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Films and Books on the Vietnam War

watching Vietnam films, but if I had to pick one that seems to capture the horror, blood, panic, humor, and sheer waste of the who...

Historical Revisionist Oliver Stone's Films Born on the Fourth of July and Platoon

come to overestimate his own value as a singular entity amidst an enormous universe. There is no doubt that Stones intention when...

Quartet for the End of Time by Oliver Messiaen

friends with the three other musicians in Stalag VIIIA: cellist, Etienne Pasquier; clarinettist, Henry Akoka and a violinist, Jean...

Literature of T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Mary Shelley

are very important elements in a romantic novel. There is also the woman who loves Frankenstein without question. She is, of cou...

A Examination of Oliver Twist

work in a factory. "Charles was deeply marked by these experiences. He rarely spoke of this time of his life" (Charles Dickens: Hi...

Comparisons of Poetry

another meaning. Graham is a poet that inhabits tensions. Most of her work pushes at somehow trying to reconcile the inconsistenc...

Comparing Stage and Film Versions of Othello

the audience a close up of Othellos face and the audience is able to watch the doubt creep over Othellos face. Without saying anyt...

The Life and Works of Charles Dickens

these experiences. He rarely spoke of this time of his life" (Charles Dickens: His Childhood). In an understatement perhaps, we ca...

Oliver Stone's Film Nixon

own personality but also by the circumstances of the time. Stone does succeed in introducing at least some of these circumstances...

1960s' African American Political Activism

as H. Rap Brown in his political Autobiography "Die Nigger Die!", the speeches and writings of Malcolm X which included his 1964 s...

Thoreau and Bryant's Impacts Upon the Writings of Oliver, Stevens, and Frost

or element that he has observed to the human condition or situation. This is directly evident in Frosts poem, "Mending Wall". ...

Platoon Film by Director Oliver Stone

Platoons top-notch portrayals by the actors were a joy. Ensemble performances are all first-rate with Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe ...

British Literature and Issue of Class

pride, and vainer ties dissever, / And give herself to me forever" (Browning 1235). According to Professor Gerald McDaniel, the r...

JFK Assassination as Explained by Filmmaker Oliver Stone

In seven pages this paper discusses the failure of director Oliver Stone to explain the assassination of John F. Kennedy in his fl...

Life and Music of Composer Oliver Messiaen

book has had a significant influence on his characters and destiny (Johnson 9). During World War I, he lived with his mother and...

First Amendment Interpretation and Theory

the First Amendment and the right to free speech did not come before the Supreme Court until 1919 with the case of Shenck v. the U...

Cinematic Analysis of Oliver Parker's Othello

"right hand" man despite Iagos longer term of service (Null, 2002). Iago manages to incite a jealousy rage in Othello that results...

Food and Drink from the Perspective of Dickens

games, poultry, prawn, great joints of meat, suckling-pigs, ...barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy...

Social Commentary of Charles Dickens

the influence of modern industrialized society and the move from rural to urban settings, but it can also be said that this testin...

Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist

of this, more than likely, was due to the influence of modern industrialized society and the move from rural to urban settings, bu...

Wall Street, the film and Psychopathy

the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R), which includes measures that assesses an individual in regards to the four defining fea...

Nineteenth Century Melodrama

This paper presents suggestions to convert Oliver Goldsmith's eighteenth century play into a nineteenth century melodrama. There ...

Depression, Summaries of 2 Studies

This paper presents summations of two research studies. The first one, Meadows-Oliver and Sadler (2010), pertained to depression a...

Gay Discrimination is Wrong

immediately discounts any justification for same-sex marriage that appeals to individual "rights" (Jordan 414). He justifies this ...

An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley by Jupiter Hammon and To S.M. a Young African Painter on Seeing His Work by Phillis Wheatley

would lead one to believe there is any religious elements in the poem, the manner in which she presents the poem is, again, filled...

Paolo Veronese's Mars and Venus United by Love Seen on a Trip to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art VI

In two pages this reaction paper focuses upon artistic detail and the artist's uses of contrast and mythology. There is no biblio...