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A Memo on 2001 Tax Cut and Reconciliation Budget

In a memo to Democratic leader Sen. Tom Daschle this report of five page discusses key points of this budget and factors to consid...

Book and Film Versions of Empire of the Sun

and he never becomes completely embittered. In this book (made later into a film by Steven Spielberg), Ballard relates the life o...

Perspectives on the Movie American Beauty

In five pages this essay contrasts and compares the perspectives of critics and the film's writers with regard to 1999's American ...

Establishing a Genre Movie in 'Singin' In The Rain'

This 9 page essay considers how the theatrical presence in the film is developed stylistically through textural characteristics of...

A Case Study in Requirements of Functional Human/Computer Interactions

This paper examines functionality issues required by a video shop to set up a database information system to allow customers easie...

Women's Changing Roles and Movie Remakes

In five pages this research paper examines 3 motion picture remakes and how this reflects women's changing social roles. Six sour...

Feminist Accomplishments in Erin Brockovich and Chocolat

for how its members would be perceived -- in order to create the fervor that was ultimately produced from its presence. Thr...

John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I

and the need for Gods son. Satan is not merely presented, and then dismissed, as simply an evil entity that it out to rule, but ra...

Constantinople Siege

but he was so obnoxious and unpopular that his father had come back (Vickers, 2001). Now that he was well and truly in charge, he ...

Cinematic Interpretation of History

In terms of the way in which...

Monster Threat in the 1987 Horror Movie Near Dark

This report analyzed the Near Dark horror movie within the context of critic Robin Wood's observation that 'normality is threatene...

American Cinema and Asian Culture

the majority of cases a stereotypical and inaccurate perception. As White (2001) points out, many Asian countries adopted the styl...

Silent to Talkies Cinematic Transition from Metropolis to The Gold Diggers of 1933

simply being "filmed" theater. Metropolis offered a chilling glimpse of the future, as the film is set in the year 2000 in the cit...

How Women Are Treated in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now

(Hunter G01). Kurtz is near death, ravaged by his experiences and close to being insane (Hunter G01). Kurtz has not civilized the ...

Cinema and Tao te Ching Edited by Michael LaFargue

This is mysterious Femininity (Tao Te Ching, p. 70). Lefargue (1992) describes this saying as indicating that femininity is the...

Are Ratings for Movies Censorship or Can They Be Socially Justified?

"The system, whatever its details, is at heart a spin-doctoring plot against rising unhappiness about violent and smutty prime-tim...

Mainstream Cinema and the Portrayal of Women

that there is an interpretation of the films in a subconscious manner. Therefore, the reinforcing is appalling to the baser self, ...

An Exploration of 'Sonny's Blues' by James Baldwin

deal of depth. Sonny is put in jail and one can imagine that growth takes place there. While it seems that this would occur, and t...

History, Movies, First Knight and Jabberwocky

In five pages this essay examines how Middle Ages history and life are portrayed in the films Jabberwocky and First Knight. Two s...

Novel and Movie Versions of The French Lieutenant's Woman

novel and wholly unique to the film, it is arguably faithful to Fowles intentions in the way that the original novel is structured...

Movie Theater Evaluation Report

are handed an envelope with instructions that they will be attending the next brush-up class in hospitality/customer care (Barsky ...

Erik Erikson's Stages and Ages Human Development Model

ability to communicate his wants and needs. Sadly, Erikson also notes that those infants whose needs are not met and who are not...

Families in the Movies Soul Food and My Family

one gets to that point, there is something that changes or something that does not fit well. For example, we could get a good look...

Terrifying Scenes from the Movie Se7en

powerful understanding of how terrifying evil can be. Scene One "Gluttony, the set reveals the neglect the character had for eve...

Women's Roles in Western and Hindi Cinema

The movie industry in India is the largest in the world and produces over 800 films a year, twice that of Hollywood and is referre...

Smoke Signals Film and 'Road' Movies

father, but the two young men are not fond of each other, at least not on the surface (Maslin, 2002). Thomas, who chatters incessa...

General Systems Theory and the Movie The Prince of Tides

In eight pages this paper applies general systems theory to the relationships and characters featured in the movie The Prince of T...

US Sexuality and the Media

up, an idea that is still being felt in many rape cases where women are asked if they were acting seductively, wearing revealing c...

Landscape's Symbolic Uses in Chinese Movies Red Sorghum, The Blue Kite, and Yellow Earth

meant to symbolize the conditions of rural poverty in China and its openness and vastness is typical of Chinese art works which eq...

Apocalyptic Representation Supporting Authoritarianism in Science Fiction Movies

What often happens though is that there is evidence in some films that the authoritarianism is a positive influence. This is ofte...