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Dead Composers and Their Lasting Appeal

describes the state of music performance prior to the 18th century, noting that music was much more personal at that time and was ...

Communication in Film Dead Poets Society

formula that proposes to plot the poems value on a graph, Keating denounces it and commands his students to rip the offending page...

Film Dead Poets' Society Portrayal of Students, Parents, and Teachers

poetry, philosophy and other topics. The club...would be completely unacceptable to the conservative school, which discourages stu...

Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean

due to biblical passages describing how divine vengeance was "meted out to guilty and innocent alike" in "the Great Flood, the des...

The Almanac of the Dead by Leslie Marmon Silko and Searching for Self

it is as much a story about the Earth as it is a story about the human characters that strive to seek resolution to the very real ...

'Fifty Grand,' 'The Natural History of the Dead,' and 'Hills Like White Elephants' by Ernest Hemingway

several symbolic connotations in this name, primarily the contrast to the happy little dance called the Jig and the fact that she ...

'The Country Girls' and 'The Dead'

village. Even though most of the protests...

'When We Dead Awaken Writing As Re-Vision' by Adrienne Rich

the female gender could be perceived within the myriad components of existence, the early feminist movement served to establish a ...

Mental Illness and Government in the Film Dead Man Out

This paper examines this film's complexities in terms of the intertwining government and societal factors throughout in five pages...

Destiny and Futility in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

In five pages this paper analyzes how in Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Tom Stoppard develops destiny and futility themes. There ar...

Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Futility

are constantly fighting a futile battle. As one author states, the two main characters are the epitome of confusion and futility a...

Spirit of the Dead Watching Painting by Paul Gauguin

the Dead Watching" Despite the fact that he painted numerous tropical scenes and used the colors of the jungles and oceans of the...

Gogol's Dead Souls

to be changed. Unfortunately, though technology seems to advance, human relationships and nature does not seem to advance. ...

Jim Jarmusch's Film Dead Man

The role gives him room to act insolent and wry, high-flown and wised-up by turns, and Farmer makes the most of his chances, playi...

Contemporary World and Todd G. Buchholz and Martin Feldstein's Dead Economists

In six pages this text is discussed in terms of the U.S. economy and the classical views held by such economists as Keynes, Smith,...

Why Alfred Hitchcock is Not Dead Contrary to Popular Belief

In five pages the influence of this director in terms of imitation and teasing is considered. There are five bibliographic source...

James Joyce's The Dead and Themes of Memory, Politics, and Death

In five pages Joyce's short story is examined within the context of these 3 themes with imagination and memories retaining the gre...

James Joyce's 'The Dead'

Gabriel learns that the song brought to Grettas mind a recollection of a young man from her home county. Pressing her further, he ...

Relationships in The Legacy by Virginia Woolf and The Dead by James Joyce

different ways. While both couples symbolize the bonds of matrimony in one way or another, it is not actually the marriage, in an...

Rosencrantz and Guilderstern are Dead and the Concepts of Life and Death

In five pages this life and death issues this play deals with are considered. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, James Joyce's 'The Dead' and Gender

In five pages gender and how it influences relationships are examined within the context of these literary works. Four sources ar...

Dead Man Walking Film Ethical Analysis

In seven pages the film is discussed in an examination of a trio of ethical theories and the morality of capital punishment. Five...

Willard Gaylin's 'Harvesting the Dead'

In two pages this article is reviewed in a consideration of the author's exploration of medically assisting individuals by utilizi...

Primitive Cultures in Documentaries Cannibal Tours, Onka's Big Moka, and Dead Birds

In six pages this paper discusses human nature's dark side as revealed in this trio of primitive culture documentaries....

Analysis of 1964 Dead Birds Documentary

In two pages this ethnographic documentary that focuses on Western New Guinea's primitive tribe known as Dani is examined in terms...

An Analysis of Crime and Punishment in Dead Man Walking

This three page paper analyzes crime and punishment from the perspective of the film by Tim Robbins. The question of whether just...

Sister Helen Prejean's Dead Man Walking

In four pages the book chronicling a nun's interactions with a Death Row inmate is critically reviewed along with the inclusion of...

Life and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

In six pages this essay discusses how life themes including people finding a social niche and social animal characteristics of hum...