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An Analysis of the Films, Bowling for Columbine and, The Decay of Fiction

physical state that supports the distinguishing characteristics of film noir. Though the term "film noir" is French, the st...

Bowling for Columbine

emotions and sympathy for the Columbine victims and families. For example, it is difficult not to agree with Moore that the decisi...

Analyzing Bowling for Columbine from a Sociological Perspective

Marx). In other words, Marx saw societies as being composed of classes in constant conflict. Differing markedly from his predecess...

Using Mass Media to Argue for Gun Control

incidence of fire breaking out during operations. In one of ABCs 20/20 episodes in 1998, the audience was cautioned that this ha...

Posting Responses to the Positions of Michael Moore and Barry Glassner

killer bees were responsible for an attack in Tipton, Oklahoma. They are currently in six Southwestern states and they are dangero...

Nineteenth Century America and Being White

be. 2. Agricultural economic base and need for labor. 3. Slavery introduced with indentured servants. Taken to the next level in ...

Analyzing the Bowling for Columbine Film

is an unfortunate event, but the event takes place not because the boy did not have a good mother, but because his mother was poor...

Michael Moore's Academy Awards' Exercise of Free Speech

duties of an American to question leadership within the foundation of democracy, a reality that is fraught with consequences when ...

What Leads to Homelessness?

are many people in the lower and middle income brackets who have little put away. If they have no credit, and no one to bail them ...

Racial Impications in The Matrix

A 30 page analysis of this science fiction film. This futuristic film imparts a sense of reality that is enough to bring most vie...

Violence in American/Bowling for Columbine

the stats that Moore cites about gun deaths, which compares the US to other countries. Yearly, there are "381 (gun deaths) in Germ...

A Research Paper and Essay on 3 Independent Films

The Blair Witch Project The Blair Witch Project fits perfectly with the popular conception of what constitutes an independent fil...

Comedy in Two Science Fiction Films

This essay describes how comedy was achieved in two science fiction films, "Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home" and "Galaxy Quest." Th...

School Safety following Columbine A Research Proposal

do harm if they want to. Columbine is a good case study to use in examining this issue. The Columbine massacre entailed the juve...

The Super Bowl and Consumerism

States better if one seeks out those rituals which are widespread but entirely socially constructed rather than traditionally inhe...

Bowling's Kinesiology

For example, the swing of the arm of a bowler from the initiation through the follow through demonstrates the range of motion of t...

Ethical Theories and Norma Rae

offer the greatest good to the greatest number, in that the rights of the majority - the workforce - are protected. However, we al...

Film Analysis

people. They rely on critics to tell the public about the film. As such they will clearly keep in mind what the public is interest...

Cradle Will Rock

water from a fire hydrant. The street scene also emphasizes the desperation of the era. A man stands next to a car that is covered...

Sociological Analysis of “12 Angry Men”

they trust lawyers and never question things, in this case based on the assumed truth that all ethnic and impoverished people are ...

Oedipus Rex (1957)

as though by filming this story in this manner the producer was trying to invite, so to speak, the audience into a theater, make t...

Terminator Science Fiction Film Review

In three pages this essay presents a review and analysis of the science fiction film Terminator. There is no bibliography include...

Quentin Tarantino's Controversial Film Pulp Fiction

In 5 pages this paper examines the cinematic style of director Quentin Tarantino in this thematic analysis of the controversial fi...

Columbine Shootings and Media Influence

In a paper consisting of six pages it is argued that the media influenced the shootings at Littleton, Colorado's Columbine High Sc...

Gunmen at Columbine High School and the Media's Influence

In six pages this paper presents the argument that media in the forms of music and cinema strongly influenced the Columbine High S...

Controversial Film Director Quentin Tarantino

This paper consists of five pages and examines the controversies surrounding this film director, producer, writer, and actors uses...

Television, Movies, and Differences in Class, Race, and Gender

In ten pages the imagery featured in TV and films regarding the differences of class, race, and gender are the focus of this resea...

Cinema and Time's Role

human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...

Director Quentin Tarantino and Postmodernism

(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...

'Dark City Tech Noir Science Fiction' of Alex Proyas' Dark City and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner

and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...