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Film as Nightmare '28 Days Later'

course, 28 days later, when a bicycle courier named Jim (Cillian Murphy) awakens from a coma and finds himself in an abandoned hos...

Overview of the Western Cinematic Genre

Battle of Summit Springs, a reenactment that showcased Cody rescuing poor white damsel Indian captives in distress (Buscombe 286)....

Themes of Death and Disease in John Donne, Thom Jones, and Margaret Edson

Edson shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes c...

Comparative Analysis of Three Seasons Film by Tony Bui with My Year of Meats Novel by Ruth L. Ozeki

finds that her conscience has problems with this assignment and she ultimately rebels. Paralleling Janes story is that of Akiko...

The “Communist Manifesto” and “All Quiet on the Western Front”

War can be seen as an event that ends in ruin for all concerned. He also says that society in general was dividing into two "grea...

Existential Themes in "All Quiet on the Western Front"

all of his previously held values as vulgar absurdities, incompatible with the reality of his experiences. The existentialist them...

Early America and the Oppression of Women

established that women were not always inherently oppressed around the world, a fair question arises: what is it about Western civ...

Film Portrayal of Schizophrenia

show the director she can be seductive. When he kisses her, she bites him. His anticipation for further sexual intimacy is never r...

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...

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...

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...

Dogma, Reflection on a Film

Jesus" (Blake, 1999, p. 20). Glicks idea is that the crucifix is too depressing as a symbol. He says, "Christ didnt come to earth ...

Cradle Will Rock

water from a fire hydrant. The street scene also emphasizes the desperation of the era. A man stands next to a car that is covered...

The Horrors of WWI

often referred to as a trench war. And, as one author notes, "There had never been anything like it before and there wont ever be ...

Are Western Strategies Suitable for Use in Businesses in China?

2050, there is a large pull factor for western companies to ether this market (Mintzberg et al., 2008). However, where there are b...

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...

Non-Western & Western Music

"Cubop," an "appellation (that) aptly symbolizes the new equipollent level of cross-cultural musical integration that differentiat...

The Right Stuff & Technology

conquer it. The focus of the film changes when it shifts to dramatizing the successful launch of the Soviet Unions Sputnik and i...

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...

Western Civilization and Hebrew Cultural and Religious Contributions

as deeply related to their existence. AS Spielvogel indicates, "According to the Jewish conception, there is but one God....God...

Reinvention of Western Films

There are other types of westerns though as well. Some westerns depict life in Americas colonial times or may take place in terra...

Middle Ages and the Rise of Western Universities

This research paper discusses the few Western universities that originated from this time period and their influence upon Western ...

The Western Influence on the Countries of Africa Africa

6 pages and no sources. This paper considers the nature of western influences on the countries of Africa. Specifically, this pap...

After the Black Death by George Huppert

In five pages this research paper discusses Huppert's text chronicling the beginnings of Western culture and considers the authors...

Art of China Featured at LACMA

their writing was essential pictorial, but did allow for the expression of abstract ideas. Warfare with neighboring areas was a w...

Europe and the Protestant Reformation

In five pages this paper examines how Europe's sociopolitical structure was impacted by the Protestant Reformation in a considerat...

Short Story Comparisons of 'Tickets, Please' by D.H. Lawrence and 'Regret' by Kate Chopin

of twenty she had received a proposal, which she had promptly declined, and at the age of fifty she had not yet lived to regret it...

Bone Density And Dieting: Consumers

who denies it is by conducting a bone density test.12 Oftentimes people are bound by a motivational force greater than thei...

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...

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...