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Comparative Analysis of The Wizard of Oz Text and 1939 Film

not intend for the work to provide the surreal aura that Emerald City became in the filmed classic. The film was a musical and thi...

Ongoing Debate on Stem Cell Research

they could utilize embryos that are not in use. Tens of thousands of embryos are stored in clinics in the United States and some a...

Filmmaker Tim Burton

In seven pages this eccentric and innovative film director is examined in terms of craft, cinematic output, and human insights. Si...

Philosophical and Aethetic Comparison of 'Schindler's List' and 'The Battle Of Algiers'

This is a 5 page paper that considers two different cinematic filmmaking approaches to specific battles, one from a Third World pe...

Film Director John Schlesinger

In five pages this research paper examines the cinematic career of filmmaker John Schlesinger in an artistic consideration of such...

Eudaemonia Concept of Aristotle

This paper discusses Richard Kraut's commentary on the intellectual elitism of Aristotle an defines virtue in this overview of Ari...

Philosophers and Their Weak and Strong Theories

In six pages this paper discusses the strengths and weaknesses of various philosophical theories with the utilitarianism of John S...

Kantian Concept Happiness and Metaphysics of Morals

In five pages this paper discusses happiness and virtue as these concepts relate to Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant. Three...

Dinesh D'souza's The Virtue of Prosperity

In six pages this paper discusses the 'new prosperity' as discussed by Dinesh D'souza in The Virtue of Prosperity. There is one s...

Overview of the Athenian Doctrine

In eight pages this paper examines the Athenian doctrine or thesis in a consideration of Athens' and Sparta's motivations and virt...

Youth Violence In The United States

in a society where proper parenting has become a thing of the past. Detachment of this extent can reach epic proportions when men...

Sitcom Portrayal Of Homosexuality

TV" (Holleran 65). II. THE TIDES OF CHANGE The typically flamboyant portrayal of homosexuals like Sean Hayess Jack McFarland on ...

Women's Roles in American Cinema Since 1967

bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...

The Pre-Socratic Philosophers and Their Search for Explanation

why so many people had to suffer. No matter the cause, the gods were not looked on with the reverence they had once enjoyed, and t...

Toni Morrison as a Stylist in Sula

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

The Problem of Isolation as Evaluated by Existentialist Philosophers

is aligned with the fact that people are alone all of the time because no one can experience what they are experiencing exactly. I...

Virgil’s Portrayal of Hell in Book VI of The Aeneid

observes a boatman named Charon who is transporting the souls of the dead across the river. There are "hollow groans, and shrieks...

The Concept of Virtue

distinguishes between the activities of the practical and intellectual virtues, with the activities of political virtue having a s...

The Child As A Moral Philosopher By Kohlberg

children simply adopt and internalize the standards they are taught by their parents but Kohlberg found that children make moral j...

MUSLIMS AND ISLAM IN THE WESTERN MEDIA

out, even before Islam made it to the major media of the world, that both people and politics related to the Middle East and Islam...

"Thirteen," A View of Adolescent Peer Pressure

it is almost too late. However, the films ending suggests that Tracys mother has helped her get her life back on track. In a stu...

Topographical Approaches to Architectural History

"quiet zone of large mansions and parks."iv While a large tract of land was needed for the building of the cathedral, this locatio...

Working Women in “Nine to Five”

much more smoothly with the women in charge, is a much happier place (Canby, 1980). The film is uneven and the sequence where the...

Chaucer’s Version of the Reeve

choleric reeve, 2000). The reeve must also be exceptionally trustworthy because he collects rents (in services and goods) from tho...

Medical Facility Abuse and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

butchering and can only be likened to that which was utilized to produce Frankenstein. Therefore, the benefit of analyzing this...

Choosing a Philosopher

quickly taking over the world, leaving no room for anything else" (Williams, Dustin and McKenney, 2004). In his view, we were leav...

Authors of the Latin American Boom Era Carpentier and Cortazar

indicative of what the new emerging countries might become. Julio Cortazar does...

Anne Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi and Childhood

every possible occasion. Moody was four and the uncle, angry because he would rather be running in the woods, would leave her to w...

Knowledge as Conceptualized by Philosophers

it comes to knowledge leads one to believe that people are much more likely to act out in such a manner that is motivated only by ...

Comparison Between The Trojan Women by Euripides and Lysistrata by Aristophanes

Women, the impact of these unequal gender scales on women are examined and depicted very differently, for in one, the women are ac...