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'The Company of Wolves' by Angela Carter

The feminist rewriting of fairytales as reflected in this short story by Angela Carter is considered in a paper consisting of five...

Horror Cinema and German Expressionism

anxiety, continue through most of his lifes work. "Illness, madness and death were the black angels that kept watch over my cradl...

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

In five pages this reality text by Remarque on the horrors of war as experienced by young Paul Baumer during the First World War i...

Two Prominent Cult Movies

as seen in the more recent Rocky Horror Picture Show, the cult classic appeals to audiences because it portrays a different perspe...

Inferior Film Sequel Scream 2

In five pages this paper examines the reviews of critics regarding this inferior first sequel to the blockbuster and acclaimed hor...

A Critical Review and Analysis of the Film, Halloween

the horrific murders of her school friends tips off the audience that she is the deranged killers elusive victim. The audience is...

Kurtz in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

central point of the narrative. The company accountant is the first character to refer to Kurtz and he tells Marlow that Kurtz i...

“The Little Shop of Horrors”

Center 2005). Seymour, of course, wants Audrey and one day when Orin ODs on the laughing gas he uses to get high, Seymour feeds hi...

The Injustices of World War II: Japanese American Internment and Atomic Bombs

hatred and prejudice was not the result of anything they had done but rather the result of the physical and cultural differences b...

Theme of Happiness in "Brave New World"

they are dull-witted animals fit only for manual labor (Huxley). The idea of manufacturing sentient beings and then using chemical...

Narrative of Equiano & Douglass/A Comparison

resisted the imposition of another name, Gustavus Vassa, by his master. Nevertheless, despite being treated as an animal, Douglass...

How I Survived Being Sexually Abused as a Child

I think of my aunt just inside the door well within earshot of what was happening right under her own roof. My story,...

Freud And Malaparte

stronger than that instinct. He believed that if there were no checks and reins required by civilization that humans would just te...

The Horrors and Hope of Hurricane Katrina

to those impacts than are others. The normative, i.e. not so unique, stressors of Hurricane Katrina are characterized best ...

Art of Slavery

Their purpose was to have Parliament abolish slave trade, rather than declare slavery to be illegal. As an incremental play, this ...

Lynching as Terrorism

the perpetrators need to have a voice in their own government doesnt really hold up. Whites were in charge-they had no need to use...

A One Hundred Year Commemoration of September 11, 2001

of adding ominous color, perhaps an oboe or bass clarinet. This opposing theme would be in A minor, which is the relative minor of...

Overview of the Holocaust

of these individuals were dispatched into labor camps by the Nazis, where many died shortly thereafter of various causes including...

Shirley Jackson's Subtle Use of Horror

this a model of an extremely traditional patriarchal society, with the men in charge and the women and children following them obe...

Freeze Frame: Photographer Philip Jones Griffiths' Depiction of the Vietnam War

the war as manufactured by federal government propaganda, and significantly altered public perceptions of the war (Miller 211). A...

The Impacts of World War I on the Battlefield and Back Home

The First World War had impacts not just on the areas embroiled in the warfare but on the...

Protest at Tiananmen Square

The Tiananmen Square incident that occurred on June 6, 1989 in Beijing China epitomized the desperateness of many Chinese...

Two Versions of Frankenstein

and had been released some months earlier (Biodrowski). The novel, which has the subtitle of "The Modern Prometheus," is "a sort o...

Prisoner Psyche: The Stanford Prison Experiment and Abu Ghraib

prisoners are noncitizens being held in the course of military operations outside the United States" (Savage, 2009). The ...

The Horrors of WWI

often referred to as a trench war. And, as one author notes, "There had never been anything like it before and there wont ever be ...

Comparing and Contrasting Dracula and Nosferatu

is of excellent quality which is likely why it quickly became a classic, and one which others emulate. The ending is satisfying. S...

Poe and The Tell-Tale Heart, a Reaction

when it overwhelms everything, even the narrator who is trying to avoid being caught. Perhaps the most hideous thing about the sto...

Vera Brittain and the Death of Youth

found herself trying to heal German boys that her brother and his friends would later try to kill (Brittain). The idea of patching...

Analysis of 2 Horror Films

adding to aid of gloom. As this suggests, in Frankenstein, the X factor is primarily shown overtly, using aspects of the cinemat...

Blood Diamond - Paying for Death with Luxury

horrifying story of the evil of greed, set against the backdrop of the Sierra Leone civil war. This paper explores the messages of...