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Essays 1981 - 2010

Film and Sociology

and though it was assumed that there was corruption in the government, the optimism of the time suggested that it could be reverse...

Analysis of 1985's The Purple Rose of Cairo by Filmmaker Woody Allen

finds as far too mundane and the challenges of defining what is real and what is an illusion. For example, the character of Tom Ba...

Comparing Alice Walker's 'Everyday Things' with Eudora Welty's 'Why I Live at the Post Office'

it clear that there are many unsolved frictions between the two sisters, frictions which include the fact that the youngers husban...

Cinematic Comparison of Like Water for Chocolate and Mi Familia

characterize Mexican tradition with the contemporary realism of complex family relationships. It is a cinematic postcard for fami...

An Engineering Problem

of the day. Whatever the reason, it is a problem now. When contemplating this subject that is of great importance to those who are...

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, Paradise Lost, and Cinema Verite

Paradise Lost In a review of "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" Roger Ebert (1996) indicates that it "is uni...

Comparing The Yellow Wallpaper and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

wallpaper. The wallpaper can be said to have a dual symbolism. The wallpaper itself can be said to be representative of her mind....

American History X Film and Portrayal of Group Norms

commit violence on anyone who is not white and protestant for any small reason. They will deliberately instigate events so as to d...

A 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone' Excerpt

remember the dream he had been having. It had been a good one" (Rowling 19). Contemporary Children First and foremost, we note...

H.G. Wells' 'Time Machine' and Adolf Hitler's Thoughts

feat of time travel, for example, through the wonders of modern science. After years of meticulous work he has managed to create ...

Oliver Stone's Film Nixon

own personality but also by the circumstances of the time. Stone does succeed in introducing at least some of these circumstances...

Comparative Analysis of Latino Films Mi Vida Loca and West Side Story

in 1980, Puerto Ricans organized a protest outside the theater in order to draw attention to the stereotypical images of Latinos ...

'The Cask of Amontillado' by Edgar Allan Poe and Revenge

an ever-present element in "The Cask of Amontillado", Poe manages to keep it just below the surface of the plot until that final ...

Film Versions of The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

pairing of Burton and Taylor in the lead roles was certain to result in a box office success for virtually any movie. Add Shakespe...

Analysis of 'The Aeneid'

souls, and rebirth, a central focus in lifes journey for all cultures and time periods. Mankind throughout history has bee...

The Monster Element in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

seemingly to detain me, but I escaped, and rushed down stairs. I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhab...

Gods and Monsters and Its Message Regarding Society and Culture

sex, and they can be both works of sexuality, and still be considered works of art. Heterosexual women may paint women who are cle...

Comparative Analysis of Novel and Film Versions of The Scarlet Letter

was put into prison and made to wear a scarlet leader to indicate that she was an adulteress. However, she never revealed who the ...

Media and Film Documentaries in China

which provided free education, pensions, and social services to the people and peasants. Instead, the self-sacrificing citizen of ...

A Critique of Harold Ramis' Film, Groundhog Day

of life one can become that one does not notice what is truly important. However, as the days wind on and on,...

Comparison of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

had previously been reserved only for God. He works feverishly on what he believes will be a perfect human form for it was manufa...

Police Reform Suggested in Films

Suspect (Beachem, 1998) does not mention police corruption, this writer/tutor assumes that this must be an element of this film as...

Review of Dai Richards' Film The 50 Years' War

in 1947, started with the single incident of granting Israel a portion of land which was held by the Palestinians. Historical e...

Good and Evil in 'Araby' by James Joyce and 'Young Goodman Brown' by Nathaniel Hawthorne

reality of humanitys cruel heart. True to Hawthornes nature of portraying both the worst and the best humankind has to offer, he ...

The Battleship Potemkin and Birth of a Nation

Two sets of lovers from these families evolve over the course of the film: Ben Cameron and Elsie Stoneman and Phil Stoneman and Ma...

3 Films and Their Structures

is no truly artistic use of the camera aside from working towards presenting us perhaps with the perspective of every day life. Th...

Literature's Deeper Meaning

the town of Bisbee. "It is July 20, 1989, early afternoon, monsoon season in the Sonoran Desert, and I am going back to Bisbee. A...

Cinematic Comparison of Oliver Stone's Platoon and John Wayne's The Green Berets

admit he hasnt, but soon remedies that by accompanying Kirby and his men on a mission to defend their firebase from the Vietcong s...

Change vs. Tradition in Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Okonkwo relished in the traditions which consolidated his power within the village and reinforced his identity. The supreme test ...

Analysis of 'The River Between' by Ngugi and 'Things Fall Apart' by Acheba

News Service). Even that consideration, however, is worthy of additional introspect in regard to the intended cultural meaning of...