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The History of Explosives and Explosions

propellant and it was used with early muzzle-type firearms" (Bellis, 2008). Black powder is a mechanical explosive, and its very m...

Popular Culture of 1950s America

not something that sprung up in the 1990s or 1980s. Yes, it is a 1950s phenomenon ("Film History of the 1950s"). McDonalds was fra...

Mis-En-Scene Analysis, Mildred Pierce

an afternoon off and a swim. At the beach house, the first camera shot has Monte showing a closet full of bathing suits (Dirks)....

True History of the Kelly Gang

soul it would seem and clearly accustomed to oppression and anger. He represented the people, the Irish people and others who had ...

Relevance of “The Doctor” to Assessment and Appraisal

a doctor has to treat the whole person. Many studies have shown that patients resent it when doctors think of them simply as their...

Jesus Of History, Jesus Of Faith

means of research" (Merrigan and Haers, 2000, p. 61). In other words, Meier was saying it is impossible for us, today, to obtain t...

A Sociological Interpretation of Million Dollar Baby

death, Maggies family comes to see her just to secure their inheritance, something that brings money into the picture. Clearly, th...

Realism and Expressionism in Film

"realists," saying that what they "had in common was a desire to put cinema at the service of what ... [he] called a fundamental f...

The Nude in Art History

also has fertility connotations ("The Nude...History"). However, in Greek art, the nude takes on a different function, as Greek ar...

The Film Ordinary People & Carl Rogers

capacity of the individual to be expressed and to strengthen (Kirschenbaum, 2004, p. 116). In pursuing this line of thinking, Ro...

1940s Black Cinema

fell considerably short of avoiding stereotypes. For example, one review, that is typical of those produced by white critics, de...

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 ...

A Short History of Progress - Or Lack Thereof

past, we can use it to predict what our likely future is, and that should give anyone pause, for our past is not particularly whol...

African American: History and the Present

is the Present and Future Condition of the Negroes, from the book Democracy in America (1835) by Alexis de Tocqueville. In this he...

Hitchcock’s Auteur Vision: “Rear Window”

they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In The Birds, for instance, Melanie (Tippi Hedren) pursues Mitch (Rod Taylor), a m...

Editing and Narrative

are used to match up, such as a person getting out of a chair and then being shown form a different angle entering a room. The use...

History Of Leadership Models

considers the times, the Dark Ages, brutality was a common thing. The Hebrew leaders, Abraham, Joseph and Moses are well known to...

Hotel California and California History

in California. The song opens by picturing a "dark desert highway" and the "Warm smell of colitas" (Felder, et al). "Colitas" is...

A Comparative History of F.D. Roosevelt and Mackenzie King

an attorney ("William Lyon Mackenzie King," 2002). Roosevelt was also born to privilege. His family had been members of the aristo...

Herodotus Histories, Book 4, Chapters 176-183

as he refers to the way in which climate and geographical features serve to shape human behavior. For example, the Lotus Eaters ar...

Frances Fitzgerald's "America Revised: History Schoolbooks In The Twentieth Century"

multiculturalism and reconstruction to cloud the truth and cultivate biased perspectives has caused Americas history textbooks to ...

“Antz” & Emile Durkheim

labor. Rather than being totally dependent on custom, these societies are held together primarily through mutual obligation betwee...

AMERICAN HISTORY: AN OVERVIEW

having to serve it. These days, of course, television is very much ensconced in the fabric of our lives, with most homes having at...

Rome as Perceived in the Modern World

still essentially the same (HBO, 2007). In this series, therefore, it seems as though the image of Rome is one that is historical ...

THE TALIBAN, ITS MEANING AND ITS HISTORY

Afghanistan, and why it has such a blind hatred toward America -- and all things Western. Though we cant really come up with a sol...

A HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY: ITS INFLUENCE ON POLITICS AND SOCIETY FROM 2000 BCE TO 1500 CE

This 5-page paper examines the history of the Catholic Church and Christianity until 1500 BCE, and examines its influence on gover...

Hamlet and Ofelia and the Threats They Face

the not-too-distant past; the guards on the battlements talk about how the previous King Hamlet "smote the sledded [Polacks] on th...

William Bradford: History of Plymouth Plantation

the light of the gospel in our honorable nation of England...what wars and oppositions ever since, Satan hath raised, maintained a...

Hollywood and the California Dream

actually the perfect place for Americans to diverge from Eastern standards of rigid control as they sought a more morally ambiguou...

Post 1900 History of the New York Yankees

the first time on April 22, 1903, losing to Washington (The Official Site of the New York Yankees, 2007). However, with a never s...