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Far From the Maddening Crowd, Madame Bovary, and Marriage

to a place where she thinks that such fantasies can be obtained. Now, while such romance can be found, it is often tempered with a...

Hell in Linden Hills and Inferno

at the sacrifice of those things that really matter the most: heart and soul. Linden Hills is an African American middle-class ne...

Historical Figure of Moses

Akhenaten, the ruler who renounced the many gods of Egypt in favor of the sun god as the only deity (Wolf, 2000). This position ho...

Paris and London in Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities

presented with a picture of London where Mr. Darnay understands that he needed to work for what he got. "He had expected labour, a...

Authors of the Latin American Boom Era Carpentier and Cortazar

indicative of what the new emerging countries might become. Julio Cortazar does...

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 ...

Modern Hispanic Family in the United States

as well. For example, we assume that African Americans largely live in the inner city and that the children are raised by single m...

Edith Hamilton's Mythology

Chaos. Gaea, the first Titan, was the earth, itself. After she emerged from the Chaos, she gave birth to her own consort, Uranus, ...

Comparing Dan T. Carter's The Politics of Rage With the Film The Best Years of Our Lives

meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...

Robert Rodriguez's Films and Cultural Identities

direction and production of a larger film. "The plan, Rodriguez said, was to make a series of three action films for this market a...

Stereotypes Involving Organized Crime and Italian Americans

crime as a malignant tumor on the face of society. After assessing the facts against what popular culture has had to say about th...

Computer Games and Gender Prejudice

conspicuous, while at other times remain quite subtle; however, one thing is certain: the formation of these variations originates...

Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh

true in the modern non-fictional Palestinian reality, survival as individuals and as a culture is the primary goal of Khalifehs fi...

Internet Technology and Morality

compromising of principles much more likely. For example, it is noted that the Internet opens the doors of pornography and cyber a...

Analyzing the Portrayal of the Media in the Film Bob Roberts

himself completely to his ambition (Roberge, 2002). This is evidenced by his decision to run for political office (Roberge, 2002)...

3 Issues Regarding Popular Culture and the Media

basis for women to be perceived within the myriad literary components, the feminist critical theory serves to create a semblance o...

Comparing Crime Dramas Crossing Jordan and CSI

Cases vary from week to week. In an episode known as Stalker, Jan Galloway was obviously fearful when her body was found. It was n...

Girls, Women, and the Impact of the Media

more than provide a reflection of the times, or to subconsciously inform women and girls about their roles. In many cases, the med...

Literature and Women's Social Status

close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...

Andrew Lang as the Arabian Nights' Storyteller

In eleven pages this paper discusses how Andrew Lang becomes a storyteller in his vivid portrayal of the Arabian Nights' tales whi...

The Eighteenth Century Novel The Italian by Ann Radcliffe

writes that there was "something too extraordinary in the figure of this man, and too singular in his conduct to pass unnoticed by...

Confession or Accusation in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

In five pages this paper argues that the novel is representative of both accusation and confession regarding its First World War p...

Satan in Paradise Lost by John Milton

In three pages this paper examines Book I's portrayal of Satan and the author's attempt to influence perceptions of the readers. ...

Book I of A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and the Conflict Between Reality and Illusion

In three pages the thematic conflict between reality and illusion is examined in a consideration of Book I's portrayal of the love...

Richard Brooks' Film The Blackboard Jungle

In eight pages this film by director Richard Brooks is examines in an overview that considers its portrayal of youth problems. Th...

'Paradiso' of Dante

across other he knows as well ads many mythical and historical figures, each one can be seen representing a particular virtue or f...

Cinema and U.S. Immigration

In five pages the film El Norte's portrayal of immigration to the United States is presented in this overview. There is 1 source ...

Ulysses by James Joyce and Modernism

In ten pages this paper examines modernism within the context on Ulysses and how James Joyce varies the portrayal of Homer's Odyss...

Man and Woman in A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

hand, is a model of blunt decorum and steadiness, a man ruled by his class and conventions rather than feeling: basically, a guy ...

Remains of the Day, Gosford Park, and Portrayal of Labor Relations

hear me? Im the perfect servant; I have no life." (Gosford Park, 2001). The idea that servants lives are insignificant is support...