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An Analysis of The Sandbox by Edward Albee

or weak, good or evil, redeemed or condemned, honorable or chicken-hearted? The climate of the human condition is what compels Al...

Singin' in the Rain Film Genre Analysis

it is about a silent film star, Don Lockwood (played by Kelly) making the transition to sound pictures, a leap that not all popula...

Horror Genre and Death Line by Gary Sherman, The Wicker Man by Robin Hardy, and The Innocents by Jack Clayton

the content of these three films and place them in the context of the time considering the placement and the culture of the time. ...

Analyzing Once Upon a Time in America and Its Use of Violence

in "Once Upon a Time in America", is known for his portrayal of violent characters. Noodles, the character De Niro portrays in "O...

All About Eve Cinematic Analysis

provides evidence of repressed female sexuality, and reveals how the traditional patriarchy was threatened as a result of these ch...

Clever Women in Modern Detective Fiction

the standard framework for a mystery detective novel, each of these works share similar themes that are indicative of current Amer...

Gangster Genre and 2 Representative British Films

and defined crime as a "problems that we--the public--must solve" (Cavaliero 50). These films attempted to shift attention from t...

Cinematic Auteur M. Night Shyamalan

director was, quite literally, involved in every possible aspect of filmmaking, from raising money to hiring actors to helping to ...

Using Fiction to Depict the Vietnam War in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...

Disco Music and History

Vietnam and it fought against social constraints placed upon the individual. It was a time of violent outbreaks for peace and for ...

Literature of the Renaissance and the Works of Ben Jonson, Francis Bacon, and John Milton

social context, with various issues raised and moral judgments questioned by the readers and listeners (Aughterson 274). In Engla...

49ers Press Release and Supporting Information

for Breast Cancer in June 2008 with the target of raising $300,000 and work with the Bill Wilson House in August 2008 where free T...

Jonathan Swift/Gulliver's Voyage to Lilliput

is ale to jump "the highest," succeeding to high office (Swift). As this suggests, Swift was lampooning the machinations require...

Ragtime Music as a Societal Phenomenon

"Youve Been a Good Old Wagon but Youve Done Broke Down" (Ketch, 1993, p. 182). Sensing a popular music form, the New York song pu...

Charles Dickens and His Life

societys pressure. "It is impossible to read Great Expectations without sensing Dickenss presence in the book, without being awar...

Personal Limitations and the Illusion of Control Sustained by Leaders

is certainly one of the qualities that people look for in a leader, so a good leader will present an illusion of confidence even i...

Downfall of William Shakespeare's Tragic Hero Macbeth

with a trio of witch siblings (described in the text as the weird sisters), who issue this prediction to the Thane: THIRD WITCH. A...

Syncretic Music

the accompaniment of the "Indian sitar, the rebab or bowed choraphone, the suling or bamboo flute, the gendang, kenong and saron o...

Native Experience: Literature and Film

different elements together to speak of ancient Aboriginal beliefs as well as a modern world. In As Long as the Rivers Flo...

How Writers Create Tone in the Context of Fiction

detail to demonstrate the point that war is negative. The fact that the mother is crying is aligned with the tonality in relation ...

All in the Family, Values, and the Television Sitcom

first introduced to America in the episode entitled "Meet the Bunkers" that CBS originally aired on Tuesday, January 12, 1971 at 9...

Virtually Reality Genre; Star Trek's Next-Generation Episode Ship In A Bottle As A Forerunner Of Virtual Reality In The Matrix And The Thirteenth Floor

as a commercially viable and attractive genre by its continued existence and evolution. In all three of the production to ...

LIONSGATE AND TARGET MARKETS

its production and distribution down to a science, when it comes to marketing movies, there is always room for improvement. Lionsg...

Poe: The Masque of the Red Death, an Analysis

the night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...

A Hierarchical Analysis of Television

concerning race, gender and social strata. Genre seems to be most important of tall and determines the basic hierarchical structur...

Borges: "The Garden of the Forking Paths"

Tsun says no one can know his "innumerable contrition and weariness" (Borges). What does Borges mean when he claims the world is ...

A Boy, a Girl and the Loch Ness Monster

was coming, and that was the main thing. For Robbie MacDonald, it was the only thing. Robbie and Sheila had grown up together, an...

The Breakfast Club/A View of Adolescence

"poor little rich girl or the princess," and is drive to school by her father in a BMW (The Breakfast Club, 1995). Allison is the ...

Joseph Collins Apocalyptic Imagination: An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature

This paper explores how scholars classify the apocalyptic genre in literature. Terminology is critical in this classification. T...

Early Childhood Trauma and Recovered Memories

Psychologists are challenged when trying to separate fact from fiction as it respects the extent to which childhood abuse occurred...