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Term Papers on Arts and Movies
A Developmental Study Of Alex In Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange
Number of words: 2085 - Number of pages: 8.... blinded to deal with the police.
Upon interrogation of Alex, he discovers that the blow he delivered to
the young lady was a fatal one. He is charged with first-degree murder and
sentenced to 14 years in prison. While there, he befriends the resident minister
and becomes a helper to his service. The minister, Alex soon discovers, is a
part in a new form of treatment that is trying to be implemented prisons to
help "cure" inmates from committing acts of violence. Through luck and
discussion with the higher officials in the prison, Alex is chose to be a guinea
pi .....
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Tintern Abbey
Number of words: 337 - Number of pages: 2.... typical of the era. The Slave Ship, another painting by Turner,
further proves this.
The placement, or the view of the abbey, is also inaccurate. In
the poem Wordsworth describes the abbey as being in a river valley, with
rivers and streams surrounding it. It also implies that the building is
positioned near a cliff. Even the title itself proves that the view
portrayed by Turner is inaccurate. Lines Composed a Few Miles Above
Tintern Abbey: this means that the view would be a “bird's eye” one or a
distant view. Yet, Turner's painting is painted .....
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Tlevision: Behavior, Moral Values And Social Standards
Number of words: 922 - Number of pages: 4.... the Columbine incident. Now that the constant round the clock news coverage of Columbine has concluded, there is been well over seven more reported incidents of school shootings that will probably never reach the amount of coverage that Columbine got because school shootings are no longer a novelty. Do you wonder why these kids did what they did? It is because of the amount of violence that is now being shown all across the news.
In one weeks worth of time of watching the ten o’clock news, I have seen blood drenched war victims give A.B.C news anchors their last .....
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Ophelia: The Forgotten Character
Number of words: 1526 - Number of pages: 6.... Arthur Eastman states: “Hamlet vents upon Ophelia; it is his sense of outrage at Ophelia, that she could place obedience to her father before her love for him” (194). Hamlet does not understand her obedience to Polonius. Therefore, in the Nunnery Scene, Hamlet confesses to Ophelia that, “I loved you not” (3.1.117). He has too much pride and rage to confess his love for her.
In essence, “Pretty Ophelia,” as Claudius calls her, is the most innocent victim of Hamlet’s revenge. Hamlet fell in love with Ophelia after the depressing event of his father’s death. .....
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Character Analysis: Athena
Number of words: 628 - Number of pages: 3.... under the disguise of Mentes advises Telemachos to go on a journey
to try to find out what happenened to Odysseus. This is important because
the journey of Telemachos played an important part of his becoming a man.
Athena also rescued Odysseus from certain death at the hands of
Poseidon Earthshaker and brought him to the island of Phaiacia. "Now it
was the turn of Athenaia the daughter of Zeus, and this was her plan. She
tied up the courses of all the other winds, and commanded them to rest and
be quiet; but she sent a steady wind from the north and br .....
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King Lear: King Lear A Tragic Hero
Number of words: 1465 - Number of pages: 6.... to outweigh the
comic. Therefore, the position taken by Knight is not accurate in
describing King Lear.
The tragic hero, according to Bradley, is a person who suffers
tremendously, whose suffering goes beyond him. The tragic hero also takes
the action that produces the suffering and calamity which leads to death.
Other characteristics of a tragic hero are as follows. The tragic hero is
a person who is of high degree, and his welfare is intimately tied up with
the welfare of the state. The hero is an exceptional being, of high degree,
whose actions and .....
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Twister
Number of words: 906 - Number of pages: 4.... who actually thought up the design, and at the same time has
purposely not signed one of the papers.
Bill finally arrives and asks Joe for the papers. Joe hands Bill the
papers and acts like everything is okay. Bill looks through the papers and finds
the paper not signed, and Joe acts as if she never say the paper and begins to
read it. Bill becomes frustrated and just as She is about to sign one of the
chaser's yells out " there is a tornado about thirty miles away". Joe and her
team suddenly run to their cars and take off toward the area where the tornado
is. .....
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The Crucible: Fooled By The Innocence Of Youth
Number of words: 403 - Number of pages: 2.... her uncle,
Reverend Parris, does not pay very much attention to her. She attempts to give
people the impression that she is a very tough person. John Proctor and
Elizabeth Proctor know what she is really like and wants to have nothing to do
with her. In Act One she says, "I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on
the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I
can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down." From this we get the
impression that she might be a little bit mentally disturbed. The way that she
acts in fron .....
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