaking

those principles and put them into action and practice presentational speaking. Nevertheless, the first part of my task is accompl...

No Shame in My Game by Katherine S. Newman

are also seeing to gain protection from the pressures of the street and, often, to escape trouble at home and in their neighborhoo...

Is America a Christian Nation? by Isaac Kramnick and R. Lawrence Moore

and political tyranny" (579). Kramnick and Moore point out that the religious right frequently argues that the United States is...

Early Education of Jean Jacques Rousseau and Frederick Douglass

as a Greek or Roman soldier. At the age of ten, Rousseau idyllic life with his father ended as his father become involved in a qu...

Creating a Serial Killer

serial killers may be influenced by the society and the media that is all around them. La Donna tells us that a child may see as m...

Tom Morris's If Aristotle Ran General Motors

happens, people fail to achieve happiness and feel only increased levels of stress (Morris, 1997). If businesses incorporated Ar...

English Literature and Virtue

when the Beowulf poet writes "Fate always goes as it must" (43) and "Fate often saves an undoomed man when his courage is good" (...

War on Drugs Argument and Rebuttal

needed for the nations poor and undereducated. Drugs should be legalized as the war against them is not winnable, and more importa...

Analysis of the Second Chapter of Walden by Henry David Thoreau

that regards Walden as the "story of a person who traded a flawed reality for an idealistic, isolated sanctuary" (845). A close re...

Imperialism of Europe in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

this characteristic, which is indicative of the Igbo culture in general, that leads to his downfall. For example, when the tribal...

Sociobiology and Human Reproductive Strategies

perspective is widely evident in literature, this concept is most closely associated with the work of David M. Buss (Davis, 1998)....

History, Literature, Knowledge, and Native Americans

always well-received by those who consider the humorous aspect out of place. Welchs (2003) approach when he crafted his account w...

'The End of History?' by Francis Fukuyama

end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but the end of history as such: that is, the end p...

Analysis of 'Metamorphosis' by Franz Kafka

forced to take responsibility for their own lives, they grow tremendously and are obviously happier. The setting for the narrativ...