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A Discussion of Caretakers of Our Common House by Carol Lakey Hess

values within mixed religious communities and they grow from this socialization, women too need an environment where they can asse...

Gender Issues and Media Interrogation

open for great debate. It seems that often thousands of years, gender is still an allusive reality for most of us. Today, we live ...

Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly: The Power of the Femme Fatale in the Film Breakfast at Tiffany’s

successes in Roman Holiday, for which she won an Academy Award, and Sabrina. This was exactly why Audrey Hepburn was perfect for ...

Misogyny in Jane Austen

by the society in which she lives. Its hard to see how this makes Austen a misogynist. Zwingel argues that Austen is a misogynist...

The American Revolution in Fiction and in Film

to the settlement of the American frontier, Drums Along the Mohawk. It is the story of farmer Gil Martin and his privileged bride...

"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - Kesey's Use of Gender and Race

Chief Bromdens mother, whom he remembers as continuously emotionally abusing his father, "emasculating" him (Kesey 1963). This had...

The Boxer (1997), a Film Analysis

by Jim Sheridan) is based on the true story of Barry McGuigan, Irish featherweight champion. In Sheridans film, the protagonists n...

Fatal Attraction and Borderline Personality Disorder

(BPD) is subject to period of extreme emotional turmoil, as these individuals tend to see themselves in a distorted fashion, which...

Toni Morrison as a Stylist in Sula

bedroom and gently holds him. Then she pours kerosene over the sleeping man and burns him to death. Morrison writes that Plum ope...

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...

Chaucer’s Version of the Reeve

choleric reeve, 2000). The reeve must also be exceptionally trustworthy because he collects rents (in services and goods) from tho...

MUSLIMS AND ISLAM IN THE WESTERN MEDIA

out, even before Islam made it to the major media of the world, that both people and politics related to the Middle East and Islam...

"Thirteen," A View of Adolescent Peer Pressure

it is almost too late. However, the films ending suggests that Tracys mother has helped her get her life back on track. In a stu...

Working Women in “Nine to Five”

much more smoothly with the women in charge, is a much happier place (Canby, 1980). The film is uneven and the sequence where the...

Legal Analysis of a Slip-and-fall Case

complaint and denied the plaintiffs cross-motion for leave to reargue. In this case, there were multiple defendants, one of which ...

Women's Roles in American Cinema Since 1967

bed, or even beginning to become amorous might secure a PG rating, but during that time period, blatant sexuality in film was not ...

Hamlet & Oedipus

consequence. Her grief is obviously great even though the event was decades ago. She tells Oedipus, "...my son/ he wasnt three day...

Setting as Portrayed in Works by Richard Shelton and Leslie Marmon Silko

visit time and again, or which makes the reader have a strange sense of foreboding for the characters as the story unravels. Autho...

Richard III England's Black Legend by Desmond Seward and The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey

particular emphasis upon Richard III. A relevant phrase within the literary world that relates to the overall concept of good and...

Comparing Crime Dramas Crossing Jordan and CSI

Cases vary from week to week. In an episode known as Stalker, Jan Galloway was obviously fearful when her body was found. It was n...

Girls, Women, and the Impact of the Media

more than provide a reflection of the times, or to subconsciously inform women and girls about their roles. In many cases, the med...

Wild Thorns by Sahar Khalifeh

true in the modern non-fictional Palestinian reality, survival as individuals and as a culture is the primary goal of Khalifehs fi...

Dracula by Bram Stoker

emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...

Women's Roles in Western and Hindi Cinema

The movie industry in India is the largest in the world and produces over 800 films a year, twice that of Hollywood and is referre...

Gods and Generals by Jeff Shaara

proved to be the right choice. Burnside even gained support of President Lincoln, who approved their mission but warned that they...

Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens

therefore, is a nonentity in all ways that do not pertain to business (Adrian, 1984). Dickens uses the interior of his home to con...

Synoptic Gospels and Soteriology

Aquinas goes on to explain Christs sacrifice through suffering in that it came out of Christs love and obedience for mankind. This...

Portrayals of Good Science Gone Bad in Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells, and Mary Shelley

jump into a review of these novels it is necessary to first examine the predominant state of mind of Victorian Europe. During the...

Far From the Maddening Crowd, Madame Bovary, and Marriage

to a place where she thinks that such fantasies can be obtained. Now, while such romance can be found, it is often tempered with a...

Hell in Linden Hills and Inferno

at the sacrifice of those things that really matter the most: heart and soul. Linden Hills is an African American middle-class ne...