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Russians, the Spanish, the British, and the U.S. on previous occasions. Indeed, the country had been penetrated some three centur...

Sutter had great visions for his land. He entered into an agreement with James Marshall, another new arrival to the region, to bu...

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the little known tales of California's gold rush as told by women. Six sources are cited in...

In sixteen pages this paper discusses the short and long term effects of the 1849 gold rush on the city of San Francisco. Twenty ...

an old concept, and the meaning changes from what was the original intent. The author also looks at the concept with a focus on ce...

In seven pages this paper discusses the changes associated with moving from the East to the West during the time of the California...

This paper examines pre Civil War America in an overview of increasing regional tensions, politics, slavery, and the gold rush in ...

This 5 page paper discusses the viewpoints of French film critic and auteur Andre Bazin, and Russian director Sergei Eisenstein, o...

the foreign hordes defiling it" (Mattie 215). Cutting slays Vallon, consigns his son to an orphanage, and proclaims his rule ove...

Jesus" (Blake, 1999, p. 20). Glicks idea is that the crucifix is too depressing as a symbol. He says, "Christ didnt come to earth ...

mother," and thinks only of her, marries her and promises to love her for all eternity, then his soul will flow into hers (Gold). ...

things out? Perhaps it is just that they kept the plots simpler, certainly films were a fraction of the running time that they ar...

The ways in which these two performance artists changed society as well as their distinctive entertainment venues are considered i...

In twenty three pages this paper assesses the hedging tool suitability of gold to combat contemporary inflation with gold prices, ...

In four pages this trio of actors and directors are compared in terms of their perfectionism, performance of stunts, and commitmen...

This paper explores the career of comic film maker, Charles Chaplin. The author focuses mostly on his early, silent films, such a...

Wilsons War, Gust Avrakotos (Philip Seymour Hoffman) tells Charlie (Tom Hanks) a parable about seemingly good things that can turn...

In recent years, a number of prominent analysts and economists have suggested that the only way to stabilize the American and Worl...

This essay describes how comedy was achieved in two science fiction films, "Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home" and "Galaxy Quest." Th...

This essay pertains to a Vincente Minneli film from 1945, "The Clock," which starred his wife, Judy Garland. The writer discusses ...

people he thought of as his friends were merely teasing him because of his retardation, and later on, he even begins to suffer iso...

mother, Elinor and Marianne (who are both young women) and younger sister Margaret, by beginning with the death of Henry Dashwood,...

viewers (Sklar, 1998). In this regard, reception studies seek empirical evidence, either "historical or ethnographic research," th...

titles such as "The Sultan of Sleaze," "The Prince of Puke" and "The Pope of Trash," which is the one he says he prefers (Als, 199...

This research paper offers a character study that focuses on Vinz (played by Vincent Cassel) in Mattieu Kassowitz's film La Haine....

have come a long way since their inception. As is evidenced by the plethora of historical records, English property law was...

This film reviews pertains to director Richard Brooks' 1958 film "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." The writer discusses the film in terms o...

This 8 page paper gives an overview of the works of Chinese film director Zhang Yimou. This paper includes discussions of four of ...

Rush held others to the same standard. All the time she maintained optimism and worked constructively responding as the need dict...

This paper consisting of fourteen pages examines the pioneering American costume jewelry designs of Miriam Haskell between the yea...