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12 Angry Men

as an unnecessary delay to the inevitable delivery of a guilty verdict. But, the Architect eventually convinces them to go over th...

Accuracy in the Film "Frida"

draw and paint, which is a "direct expression" of "her interior life" (Young 29). When she is finally able to walk again, she visi...

Kubrick/The Shining

one in which Danny Torrance, the seven-year-son of Wendy and Jack, has a vision of blood engulfing a hotel hallway in torrential w...

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...

Recovery Process/Mississippi & New Orleans

devastated and lifeless as they were in the immediate aftermath of Katrina. This compares sharply with Mississippi where 89 percen...

Policy Analysis/Gaming in Mississippi

at both the pros and cons of gaming in the state in order to accurately determine and evaluate its social and economic effects. Ba...

Faulkner/Knight's Gambit

starting point by which to judge his slow drift away from this position towards enforcing justice as he sees it. In "Monk," Faul...

Birth of a Nation/Cinematic History

history of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. In essence, Griffith is recounting the tales told to him by his father, who was a...

Cinematography in “Hero”

a "master swordsman," arriving at the Emperors fortress. Nameless explains to the Emperor how he vanquished "three deadly assassin...

Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night/On Film

a take on the play that is patterned after the screwball comedies of the 1930s, as "Beatrice and Benedick are surely the prototype...

Frida/Accuracy of Recent Film

Frida, as a young teen, sneaking into an auditorium to watch Diego painting a mural. Diegos wife Lupe appears and confronts Diego ...

Economic Bubbles

that flows. The crashes can result in large levels of wealth being destroyed and the potential for the crash to cause a depression...

Mississippi River Journey of Jim and Huckleberry Finn

and telling Huck his story. They both decide to simply hide out on the island together, fishing and getting what they can on the i...

Edwin Davis and William Hogan's The Barber of Natchez

who were generally more accepted by white society if they worked hard and proved themselves intelligent and worthy of respect. ...

Mississippi Blacks Prior to and Following the Second World War

despite their shared desire to risk their lives to serve Uncle Sam in his time of need, racial barriers did not miraculously come ...

Link Between the Civil Rights Movement and Black Missississippians Service in the Second World War

had been technically ended when the South lost the Civil War, the subsequent Reconstruction did nothing to reconstruct the concept...

Mississippi and Georgia Politics

became the first Republican congressman representing Georgia since the Reconstruction (Bass and DeVries, 1976). Bass and DeVrie...

Book Review of Ann Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi

would dare to challenge the social mores to effect societal change. She would become on of the first blacks to protest unfair trea...

Moody's Portrait of Racism

by her own relatives. She seems to learn that hard times can come from black as well as white folk. Annes first taste of how thing...

Predictions of Alexis de Tocqueville and the Survival of Native Americans

which Tocqueville noted between white and red, between savage and civilized, was an ever-present factor, in fact in the interactio...

U.S. Economics and Native American Casinos

not a detriment. Consider, for example, the Mississippi Choctaw. At least one anthropologists has termed the Mississippi Choctaw...

Issues Involving Mississippi and West Virginia Higher Education

In eleven pages this paper examines regional differences in college education issues in a consideration of West Virginia and Missi...

Explorations of Father Jacques Marquette

only rumors at the time, there was discussion among the French that a large river flowed in the south. This river was thought to ...

Mississippi During the 1950s and the NAACP

In five pages this paper examines the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1950s' Mississippi. Eight sou...

I've Got the Light of Freedom by Charles M. Payne and Organizing Tradition

In five pages the organizing tradition as it evolved in Mississippi during the 1950s and 1960s as depicted in this text by Charles...

Impact of the Vietnam War and the U.S. Civil Rights Movement

In five pages this report examines how lives were impacted by the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement in a consideration of ...

Freedom Quest of Huck Finn

that perhaps he had been allowed to do exactly what he wanted. One can imagine that Huck achieved a sense of self-reliance and the...

Native American Earthworks and a Poverty Point Archaeological Investigation

extent of this importance can in part be gauged by the incredible material diversity which is present at the site, a diversity whi...

Civil Rights Quest of African Americans

her peers. By reading her book, one can understand why the quest to achieve civil rights is and was important for African America...

Geological Disasters and Human Habitation

regard to changes in drainage patterns from building. However, even without specific knowledge of floodplains, it is possible to ...