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Spirited Away Film by Hayao Miyazaki

bathhouse (Ebert, 2002). By indulging themselves with the food, Chihiros parents are transformed into pigs. Osmond (2003) points o...

Raymond Carver's 'Cathedral'

able form a friendship with the blind man over that summer. However, it is interesting to note that he only asks to feel her face ...

Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri and Portrayal of Women

woman who is generous and selfless: "So much more dear and pleasing is to God/ My little widow, whom so much I loved,/ As in good ...

Family Installments by Edward Rivera

there are grand manmade variances that separate one from the next when it comes to overall acceptance. While people may share var...

Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities, France and England

of ever-growing interest. So, with great perseverance and untiring industry, he prospered" (Dickens NA). We are then presented ...

Media Depiction of American Power and Wealth

economic advantages over the working class that undermine political equality, a presupposition for viable democracy. From the nigh...

Love Themes in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

the position of the wound. He has been wounded in a way that precludes his ability to have sex and this seems to serve as the trag...

Luchino Visconti's Film Ludwig from a Sociopolitical Perspective

which attacks everything the ruling class stands for (Ludwig). The cinematic protagonist is the last Bavarian king (1845-1886), a...

Analyzing Another Country by Mary Pipher

old-age (Pipher, 2000, ch. 1). Its certainly not what many had imagined, and among the greatest of differences is that they find ...

Spirituality and Storytelling in Beloved by Toni Morrison

was painful or lost" (69). Beloved wants to hear about the diamond earrings that Mrs. Garner gave Sethe to mark her marital union...

Theories on Eugenics and Black Children

and "scientific evidence" was tailored to support racial biases. George Albee, professor of psychology at the University of Verm...

Drug Problems as a Social Construct

life-threatening..." (Merta, 2001, p.1). In Time magazine, Lopez (1999) reports on one police officers journey through the drug c...

Clever Women in Modern Detective Fiction

the standard framework for a mystery detective novel, each of these works share similar themes that are indicative of current Amer...

The Depiction of Troy in The Iliad and in Film

is not identified as a goddess except for when a servant speaks to Achilles about the legends that have begun to be spun concernin...

Revelation and Gospels Portrayal of Jesus

Greco-Roman thought and tradition. Nevertheless, traditionally, Christian scholars have been extremely reluctant to give credit fo...

The Magnificent Seven Film and the Cowboy Mentality

clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...

Darkness Visible by William Golding

takes an offhand remark of Pedigree concerning another student, Henderson, too literally and, interpreting the boy to be evil, wil...

Juan Rulfo and Alexander Pushkin on the Supernatural

age when a womans reputation was crucial to her welfare and future) on the slim chance that she can free herself from subservience...

Cinematic Explanation of Sciences' Gender Gap

crashes several hours flying time from a scientific research station in the Arctic. An Air Force crew is ordered to go and pick up...

Medieval and Renaissance Artistic Depictions of Women

womanly figure that offered men a very subdued connection to women. The fact that this connection with women was incredibly subdue...

Abortion and 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

they write: attempting to arrive at some truth about a topic. In Hemingways case, a good argument can be made for his attempt to u...

Filmmaker D.W. Griffith's Intolerance and The Birth of a Nation

because of the Civil War, and many of whom were still alive when the film was produced" (The Birth of a Nation PG). The director ...

Critique and Analysis of Wag the Dog Film by Barry Levinson

the message it conveys through incisive parody scary? Definitely. Barry Levinson is a veteran filmmaker who deftly employs a cyn...

Interpreting History with Ancient Literacy Texts

history of the region. The field of geology entered the realm of this historical research when researchers realized that they wer...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain and Depiction of Racial Minorities

beliefs maintained by the slaves when they still resided in Africa. There is also the perspective which argues that the childre...

Shakespeare's Othello and Racism within Renaiisance England

of perspective came about. Though various ploys were attempted to regain old sorts of power, in the end, there was a rise in the m...

Depiction of Women in 2 Short Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

as just another aspect of his wife who is indeed beautiful. Clearly God created everything about Georgiana and that birthmark is ...

Lucifer and Canto XXXIV of Dante's 'Inferno'

merely a picture of a creature that is the embodiment of power and evil. And, as such it is not anything that Satan does, in terms...

Media Image of Dan Quayle

the way of Electoral Votes (as that state had voted Republican since time immemorial), and he simply didnt know how to react to th...

Comparison of Films Robert Altman's Nashville and Robert Drew's Primary

Dean Story, was far more interested in film as an expansive theatrical art, represented by the Hollywood blockbuster features (ONe...