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Essays 601 - 630

Day-Age Theory of Creation

While this fact does not indicate that the author of Genesis intentionally used the word "yom" to indicate the passage of billions...

Analysis: Two Articles on Aging

conclusions are interesting, particularly as they take what is often seen as a negative (aging) and turn it into a positive experi...

Culture and Humanity: Things Fall Apart and The Gods Must Be Crazy

that offer the viewer/reader a different look at the western worlds involvement in other cultures. In offering these different v...

Silent v. Sound/Art in Film

"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...

Comparison in Politics

other on the real issues. Both promoted remaining in Iraq for the duration; both maintained that "something" has to be done about...

Independence Day/Film Review

in low Earth orbit would cause tidal waves, which is never mentioned, and one of the criticisms leveled at the film. There are oth...

Jury Member Speaks Out on Socrates’ Innocence

brought against me, and with my earliest accusers, and then with the later ones" (Plato, 1961, 18b). First, Socrates has been acc...

When A Man Loves A Woman

love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...

Psychological Concepts in "Lord of the Flies"

fear. They seem at first to have found an idyllic home: the island is beautiful, there is abundant fresh water, plenty of fruit an...

Read the Book First

unfold slowly and with care. That is a shame, because when films delve into character and do it well, its a revelation. The camera...

Black Rain Review and Criticism

yet sympathetic short stories about ordinary people in Japanese life. Black Rain is considered a novel distinct from all other tex...

Comparative Thematic Analysis of Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness

he was supposed to have picked up at this station has broken down, so he is delayed. He tries to make himself busy and during this...

Crime Fiction and William Shakespeare's Hamlet

or a devil that has assumed the shape of his father in order to lure him into sinful acts. Furthermore, there is a third option, w...

Suzanne Vega's Poem 'Playing'

their ultimate dream. And, the reference to the show indicates an imaginative perspective of life in general. There is an imaginat...

'Golden Age' of the Cold War Era

served to be a platform for fundamentalist interpretation with regard to religious scriptures. This reawakening, according to the...

Transferring Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights to the Silver Screen

critics. The other reason that books seldom translate well to film is that in a screenplay all the senses are limited to the visu...

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice and Homoeroticism

It all started when Lestat, a very old vampire, gives Louis the choice to either die or have eternal life as a vampire (Berardinel...

How Ophelia Was Manipulated by the Men in Her Life in Hamlet by William Shakespeare

are sending her and because she has led a sequestered life, Ophelia lacks sophistication when it comes to dealing with matters of ...

Overview of the 4 Dark Ages from 1200 to 700 BCE Greece to Europe of the Fourteenth Century

2002). One of the main cultural and educational devices not used was writing which was very important during the previous Mycenaea...

Analysis of Literary and Film Versions of The Color Purple

a young girl who has only her inherent strength and her faith in God to help her survive. She is not especially intelligent, nor i...

Michael Ondaatje's The Skin of the Lion and the Film Monsoon Wedding in Terms of Ethnicity and Gender Representation

7). In the third section of the novel, Patrick, the boy from the first section is now twenty-one years old and arrives in Toronto....

J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Cultural Products, and Religion

hairy feet. As this suggests, they are humble beings, not heroes. Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who is uncle to Frodo Baggins, entrusts ...

Aging and Ordinary People

employment he took on before he retired from the carpentry trade. He is a master carpenter - beginning when he first got out of t...

Lolita's Innocence

innocence. The ideal, at least the American ideal, is centered on youth. Lolita is young but may not be the innocent that Humber...

Structure of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

However, shortly thereafter, they are sent to debtors prison and David sees his chance to escape the oppressive life. He runs to h...

Women of the Nineteenth Century in Stories by Kate Chopin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

the house that they are staying in, her husband corrects her, saying that what she felt was a draught and he shut the window (Gilm...

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum Film Analysis

by Heinrich Boll, on which the screenplay was based (Anonymous, 2001). Katharina Blum (played by Angela Winkler) is an innocent,...

Analysis of 'Desert Places' by Robert Frost

contemporaries, Frost sees no meaning in nature. It is simply emptiness. There is no God there, no Creator, just emptiness. In the...

2 Books on Pennsylvania's Main Line Slayings

the murder was another teacher, Bradfield, who had been in a relationship with Susan. She had recently taken out a life insurance ...

Films Frankenstein and The Bride of Frankenstein and Science

about cloning, for example, is that one will create a monster like what appears in the Frankenstein films. And while the monster i...