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T. Coraghessan Boyle's Carnal Knowledge

Alena and Jim's relationship is the focus of this analysis of T. Coraghessan Boyle's Carnal Knowledge consisting of five pages. F...

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Dramatic Irony

In five pages Twain's use of dramatic irony in Chapter XXXI is examined in terms of Huck's decision regarding Jim's mistake and it...

The Jim Crow Laws and Black Education

essentially starting from "ground zero," educationally speaking. In the South, it was actually illegal to teach slaves how to read...

Characters of Marlow and Lord Jim in Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim

In five pages this paper examines the effectiveness of the novel's third person narrative and examines the relationship between Ma...

Famous Philanthropists Jim Barksdale, Jim Clark, Bill Gates, and Andrew Carnegie

instead of emulating such rich men as Armand Hammer, J. P. Morgan, and William Randolph Hearst (19-20). Those men each had a grea...

Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie and Jim's Character

path to happiness. When Jim comes over for dinner on that fateful evening, he is in several instances cold and behaves selfishly....

Williams/Jim's Predicament

the central square of a small South American town," where twenty Indians are about to be executed by government soldiers in order ...

Land and Money and the Status Quo

The 1990 movie "The Field", written and directed by Jim Sheridan is based on a 1965 film by John B. Keane. This is a captivating...

The Christian Ideal of Love in "Dead Man Walking"

down, and shot them in the head. I look down at the name in horror. Do I really want to know such a man?" (Prejean, 1994). That i...

Death Penalty/Religion’s Ambiguous Position

housing a prisoner for life ("Revenge" 21). Social research suggests that support for the death penalty in the US stems from "vigi...

Once We Were Warriors/Postcolonial Theory

a different "historical memory of the Maori," as they remember "fierce fighters who battled against British colonizers for decades...

Comparative Analysis of Five Personages in Terms of Leadership Qualities

system that had failed (Keppler Associates, nd). Had the men become over-anxious, they would use more oxygen, thereby shortening t...

Film Industry and Revelations on Crime and Punishment

woman. She has the ability to ruin peoples lives. This gives her a great deal of power and it corrupts absolutely. As Judge Danfor...

President Kennedy's Assassination According to Jim Garrison and Oliver Stone's 1991 Film JFK

(Garrison, 1988). Garrisons book chronicles his investigation into what was perhaps the most notable murder case in America. Gar...

Joseph Smith, the Dead's 'Voice,' and the Mormons

In four pages this paper discusses the dead's voice as provided by Joseph Smith in Age of Reason as well as in The Book of Mormon ...

Cinematic Analysis of Dead Man Walking and Schindler's List

This paper examines how character action is used by the director of Dead Man Walking, and commercially motivated criticisms of Sch...

Suicide as a Result of Betrayal and Loss of Trust

In seven pages this paper is written from the point of view of a person who attempted suicide despite family members' belligerance...

Timelessness of the Grateful Dead

In ten pages a fan of the Grateful Dead's music discusses the classic band's influence and legacy. Six sources are cited in the b...

Modern Day Print and Film, Cultural Clashes, Chaos or Conformity

two of the popular films that marked the 1980s, James Camerons Terminator, released in 1984, and Michael Lehmanns 1989 Heathers, a...

Racial Representations in Hollywood's Horror Movies

In twelve pages this paper discusses how racial representations are structured in Hollywood films in a consideration of The Shinin...

Cardiac Surgery in Africa

This paper discusses a documentary film that follows eight Rweandan children as they go to a hospital for cardiac surgery. The chi...

Dead Poets Society Film

was no evidence of peeling paint on anything. Schools like Welton do exist in the United States. They are generally very clos...

Cinema and the Placement of Products

as did the movie companies, which realiszed that the sweet manufacturer hadnt paid a cent" (Goodwin, 2002). With these realities p...

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean

due to biblical passages describing how divine vengeance was "meted out to guilty and innocent alike" in "the Great Flood, the des...

White Man's Burden, A Film Analysis

of racism. However, viewing John Travoltas portrayal of Louis Pinnock through the stereotype of the "brute Negro," that is the s...

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...

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...

An Analysis of the Film, White Man's Burden

the viewer, who comes to the startling realization that the movie must be a true reversal of the races. The black man and the whi...

An Analysis of Crime and Punishment in Dead Man Walking

This three page paper analyzes crime and punishment from the perspective of the film by Tim Robbins. The question of whether just...

Sister Helen Prejean's Dead Man Walking

In four pages the book chronicling a nun's interactions with a Death Row inmate is critically reviewed along with the inclusion of...