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Films and Use of Drugs

In a paper consisting of nine pages drug use as depicted in American films is examined. Fifteen sources are cited in the bibliogr...

African Americans As Depicted in Cinema II

In six pages this essay examines Hollywood Shuffle, Glory, and Gone with the Wind in order to analyze how African Americans have b...

An Analysis of the Film, Sankosa, and The African-American Experience

This paper takes an Afro-Centric perspective in discussing the film, Sankosa, and its impact on modern-day African-Americans. Thi...

An Analysis of the Film, Sankosa

This paper examines the relevance of the film, Sankosa, and others like it that focus on African-Americans holding onto their heri...

Legacy of Conquest/The American West

the conquest era continue to shape current realities. Limericks text shows that the history of the American West is rooted primari...

Rice and Kings and All That Jazz

The writer discusses the efforts made by the U.S. during the Cold War to win other nations to its view. The methods discussed incl...

Love Stereotypes in Literature and Cinema

screen is transitory at best. This movie asks the question: Is love merely going through the motions? Is beauty a trap? Are women ...

America's Ailing Healthcare as Depicted in Michael Moore's Documentary 'Sicko'

have reattached since he could not afford the cost of both. According to Rick, the hospital priced the reattachment of his middle...

The Prairie Novel by James Fenimore Cooper and the Film Dances with Wolves

In five pages the depiction of Native Americans in the novel by James Fenimore Cooper and in the film by Kevin Costner is contrast...

The Wizard of Oz, Citizen Kane, and Cinematic Reflections of America

In five pages this paper discusses how these films reflect expansionism, individualism, success, economic wealth, the 'American Dr...

The Film American Gangster and the Social Issues It Raises

as icon ... you dont cast Denzel Washington unless youre willing to accept that charisma is often the secret weapon of the success...

Reality and Hispanic Cinema

brutalized in this event and the historical record shows that such a background would be historically accurate. Alienated against...

The Magnificent Seven Film and the Cowboy Mentality

clearly an attempt to redefine the modern cowboy for modern audiences by penetrating the invincible stereotype and revealing vulne...

Cinematic Comparison of Like Water for Chocolate and Mi Familia

characterize Mexican tradition with the contemporary realism of complex family relationships. It is a cinematic postcard for fami...

African American Youth Stereotypes

more of art imitating life rather than the other way around. II. DISCUSSION The good old days of the colorful, romantic, s...

Film American Pie and Sex

just not appeal to me....Yes, the movie does have that somewhat annoying trait of finding gut-wrenching humor in the very existenc...

Paranoia, McCarthyism, and Film Noir

in the destructive power of nuclear energy. Osteen (1994) points out that few events have affected the American psyche in a manne...

Suburban Dream Subverted

In eight pages this paper examines the shift from Orson Welles' perceptions of the American Dream to the subversion represented in...

Actress Julia Roberts

of his life. He realizes that he has been living in an emotional vacuum, operating more as a robot than a human being, and he subs...

Film and American Culture

everyone reveals their powerful inner human side, and all comes out well in the end. Some may argue that this film depicts the ...

Basketball History

This research paper presents a short history of basketball that describes how the sport began and then traces the high spots in it...

Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era by James Marten

This book review is on James Marten's Childhood and Child Welfare in the Progressive Era: A brief history with documents. The over...

Modern Dysfunctional Culture as Embodied by the Film 'American Beauty'

culture in the discontentment of one mans desire to live more of his life than merely being a cookie cutout of average people. Le...

The Journalist in Combat

The history of reporting in war is the history of telling America's story. This paper explores that history and how the war story ...

A Political History of Cuba

in 1515. Cubas position in the Caribbean has made it attractive to non-natives for centuries. The Spanish gave it extra at...

The Importance of Women's History

women to the sidelines of history, as insignificant to the progress of humanity. By implication, this view says that women did not...

Contemporary American Culture and Films

In a paper consisting of 7 pages American cinema and how it satirizes or reflects American culture is considered with student tuto...

1995 Film Critique of The American President

and well-thought out film. This film makes us ask the question, however, about whether our United States Presidents truly have pe...

'Nightmare of History'

In three pages this paper examines the observation by J. Baldwin that James Joyce 'is right about history being a nightmare--But i...

An Analysis of the Film, American Beauty

troubled home life. To escape, Ricky retreated into his own world of drugs and voyeurism. Simply stated, American Beauty was an ...