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twentieth century, people are all chimeras, or mythic hybrids of machine and organism, or cyborgs (Haraway, 1991). In Western sci...
of souls (Frost 104). It is possible that Plato was attempting to use popular belief to promote the teaching of more profound trut...
tight close-up (Dirks, 1996). There is a menacing "No Trespassing" sign outside an old gate, and after panning up over a chain-li...
In many ways we see, in the painting in the Norton Simon Museum, how there are timeless subjects in the world of painting. For exa...
Music Town. With $9,000 of store receipts in his pocket, Lucas goes to Atlantic City in hopes of parlaying that into enough money...
The blues, in all its glory, is truly a black American phenomenon but it is also an American phenomenon. Davis (2003) writes: "The...
of her three suitors, a sex therapist, her father and her former roommate, and a lesbian acquaintance (Shes Gotta Have It). Nolas ...
is picked to become part of a US Ping-Pong team that plays in newly opened Communist China. After his discharge from the army, For...
fiance Rosa (Williams and Garrett). Clara, in both the book and movie, is truly psychic and her powers are a intriguing feature ...
games and the computer, it rises up between 35 and 55 hours a week (Gentile et al., 2004; 1235). Through this much media exposure ...
editorializing, but this fits well within the boundaries of the film. For example, at one point a character says that "at any give...
throughout the film involves barriers to listening and questioning as well as dialogical processes that can break down these barri...
is But a Dream" by the Harptones and "Speedo" by the Cadillacs, combine seamlessly with additional orchestration to convey a "let ...
For instance, Hotspur from Henry IV was actually old enough to be Prince Hals father, but Shakespeare pictured the two characters ...
"Nazis murder Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss...German President Hindenburg dies" and "Adolf Hitler becomes F?hrer of Germany" (The H...
ethics with virtue ethics. Confucian ethics generally embrace the idea of righteousness and goes to the notion that people should...
indictment of the British caste system and the exploitation of laborers necessary to maintain its bourgeois lifestyle (Mitchell, 2...
saved Thomass life) and to explore the meaning their culture has for each of them (Berardinelli, 1998). Its also notable, Berardi...
inexperienced actors in the lead roles (Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey). The play opens with the servants, Samson and Gregory,...
decision for Olivier to choose to embark on this project. At the age of forty, Olivier thought he was too old to play the Danish p...
The battle included the use of guns and dynamite. When the battle ended, sixteen people were dead, and almost 160 were wounded (A...
In many ways Turkey contradicts all of our images of an Islamic nation. While many quasi experts have...
how mans recollections "are motionless fragments marked by the surroundings" (La Jet?e); inasmuch as the storys underlying current...
of film. That would alert the readers to the fact that the criticism is biased. Finally, we have to wonder if opinions really ...
scene begins Laura Wingfield (Karen Allen) and her gentleman caller Jim OConnor (James Naughton) are looking at Lauras "glass mena...
evolves because the men in the film are misogynist or because it is something that is a part of Celie, is unclear. Still, it seems...
as "a fantastic figure: he is Death, he is the elf-Knight of the ballads, he is the imagination, he is a Dream" (Easterly 543). As...
As this indicates, Herodotus intended this work to be more than a history. His ambitious purpose is to capture in writing, in thei...
reporter investigating this issue and interviewing the various people who new Kane. From the newsreel, the audience learns that ...
the first use of gunpowder, creating greater capabilities in weaponry and therefore greater need for external defense from within ...