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Film Review/Toy Story 3

as "jolly, slapstick comedy," but also criticizes it for lacking the "almost eerie humanity that infused" the earlier movies, writ...

Film Portrayal of Schizophrenia

show the director she can be seductive. When he kisses her, she bites him. His anticipation for further sexual intimacy is never r...

Small Group Communication, The Hurt Locker

by Kathryn Bigelow, written by Mark Boal, 2009) offers a detailed study of the life of an Army bomb squad, Bravo Company, statione...

Accuracy in the Film "Frida"

draw and paint, which is a "direct expression" of "her interior life" (Young 29). When she is finally able to walk again, she visi...

Kubrick/The Shining

one in which Danny Torrance, the seven-year-son of Wendy and Jack, has a vision of blood engulfing a hotel hallway in torrential w...

Once We Were Warriors/Postcolonial Theory

a different "historical memory of the Maori," as they remember "fierce fighters who battled against British colonizers for decades...

Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday (1940)

This essay provides analysis of several aspects of this 1940 screwball comedy directed by Howard Hawks. The analysis focuses on as...

Film and Novel Versions of Day of the Locust

In three pages an analysis of Tod Hackett's character is the primary focus of this comparative novel and film analysis of Day of t...

Rowlandson & Dances With Wolves

read, she immediately attributes these events to the action of Providence. When her captors, which is a band of American Natives m...

Universal Soldier Film and Analysis of Eroticism Analysis

UniSols have bodies of unmatched perfection and their memories have been supposedly erased, which allows their minds to be easily ...

Critical Analysis of American Slavery, American Freedom by Edmund S. Morgan

Historians, Morgan offers a comprehensive and thorough examination of colonial Virginia that reveals the dynamics that led to this...

Comparative Analysis of European Americans and Native Americans

culture is quite different from mainstream culture in many aspects, on a daily basis. In this region of the country, for ex...

Capitalism Fuels Colonial Expansion

the scene may seem sublime, it can be interpreted as a depiction of contrast between cultures. In the foreground stands the Europ...

Cherokee Influences on Colonial Settlers

This paper addresses Native American Culture and its impact on colonial American society. The author discusses various ways in wh...

Comparative Analysis of the Poetry of William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman

For example, in verse six, Whitman is ". . . Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms/strong and content I tra...

Literary Transcendentalism by Lawrence Buell

In six pages this paper discusses the American Transcendental movement in a summary and analysis of Lawrence Buell's Literary Tran...

American Dream as a Nightmare in Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby'

In five pages this paper provides a comparative analysis of these two famous American literary works in terms of the acquisition o...

Counseling Associations' Code of Ethics

In a comparative analysis consisting of five pages the code of ethics espoused by the American Associate of Pastoral Counselors, t...

2 Articles on Cold and Influenza “Cold Warriors” Discover Magazine and Disarming Flue Viruses” Scientific American Magazine

that another pandemic can still strike at any time. While such possibility of widespread influenza is a very real threat, the com...

Gordon Wood and Bernard Bailyn on the Revolutionary War

In six pages this comparative analysis explores the Revolutionary War perspectives of Gordon Wood in The Radicalism of the America...

Analysis of Major Credit Card Company

compared to Visas average of $2,470 and MasterCards average of $1,960. This is all part of their brand image marketing. When Ame...

'Revolutionary' Citizenship and the American Experience

This paper considers how the modern concept of citizenship has been shaped by the American experience and also features a comparat...

Frida/Accuracy of Recent Film

Frida, as a young teen, sneaking into an auditorium to watch Diego painting a mural. Diegos wife Lupe appears and confronts Diego ...

Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night/On Film

a take on the play that is patterned after the screwball comedies of the 1930s, as "Beatrice and Benedick are surely the prototype...

Birth of a Nation/Cinematic History

history of the Civil War and the Reconstruction. In essence, Griffith is recounting the tales told to him by his father, who was a...

Modern Americans' and Native Americans' Rites of Passage

In seven pages this paper compares the contemporary American teenager with Tukuna, Okrika, and Okiek Native American counterparts ...

A Review of the Film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

A 18 page critique of this less than successful film. The author atributes the lack of success however to the poor distribution a...

Asian Culture in Art and Film

way or another by the culture itself. Now, while there are numerous contemporary artists and also numerous styles this section ...

Comedy in Two Science Fiction Films

This essay describes how comedy was achieved in two science fiction films, "Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home" and "Galaxy Quest." Th...

The Clock, a Cultural View

This essay pertains to a Vincente Minneli film from 1945, "The Clock," which starred his wife, Judy Garland. The writer discusses ...