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Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted...

the epitome of stereotypical masculinity almost to the point of caricature. Skilling once said that he had thought about it a lot ...

And another tells how widespread it is: 31% of American women, that is nearly one-third of all women, report that they have been p...

entirely different media. It is unfair of movie audiences to expect a director to put their favorite book on screen, scene-for-sce...

lighting, color, camera angle, types of shots, music and set design, to underscore the theme of self-determination and individual...

as "jolly, slapstick comedy," but also criticizes it for lacking the "almost eerie humanity that infused" the earlier movies, writ...

In five pages the arguement is presented that the future depicted in Offred's narrative is a combination reenactment of the Bible ...

the late nineteenth century (the same time the story was written). This setting is of vital importance because at that time, weal...

Graham is having an affair with his partner, Ria, who is of Latin American descent; however, Graham cannot seem to remember that ...

child who was very, very much wanted, previously in the film, scenes featuring John and Jenny have shown them thrilled over her pr...

not abhor, which is very important in setting up the story: "Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from...

this essay, he differentiates between knowing multiple facts and being able to regurgitate them on demand in order to score highly...

humbles himself as this child, he is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven" (Leyda, 2007, p. 322). The Greek verb "tapeinosel" i...

that her mother "had never really had a friend of her own before" and it is clear that the friendship means a great deal to both w...

can bring himself to sit at the same table with his wife. Swift sets the stage for making this reaction from Gulliver believable ...

"Slaves Who Have No Country of Your Own-Ruled by Different Masters (1945-1947)" (Chang, 1991, p. 75). This title conveys the attit...

I thought it was probably easier to plan a military invasion than a wedding. But I had anticipated the craziness and the occasiona...

frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...

in the form of dialogues that she has between her English self, Eva, and her Polish self, Ewa. One gathers from the context of the...

are knit by Chaucer into a complex tapestry in this allegorical tale, illustrating the instability of lifes joys, but also the sam...

who come to Africa and find themselves overwhelmed by it. One example of the way in which Marlow puts his interpretation on things...

After the Civil War, slavery was over, though of course prejudice against African-Americans remains to this day. The historical i...

it can generate income for the company (Hickey, 2007). The focus changes from reducing costs to increasing revenue and profit over...

home, but in a mythical way that remains difficult to obtain and hold on to. The first episodes of the series begin the process of...

surprised by change. To him it is has if the village and his family stayed frozen as they were in 1928. In his absence, his father...

fond remembrances of what the lake was like during his childhood and how he would get up quietly, dress and "start out in the cano...

to really do at this spot, but it was pretty so we were happy sitting on the hood of the car and just looking at the ocean and tal...

than a drug culture. The Cold War was continuing, with western fears of the "red menace" exacerbated by events such as the Soviets...

confronted some of the obstacles that define their personal an public lives. Anil has come to terms with her identity as a Sri Lan...

is to preserve the "state," that is the authority of the state, as opposed to having genuine feeling for the welfare of the people...