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Shark Slayer

and so on. But what really sets Oscar apart is his style-or lack thereof. He wants to be cool and hip, but hes actually pretty sil...

Eastwood's "Invictus" - Theories of Motivation

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...

Causes and Impacts of the American Dust Bowl

The American Dust Bowl was one of the earliest large scale illustrations of the ecological damage that this country incurred as a ...

Donald Worster's The Dust Bowl

In five pages this Donald Worster text is examined. There are no other sources listed....

Bowling Alone Message and Data Assessment

In seven pages the text by Robert Putnam that evaluates America's diminishing attention to social capital maintenance is examined ...

Dust Bowl Legacy and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

In 5 pages this paper examines the classic novel by John Steinbeck from an historical perspective. There are no other sources lis...

Robert Putnan's Bowling Alone Summarized

group meetings like they used to. He brings in the idea of bowling, as seen in the title, indicating that there has been an incr...

Independence Day/Film Review

in low Earth orbit would cause tidal waves, which is never mentioned, and one of the criticisms leveled at the film. There are oth...

Hitchcock/Psycho & Shadow of a Doubt

the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...

Silent v. Sound/Art in Film

"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...

Eyes in Film

Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...

Strangers in Good Company/Women and Old Age

in their lives when they are accustoming themselves to their impeding morality and the problems that come with old age. Catherine ...

The Illusionist as Myth

The God of the Waning Year is associated with the sacrificial victim, whose death was believed necessary in order for the earth to...

When A Man Loves A Woman

love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...

The Bad News Bears: Comparing Old And New Versions

stereotypically comprised of virtually every ethnic minority plus an added physically handicapped wheelchair player in the latter ...

Reflection of Katherine Tanner's Edited Spirit in the City

existence of God (more specifically religion) as existence in the urbanism of today. The fact that this does so in as many voices ...

Empire Records Cinematic Analysis

Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...

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...

Hollywood's Classic Film Maltese Falcon

employed, whose most significant feature is to make the cut seem invisible. This is achieved through such devices as shot/reverse-...

An Analysis of the Film, Lost In Translation

middle of filming the commercial he has come to do and the director is attempting to give him directions in Japanese using an inte...

Detailed Cinematic Analysis of American Beauty

of confines. The overall metaphor of this movie is the symbol of the rose. At one point a neighbor asks how the roses are grown s...

Analyzing White and Blue by Kieslowski

In eight pages the trio of color symbolic components along with themes and plots from the films White and Blue are analyzed. Ther...

The Godfather Film and Leadership

give them the power to obstruct justice, play by their own rules and literally attend to life in any manner they see fit. They ha...

Violating the Law and Social Control Theory

to "study things in their natural setting, attempting to make sense of, or interpret, phenomena in terms of the meanings people br...

Historical Accuracy of Brian De Palma's Film The Untouchables

also gave rise to greater criminal activity. Coupled with the decree of prohibition on alcohol, many took advantage of this easy m...

Mel Gibson's Cinematic Interpretation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet

(like Mel Gibson in the 1991 film) has no interest in playing him as an apologetic mope" (Ebert). In the written play there is a...

1969 Film Topaz by Alfred Hitchcock

aided in this aspect of the film by production designer Henry Bumstead, who "carried the masters color ideas out in ingenious desi...

The Gospel According to St. Matthew Film by Pasolini

Joseph the presentation of their early beginnings is told merely through the fact we see Mary pregnant and we watch the struggling...

Steven Spielberg's Film Jaws and its Impact

dunk below the surface. There is no surprise on her face. There is no horror on her face. What is happening? The...

Film and Sociology

and though it was assumed that there was corruption in the government, the optimism of the time suggested that it could be reverse...