Essays 421 - 450
as the finest American novel ever written. It retains its power because it is a sort of dual effort: it praises the American Dream...
The history of ancient Rome revolves largely around warfare. There was, however, a time in Roman history when...
into began and ended with the Russian court. She did not ascend to power overnight; she had eighteen years to observe how the bus...
Ambition and a self-made determination, and the freedom to achieve anything that one sets his or her mind to were the basic concep...
advances that were made in transportation are considered the problem in terms of why consumption of goods form the colonies was so...
were possible under the enforced peace in the Empire under Alexander. Philosophy had in Alexander a supporter and it flourished. T...
In five pages this essay considers two artistic images of Alexander the Great a woodcut print from the 16th century, 'The Three Go...
PG). His father was Philip II, a strong leader in his own right, who had united Macedon, making it the first real nation in the mo...
went to work on the street early in life, and fell in with a teenage gang from the Lower East Side. Taking advantage of Prohibitio...
heroic ideal of the young and noble combatant who appears to be destined to die at an early age on the battlefield. Achilleus is ...
definitely postmodern? In some ways, that appears to be true, but in other ways that may not be the case at all. 2001 began with...
This paper consists of 6 pages and compares the book The Way of Duty by Joy and Richard Buel and the film version, Mary Silliman's...
This five page paper compares this classic text to the film version by Paul Mazursky. Two sources are listed....
conscientiously misanthropic" (pp. 55). "Raging Bull" was about the life of a man who actually had something of a heart and was de...
a strong and masculine man, though perhaps not too intelligent, or so Ichabod thinks. One night at a party people are telling s...
This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the Medieval story with the film version. There are 2 bibliographic sources that are cit...
even a bit further back to Madge Evans and Florence Rice. Most of their films seemed to derive from Colliers Magazine stories that...
severity of the Bricks grief at Skippers death causes his relatives to speculate, but this is dispelled in the crucial scene that...
That is not a trite statement. Rather, the fact that Coppolas skill, and attention to detail, allows him to make a film that is tr...
time Travolta began doing the leaps and pirouettes on the flashing dance floor in Saturday Night Fever, he was already a veteran a...
In six pages this research paper compares how postmodern perspectives manifest themselves in director Peter Greenaway's film The C...
The different Arthurian legend portrayals of this novel and film are contrasted and compared in eight pages. There are no other s...
In five pages the 'mariachi' and Western film genres are contrasted and compared. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....
noted for her androgynous performances, is clearly a woman who is unafraid to exert a mans strength and predatory nature, has soug...
Shakespearean dialog as possible, in addition to the action of the drama (Geist, 1978 and See Also Eckert, 1972). The creative d...
Modern movie adaptations of classic novels are often hard to compare to the originals. This report discusses the film version of P...
Carlito's Way and High Sierra both feature tragic, doomed anti-heroes and the path that led to their destruction. This research pa...
to matter little, since the war upon which the story was based also, at that time, had no end in sight. In order to ensure the sc...
highly stylized, live-action staging of the cartoon characters of POPEYE (1980), director Robert Altman was banished from Hollywoo...
to a casino owner in The Godfather who had his eye shot out after refusing to do business with the Corleones, is the Soprano crews...