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Elisha and the Romans

As a Driven Leaf. The book is a fictionalized account of the life of a real person, Elisha ben Abuyah, an early Talmudic scholar w...

Film Review/Toy Story 3

as "jolly, slapstick comedy," but also criticizes it for lacking the "almost eerie humanity that infused" the earlier movies, writ...

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...

Small Group Communication, The Hurt Locker

by Kathryn Bigelow, written by Mark Boal, 2009) offers a detailed study of the life of an Army bomb squad, Bravo Company, statione...

Cradle Will Rock

water from a fire hydrant. The street scene also emphasizes the desperation of the era. A man stands next to a car that is covered...

Dogma, Reflection on a Film

Jesus" (Blake, 1999, p. 20). Glicks idea is that the crucifix is too depressing as a symbol. He says, "Christ didnt come to earth ...

Chef, A Movie Review

This essay is a movie review of "Chef," a 2014 film directed by Jon Favreau. The film tells the tory of Cal Casper, a chef, who lo...

Fat Head, Super Size Me

This research paper focuses on the films "Fat Head" and "Super Size Me" and discusses them in terms of the nutritional subjects br...

Molefi Kete Asante's Kemet, Afrocentricity and Knowledge and Randall Robinson's Defending the Spirit A Black Life in America

In five pages these 2 texts are contrasted and compared. Three other sources are cited in the bibliography....

Cultural Impacts of the 1967 Film Bonnie and Clyde

lessons of life the Great Depression had imposed upon my Father, but this was a new twist to a very tired story. The impact of the...

Discussion of Censorship

In seven pages censorship is discussed with youth and children's book censorship emphasized with a discussion of banning books eit...

A Review of the Edward Boykin Book Ghost Ship of the Confederacy

record of communication between Semmes and his superiors. Boykin, in his Preface, also thanks the Alderman library at the Universi...

The Weeping Prophet

The Book of Jeremiah is the longest book in the Bible containing more words than any other book. The greatest majority of the Book...

Once We Were Warriors/Postcolonial Theory

a different "historical memory of the Maori," as they remember "fierce fighters who battled against British colonizers for decades...

Book Review; the Fundamentals of Production Planning and Control by Stephen Chapman

book states that it focuses on the part of operations which are needed, without distracting the reader with unimportant or relevan...

Robert D. Hare on Psychopaths

offer some explanation for the egocentric and aggressive behavior of psychopathic individuals. As Hare locates deviant behavior ...

Post-WWII Canada/2 books

baby-boomers from their beginning, at wars end, to the end of the sixties" (Owram xii). His then states that his discussion also i...

Kubrick/The Shining

one in which Danny Torrance, the seven-year-son of Wendy and Jack, has a vision of blood engulfing a hotel hallway in torrential w...

Picture Book on Autism

This book review is on Amanda D. Tourville's My Friend Has Autism, which is illustrated by Kristin Sorra. An informative, sensit...

Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

This book review is on the first three chapters of Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni. The writer evaluates the boo...

Analysis of Raqing Bull

earning him an Academy Award (Raging Bull, 19950. De Niro made Jakes decline more believable by gaining 60 pounds over the course ...

Gone with the Wind's Cinematography

that "Tara is the whole story" as the plot revolves around Tara" (Schreibman, 2004, p. 41). The cinematography particularly unde...

The Need for Hard-Back Books

numbers. Sometimes, those who digitize these books number the paragraphs, but often they do not. Most of the books in Project Gute...

Boccaccio's book/Pasolini's film/Decameron

subsequently preaches sermons about him, leading people to believe that he led the life of a saint. Ciapelletto is such a hypocri...

Pursuit of Happyness/Book and Film

having Christopher older, and therefore capable of understanding valuable life lessons, made it possible to dramatize the scene th...

Promotional Analysis of Harry Potter Books and Films

in a British field weeks before the books release (msn, 2004). Both of the above hits are sandwiched in between the ads...

A Comparison of the Book and Film Versions of Alcott's Little Women

the only ones allowed to have money, only serve to reinforce the institutions which helped them rise to power in the first place. ...

The Day of the Locust Book and Film and Imagery

during the cock fight. Imagery as utilized in this story is perhaps best exemplified in this disturbing scene. And while there a...

Films and Books on the Vietnam War

watching Vietnam films, but if I had to pick one that seems to capture the horror, blood, panic, humor, and sheer waste of the who...

Comparative Analysis of the Book and Film Versions of The Ugly American

as arrogant as they play up the fact they are noble and helping. In "The Ugly American" the authors note, "Hordes of United States...