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Orson Welles' Citizen Kane and Frank Capra's Meet John Doe Cinematic and Comparative Analysis

tight close-up (Dirks, 1996). There is a menacing "No Trespassing" sign outside an old gate, and after panning up over a chain-li...

Barack Obama and the Rhetorical Skeleton

to be reducing altitude; since they were on combat patrol they assumed it was an attack (Schank 305). He finished by saying he tho...

News Broadcast Versus Newspaper: Analysis

that could otherwise not be expressed merely by literary methods; rather, photography helps the world understand more about itself...

Characters from The Bible, The Odyssey and Tale of the Genji

the story deals with his infatuations, lusts, loves and relationships. Surprisingly, Genji retains a hard exterior through it all...

Tito's Goodbye Creative Writing Sample

this country. You were the success story, the big lawyer who fought for us when no one else would. So many times we would speak of...

Malcolm X's Life and Character

Muslim traded his slave-master surname for X and began prescribing militance as the only cure for his peoples ills. Then a pilgri...

Analysis of A Dream Play by August Strindberg

of human beings. Each character comes with their own subplot in which a facet of human existence is discussed and examined. S...

The Hairy Ape

with he does not see himself in this way. He feels he is intelligent and he is all but in charge of all the men. They seem intimid...

Citizen Kane

of Thatchers diary. Film components: Dissolves, flashback, deep-focus shots, long shots, close-ups. In the establishing long sho...

Analysis: Last Chapters of John K. Toole's Novel

This 3 page paper gives an overview of the final chapters in A Confederacy of Dunces. This paper includes elements of Goffman's co...

Emancipation Proclamation, The Debate

This essay summarizes the opposing views of Stephen B. Oates and Vincent Harding on the question of whether or not Abraham Lincoln...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet = Production Effectiveness

decision to transform a personal tale of forbidden love into a social commentary on increasing teen violence and decreasing morali...

The Ghost Map

Johnson described the people who lived within the city as a group of somewhat organized scavengers. "The scavengers...lived in a ...

Setting in The Story of an Hour

her and is keeping her emotions and thoughts to herself, never letting them in. In fact the only one who is allowed in is the read...

O. Henry & Hemingway, Plus A Little on Faulkner

waiter, like the old man who is their customer, has no connections in the world. While Della and James have love and a deep inti...

Upstage Theater; Explaining the Conflict and Resolution

to find an alignment between the different interests of the board members. The problem does not only occur as a result of the ch...

Significance of Strangers: Carver and Oates

offers insight into the significance of the stranger for his role is to teach the narrator, to make him see in a very new and powe...

Three Essays on Realtors and Real Estate

society and no one wants to talk about it, much less have it in the backyard. The solution here is to offer the clinic as a direct...

The New South and the Black American Communities

groups" (Robinson 73). Apparently these community fault lines developed in accordance with the religious/ benevolent functions of ...

Paul’s Case by Willa Cather

soul to the devil for what he desires. This relates well to Paul for he is a man who will do anything to live, if even only for a ...

Grease and Westside Story

Many Splendid Thing" which is very innocent and then the viewer is presented with the images of a young woman and young man on the...

Gender and Narratives: Rowlandson and Jacobs

two they took and carried away alive" (Rowlandson). In this she is clearly just presenting the facts, as anyone would do, be they ...

Poe/Masque of the Red Death

The seventh and most western of the apartments was "closely shrouded in black velvet tapestries" and it was only in this room that...

Chopin’s Story of an Hour

dies "of heart disease--of the joy that kills" (Chopin). Her position in the story seems to be one of a woman who has simply res...

Good Detective Fiction and a Consideration of The Adventures of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

grounds of how it reflects the necessary criteria of a good detective story, which characteristically includes the elements of cri...

The Distinctly American 'Best Essays Of The Century'

of racial struggles. In one of her most well known pieces - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Angelou addresses the concept of op...

Biography of John Brown by Stephen B. Oates

himself was raised by a strict, fundamentalist father who beat him often for the slightest infraction of rules or signs of religio...

Greek Tragedy and Antigone, a Tragedy by Jean Anouil and The Flies by Jean Paul Sartre

her mother, and the present king, Aegistheus. The play opens with Orestes and his tutor returning to the city. The god Zeus appr...

Literature, Self, and Identity

understand that there are many wolves out there, and when she finds one she is completely controlled by him and thus loses her inn...

A Compendium of Four Essays on Religion

and some of the verses were sung. It was explained to me later that the members of the congregation that perform this part of the ...