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Film Noir Techniques in the Film, Gilda

what the audience is viewing with his own subjective observations. In his consideration of film noir, Jon Tuska (1984) noted that...

Parole and Probation in the Future

crimes. Allowing violent criminals to be released is ludicrous. Parole reform is necessary to ensure a safe society. While the law...

Contemporary American City Development

and the turn of the nineteenth century, there would not be any significant economic policies, although it helps to remember that t...

1900 to 1921 Foreign Policy of the US

came to be the inciter of "a series of huge blows" (1995, PG) that would endanger the very presence of capitalism as it existed in...

Social Change Promoted by Empowerment

through empowerment can have. One of the most interesting of these, however, can be found in regard to labor issues in the early ...

European Modernists and African Art's Influences

Picasso was interested in African art, as were many other artists of the time. His interest in these pieces began to appear in his...

Booker T. Washington and the African American Experience

In six pages this paper considers what the African American experience was like during the mid nineteenth and early twentieth cent...

Gates and Jobs and Hewlett and Packard

he met his soon to be arch rivals, Bill Hewlett and David Packard. Bill attended MIT part time after a stint at Stanford ( "Agilen...

The Antebellum Economy of the United States

until the outbreak of the War Between the States during the middle of the century), the country almost seemed to be two polar oppo...

Assessment of Tennessee's Highlander Folk School

like drama and dance and music. They were given more than just a cursory education. Rather, they were given an impressive amount o...

Literary Religious Themes, Symbolism, and Imagery

rejected this kind of philosophical process. In Chapter 27, Forster wrote: The chief point was that God lives inside the sun,...

Working Class of Canada Before 1860

and suggests several avenues for further research; it also draws quite a clear picture of the difficulties many of the farm famili...

Social Work Pioneer Sarah Collins Ferenandes

little was done to assimilate these different cultures and little was done to help the new city population to understand and deal ...

Dutch Vanitas Paintings and Vanity

the human body. In Leiden, the first important Vanitas painter was David Bailly (1584-1657), and later Pieter Claesz (c. 1596-166...

A Variety of Viewpoints on Racism

society as we know it and, furthermore, the end of Western civilization in the process. His vision of the "Death of the West" is f...

Cinematic Perspectives of Society and Race

culture. "Out of Africa", for example, is a love story. It is also a story of contrasts. A Danish woman lands in the middle of K...

1911 to 1914 Revolution in Mexico

The circumstances behind this revolution are interesting to say the least. By the twentieth century the discontent was at an...

A Short History of Cigarette Advertising

focusing on the positive aspects of cigarettes, tobacco companies would encourage smoking and they would often target certain grou...

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Labor Unions and Women

Hate their job? Something drove them out of the workforce with inadequate resources, so they will have to determine if they want t...

Comparing Jacobs and Wilson

of slavery, as she was not free by any definition of this term and she was treated as property, in a manner that is equivalent to ...

Native Americans as Depicted in the Art of the Dominant European Culture

contended to be even more misleading. The infatuation with Native Americans is, however, particularly obvious when one considers ...

The Canadian Electoral System Should be Reformed

percentage of the popular vote but retrieve few seats in Parliament (Robertson, 2008). Because the end result is not always what p...

Methodology of Anna Julia Cooper

(May 2007: 106). Cooper felt that the struggle of black women for social justice was an inherent element in the "wider struggle fo...

The Revolutions in Spanish America and Their Effect on Spain

early 19th centuries, Spain was perhaps the most powerful nation on earth. It has established colonies in the New World, and treas...

Empire of Faith; the Early 20th Century in the Middle East

has made it and its faith-the overwhelming number of Middle Easterners are Muslim-a center of world attention for decades. This pa...

Beginnings of Behaviorism

it is the dominant ideology of a given time. In the early history of psychology, the zeitgeist was first structuralism, then funct...

Commentaries on Taiwan

548). As this suggests, commentary written by Dutch writers predate the observations penned by Yu. For example, Reverend Georgiu...

Explication of George Herbert's "Virtue"

dew that falls at night as weeping for the demise of day, "For thou must die" (Herbert line 4). The second stanza focuses on the...

Social Security Reform: Costs and Benefits

Administration, 2005). 1950: The first "cost of living" increase is approved 1975: Cost of living increases become automatic, tied...

A Tale of Amazonian Adventure

writer for "The New Yorker", David Grann becomes caught up in the legendary tale of renowned British explorer Colonel Percy Harris...