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Charlie Wilson and the Parable of Unintended Consequences

Wilsons War, Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells Charlie (Tom Hanks) a parable about seemingly good things that can turn...

Life in Prison and Redemption Found There

first released, but since its debut it has grown in popularity until it is now generally considered one of the greatest films of a...

The Theme of the Old and New in Tugenev's Fathers and Sons

oppression. They are drunken, thieving, grasping, dishonest and completely ignorant. They would rather break a machine than run it...

Poetry, Recreation, Cinema, and Ethnicity

In five pages social and cultural ethnic representations in a Johnson short story, Divakaruni and Clifton poetic themes are discus...

'Bonnie and Clyde' Theme in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers

In four pages this paper examines the films of Oliver Stone with the focus being a social analysis of Natural Born Killers. Three...

Society in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

This paper discusses ethical and social themes presented in Shelley's classic novel. This five page paper has no additional sourc...

Modern Society and Desensitization

In 5 pages the cultural and social reasons why the increase in violent behavior has desensitized contemporary society particularly...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Social Criticism

In seven pages this paper discusses the Monty Python type social satire that is featured in this classic Spanish novel. Eight sou...

Woody Allen's Film Manhattan and Social Politics

In six pages this paper examines the social politics depicted in this 1979 film starring and directed by Woody Allen. Three sou...

'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and Differences in Concepts of What Medieval Women Truly Want

In six pages Geoffrey Chaucer's classic tale is examined from the differing perspectives regarding what Medieval women truly wante...

An Overview of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the central themes of The Jungle, Upton Sinclair's classic novel about life in the Chicago ...

Authority and Rebellion in Thelma and Louise, Easy Rider, and Rebel Without a Cause

In five pages this paper examines men, social, and paternal types of rebelling against authority in an examination of this trio of...

Social Propaganda and Utopian Qualities in Adam Sandler's Big Daddy

of marriage, he also does not want to lose the one person in his life who helps to give him direction. This dichotomy is instrume...

Film To Kill a Mockingbird and the Impact of Social Norms on the Judicial System

In five pages this paper discusses the 1962 film adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird in a consideration of how social norms prevai...

Are Movie Theaters Dangerous?

the past couple of decades, though, there has been a distinct change in both the type of movies being made and the kinds of audien...

The Three Musketeers and Themes of Heroism and Loyalty

In six pages this paper considers the powerful themes of loyalty and heroism in this French novel classic and its contemporary soc...

Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote and Social Criticism

this political cruelty that is shown nearly crushing his characters in every novel has the danger of becoming common place, and th...

Comparing Poems about War to Beowulf

it is essentially the duty of this narrator. Beowulf is a man who sees his duty as that which involves risking his life. He goes...

Good v. Evil in The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

In seven pages this classic theme of good v. evil is examined as it involves Tolkien's classic novel. Eight sources are cited in ...

Coca Cola Classic's Marketing

In twenty pages this paper discusses the marketing strategy behind the 1985 decision by Coca Cola to replace its century old secre...

My Left Foot/Social Responsibility

suggests, the filmmakers show him as very human and the script does a good job of dramatizing his imperfections as well as his rem...

Examining Scenes from Sonny’s Blues

shadow of a doorway, looking just like Sonny ... Then I saw that it wasnt Sonny, but somebody we used to know, a boy from around o...

Gender Issues In the Works of Filene

for both men and women. It was a time where the industrial revolution was in full swing and while men were beginning to work in fa...

Management Planning in the Mortgage Industry

months of 2005" (Is it over yet?, 2007; p. 13). Mozilo points to slower home sales, but also to the many adjustable rate mortgage...

Metropolis Film's Social Importance

notions of the division between the "haves" and "have nots" and in fact supported his ideas with the theory of alienation. Further...

Marketing Issues at Classic Airlines

the company to more effectively use its resources with a focused strategy. Where there are products which are more exclusive or d...

Informations Systems and Various Political, Social, and Ethical Issues

equitable access to the information that was so rapidly proliferating on the Internet. They predicted that the divisions between t...

Classic Literature and Its Social Functions

all too suddenly succumbed to temptation and became the gatekeeper of Hell -- a place of consequence where one goes whose choices ...

Social Issues and Photographer Lewis Hine

in 1907 he participated in the Pittsburgh Survey to study the living conditions in that industrial city. In 1908 he became the sta...

Presentations of Colonialism

on the development of an exploitative tourist industry in Antigua. Achebe takes a very different perspective than Kincaid in tha...