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Essays 301 - 330

American Interpretations of Film Noir

of America had suffered through more than 15 years of deprivation in one form or another. The Great Depression that began with th...

Three Perspectives on Problems with Teaching English

learn the ways in which standard English developed -- that no language remains "fixed" but is rather a constantly evolving, adapti...

Analyzing the Barbarians at the Gate Film

ethics or lack thereof, surrounding the mystique of Wall Street. Although takeovers are not in themselves unethical, the methods ...

Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon

In five pages this report discusses the winner of the Best Foreign Film Academy Award for 1950 and the reasons behind its enduring...

War Concept and the 'Language of War'

Language. Orwell explains that in his time at least, political speech and writing were primarily done to defend the indefensible (...

Differences Between the Novel and Film Versions of The Scarlet Letter

to it that such a crime was punishable by death. After all, behavior so unbecoming of a religious devotee deserved no less....

Male Gaze and Cross Dressing as Featured in the 1982 Film Tootsie

In six pages this paper analyzes cross dressing featured in the 1982 film Tootsie through the male gaze theories of feminist autho...

A Comparison of Die Hard and Passenger 57

find a way to get help. He gets a message out to a security guard type cop, an overweight individual who does not wish to be activ...

Spanish Language and the Arabic Influence

well. "Besides being spoken in Spain, it is the official language of all the South American republics except Brazil and Guyana, o...

Language Performance versus Language Competence

has been directed by the supervisor to deliver a speech at a meeting. The person, being extremely nervous, may stutter, stammer, f...

Film Noir Aspects of Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters

factor can be seen in both Sunset Boulevard and The Grifters. In Sunset, Joe Gillis is an out-of-work screenplay writer, who has t...

Social Construction or Cognitive Development in the Relationship Between Emotion and Language

is a complex one and not one in which all researchers are in agreement. This question is central, however, to understanding of ho...

Africa's Cinematic History

Africa had been claimed by one European nation or another. The nations claiming Africa were Belgium, France, Germany, Great Bri...

Universal Soldier Film and Analysis of Eroticism Analysis

UniSols have bodies of unmatched perfection and their memories have been supposedly erased, which allows their minds to be easily ...

ESL

of nationalities, which speaks to the continual need for effective English instruction. Some of the inherent difficulties and cha...

The Beatles' Film 'A Hard Day's Night'

it can be said, by an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent swirl which included great social and technological change: assassination...

Film Noir Techniques in the Film, Gilda

what the audience is viewing with his own subjective observations. In his consideration of film noir, Jon Tuska (1984) noted that...

Disrespect and Language The Appropriation of Native American Language and Culture

This paper asks whether we have bastardized Native American language by appropriating it in sports and mass marketing. There are ...

Review of "African American Mothers' Views of Their Infants' Language Development and Language-Learning Environment"

of expecting there to be great differences between cultures within the US as well. The authors use sources from the 1970s and 198...

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 ...

Language's Collective and Individual Consequences

them into question some three decades prior to Lorimer and Gasher (2000). Berger and Luckman (1970) recognized even during the fl...

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...

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...

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...

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Reservation Blues

(Johnson). The narrator relates with obvious pride he learned the "names of the notes in both clefs," as a young child and could ...

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 ...

Passion of the Christ v. The Bible

"the Son of Your handmaid" (Longhenry, 2004). Additionally, John and Peter address Mary as "mother" numerous times during the film...

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...

Language's Gendered Nature

taking care of her man and of nurturing the home and the family. It was apparent to me that her sense of femininity and womanhood...