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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...

My Antonia

homesick. If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out. I did not s...

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes and Renaissance Conceptual Examples

an individual is to relive the medieval times of knight errantry detailed in his favorite books. Changing himself into the dashin...

Narrative Voice in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

and understood in many different ways. We are not only given one perspective but two that work together in different and powerful ...

Educational Importance of Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

in Twains book is that which involves dialect, a subject that gained a great deal of criticism when the book came out. From the ve...

Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Racism

There have actually been schools which have banned Huckleberry Finn from their libraries and their classrooms, based upon the refe...

Change vs. Tradition in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Okonkwo relished in the traditions which consolidated his power within the village and reinforced his identity. The supreme test ...

Analysis of 'The River Between' by Ngugi and 'Things Fall Apart' by Acheba

News Service). Even that consideration, however, is worthy of additional introspect in regard to the intended cultural meaning of...

Oliver Twist, A Dickens Tale

cases out of ten," the child dies from one cause or another, such as starvation, illness or neglect. However, Oliver survives, and...

We'll Always Have Paris

The writer analyzes the 1942 classic film Casablanca, and argues that Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, is the archetypal re...

Sociological Impact of Emile Durkheim

In seven pages Durkheim's profound impact upon sociology is considered through his various theories with emphasis upon Suicide, wh...

Banning the Novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

we present the following paper which discusses the banning of Steinbecks novel. Banning "The Grapes of Wrath" In more fully un...

Using Twelve Angry Men to Evaluate Behavioral Theories

him. A coach has been appointed the foreman but he is ill equipped to do the job he has been assigned. He resents wasting his tim...

Fire as a Theme in Virgil's Aeneid

the contest because she bribed Paris by offering him Helen of Troy, the fairest of mortal women, which is the basis for the confli...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Social Criticism

this political cruelty that is shown nearly crushing his characters in every novel has the danger of becoming common place, and th...

Feminism and Alexander Pope's Poem 'The Rape of the Lock'

he mocks. It is after all a story of a lock of hair stolen while a young woman sleeps. What can be simpler? What can be less impo...

Theme of 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Analyzed 2

well enough to write some thousand words at a stretch. She describes the view from her window quite lucidly, as well as the pretty...

An Analysis of Machiavelli's The Prince

of the government was quick and without "civil commotion." But while Machiavelli praises Agathocles on one hand, he also points ...

An Analysis of Leadership in Machiavelli's The Prince

to use almost any means to achieve his ends that has the most direct appeal to many amoral leaders of today. Some psychologists fi...

Humanism Themes in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake

particular values, and freedom from persecution by authorities for those views. One could say that the roots, as far as it can b...

Epic Hero Luke Skywalker in Star Wars

given a task to perform and in doing so derives some sort of personal meaning from it. He may meet with a great series of misfortu...

Films A Place in the Sun, Double Indemnity, Suspicion and the Interaction Between Money, Love, and Murder

these nonverbal cues that reveal more than the spoken dialogue. Alfred Hitchcocks reputation as the cinemas "Master of Suspense" ...

Crime and Punishment in The Odyssey

growing stronger and more defiant with every passing episode. "...Homer certainly recognizes the notion of intention, and in many...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

stir" as it was the date of a double festival: that of the Festival of the Three Kings and that of the Feast of Fools (Hugo, I, I)...

A Review of the Film, Ocean's Eleven

In some scenes featuring very dark-skinned Bernie Mac, the only thing absolutely visible on the screen was the whites of the actor...

Analysis of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...

Feminine Nature and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me" ...

Society in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper discusses ethical and social themes presented in Shelley's classic novel. This five page paper has no additional sourc...

Cinematography in Battleship Potemkin and Citizen Kane

The cinematography in these movie classics are discussed in five pages. There are no other sources listed....

Tragic Heroes in Death of a Salesman and Oedipus

This 10 page essay explores the tragic heroes in these classic plays. Oedipus believes he makes his own destiny while Willy belie...