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This research paper/essay uses "Worse than War," a 2009 PBS documentary as its primary source, in order to address ten issues pert...

featured performer in the action. It visually depicts why Americans have answered the call to Go West since the pioneer days. In...

new person. This has been tradition since Gilgamesh. The hero emerges from the wilderness to contribute to society and carry out...

This paper considers the connection between cinema and ideology and how film and serve to both confront as well as strengthen prev...

In seven pages this report examines melodrama conventions within the context of this 1993 film directed by Jane Campion. Seven so...

Stones "Born on the 4th of July" (1989), Barry Levinsons "Good Morning,Vietnam" (1987), and Hal Ashbys "Coming Home" (1978). A goo...

He is someone who today would appear on the Jerry Springer Show. His life had always been dysfunctional and all he ever wanted was...

In five pages this paper examines how men and relationships are portrayed in this short stories' collection by Pam Houston. One s...

the nature of good and evil. In "Shadow," there are the two "Charlies," Uncle Charlie and his niece, Charlotte, who is known as "C...

in low Earth orbit would cause tidal waves, which is never mentioned, and one of the criticisms leveled at the film. There are oth...

breathing creatures and, as such, place no value on their lives or their suffering. Cowboys use animals for entertainment purpose...

"the Son of Your handmaid" (Longhenry, 2004). Additionally, John and Peter address Mary as "mother" numerous times during the film...

Schwartz towards the woman he is longing for; the disappointed gaze of his wife Lotte (Cameron Diaz). When a person is presumably ...

"at heart, I was always a silent movie man" (Twatio 14). One reason why early silent films appear odd or stilted to modern audie...

love for their children. However, it quickly becomes evident that there is trouble in this paradise, as Alice has a problem, as sh...

Blacks have...

The God of the Waning Year is associated with the sacrificial victim, whose death was believed necessary in order for the earth to...

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

mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...

sixteen at the time, had stolen a neighbors car and his fathers guns. Harris gave Adams a lift when his vehicle ran out of gas. H...

entitled "House of Cards," the detectives and attorneys who are featured in the show similarly face what seems like a case of cert...

romantic leads ("Screwball comedy"). Another feature of the screwball was its "reverse class snobbery," where to be poor was, so...

film. More credits fall and slide into place, which foreshadows how Thornhill will later slide, nearly falling off the face of Lin...

who is also a preacher, and conspires to have him evicted from his congregation (Alleva, 1998). Enraged, Sonny takes his sons base...

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

read, she immediately attributes these events to the action of Providence. When her captors, which is a band of American Natives m...

depiction of explicit violence, rapes, flogging, etc. are "implied rather than shown," he seems to feel that this is an artistic a...