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Essays 1891 - 1920

Ideal of the Courtly Love Concept

the romantic saga of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, wife of King Arthur, as depicted in Chretien de Troyes Lancelot or, the Kni...

Sound Use by Martin Scorsese in Goodfellas

is But a Dream" by the Harptones and "Speedo" by the Cadillacs, combine seamlessly with additional orchestration to convey a "let ...

Joel Bakan's Corporation, Portrait of a Psychopath

same material, that is, the historical background to corporations, their basic operating motivation and specific case studies. How...

Walter Salle's Motorcycle Diaries

a camaraderie that is more reminiscent of Huck and Tom than future revolutionaries. However, as they begin to see the poverty and ...

Film Preservation Techniques

the more stable cellulose acetate film to preserve the content (De Stefano, 2003). Unfortunately, these efforts were limited, bec...

English Language Learners' Educational Timeline

schools to take "affirmative steps" to overcome language barriers that impeded non-English speaking children from academic success...

Clint Eastwood's Film Million Dollar Baby

light across a coffee table may be the only thing that signals that the scene takes place in someones living room. Throughout th...

China v. Western Europe Expansionism

to the brink of a new world direction. Interestingly, however, that direction would end abruptly as the leadership of China fell ...

Film Review of Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas

the voiceover. According to reviewer Patricia Kowal, this inclusion of a female perspective furthers the gangster genre because it...

Early American Film Director D.W Griffith

his five years at Biograph, Griffith took the raw elements of moviemaking as they had evolved up to that time -- lighting, continu...

Conflict in the 1939 Film Stagecoach

clear example of this conflict (Dinks, 2005). Ringo, who doesnt know Dallass background, seats her close to Lucy, which makes her...

Urban Life and Violence in America

people remember many strong disagreements with their first families. Battles during toddlerhood and adolescence are common and wil...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson and Films Inspired by This Novel

Hyde. Mr. Hyde is a hideous man who engages in murder and essentially allows his most animalistic, most primitive, nature to come ...

3 Canadian History Articles Analyzed

when someone relocates to another country, should he or she support the old homeland, or should they side with the new, chosen cou...

Historical Accuracy of Michael Collins Film by Director Neil Jordan

an uneasy political alliance with Sinn Fein President Eamon De Valera, and this fueled the romantic rivalry between Collins and hi...

Formalism in the Films, Great Expectations and, The Night of the Hunter

them" (Trbic, 2005). At the same time there was a very powerful visual style that was insistence on losing the "polite look of his...

'The Odyssey' and 'The Aeneid' Classic Underworld Narrative Parallels

of Dardania, best hope of Troy,/What kept you from us for so long, and where? From what far place, O Hector, have you come, Long, ...

Three Cinematic Visions of Hamlet

own terms, as an interpretation for a modern mass audience of a compelling story that gives shape to some of the deepest-rooted hu...

Are People Better Off Today than a Century or More Ago?

may find that it was far easier to live in the past regarding our health. One author notes that a hundred years ago people gener...

Film Documentaries and Traumatic or Moral Dilemma Representations

hide those Jews that were being persecuted by Hitlers war machine. He used his unsuccessful businesses as fronts to move various f...

Evil in Alfred Hitchcock's Films Rope and North by Northwest

the most louche, laidback villains in screen history" (Brooke, 2005, PG) emphasises Thornhills naivety as far as espionage and mur...

Ron Howard's A Beautiful Mind Cinematic Analysis

harrowing to watch, with Nash suffering several climactic breakdowns and brief moments of lucidity and temporary remission. The u...

A Review of The Pardoner's Tale

extremely outspoken. One of his strongest skills it seems is public speaking. In fact, he is a performer! These characteristics ...

Late Nineteenth Century Labor's Rise

that the people should participate (Bennett, 2001). In effect, the government should be run by the people (2001). This is not by a...

Ethical Views of the Movie Saving Private Ryan

the face of it, to go against the utilitarian principle of the "greatest good of the greatest number", taking a more long-term vie...

Comparative Analysis of Daisy Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and the Title Character of Henry James' Daisy Miller

ensuring that Winterbourne knows that she has plenty of male friends in New York, giving him "lively eyes and...light, slightly mo...

Movie Fight Club and Gender in Culture

this when Edward Nortons character slowly develops the alter ego played by Brad Pitt. Edward Nortons character wants nothing to do...

'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri and Gender

involving gender or related themes like romance and marriage. Yet, sex and love are highlights in the Inferno. Dante also writes o...

Role and Status of Women in 'Paradise Lost' by John Milton, Lysistrata by Aristophanes, 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' by Geoffrey Chaucer, and 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

way to a jousting tournament rematch with the mysterious Green Knight, Sir Gawain is the houseguest of the absent Lord Bercilak, a...

Fahrenheit 911 and Portrayal of Minority Issues by Filmmaker Michael Moore

the senate and the man these black officials believed had won the election. Gore is seen repeatedly banging his gavel to restore ...