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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...

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...

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...

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...

Mexican Americans' Culture and History

Mexican American identity in San Antonio, then, demonstrated the self-definition that took place that separated the Spanish Mexica...

The Mass Media and the African American CultureAfrican American Culture in the Media: Ebonics and Advertising

People identify, after all, with people that are similar to them. Ebonics has the potential, therefore, to serve as a common link...

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...

Cultural Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Troubles

Ulster to belong to the United Kingdom can be broadly aligned with their religious associations (Tonge, 2001). In Northern Irela...

The Amish Culture

use of or involvement with modern conveniences. Their choice to eschew the intrinsic benefits of contemporary technological advan...

Finding Peace in a Culture of War

individual is exposed to any type of experience there is the potential for that individual to be desensitized to any experiences t...

Wal-Mart's Company Culture

controversial because of their human resource practices. Many employees are very loyal to the company and yet, they have had more ...

Greek Virtue

the foot of power!/Nothing care I for Zeus" (Aeschylus). In other words, Prometheus will not succumb to tyranny and a power that r...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

Rowlandson & Dances With Wolves

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

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...

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...

Accuracy in the Film "Frida"

draw and paint, which is a "direct expression" of "her interior life" (Young 29). When she is finally able to walk again, she visi...

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 ...

Representations of Taiwan

legitimate government of both Taiwan and China began to change in the 1990s when democracy was introduced and new leaders were ele...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet = Production Effectiveness

decision to transform a personal tale of forbidden love into a social commentary on increasing teen violence and decreasing morali...

Modern Africa and Education's Significance

and attitudes from the Western world that are needed as the first step towards development (Lewis, 2002). Unfortunately, Western m...

Eradicating Silos of Care

This research paper points out that, historically, practitioners have worked independently within their particular "silo" of care ...

Questions on Media, Power and Culture

This research paper covers a variety of topics that pertain to media in contemporary culture. Topics include social media, the Hol...

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

This book review pertains to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The writer argues that this is a hilarious satire th...

The Siege Film by Edward Zwick

a bus bombing incident and after the attacks intensify in violence and frequency, he becomes convinced these are not isolated inci...

Contemporary Culture and Hip Hop

and become a very real part of the culture. "Now hip-hop has become the stuff of academic studies and museums. The Rock and Roll ...

Civilizations of Ancient Times

extant of the distinctive grey geometric ware produced in Crete during this period. Towards...

India Song by Marguerite Duras

feelings of forgetfulness (Marguerite Duras). In "India Song", Duras tells of the life during the 1930s in a fashionable di...

Three Essays on Business Management

launched on the brilliance of one researcher, who then turns over the reigns to a professional management team as he or she moves ...

Ancient Literature and Cultural Characteristics

Oedipus story we have one that seems to offer us the belief that through intellectual pursuit we can somehow avoid the inevitable,...