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Alexander the Great's Artistic and Cultural Innovations

were possible under the enforced peace in the Empire under Alexander. Philosophy had in Alexander a supporter and it flourished. T...

Great Britain's Great Depression of 1873 to 1896

advances that were made in transportation are considered the problem in terms of why consumption of goods form the colonies was so...

Alexander the Great's Images

In five pages this essay considers two artistic images of Alexander the Great a woodcut print from the 16th century, 'The Three Go...

Alexander the Great's Military Strategies

PG). His father was Philip II, a strong leader in his own right, who had united Macedon, making it the first real nation in the mo...

Alexander the Great’s Successors & Hellenistic Culture

311, Cassander held 13-year-old Alexander IV, Alexander the Greats only surviving heir and his mother captive and he had them both...

Hitchcock/Rear Window & North by Northwest

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

Catherine the Great's Political Perspectives

into began and ended with the Russian court. She did not ascend to power overnight; she had eighteen years to observe how the bus...

Realism and the Great Rome’s Great Peace

The history of ancient Rome revolves largely around warfare. There was, however, a time in Roman history when...

Hitchcock’s Auteur Vision: “Rear Window”

they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. In The Birds, for instance, Melanie (Tippi Hedren) pursues Mitch (Rod Taylor), a m...

Personal Philosophy for Counseling

to achieve real and positive change in their lives. When writing a personal essay based on this guide, the student should adapt ...

Frost, McKay and Eliot: Three Poems

First, there is the surface level, that he was walking and had to decide which path to take to get to his destination. But at a mu...

Ansel Adams and Alfred Stieglitz

In seven pages this paper discusses how Ansel Adams' landscape photography was influenced by early 20th century modernist photogra...

"Psycho" with Reference to Walters

between them by the feelings they evoke in us. Walters writes that tension is one of the most important barometers of audience res...

Poems: Hughes and Eliot

powerful and intense poem, in relationship to the struggles of the African American people, that it has been adapted into song (Af...

Expressionism in Film

rolling down a hillside and coming ominously to rest" (Morris, 2000). Following the template set by Caligari, Lang also delves int...

A Review and Analysis of the Film, North By Northwest

This paper analyzes and reviews Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 classic film, North by Northwest. This two page paper has one source list...

New World, European Empires and Sea Power's Importance

Location is not everything. By listing a multitude of items, Mahan makes clear that the idea of capturing other countries by using...

Genre Critique of Alfred Hitchcock

In five pages this paper examines the implied genre film criticisms of Alfred Hitchcock. Six sources are cited in the bibliograph...

1930 to 1949 British Film and the Connection Between Realism and Melodrama

In eight pages this paper examines the connection between realism and melodrama that existed in British cinema during this time pe...

Four Essays On Literature

This paper bundles four essays into one. In five pages the writer separately discusses specific questions regarding Eliot's The L...

Discussion of Quantitative Social Science

In five pages Stephen Jay Gould's The Mismeasure of Man and Alfred Crosby's The Measure of Reality are contrasted and compared as ...

Do Humans Control Their Own Lives?

This 7 page paper asks to what degree humans control their own lives. It uses three literary works, Metamorphosis by Kafka; The Lo...

Poetic Skepticism

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how social and religious skepticism is poetically portrayed by Robert Browning in ...

Cinematography in the Opening Scene of Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window

In five pages this paper discusses Rear Window by director Alfred Hitchcock in an analysis of its opening scene cinematography. F...

Faith and the Victorian Poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning

In three pages this paper examines how faith is represented in the Victorian poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning. ...

4 Poetry Classics and Their Meanings

really saw his last wife as a person in her own right, but rather regarded her just one more beautiful "object" that he owned and ...

Contemporary Literature and the Maintenance of Identity

In five pages this essay examines maintaining identity in the first 50 years of the 20th century in a consideration of such litera...

Comparative Analysis of Film Directors Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg

In six pages this paper examines the approaches to the horror genre by directors Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg in this con...

The Boston Tea Party and an Evaluation of its Significance

Alfred F. Young's contention that the tea party was the most revolutionary act of that historical decade is presented in this pape...

1930s and 1940s' British Cinema and its Heterogeneous Mix

In seven pages the heterogeneity of such British films of the period as Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 The Lady Vanishes and Zoltan Korda...