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Fact or Fiction in the Life and Film Adaptations of Michael Collins

the boundaries of Eire. While Jordans film begins amidst the political turmoil of Ireland in 1916, with Jordan at the center of t...

Documentary History of the Contemporary World Jew

In five pages this paper discusses the contemporary era and the quest for Jewish Identity in an assessment of the text portrayals ...

Reality and Hispanic Cinema

brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...

Comparative Analysis of Reef by Romesh Gunesekera and Meatless Days by Sara Suleri

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares these works in terms of their portrayals of post imperial and post colonial Pakist...

Seabiscuit Film Historical Review

portrays? Are the facts sacrificed in the name of entertainment? Seabiscuit is not only the story of a horse but also of the rea...

Cinematic Comparison of Smoke Signals and Simon Burch

saved Thomass life) and to explore the meaning their culture has for each of them (Berardinelli, 1998). Its also notable, Berardi...

Thomas R. Eddlem's Journal Article on John Hancock

With his uncles death he inherited the business and while he was only 27 years old it seems he "managed his inheritance, the large...

Love, Compromise, and Conflict in Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

more so when Elizabeth - who relishes the opportunity to manipulate him - opts to dance instead with Mr. Wickham, a man Darcy deci...

Aphra Behn's 'Oroonoko'

untouched. She and Oroonoko consummate their marriage but the very next morning the kings servants come to the young couple and sa...

Cinema and the Depiction of African Americans III

In eight pages this paper discusses the cinematic portrayal of African Americans with stereotype reliance a primary emphasis. Ele...

Myth and Reality of Outlaw Jesse James

In five pages this research paper examines the Old West outlaw in terms of how yellow journalism and the political landscape of th...

Seeing Voices A Journey Into the World of the Deaf by Oliver Sacks

In two pages this text is examined in a brief overview that focuses upon its portrayal of the social acceptance of the deaf commun...

Book Review of Into the Heart by Kenneth Good

In three pages this book is reviewed and analyzed in terms of its portrayal of its subject matter. There is no bibliography inclu...

Life in Mexico by Frances Calderon de la Barca

In five pages this text's portrayal of nineteenth century Mexican life is examined in a discussion of such topics as social class ...

Chinese Life of Author Pang Mei Natasha Chang in Bound Feet and Western Dress

In five pages this paper examines the portrayal of women in this biographical text. There are no other sources listed....

Drug Use Perceptions and Films

In five pages this paper examines how film portrayals of drug use has influenced public perceptions of it as 'cool.' Four sources...

A Study of Gener Issues in 'The Birdcage'

This paper comprised of 25 pages compares and contrasts the portrayal of homosexual men and their defined gender roles with realit...

Homelessness and the Media's Negative Portrayal

In seven pages this paper discusses the shift between the 1980s to the 1990s regarding the media's portrayal of homelessness from ...

1960s and 1990s on the Mass Media and Sex

In ten pages this paper discusses changing attitudes between the 1960s and 1990s regarding the portrayal of sex by the mass media ...

Children and TV Violence

Yosemite Sam getting his head blown off at least once a week and of course, the memorable Wyle E. Coyote who never, in all his fo...

Women and the Benefits of Pornography

In fifteen pages this paper considers how despite its savage criticism regarding its treatment and portrayal of women that pornogr...

Duality in Willa Cather's My Antonia

In five pages this paper analyzes My Antonia by Willa Cather in a consideration of its visual pioneer women portrayal and duality....

The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor

In five pages this novel is analyzed in terms of its themes and portrayal of pertinent Irish American political and social issues ...

Lilliput, Satire, and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

This essay consists of five pages and examines the first book of Gulliver's Travels in terms of how Swift satirizes eighteenth cen...

Yahoos and Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

In five pages this paper examines the fourth book of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels in its satirical portrayal of Yahoo brute...

Evil as a Theme in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Dante's Divine Comedy

A research paper addressing the portrayal of evil in Dante's Divine Comedy and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The author draws the c...

Power Theme in 1984 by George Orwell

of virtually every aspect of ones individual life. "What is concerned here is not the morale of the masses, whose attitude...

The Tempest by William Shakespeare and The Collector by John Fowles

In seven pages these two works are contrasted and compared with the focus being on Clegg's terror reign depicted by John Fowles an...

Feminine Relationships in 'The Girl' by Le Sueur

In four pages this essay discusses the feminist movement in terms of the story's portrayal of women's relations and mother and dau...

Women in Medea and Lysistrata

In four pages this research paper contrasts and compares the portrayal of women and their roles in ancient Greek society as repres...