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Robert Rodriguez's Films and Cultural Identities

direction and production of a larger film. "The plan, Rodriguez said, was to make a series of three action films for this market a...

Cultural Influences, Archaeology, and City Morphology of Classical Athens

the epitome of this planning. Many of the same criteria which are used to ascertain contemporary cities can be used to...

What Kind Of Cultural Identity Should Public Schools Promote?

et al, 2005). Citing how public education in America "has historically been both the panacea for societal ills and the target fo...

Cultural Development Of Vietnamese Women

majority of them helpless to a life of nothing other than self-sacrifice for their homes and families. For Vietnamese women...

Enhancing Cultural Competency

leaders should facilitate their development of trans-cultural nursing skills such as being able to assess patterns that are eviden...

Elephants, Rhinos, Kob Antelope, Leopards And Buffalo: Meaning In African Art

presence or a leopards sleek passage. One pertinent example of their dual power as animals in African art is the Cameroon elephan...

Negron-Muntaner/Barbie's Hair

if it was straightened, which is viewed as an "act of self-hatred or conformity" (Negron-Muntaner 45). Within this cultural framew...

The Meaning of the Battle of Stalingrad

come to fruition. In part, good wins out over evil. Even within Hitlers own ranks there was dissention, a lack of resolve, and a t...

Life's Meaning in Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

the ears of company officials. Marlow accepts this mission, travels upriver, and confronts the horror that Kurtz has become. In ot...

The Meaning of Voltaire's Graden References

of a garden. Through all his adventures he finds that the most powerful and most rewarding way to live his life is to physically t...

Meaning in the Visual Arts by Erwin Panofsky

"emotionally evocative qualities of pose, gesture, facial expression, atmosphere and so on" (Kahil). Panofskys second layer of m...

Meaning in Terms of Artist and Art

sometimes knowing what the artist was thinking or saying influences a viewers interpretation and appreciation in a negative way. I...

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Money's Meaning

Friday. (Gleefully) Check coming tomorrow , huh?" (Hansberry 8). Ruth simply replies, "You get your mind off money and eat your br...

Four Insights into the Meaning of Life

responsibility. He feels stifled by his Louisiana environment and longs to leave. He knows that this involvement will strengthen h...

Begging and its Meaning in Elective Affinities by Goethe

seen in a negative light. In the work by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe entitled Elective Affinities there is a sense that begging is...

Finding Meaning in Terror

in the face of danger (i.e., the approaching inspection) which was caused by it (Frankl, 1984, p. 85). Frankl relates that most ...

Rap Music: Social Meaning

affair of choppy strophes of braggadocio chanted over an endlessly repeating bass line and drum track. But there is more to the m...

The Meaning of Communications from Different Perspectives

them off from some forms of communication. It is no longer a day where door to door salesmen can easily go from door to door witho...

How We Determine Meaning

they are dominant and which they run largely to suit themselves. By making marriage and motherhood the ultimate goal of a woman, t...

The Meaning of Life: Existentialism

for those who would adopt the notion of existentialism it is important to note that their perspectives and faith in religion and G...

Determining Meaning

a woman, men have systematically made it impossible for women to advance into meaningful, well-paying positions in the workforce, ...

Using Examples to Illustrate Meaning

that type of personality: they love the feeling of danger and speed that comes with riding a bike. They also tend to be individual...

Armenia, Genocide & Meaning

applicable to the overall topic of genocide. Therefore, the following examination of the Armenian Genocide, concentrating on the h...

Kermode's "The Genesis Of Secrecy" - Critical Summary And Response

The very nature of perception is that which we, as humans, have been trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain qual...

How We Live & How We Feel About Dying

that she does not want to see him to go his death "not owning up to the part" that he played in death of his victim (Prejean 179)....

The Meaning of Ethnic, Racial and Gender Imagery in Plath's The Bell Jar

is a sense of familiarity. In some way, this author does not want to reveal the prejudices or insights of the narrator too early o...

Jewish Calendar, Life Cycle And Meaning Of God Is One

instructions, Moses told the people to slaughter a lamb and place its blood on the outside of their homes (Oakley, 2006). When God...

Different Meanings of "Change" in "Caroline, or Change"

Noah keeps deliberately leaving coins, knowing that she is desperately poor. Then he leaves a $20 bill in his pants by accident, a...

French Films La Regle du Jeu, Zero de Conduite, Meaning and Ending

another toots a miniature horn through his nose. When they arrive at the station, the boys join the rest of their peers, who are...

Man's Search for Meaning by V. Frankl and Zinnemann's Man for All Seasons

easily see that living in the moment was the only thing that someone in that situation could hope to do, and to turn inward, losin...