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Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors and Ethics

In five pages this 1989 movie's portrayal of ethical and moral considerations is examined along with a discussion of how it portra...

Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier and Gender Roles

implied that she marries him because he is wealthy and has much to offer her. That she is in love is made clear, but there is alwa...

Dracula by Bram Stoker

emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...

Women's Roles in Western and Hindi Cinema

The movie industry in India is the largest in the world and produces over 800 films a year, twice that of Hollywood and is referre...

Issues in Sociology

a distinction in terms of money, but there is certainly a distinction when it comes to race and other class factors that are separ...

Synoptic Gospels and Soteriology

Aquinas goes on to explain Christs sacrifice through suffering in that it came out of Christs love and obedience for mankind. This...

3 Issues Regarding Popular Culture and the Media

basis for women to be perceived within the myriad literary components, the feminist critical theory serves to create a semblance o...

Cultural Implications of Bullying

are doing is wrong and how it makes their victims feel" (Anonymous, 2002). For example, Jerry decides he does not like the way To...

Gender Assumption in Boys Don't Cry

of social community that is unaffected by racial stereotypes, which are misconstrued attitudes, opinions or judgments. From schoo...

Portrayals of Good Science Gone Bad in Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells, and Mary Shelley

jump into a review of these novels it is necessary to first examine the predominant state of mind of Victorian Europe. During the...

Internet Technology and Morality

compromising of principles much more likely. For example, it is noted that the Internet opens the doors of pornography and cyber a...

Comparing Crime Dramas Crossing Jordan and CSI

Cases vary from week to week. In an episode known as Stalker, Jan Galloway was obviously fearful when her body was found. It was n...

Girls, Women, and the Impact of the Media

more than provide a reflection of the times, or to subconsciously inform women and girls about their roles. In many cases, the med...

Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh

true in the modern non-fictional Palestinian reality, survival as individuals and as a culture is the primary goal of Khalifehs fi...

Analyzing the Portrayal of the Media in the Film Bob Roberts

himself completely to his ambition (Roberge, 2002). This is evidenced by his decision to run for political office (Roberge, 2002)...

Racial Inferiority Concept

are more characterized by segregation than by integration in their natural state. It is only when we introduce the formal organiz...

The Color of Water by McBride and Racism

skin, and it was only after he become a professional journalist that he became interested in the subject (PG). Such an admission i...

Racism and On Being White, Female and Living in Bensonhurst by Marianna Torgovnick

- almost justifying it, to an extent (Mancuso, 2002). She attempts to explain the racism as going back to the machismo of Italian-...

Racism Defined

multicultural society does not look like anything we are going to achieve soon, given the grim social reality we currently face wi...

Ernest Gaines/Centrality of Racism in His Work

school children to the workplace, from the entertainment industry to the sports world, racial stereotypes are an integral part of ...

The Supernatural and Social Disruption in A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

secondary characters and subthemes actually deliver Shakespeares real message. The fairies in the play are of particular interest...

Skinhead Fad

reputation is one of violence and racism--similar to the thinking about the KKK--the skinheads claim that are misunderstood. Who a...

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...

Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ann Jacobs on Male and Female Slaves

knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away. My father was a carpenter, and considered so intelligent and skilful in...

Racism in Cinema

Nation first came out, the NAACP protested the film. W.E.B. Dubois, a leading black activist, published highly negative reviews of...

Robert Rodriguez's Films and Cultural Identities

direction and production of a larger film. "The plan, Rodriguez said, was to make a series of three action films for this market a...

Women's and Men's Roles in American Literature

to a particular position. Now, interestingly enough, the position of women was not as oppressive as it may sound. In fact, wome...

Filmmaker D.W. Griffith's Intolerance and The Birth of a Nation

because of the Civil War, and many of whom were still alive when the film was produced" (The Birth of a Nation PG). The director ...

Islamic Oppression and Women

own society for being the victim of a rape. According to the Shariah, if a woman is raped, she must have four witnesses to back up...

Twain's Huckleberry Finn and Racism

There have actually been schools which have banned Huckleberry Finn from their libraries and their classrooms, based upon the refe...