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Comparing and Contrasting 'Anne Frank Remembered' and 'Triumph Of The Will'

it to be banned for more than three decades. Riefenstahl, who was commissioned by Hitler to cover the events, captured such power...

Themes of Love and Death in the Epic of Gilgamesh

through his loving he begins to see the fragile condition of life itself. However, these ultimate realizations take their time in ...

Relationship Between Truth and History

(which could mean anytime between the early 1990s and today, Coetzees "spare" novel (as some critics have called it) concerns Davi...

Two Narratives on Autonomy and Fate

men see as hostility is in fact only the normal progression of the natural world. At first, they assume that that it is some consc...

The Issues Surrounding Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

to break down from involuntary inactivity. I now recognize the increased muscle weakness in both my legs and arms, as well as dif...

Narrative Essay A Day at the Beach

getting the opportunity to visit the beach, alone, for a day. She was still five miles away from the ocean, yet the air seemed d...

The Four Gated City by Doris Lessing and Uses of Narrative

not follow any timeline, as it jumps around continuously from one moment to another. In the end we are left understanding the enti...

Reviewing The Book of the Torah: The Narrative Integrity of the Pentateuch by Thomas Mann

are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...

School Environment and Experiential Learning

the student was supposed to learn for himself. Concrete Experience Not all recognize this collective and monumental lesson,...

Anne's Story and a Shaken Life's Structure

that she had organized her wards to the utmost efficiency. At the same time, her best friend Jessica had written to her brother in...

The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Types of Discovery

plantation, where she was put to raise the children of the younger women. I had therefore been, until now, out of the way of the b...

Views of Frederick Douglass on Slavery

them, the more the author desperately wanted to remove himself from such circumstances. "In moments of agony, I envied my fellow-...

Herman Melville's Narrative Voice

critic notes that, "Whether in a brief novella or in an epic tome, one common technique utilized by many writers is a framing of a...

Panic Over Aging in 'Mirror' by Sylvia Plath

the limited life choices facing women during her era. Women were destined to be wives and mothers - the "pink" professions. Plath ...

Cinematic Comparative Analysis of L'Avventura and Sleepless in Seattle

narrative style. With Sleepless there is a sense of desperation as lives are changing. In LAvventura there is a real desperate sit...

'Montana 1948' and 'To Kill a Mockingbird'

that Scout understands is that she saw, and responded to, familiar faces in the crowd. We, however, are aware that it is this iden...

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Narrative Point of View

told with the simple vocabulary and simple sentences of a young child, often fusing ungrammatical language and childrens slang tha...

The Teaching Profession from a Philosophical Position

teachers beliefs, principles, convictions and interpretation of reality are all pertinent. They influence the students and so it i...

Brian De Palma's Scarface

as the crime film genre became more sophisticated, the line between good/evil oftentimes became blurred. De Palma elected to take...

Immigrant Population and Narrative Therapy

wants to be counseled but a young counselor finds that she not only is very different from the client who comes from China and bar...

Analysis of Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs Screenplay

After the robbery goes bad, the gang regroups in an abandoned warehouse. Here they learn that the reason their job went bad was du...

Geoffrey Chaucer's 'The Knight's Tale' and Its Pagan Setting

John Whyclif and John Hus, drew attention to the moral and spiritual failures of the Christian Church (Schildgen 121). While The...

Sinclair Ross' As for Me and My House and the Use of Narrative

the story written from a different perspective would have been worse, or better, is to ignore the fact that with a different form ...

A Narrative Analysis of the American Beauty Film

Fitts (Chris Cooper) and his wife Barbara (Allison Janney). Fitts is even more emotional remote from his teenage son than Lester i...

Christ Figure Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

thinking" (Wittkowski 2). The main thrust of such interpretations is that Santiago, in his actions, is in fact an "imitatio Christ...

Civilization versus Wilderness in the Epic of Gilgamesh

who is as strong as Gilgamesh (Sandars, 1987). In order for Enkidu to be a civilizing force on Gilgamesh, he must first be initi...

Central Themes of 'A and P' by John Updike

clerk in the store, he has no respect for his boss or the people who use his services. At the same time,...

Women and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

focusing especially graphically on his Aunt Hesters assault by her master, and the abandonment of his grandmother by the master af...

3 Theories on Communication

discussed here are narrative, dialectic and dramaturgical. Narrative Narrative theory is that which addresses communication...

Coen Brothers' Film O Brother, Where Art Thou?

in this film provides a means of relating the voyage that takes place without actually showing scene after scene of constant motio...