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Historical Revisionist Oliver Stone's Films Born on the Fourth of July and Platoon

come to overestimate his own value as a singular entity amidst an enormous universe. There is no doubt that Stones intention when...

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...

Description of a Fictitious Ideal Community

unite them instead of what separates them. Children would go to school together and would learn about each others backgrounds, cu...

American Ideal Man and the West

situation and can emerge unscathed by the trials and tribulations of life. Then for the first time I noticed a...

Fahrenheit 911 and Portrayal of Minority Issues by Filmmaker Michael Moore

the senate and the man these black officials believed had won the election. Gore is seen repeatedly banging his gavel to restore ...

An Analysis of the Film, Imitation of Life

rings. At the door is Delilah Johnson (Louise Beavers), an African American woman who has come to apply for a job as cook and hous...

Elements That Make Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ a Movie Worth Viewing

of a horror film, and the crucifixion of Jesus is without question one of the most horrific episodes in world history. There are ...

Evil in Alfred Hitchcock's Films Rope and North by Northwest

the most louche, laidback villains in screen history" (Brooke, 2005, PG) emphasises Thornhills naivety as far as espionage and mur...

Brian De Palma's Scarface

as the crime film genre became more sophisticated, the line between good/evil oftentimes became blurred. De Palma elected to take...

Depiction of Asian Americans

(Benshoff and Griffin 132). A voiceover at the beginning of the film explains that because of this law, 1940s Chinatown was exclus...

Team Strategy Formation and the Film Ocean's Twelve

boundaries of their acceptable group behavior. Forming is the stage of transition when the individuals become members of a team (C...

Ronald Donaldon's Film Thirteen Days and Conflict Theory

escalate into World War III; if he did nothing or offered a weak response, the balance of power would clearly shift in the directi...

Men as Defined by Elia Kazan's Film On the Waterfront and Arthur Miller's Play A View from the Bridge

sayin nothin" (Greatest Films). In these respects the audience is presented with men who possess power and immorally take advant...

Analysis of the Carousel Musical by Rogers and Hammerstein

When Julies friend Carrie leaves, but Julie lingers near the carousel, she and Billy are now along and can speak freely, if hesita...

Comparative Analysis of Silence of the Lambs Book and Movie

and Banks 109). Theatrically trained and critically acclaimed screenwriter Ted Tally impressively translated Harriss text onto ce...

France as the Ideal Vacation Spot

architecture includes the ultra modern, such as the modern art center commissioned by French president Georges Pompidou,, as the s...

Overview of the Film Good Night, Good Luck

scares involving communism. The government wanted people to be fearful of communism and Clooneys focus is clearly on the supposed ...

First Person Fictional Narrative on an 'Ideal' Trip

doors. We prepared for some time and I wanted the trip to be perfect. He asked if this trip lived up to my expectations. I said ye...

Cartesian Rationalism from a Critical Viewpoint

experience, will readily be admitted with regard to such objects, as we remember to have once been altogether unknown to us..." (A...

Ideals of Plato and Contemporary Education

employee believes a child is abused, they must call the authorities. If a child has a fight in school, the latest trend is to file...

2001 A Space Odyssey and Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick's Visual Style

the moon base known as Clavius (Falsetto 44). In perhaps the most memorable sequence, when Bowman travels "Beyond the Infinite," ...

Meet Joe Black, the Confessions of Augustine of Hippo, and Transformation

death in the usual manner, but rather as a good looking young man who is apparently capable of falling in love with an attractive ...

Ideal of the Courtly Love Concept

the romantic saga of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere, wife of King Arthur, as depicted in Chretien de Troyes Lancelot or, the Kni...

An analysis of Beethovern's Music in Immortal Beloved

through the use of rolling chords that softly underscore the melody line in the treble, while octaves sound in the bass like dista...

Cubicle Anonymity and Office Space

climax of the film. The history of the cubicle is that these partitions were once heralded as an innovation and, today, they rem...

Ideal Class in Writing

In three pages this paper discusses what a perfect class in writing might entail. One source is cited in the bibliography....

Sci-Fi Films: Radiation Monsters and Homestick Aliens

(Bacchus, 2007). The atomic age is the real villain here, because its radiation from the atomic testing in New Mexico that causes ...

Film Adaptation/Shoeless Joe & Field of Dreams

(Stam 54). While these terms seem extreme, they convey the disappointment of the critic, or the general viewer, towards a film tha...

Distance Learning is Ideal for Stay at Home Mothers

for many students. It has advantages for those who work full time jobs or even for young adults who do not want to live away from ...