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Essays 121 - 150
The auteur film techniques that characterize director Brian DePalma are considered in an examination of three of his films The Unt...
In five pages this paper discusses Warrior Dreams by Gibson and The End of the Victory Culture by Englehardt in a consideration of...
need at the front lines. The special death squads were responsible for killing about two million people (Weiss, 1996). Because ...
his father did not approve (Maier, 1986). The article does not mention his relationship with individual family members beyond this...
and dodged the most important matters, continually laying the blame for the killing of millions at the feet of others (Cockburn, 2...
This 7 page paper compares Alexie's 1993 book with the Chris Eyre 1998 book that was inspired by the film and its representation o...
preface of her book, author Susan Brigden confesses to the broad nature of her book "New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudo...
it can be seen to have been on its way out at the dawn of all the other television competition for viewers time. Perspectives shif...
meet while returning to their hometown of Boone City, are symbolic of the American social class structure (Beidler 589). Upper-cl...
neorealistic filmmakers, such as Rossellini, Vittorio DeSica and Cesare Zavattini, was to make a "moral statement," which forces ...
the nonfiction novel, he appears nowhere in the text, despite the fact that all of the information contained within is based on hi...
there are individuals who either remember it or have hand one reason or another to study it. Americans themselves, in fact, held ...
film taking on certain aspects of each others roles (Davis 80). Norika offers Tomi and Shukichi the respect that filial tradition ...
a thicket of vines. This is a slow tracking show that is designed to five the audience the impression that they are seeing the poi...
red interior, which contrasts with the white exterior of the car. Like the car, Ripley has a seemingly "spotless" exterior, but hi...
Wilsons War, Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells Charlie (Tom Hanks) a parable about seemingly good things that can turn...
Soviet Union were busy building up their nuclear arms arsenals, the specter of the nuclear holocaust hung over society and haunted...
2155 Robert S. McNamara is one of the most memorable twentieth century figures. In "Fog of...
of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America" by Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel Jr., this film is an excellent depicti...
to achieve dramatic effect. In Shaaras book, Armistead simply comments to Longstreet that he would like to see his old friend one ...
This essay presents a movie review of "Music Within," (2007, directed by Steven Sawalich). The film stars Ron Livingston as Richa...
This book reviews pertains to Tony Horwitz's text "Midnight Rising, John Brown and the raid that sparked the Civil War," which des...
This book review focuses on Scott Martell's "Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West," which descri...
defeat unless they were forced to do so. If the U.S. was going to bring the troops home with honor, intensive combat missions wou...
actually put into practice what JFK preached in his New Frontier - equal rights for all citizens. Johnson seemed worthy of their ...
Introduction The Vietnam War was a very chaotic time. Many argue that the war was never a war that could have been won by the Uni...
under both JFK and LBJ, discussed Kennedys knowledge of the coup and its aftermath in Errol Morris documentary, The Fog of War. F...
American involvement in Vietnam has had a long and complex history. The question of why the US was...
Robbie Lieberman recalled, "The Vietnam War was the crucible... The Midwest had become a big locus of it."2 It all began back in ...
a half mile to the beach, lay out a towel, and have this tropical bay with nice rolling waves that compared to the Riviera" (Santo...