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Essays 61 - 90

Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon

towards the end of World War II. In Biloxi, Mississippi, Eugene faces "authority and danger, anti-Semitism and assimilation" (Henr...

Segregation in the South According to Charlayne Hunter Gault and Bebe Moore Campbell

sorry for colored people was just an excuse to talk about his personal blues" (Campbell 27-28). In this the narrator is illustrati...

Post-Modernism and Filmmaker David Lynch

of modernism, with particular emphasis upon modernisms elitist social, political and economic structure of upper and lower classif...

U.S. Culture and the Blues

the blues is slower and contains much depth of feeling. Later on, the acoustic urban would become electrified, but early on, there...

Presidential Elections from a Sociological Perspective

problem is that during the 2000 campaign, some stations projected the winner before polls closed in California. This means that so...

A Profile of Blue Diamond Growers

for almonds as well -- certainly almonds are found in candies and as snack foods. But theyre also used in ice cream (as pistachios...

Blues Music History

The blues, in all its glory, is truly a black American phenomenon but it is also an American phenomenon. Davis (2003) writes: "The...

Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

This is a very unique place in our society and people who grew up in Harlem often have experiences and stories that most people co...

Russian Film and Sexual Politics

and destiny must have been in the air. Certainly the idea of freedom and destiny, of purpose and potential are embodied in the cha...

Language in The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane

the portals of the blue hotel" (Crane). Clearly, these adjectives promote a depth of understanding about Scully that otherwise wo...

Lazard and the Investment Banking Industry

several management models to look at the industry. Following this an investment bank can be used as a caser study agisnt this envi...

Life and Writings of Sherman Alexie

of community and what he can give back to the community, Sherman often can be found in the oddest venues. Sometimes he will turn d...

Tourism and Turkey

the south and the Black Sea is to the north (CIA, 2005). The majority of the country is geographically in Asia, where, to the east...

Elements of Poems by Neal Bowers, Linda Pastan, and W.H. Auden

gloves" (Auden 8). Tone As one critic states, "The tone of a poem is roughly equivalent to the mood it creates in the reader" ...

Life Experiences and Poetry Themes

ethical judgements. While the students perhaps though that these old people are no longer young and can offer nothing of value to ...

'Classical' and 'Pop' Gap That Was George Gershwin

a "serious" composer by the critics, they were extremely mindful that Gershwin did not orchestrate the first performance of Rhapso...

Blues, Growth, and Cultural Wisdom in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

a reference to "St. Louis Blues" by W.C. Handy which is one of the very first, and most popular, of blues songs (Morrison 25). F...

Blue Steel Film's Reality and Fiction

Today, there are more female police officers on the force and so, Hollywood had made an attempt to portray the female officer as l...

China's Revolution and Red China Blues

and Ren Wanding. Despite these accomplishments many continue to fixate on that fact that although Jan Wong looks the part to cove...

Asian Culture in Art and Film

way or another by the culture itself. Now, while there are numerous contemporary artists and also numerous styles this section ...

'Nickel and Dimed On (Not) Getting By in America' by Barbara Ehrenreich

handle on that ever elusive definition of class. Each new work pursuit, however, reveals a startling similar answer to the questi...

Australian Airline Industry

into a tailspin and also impacted Qantas negatively (Dennis, 2002). Ironically, Ansett throughout the 1980s was recognized...

Article Review on Reasons Why the US is Not Liked by Many Parts of the World

the 1890s, but both accomplishments represented the results of a century of growing economic might" (Development of the United Sta...

The Old Guitarist Painting by Pablo Picasso

the blue period would further find inspiration. "Having outgrown his possibilities in Madrid (Spain) by the age of 19, he went to ...

Earlie Years of Count Basie

Basie his first start in the industry by taking him under his wing and teaching him the theater trade. Basie joined the vaudeville...

Analyzing White and Blue by Kieslowski

In eight pages the trio of color symbolic components along with themes and plots from the films White and Blue are analyzed. Ther...

Blue Bell Creameries and Corporate Level Strategy

its distribution system. In fact, throughout the years, Blue Bell had crafted an image as being "the little creamery in Brenham" a...

Language and Sonny's Blues by James Baldwin

about it in the morning paper on the subway on his way to work. Sonny "had been picked up, the evening before, in a raid on an apa...

The Nature and Function of Humor

dealing with the world in future" (Palmer 57). As this suggests, humor, at least temporarily, has the power to free perception fr...

'Blue Grocery Stores' and Summer Replacement Employee Hiring

In four pages this report considers Blue Grocery's warehouse supervisor 'Arthur Reed's' annual summer dilemma of needing to fill v...