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Media's Gender Bias and the 'Smurfette Principle'

"Blue," the dog is a female. The Smurfs have a cast of all males except for one Smurfette. The roles these characters...

Mass Media's Impact on Advertising

This paper examines the ways in which mass media effects advertising. This nine page paper has six sources listed in the bibliogr...

Presidential Primaries of 1996 and 2000 and the Media's Coverage of Them

22). Four years later, as we stand on the verge of electing the candidate who will lead America into the 21st century, Clinton ha...

Media Access: National Security Versus Public Access To Government Function

(Killian, 2005; Henning, 2005b; Sapino Jeffreys, 2006). II. UNDERSTANDING THE LAW THROUGH COURT RULINGS The precedent-setting ca...

Using Facebook, Twitter, and Other Tools at Work

First Amendments rights for free speech seem to always be in the news. There are cases when this issue is confusing-exactly what i...

Government Influences on Media News Reporting

ability to see the way that media reporting has some biases reflecting to apparent level of influence the government has over the ...

Communication: Gramsci's Hegemony

grand and far-reaching; that every form of media can readily influence those they inform speaks to the level of ideological contro...

In Defense of Gaming

the most important issue is "the way youre thinking that matters" (Johnson 40). In other words, Johnson focuses on the fact that ...

Media And Domestic Violence

Disease Control and Prevention, impacts almost twenty-five percent of American women who are reported to have been abused at some ...

Youth Violence In The United States

in a society where proper parenting has become a thing of the past. Detachment of this extent can reach epic proportions when men...

Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, Reservation Blues

(Johnson). The narrator relates with obvious pride he learned the "names of the notes in both clefs," as a young child and could ...

Portrayal of Women in Two Play by G.B. Shaw

that there is little, if any, true relationship or familial feeling between the two women, as Vivie tells Mr. Praed, "I hardly kno...

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - Kesey's Use of Gender and Race

Chief Bromdens mother, whom he remembers as continuously emotionally abusing his father, "emasculating" him (Kesey 1963). This had...

The American Revolution in Fiction and in Film

to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...

Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly: The Power of the Femme Fatale in the Film Breakfast at Tiffany’s

successes in Roman Holiday, for which she won an Academy Award, and Sabrina. This was exactly why Audrey Hepburn was perfect for ...

Hong Kong Portrayal by Director John Woo in the 1989 Film The Killer

In five pages Woo's portrayal of Hong Kong is the focus of this examination of The Killer film. Four sources are cited in the bib...

Misogyny in Jane Austen

by the society in which she lives. Its hard to see how this makes Austen a misogynist. Zwingel argues that Austen is a misogynist...

Cuckoo's Nest and Nursing Ethics

frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...

Chaucer’s Version of the Reeve

choleric reeve, 2000). The reeve must also be exceptionally trustworthy because he collects rents (in services and goods) from tho...

"Thirteen," A View of Adolescent Peer Pressure

it is almost too late. However, the films ending suggests that Tracys mother has helped her get her life back on track. In a stu...

Working Women in “Nine to Five”

much more smoothly with the women in charge, is a much happier place (Canby, 1980). The film is uneven and the sequence where the...

The Portrayal of Women in Biggers “The House Without A Key” T

assessment of the likelihood of her return "And was there any chance that his strong-minded relative would take the hint? Not one ...

Women's Roles in American Cinema Since 1967

bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...

The Portrayal of Schizophrenia in “A Beautiful Mind”

seems to ring true" (Rosenstock, 2003). In the film, Nashs hallucinations take a visual form; his roommate, the man he believes re...

Hamlet & Oedipus

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

Virgil’s Portrayal of Hell in Book VI of The Aeneid

observes a boatman named Charon who is transporting the souls of the dead across the river. There are "hollow groans, and shrieks...

The Boxer (1997), a Film Analysis

by Jim Sheridan) is based on the true story of Barry McGuigan, Irish featherweight champion. In Sheridans film, the protagonists n...

Film Portrayal of Schizophrenia

show the director she can be seductive. When he kisses her, she bites him. His anticipation for further sexual intimacy is never r...

Hotel Rwanda, Cinematic Analysis

This research paper/essay analyzes and critiques the portrayal of genocide presented in the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda. Five pages in ...

"Wild Bill" Hickok as Analyzed by Erik Erikson's Last Two Psychosocial Stages

The portrayal of "Wild Bill" Hickok in the Deadwood HBO series as it reflects the Generativity vs. Stagnation and Ego Integrity vs...