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Filmmaker Vittorio de Sica's The Bicycle Thief

influential example of neo-realism in the holistic sense and then examine this with reference to particular scenes and frames in t...

Unemployment and Social Factors

immediate impact on those who find themselves out of work. Many still face job discrimination in the workplace and in the professi...

Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht

spectator into the action, Brechts goal was to place the spectator outside the action as an observer, but one who is actively invo...

Civil Rights and Differing Perceptions Contained Within Congressional Committee on Domestic Affairs Testimony

when the nation was desperately trying to establish policies and procedures which would act to protect the rights of the freed sla...

Television Sitcoms and Their History

simpler times in American history, times where families were always intact and times when the biggest problem was deciding whether...

Birmingham, UK's Architecture

may appear unsuitable to the mix. I contend that Birmingham has no more "ugly" or "monstrous" buildings than the next city, and h...

China's Health and Beauty Market Assessed

thousands lost their loves. However, there was also wide scale support as many in the country believed in Mao and the idea that al...

Policy Formulation, Globalization and Rational Choice

Hollis (2003) also makes the point that with the advent of increasing globalisation, it is no longer possible to assume that...

Social Work and Service User Rights

experience, in such a way as to determine the rules that ought to govern human conduct, the values worth pursuing and the characte...

Analyzing Same Sex Marriages Theologically and Philosophically

in our society advocate same-sex marriages vary dramatically. Individuals of the same sex have cohabited throughout history witho...

America and Obesity

2, diabetes. Today, according to the National Institutes of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new ch...

Animal Rights, the Environment, and Social Welfare

basic human needs" (Anonymous #2, 1995, p. PG) such as ample food, clean drinking water, uncontaminated sanitation, and the availa...

Globalization and Social Change

could know about the happening. Never before has this been possible. With this globalization has come significant chang...

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, and Themes of Class and Racial Prejudice

and to happiness (Fitzgerald, 1995). The story that unfolds is actually quite sad. Jay is obsessed with recreating the p...

William Gibson's Johnny Mnemonic

be one of the social issues that Ross recognizes, but the ways in which corporations function in modern society are inherent to th...

William Gibson's Cyberfiction Novel Johnny Mnemonic

The new literary genre dubbed 'cyberfiction' is considered in a five page research paper that discusses how technology's complicat...

US Students, Schools, and Social Problems

social problems, Henderson reported that "a growing number of children are exposed to stressful family situations" including famil...

Gender, Class, and Race from a Social Perspective

Much of what Rubin (1994) says is true, of course, but there are also other perspectives available. The author seems to want...

The Netherlands and the Law's Role in the Development of Social Attitudes Regarding Euthanasia and Gay Rights

of that which we elect of have as law ... as ... writing some statute into a code book, having a court interpret a law, does not m...

The Artists of Brazil

the obvious contradictions between his life and his works (Candido Portinari, 2002). For example, although he was a staunch Commu...

Rhodesia, Brazil and Declining Rainfall and Deforestation

and food for the animals and life, the forest is also a container, that ensures there is a regular flow of water (Butler, 2002). T...

Queiros Mattoso's To Be a Slave in Brazil

and were forced to work on plantations and large land holdings owned by the Spanish. Unfortunately, the Spanish had not the foresi...

1960s and 1980s' Military Regimes in Brazil and Nigeria

The military rule in these countries during these respective time periods are compared in a paper consisting of 5 pages. Two sour...

To Be A Slave In Brazil, 1550-1888 by Katia M. De Queiros Mattoso

In five pages the slave trade and the foundation of cultural and historical racial prejudice it cemented are examined within the c...

Wendy Hunter's Eroding Military Influence in Brazil Politicians Against Soldiers

This text is discussed with the focus being on the author's proposed 'rational choice theory' in eight pages. There are no other ...

South Africa, Brazil, the U.S., and Slavery

questions loom large. In the United States for examples, things have changed immensely since the days of slavery. At the same time...

Katia M. de Queiros Mattoso's 'To Be A Slave In Brazil: 1550-1880'

This is a book report consisting of 5 pages. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography....

Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Foreign Debt

the English and Portuguese, was preoccupied with its battles on the home front driving the French from the country the American co...

Chile and Brazil Democratization

In six pages democratization in these two South American countries are examined in terms of effects from the last century and thei...

The Economy of Brazil 1994-1999

The writer gives an overview of the Brazilian economy, focusing on the years 1994-1999. The writer includes such statistics as GDP...