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Mi Vida Loca, An Overview

This essay presents a comprehensive discussion of Allison Anders' 1993 film Mi Vida Loca, a movie that focuses on a group of young...

Marguerite Duras, A Biography

This essay provides an overview of the life and career of Marguerite Duras, French novelist and film maker, specifically focusing ...

US Independence and the Ideology that Achieved It

This paper reviews the book 1776 by author David McCullough. No additional sources are listed. ...

Dog Day Afternoon, Directed by Sydney Lumet

This essay uses the remarks made in Sydney Lumet's book "Making Movies" in order to theorize why Lumet featured a montage of scene...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

This book review pertains to "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot and tells how HeLa cells, which have played ...

A Fine Balance/Misty

family to fear for its consequences, as compliance with the caste system was considered to be absolutely essential and defiance of...

Emile Durkheim Max Weber and Religion

Communist party and was devoted to building a better socialist society (Jacobsen and Polder 2008, p. 5). He conducted worker stud...

Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff

This book review is on Stacy Schiff's fascinating biography of Cleopatra, which relates the life narrative of a woman who was an i...

Life of an Ordinary Woman by Anne Ellis

This book reviews is on "Life of an Ordinary Woman," an autobiography by Anne Ellis. The author describes her childhood experience...

Nervous Condition by Tsitsi Dangarembga

aunt, the younger sister of her mother, Mainini, is the only woman of her generation who is portrayed as having her own voice, as ...

The Fantasy of Romance in Three Novels

of the characters faces so that we can see, for instance, how Mr. Darcy reacts to Elizabeths snub or the reaction of the Bennett w...

The Twelve Caesars/Suetonius

in presenting the various biographies that make up this text, citing the private documents of the emperors, as well as public sour...

Review of Freedom Road by Howard Fast

to Howard Fasts 1944 novel Freedom Road that until the publications of this novel, it was a widely held opinion among the mainstre...

Book Review, Birch and Rasmussen

is a biblical scholar and the other is a Christian ethicist, and they bring together their individual competencies to offer a comp...

Inside by Michael Santos

by working as prostitutes within the jail (Santos 17). However, horrible conditions and high violence are not indicative of all ja...

Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout

cry and Nina apologizes, but Olive "shook her head," indicating that she need not apologize and, after getting control of herself,...

The Rule of St. Benedict

routine tasks we do every day. Suetonius lived in the late first and early second centuries. His father was wealthy and belonged...

Logotherapy in Man's Search for Meaning

primary and not a secondary rationalization related to instinctual drives. This is a bold position. For instance, when someone has...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

her story and by not putting in the names of locations either. Other than that her story is true. This is further documented in th...

Functional, Colonial and Postmodern Perspectives of Experiences in Britain

These three perspectives are used in order to assess the experiences that P Toynbee describes in the book “Hard Work: Life in Low-...

Comparing Jacobs and Wilson

of slavery, as she was not free by any definition of this term and she was treated as property, in a manner that is equivalent to ...

Beti/Poor Christ of Bomba

see the truth, that is, that the Talas supposed conversion to Christianity is a delusion. A principal focus of Drumonts evangeli...

Washing My Life Away Surviving Obsessive Compulsive Disorder by Ruth Deane

to help herself. For example, being afraid to touch things without the aid of a barrier (tissue, etc.) for fear of contracting ge...

Roberto Benigni's 1998 Film Life is Beautiful

reviewer Thierry Jousse considered the Cannes award "totally disproportioned", arguing that the film in fact was too slight to mer...

Films Life is Beautiful and Shindler's List Artistic Comparison

keep the beauty in life intact for his son, determined that his sons innocence will not be turned into bitterness and hopelessness...

An Analysis of Hanh's The Miracle of Mindfulness

mindfulness before defining it. It is a story that many can relate to if they have ever had an interpersonal relationship ...

Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes

is that of Abrose Bierce, who was an American journalist but disappeared in Mexico in 1913. After joining the revolutionaries, th...

Banana Yoshimoto's Fiction

In four pages this essay examines two books by Japanese writer Banana Yoshimoto in a consideration of how her works capture young ...

Analysis of the Fifth Psalm

things and/or that laud and praise divine majesty and goodness that celebrate Gods working in nature (Gottwald). 3. Liturgical psa...

David Handler and Lemony Snicket The Unauthorized Autobiography

authenticity of which always must be questioned (Giorgis and Johnson 408). The autobiography is subdivided into thirteen (not coi...