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Late 1940s and 1950s in America

upon closer examination, flaws barely perceptible by the naked eye could be seen which suggests that looks really are deceiving. ...

The Street by Ann Petry

financially running a vegetable store. Lutie ponder their situation, "Who would have thought that this old Italian couple...would ...

Mid Twentieth Century Sierra Leone Decolonization and Nationalism

became the elite of the country, marginalizing the remaining portions of the population. And while the freed slaves constituted t...

Films The Bicycle Thief and Double Indemnity and Representations of Family and Work

In three pages this paper examines how family and work attitudes are represented in these films from the 1940s. Two sources are c...

Book Review of Ann Moody's Coming of Age in Mississippi

would dare to challenge the social mores to effect societal change. She would become on of the first blacks to protest unfair trea...

Ivan the Terrible, Directed by Sergei Eisenstein

his cheek, he has a look that mixes fear and trepidation with determination. With this, Eisenstein introduces the idea that the Ts...

Book Report on Alvin Kernan’s Memoir Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket’s World War II Odyssey

San Diego, California. For a young farm boy, the transition was nothing short of culture shock. The boot camp of 1941 was design...

Containment in US History

United States, or it was believed to be a threat, and there was a great deal of effort aimed at keeping the United States society ...

McCarthyism and Anticommunism

the grip of what can only be called a "Red Scare." People saw Communists behind every tree and were terrified that they were going...

Examining the Scientist-Practitioner Model of Psychological Training

models of training used in doctoral programs in professional psychology. However, the best-known of these models is the scientist-...

An Art Form with Bite Political Cartoons

peering out at him, are two figures, one of which is clearly Adolf Hitler and the other is presumably the Emperor of Japan. The Ja...

Black Elk Speaks by Nicholas Black Elk and Dialogue

DM: I couldnt really say, considering that I only first read this book last week, but I think I know what you mean. TL: OK, you ...

Black Folk Tradition and Black Middle Class Tension

In ten pages this paper examines the conflict between African cultural traditions and the contemporary African American middle cla...

Richard Wright's Black Boy and William Faulkner's Light in August and Black Identity

white society or in any way "rock the boat". As Jennifer Poulos observes, they are, in particular, taught to be quiet, and to refr...

Black on Black Pottery of Maria Martinez

In five pages Tewa potter Maria Martinez's amazing life and are are explored. Five sources are cited in the bibliography....

Blacks' Relationship to Whites/Sociological Analysis

this was the stance of antebellum Southerners who saw slavery as a functional and crucial part of their economic system. Propon...

Black Experience in W.E.B. Du Bois' The Souls of Black Folk

In three pages this essay examines the black experience as represented in this text by W.E.B. Du Bois. One source is cited in the...

Black Community and the Impact of Black Sports Figuresty

talk to other tribes in North Dakota about education, lifestyle choices, success, character and health. Others will establish gr...

Black Civil Rights Advocacy and Differences in Black Authors' Styles

In six pages the differences that exist between the styles of African American authors and civil rights activists Cornel West, Fre...

Government Regulations And American Cinema

the Code and ended with its demise" (Doherty, 1999, p. 1). While some hollered censorship, others countered those conjectures by...

Hans Richter: “Ghosts before Breakfast”

clock; its 10 oclock. Time passes in five-minute jumps, indicating that we are not seeing it objectively. A man fights with his ti...

The Function of the "Gaze" in "Vertigo"

dizziness and dislocation. For most of the first 45 minutes of the film, Scottie (James Stewart) gazes at Madeleine (Kim Novak) f...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

Film Analysis

In order to offer thorough analysis, Boggs and Petrie (2004) recommend seeing a movie at least twice. The first viewing can be dev...

New German Cinema

many different directors today, and in the past. One notable director from the past is Alfred Hitchcock who would take a story and...

What It Means To Be A Black Belt In Karate

their parents. They must have it all right now or they will be upset. While this behavior may be considered normal for children,...

The Development of the British Film Industry: Cultural Influences

here is that the film industry, even in its earliest days was driven by economic concerns and considerations. Throughout the 192...

Film Genre/Its Evolution

silent era, as it became clear to filmmakers that certain types of stories were particularly popular and profitable (Gazetas, 2008...

Cuckoo's Nest and Nursing Ethics

frees him from this indignity and travesty of life by smothering him with a pillow and then escapes from the asylum (One Flew, 199...

Citizen Kane

of Thatchers diary. Film components: Dissolves, flashback, deep-focus shots, long shots, close-ups. In the establishing long sho...