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David Lynch's Film Mulholland Drive

couple of cars who happened to be drag racing. This gives the woman a chance to get away. She runs into the city and for some reas...

Killer Angels by Michael Shaara and the Depiction of Civil War Generals Longstreet and Lee

South possessed a code of honor that would see it through, the honor and commitment in the face of which no Yankee could stand. Ro...

TV Commercial Explication

few shots of a good looking, blue-eyed young man. There is the glare of the sunlight which is rather obvious. One shot shows this ...

School Mascots Debate

has been a debate that has raged for about 30 years (Price 66). The issue is generally over whether names like Braves, Redskins, ...

Influences on Culture

material products" (Bodley, 2002; bodley-text.html). In addition, it is often noted that "Culture also has several properties: it ...

Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop

the people that they are there to convert, that they find peace for themselves, and are able to build a presence for the Church wi...

John's Gospel 10, Verses 22 to 40

a point (Born, 1988). For instance, in verse 24, the Jews ask Jesus "how long" He will keep them "in suspense" - "If you are the C...

A Critique of Robert Frost's 'Acquainted with the Night'

about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...

Uses of Symbolism in 'Collage of Echoes' by Isabella Gardner and 'The Canonization' by John Donne

is typically associated with the imagery of male strength and the dove, that of female purity. According to the metaphysical belie...

Detailed Cinematic Analysis of American Beauty

of confines. The overall metaphor of this movie is the symbol of the rose. At one point a neighbor asks how the roses are grown s...

Medea and Light Symbols

drama when Medea finds that she has been betrayed she cries to the heavens and says, "Come, Flame of the sky! Pierce through my he...

Literary Analysis of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides and Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage

trademark. He occasionally collaborated with his partner, screenwriter Bill Whitehead, and was encouraged to embark upon a writin...

Marketing Communications and Semiotics

consumer behaviour and there probably isnt a single market research supplier or client who doesnt know of its existence. On the ot...

The Concepts of Justice and Truth in Cervantes' Don Quixote

Quixote does hold some hope for the future. Cervantes was also disgruntled with the political systems as well. Just as Don Quixote...

Myth or Archetype of the Hero

These "myths" satisfy our "hunger for community." The hero embodies the values of a community. May writes: The myth of the home...

Symbols and Group Painting

professional looting of ancient sites for resale, prompted more rapid protection (Brody 5). The Sioux The Sioux were nomads, who r...

Evidence of Things Not Seen by James Baldwin

In a paper consisting of five pages the use of symbols in Baldwin's allegory is examined. There are no other sources cited....

TV Show Touched by an Angel Semiological Analysis

In five pages this CBS prime time television series is subject to a semiological analysis of what its symbols reveal about Western...

Vietnamese Culture Overview

In five pages this overview of Vietnamese culture includes history and heritage, belief and values, norms, customs, symbols, insti...

Sailor Song by Ken Kesey and Symbolism

In 5 pages the first chapter of Ken Kesey's 1992 novel is analyzed in terms of how its symbolism provides a foundation for the com...

Classical Greece's The Parthenon.

construction of the Parthenon and the agora in Athens. Under the watchful eye of the architect Iktinos, these constructions, like ...

Thomas Keneally's 'Schindler's List'

This is an essay that is 5 pages in length and examines the story's characters, plot, point of view, settings, themes, symbols, an...

Class System in America According to Paul Fussell

In eight pages this essay considers Fussell's 1983 text regarding class in terms of membership, status symbols, and the major poin...

Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson, Potiki by Patricia Grace and Intranation

In ten pages this report considers intranation within the context of these novels in a discussion of ideologies, symbols, and cult...

Brief Synopsis of William Faulkner's Barn Burning

This paper offers an explication of the story in three pages and includes setting, tone, style, characters, summary, narrator, the...

Poetic Explication of John Keats' 'Ode to a Grecian Urn'

In five pages this poem is analyzed in terms of the narrator, symbols, images, figures of speech, and tone. Three other sources a...

The Symbolism of Rain in Hemmingway's A Farewell to Arms

A 5 page exploration of Hemmingway's utilization of natural elements as symbols for human emotion. The universal themes of sorrow...

Dante's Purgatory Symbolism

In eight pages this paper focuses upon the Purgatorio section of The Divine Comedy in an analysis of Dante Alighieri's use of symb...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's 'The Minister's Black Veil' and The Scarlet Letter Compared

In a paper consisting of four pages these writings are compared in terms of symbolism and the meanings of these powerful symbols i...