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Frida/Accuracy of Recent Film

Frida, as a young teen, sneaking into an auditorium to watch Diego painting a mural. Diegos wife Lupe appears and confronts Diego ...

Aileen Wuornos and Court TV

at a standstill when abuse has occurred. There can certainly be no argument surrounding the fact that family dynamics -- which re...

Jeffrey Dahmer Psychological Analysis

certainly subjective. Rogers theory suggests that our actions are driven by the desire to make a better life for ourselves. Dahm...

An Examination of a Serial Killer

games with police, but one important question lingers. What makes serial killers kill? It is a hard question to answer as there...

Two Views of Murder

because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...

'The Angel of Death' Serial Killer Donald Harvey

an overly religious nature. And, yet, Harvey was not remarkably religious either. Once he was incarcerated, the length of his tal...

Inside the Criminal Mind by Stanton Samenow and Mass Murderers

done regarding the men and (some) women who kill repeatedly. "Inside the Criminal Mind" Dr. Stanton E. Samenow would agree with...

A Ted Bundy Profile

In five pages the serial killer's early life is discussed in order to determine what may have set him on a murderous path. There ...

Differential Association Theory and Serial Killer Ted Bundy

the student with a significantly better understanding of what fueled Bundys murderous desire, as well as the fundamental factors b...

Ethnic Promotion, Spike Lee, and John Woo

In five pages these film directors are discussed in terms of the way they use their movies to promote their own ethnic backgrounds...

Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos

This paper examines the differences between male and female serial killer characteristics and profiles the female serial killer Ai...

Contemporary Literature and How Emotions Are Portrayed

In five pages this paper examines how emotions are portrayed in the contemporary literary works The Things They Carried by Tim O'B...

Art Spiegelman on the Holocaust

the beast that was the Holocaust. It is presented as cold and unemotional in many ways, through these very depictions, and also su...

The Night Stalker by Philip Carlo

Yet, incongruously he demonstrated that he can act with compassion towards his family and he loves his sister dearly. It would be ...

Overview of Serial Killers

is irrefutable. Senator Ed Perlmutter, who sponsored a bill to stiffen the punishment of animal cruelty charges, has no doubt th...

Jack Ruby, Murderer of Lee Harvey Oswald

In fifteen pages this paper discusses Jack Ruby in an attempt to separate the actual man from the myth, whether he was a murder co...

Communication and Marriage in 'Unicorn in the Garden' and 'Wife Wooing' by John Updike

her, he would be interested in having sex, but she wants to read a book on Richard Nixon. As soon as she settles in, however, she ...

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

In five pages this paper considers the portrayal of utopia in each work in terms of freedom and the individual....

La Belle Epoch and Decadence in Against Nature by J.K. Huysmans

In six pages this paper examines the novel in a discussion of its portrayal of decadence and its impact upon La Belle Epoch....

'Bonnie and Clyde' Theme in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers

In four pages this paper examines the films of Oliver Stone with the focus being a social analysis of Natural Born Killers. Three...

Film Violence

psychologists concluded that people with violent dispositions seek out violent material to view. The films themselves do not cause...

Cinematic Violence

The ongoing debate onf movie violence is examined from both sides in five pages with Pulp Fiction and Natural Born Killers among t...

US Culture and Violence

In five pages this paper discusses US culture's representation of violence in an overview of the actual events involving serial ki...

'Raise the Red Lantern' and 'Woman Warrior'

This paper consisting of 5 pages compares the ideas contained in the film Raise the Red Lantern' to the text written by Maxine Hon...

Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino's Style of Directing

In five pages this paper discusses how Quentin Tarantino addresses the human condition in his filmmaking style and in the violent ...

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...

Popular Culture, Gender Constructs, and 'New Femininities'

and behaviours, and seen as being in direct opposition to "femininity", which is equally constrained in its parameters, and define...

Film Reflections of Confucianism

ethics with virtue ethics. Confucian ethics generally embrace the idea of righteousness and goes to the notion that people should...

Film Noir, Complexity And Gangsters

wealth, status, and material possessions (clothes and cars), because all other "normal" avenues to the top are unavailable to them...

Sartre's Vision Of The Human Condition

of making choices through free will despite the perpetual attempt to define their existence as being driven by determinism. ...