SEARCH RESULTS

YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Films and Books on the Vietnam War

Essays 841 - 870

Book Review of Free At Last by Fred Powledge

In four pages a book review and analysis of this 1991 text by Fred Powledge are presented....

Baseball's Great Experiment by Tygel Reviewed

In five pages Major League baseball player Jackie Robinson's lasting legacy is examined within the context of Tygel's book....

Comic Books' Ratings Systems

In five pages this persuasive paper argues that the ambiguous Comics Code Authority needs to be replaced with a more clear and dis...

The Defense Never Rests by F. Lee Bailey

This paper consists of six pages and considers the book, the author's position, and the various cases represented within....

Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how black women's experiences are captured in Naylor's book Women of Brewster Plac...

Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt

This paper consists of five pages and examines this novel about the Civil War in terms of its subject matter and characterizations...

White and Black Culture in Beloved by Toni Morrison

This 6 page paper argues that Toni Morrison's book Beloved exposes the way in which white culture dictates black identity....

Tuck Everlasting vs. Dreamspeaker

In nine pages these books for young adults are examined in terms of their similarities....

Fictional Film Account on the War in the Persian Gulf

In five pages this report examines the creative possibilities represented by Forty Three Days Later, a fictional film about the Pe...

Holocaust and Its Sociopolitical Causes

There has been some evidence that Hitlers rabid anti-Semitism was catalyzed upon his rejection. One of the most prominent judges ...

Reactions to Night by Eli Wiesel

In three pages the reaction to Wiesel's powerful book is considered....

War Poems of Wilfred Owen

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

20th Century Lessons of the First and Second World Wars and the Wars in Korea and Vietnam

war in history (Sulzberger, 1966). World Peace it seems would be an ever elusive dream and our military exploits in Korea would b...

His Girl Friday and Screwball Comedy

romantic leads ("Screwball comedy"). Another feature of the screwball was its "reverse class snobbery," where to be poor was, so...

Hitchcock/Rear Window & North by Northwest

film. More credits fall and slide into place, which foreshadows how Thornhill will later slide, nearly falling off the face of Lin...

Robert Duvall’s Apostle

who is also a preacher, and conspires to have him evicted from his congregation (Alleva, 1998). Enraged, Sonny takes his sons base...

Gone with the Wind's Cinematography

that "Tara is the whole story" as the plot revolves around Tara" (Schreibman, 2004, p. 41). The cinematography particularly unde...

12 Angry Men/TV's Law and Order

entitled "House of Cards," the detectives and attorneys who are featured in the show similarly face what seems like a case of cert...

Thin Blue Line

sixteen at the time, had stolen a neighbors car and his fathers guns. Harris gave Adams a lift when his vehicle ran out of gas. H...

My Left Foot/Social Responsibility

suggests, the filmmakers show him as very human and the script does a good job of dramatizing his imperfections as well as his rem...

The Middle Passage/Deslauriers

depiction of explicit violence, rapes, flogging, etc. are "implied rather than shown," he seems to feel that this is an artistic a...

Sense and Sensibility/Novel v. Film

mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...

“The Castle”

They have decided to acquire it so that the airport can be expanded. Thus, the working class Kerrigan family is pitted against th...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Annie Hall

the film is Allens character Alvy who seems to have so many problems it becomes hilarious and insane, often presenting psychologic...

Characterization in Crash

Rican descent. Graham would undoubtedly not identity himself as racist, yet he fails to remember that Ria is Puerto Rican, not Mex...

“The Castle” : A Messenger

their idea of the Australian dream. The Kerrigans home, in their minds at least, is indeed their "castle". They willingly disreg...

The Shape of Things and Nietzsche's Ideas

that has been crafted by man. Is Evelyn a beguiling sculptor who wants to mold Adam? There are other thematic elements in the wor...

Historical Context of 'The Caine Mutiny'

In 6 pages this paper considers the Communist paranoia of the 1950s as depicted in this film's desire to prosecute Queeg during a ...

2 Films on the Holocaust

sole survivor out of the eight people who lived for three years in the lofts tiny space. The film flashes back to Otto explaining ...