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Essays 271 - 300

A Film Documenting Growing Old and Dying

"Tuesdays with Morrie" is based on the book by Mitch Albom. Mitch was a previous student of sociology professor Morrie...

The Hours

situation and her death. In addition, Cunningham illustrates the importance of the subject of suicide, setting the stage for under...

Wanting to Belong

hes written the book in blank verse. This means that it calls attention to itself but it does so with a purpose. Each poem, becaus...

Understanding the City

the feminine.1 Woolfs gendered city is found in her "all-pervasive metaphor of street life as river-like, conveying a sense of dyn...

From Pages to the Big Screen With Animal Farm

In five pages the transformation of George Orwell's novel from text to film is discussed and compared with other books such as Wat...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Kesey - Comparing the Novel with the Film

This research report compares and contrasts this well known work. How the film differs from the book, and how similarities are inc...

The Novel and 1999 Film Anna And The King

about the others culture and when each is willing to make compromises for the sake of developing cooperative relationships. The on...

The Return of Martin Guerre

In 5 pages the book and film versions are compared in terms of similarities and differences. There are 15 sources cited in the bi...

The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis

In ten pages this paper examines the author's religious views, his book The Last Temptation of Christ and the subsequent film adap...

In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason and the Film Less Than Zero

In four pages this book and the 1986 film are contrasted and compared. There is no bibliography included....

Problems Associated with Adapting Novels into Films

This paper examines the problems involved in transferring novels from print to the big screen in twenty seven pages and includes s...

Films Prince of the City, Serpico, and the 'Code of Silence'

In five pages this paper examines how these films and the books they were based on feature the 'code of silence' in an assessment ...

China of the 20th Century and the Connection Between Property and the Individual

up going over a cliff in his rickshaw. At the bottom of the cliff, however, he finds three camels, apparently having ended up th...

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma

but always something that is made in a four-party meaning-situation. An author... circulates a text... to an audience... whose pe...

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...

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...

Angels and Demons Should be Put Into Film

and thus stands as something that would attract audiences. Another reason why this novel would do well is in relationship to th...

Book Report on Showdown by John H. Lenihan

of personal self-determination and responsible freedom that the realities of modern life and institutions seem to deny" (11). In t...

Team and Group Dynamics

The white football players talk of boycotting practice because they are certain that the black coach will not allow them to play. ...

Joel Bakan's Corporation, Portrait of a Psychopath

same material, that is, the historical background to corporations, their basic operating motivation and specific case studies. How...

Three American Families

someone was sick, or out of a job, or when things were going wrong, they asked God for help (Rodriguez). At home, "God the Father ...

American Popular Culture of 1951 Represented in James Jones’ Best-Selling Novel From Here to Eternity and George Stevens’ Film A Place in the Sun

in explicit language and vivid descriptions of sexuality that were shocking within the conservative cultural context of the period...

Scripts: Imagery

(What About Bob Script - Dialogue Transcript, 2007).. He proudly claims later, "Im a sailor!" (What About Bob Script - Dialogue Tr...

Dangerous Minds Movie and Gender

well into adulthood. However, Lorber points out, "Individual actions construct social institutions and therefore... changes in in...

Analyzing a Visual Text of a Cyclops

his disposal beyond his huge physical size. It would seem no human could be safe against this creature that could easily pierce o...

To Be (long) or Not to Be (Long)

the idea that as father and son they belong together and belong to the same family group, but at the same time, as individuals, th...

Comparing and Contrasting Dracula and Nosferatu

is of excellent quality which is likely why it quickly became a classic, and one which others emulate. The ending is satisfying. S...

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Its Contradictions

In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...

Moral and Physical Resistance During the Holocaust Depicted in The Book and Film Versions of Jacob the Liar and Defiance: The Bielski Partisans

scholar Terrence Des Pres remarked that Jewish resistance might not have been a huge revolt; these movements were instead several ...

The Orchid Thief and Adaptation

a story about finding ones passion in life. This is evident in the following as Orleans makes note of the obsession concerning orc...