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The Relationship Between Economic Success and Sexuality

those factors upside down. Microcredit has been found in at least one study to have more positive impact in terms of reduci...

Globalization and Pop Culture

has with the spread and popularity of American movies. Hollywoods influence and reach has long extended beyond its own shores and...

Early American Cinema, 'The Other,' and Social Tensions

makes constitutes the "others" uniqueness. "The Other" inFilm The existence of "the other" has figured prominently throughout the...

Twentieth Century Leisure and Social Change in Great Britain

agriculture is a priority and employment patterns are dependent upon it, leisure is not only constrained by the amount of "spare t...

United Kingdom Women's Magazines

of Womans Own has a woman on the front who is not runway model glamorous, but neither is she overweight or flawed in any way. The ...

Filmmaker Vittorio de Sica's The Bicycle Thief

influential example of neo-realism in the holistic sense and then examine this with reference to particular scenes and frames in t...

Seeking to be Free in 'The Yellow Wallpaper' by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin'

was lived during her time. Her work deals a large amount with the oppressiveness women felt within their married lives and their d...

Film and Sociology

and though it was assumed that there was corruption in the government, the optimism of the time suggested that it could be reverse...

Modern Literature, Films, and the 'Courage to Be'

calls affirming the power of being. The movie brings to mind the unanswered questions of where faith and belief are one in the sam...

Russian Cinema Development

and entertainment for the evening. The entertainment was the cinematograph. Unfortunately, they severely misjudged the turn out fo...

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe and Women

And yet, it is apparent that Okonkwo behaves in this manner because he is filled with a great deal of fear. Above all else, he fe...

Women's Rights and Islamic Veiling Perceptions

To understand the relative impact of veiling upon Islamic women we must delve into the culture, religion and politics of Islam. I...

Criminal Justice System and Women's Needs

penal system. First, it should be noted that this topic is very important due to the increasing female population in prison syst...

German Occupation and French Cinema

such, "the French government, recognizing the need to entertain the troops and the civilian population, allowed certain film produ...

German Occupation of France and French Films

?vident que le Fran?ais avait appris quelque chose de WWI quand beaucoup dindustries ont ?t? arr?t?es et ont nui ? la nation. En t...

Sexuality During the 12th Century

practices were dictated by the church or by the state, there were certain rules and regulations which governed the act, and in fac...

Modern Cinema in China

began in Hong Kong back in 1979, and was like a "coming of age" for the film industry (Li 709). Suddenly, there was a new generat...

Robbery in Films

in keeping all of the people hostage while the funds are delivered. As mentioned, while it is not exactly a bank robbery film, it ...

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Paradise Lost, and Cinema Verite

Paradise Lost In a review of "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" Roger Ebert (1996) indicates that it "is uni...

Magazine Culture and Women

together as a result of the magazines they choose to read. This results in the strengthening of the womens voice and societys ten...

Women's Social Status and Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

fortune spent for him? The next line makes it clear how the women of the community will view such an individual, however: . . "he ...

Great Depression and What it Was Like to Be a Teenager

We also had to write a lot of compositions. There was a lot of attention to grammar, spelling and composition, but sometimes it s...

Women's Athletics and Equity

later, it would be reasonable to assume that all educational institutions had eliminated gender-oriented discriminatory practices ...

The Evolution of Cinema

This 8 page paper discusses the main turning points in the history of cinema, the technology, and speculates on the future of th...

Seneca Falls and the Women’s Movement

simply did an overview of the movement. One of the things that is most striking about the Seneca Falls convention is that the Dec...

Citizen Kane

of Thatchers diary. Film components: Dissolves, flashback, deep-focus shots, long shots, close-ups. In the establishing long sho...

Sexual Harassment Case - Co-Workers

be defined as a sexual act and it made Peggy uncomfortable. According to the law, it is up to Peggy to do certain things before s...

Colonial Women’s Public Role and Legal Status

formal education or technical training, women would be hired. The obvious vocational choices were extensions of their housekeepin...

Assessment of Independent Living

she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...

“Interpreter of Maladies” and “The Woman Warrior”

the U.S. Maxine Hong Kingston was born in the U.S.; her parents emigrated from Hong Kong. But even though she is American, the pul...