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  • Gung-Ho Movie

    Gung-Ho Movie

    Executive Summary Gung-Ho was a comedy movie released by Parliament Pictures in 1986. The title of the movie is actually a Chinese expression for "work together". The main story portrayed the takeover of an American automobile plant by a Japanese automobile manufacture- Assan Motors Company. As the Japanese executives began to work with their American colleagues, its successful experience and advanced business concepts and ethics are brought to the United States. In the meanwhile, the

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    Essay Length: 2,906 Words / 12 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Monika
  • Rope: The Movie

    Rope: The Movie

    Jackie Henke Hour 6 Movie: Rope “Rope” is an Alfred Hitchcock movie loosely based off of the Leopold-Loeb murder in the 1920’s. Hitchcock’s tale differs from the event noticeably, but along with its differences, there are many similarities. First, the movie talks about the perfect crime, one only a superior individual could commit without remorse. In real life Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb believed that they needed to prove their ability to commit such a

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    Essay Length: 665 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Ways in Which Race and Ethnicity Relate to Culture

    Ways in Which Race and Ethnicity Relate to Culture

    Ways in Which Race & Ethnicity Relate to Culture ----------------------------------- Examining the ideas and beliefs within ones own cultural context is central to the study of Anthropology. Issues of Race and Ethnicity dominate the academic discourses of various disciplines including the field of Anthropology. Race and Ethnicity are controversial terms that are defined and used by people in many different ways. This essay shall explore the ways in which Anthropologists make a distinction between

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    Essay Length: 1,689 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Jessica
  • Crash the Movie Assimilation

    Crash the Movie Assimilation

    “Crash” the movie is a great tool to help people realize the hardships that immigrants face as they come, and try to assimilate to the U.S. culture. The first part of the assimilation cycle is an immigrant coming to the United States. In the movie this is depicted by the Chinese immigrants in the back of the van driven by Ludacris. They probably didn’t know what was going on because none of them probably knew

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    Essay Length: 777 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Edward
  • Philadelphia Movie Summary

    Philadelphia Movie Summary

    Philadelphia - Summary Main characters: · Andrew Beckett: A handsome, self-assured hotshot law graduate from Penn is on a fast track to partnership at his lawfirm. But he's hiding a dark secret from his self-satisfied employers: he's HIV-positive. When he gets fired while battling AIDS he decides to bring suit. He is warmhearted and cares much for his family who - especially his lover Miguel and his mother Sarah - are extraordinarily supportive during the

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    Essay Length: 2,028 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Janna
  • Analysin on Bollywood Movie

    Analysin on Bollywood Movie

    So Ashutosh, the director , had already won half the battle when he cast this awesome twosome as Jodha and Akbar. Aishwarya looks like a dream, something like she has never looked before: simple, pure and a princess in every sense of the word. Before I went to watch the movie my only concern was whether Aish and Hrithik would be able to shake off their DII image and get under the skin of these

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    Essay Length: 299 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Stenly
  • The Development in Play Behaviour Has Been Described as a Series of Stages.Present the Evidence for This and Evaluate with Reference to the Development of the Notion of the ’self’.

    The Development in Play Behaviour Has Been Described as a Series of Stages.Present the Evidence for This and Evaluate with Reference to the Development of the Notion of the ’self’.

    In this essay I am going to discuss the characteristics of play starting from the difficulty of the definition to how it is now commonly described. I will also look at how many theorist believe play develops. Many theorist believe they know what the play types are and at what stage these play type may manifest. I am also going to look at how these theorist manage to talk abot the development of play with

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    Essay Length: 2,019 Words / 9 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Mike
  • Examine Racial and Ethnic Strife in California in the 1920s Through 1940s Were Racial Relations Generally Harmonious in These Times? What Were Some of the Major Events, Personalities, and Attitudes Surrounding the Subject in That Period?

    Examine Racial and Ethnic Strife in California in the 1920s Through 1940s Were Racial Relations Generally Harmonious in These Times? What Were Some of the Major Events, Personalities, and Attitudes Surrounding the Subject in That Period?

    The good times of the 1920s came to an end with stock market crash in 1929. The reason was because Franklin Delano Roosevelt changed the role of the federal government in America society. Most of all industries decline tremendously creating movements such as Ham and Eggs, the Townsend, Technocracy. Between 1935 and 1939 nearly 300, southwesters migrated from California. Most of them came from the lower plains states, notably Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Texas but

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    Essay Length: 373 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Race in Relation to Movies

    Race in Relation to Movies

    For this entry, I chose to do the movie “Crash”. The movie is centered around race relations in everyday life. The movie begins with one storyline about a prominent white district attorney of Los Angeles being car-jacked by two disenfranchised black males. Another story focuses on a latino locksmith and a Persian shop owner who has his store vandalized, and blames the locksmith for not fixing it correctly. Another angle focuses on a white police

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    Essay Length: 606 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Top
  • Juvenile offenders: Race and Ethnicity

    Juvenile offenders: Race and Ethnicity

    Running head: JUVENILE OFFENDERS: RACE AND ETHNICITY Juvenile Offenders: Race and Ethnicity University of Phoenix Juvenile Offenders: Race and Ethnicity "Researchers have long observed differences in rates of serious juvenile and adult offending among ethnic and racial groups in the United States. These differences have prompted competing theoretical interpretations and public policy debates. However, conclusions about the racial differences in serious and violent juvenile offending have been reached primarily using individual-level data that, when used

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    Essay Length: 689 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Artur
  • Ebola--Real Life and Movies

    Ebola--Real Life and Movies

    Flesh-eating Viruses in Real Life and in the Movies Essay One Outline: 1) Introduction: Straying from the truth is a must when making any movie especially one adapted from real life occurrences. It is the only way production companies can make money off the movie. In the move Outbreak, several liberties were taken to make the story of the Ebola ‘incident’ more exciting. a) In the movie there were numerous statements, portrayals and plot devices

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Yan
  • Girl with a Pearl Earring - Book Vs. Movie

    Girl with a Pearl Earring - Book Vs. Movie

    Girl with a Pearl Earring: Book vs. Movie After reading Girl with a Pearl Earring, by Tracy Chevalier, and watching the movie directed by Peter Webber, I find that reading the book is worth the effort. It is 100 times better than the movie. In the book, you get a complete sense of what the main character, Griet, is thinking and feeling. The whole book is told from her perspective as opposed to the movie

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    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Top
  • Movie

    Movie

    Policymakers are faced with several problems when trying to administer import controls. First, most of the time such controls exact a huge price from domestic consumers. Import controls may mean that the most efficient sources of supply are not available. The result is either second- best product or higher costs for restricted supplies, which in turn cause customer service standards to drop and consumers to pay significantly higher prices. Even though these costs may be

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    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Venidikt
  • In the Movie the Fast and the Furious There Are Two Main Characters Vin Diesel and Paul Walker,they Are Two Different People Playing Two Different Roles,

    In the Movie the Fast and the Furious There Are Two Main Characters Vin Diesel and Paul Walker,they Are Two Different People Playing Two Different Roles,

    In the movie The Fast and The Furious there are two main characters Vin Diesel and Paul Walker,they are two different people playing two different roles, In the movie Vin Diesel plays this street racer who high jacks truck, when he was younger his dad died in a stock car accident and that was real hard on him because he loved his dad so much and when his dad died he went looking for the

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    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: David
  • O What Extent Can Bfc Be Viewed as Drawing on Key Elements of Bakhtin’s Notion of Carnivalesque?

    O What Extent Can Bfc Be Viewed as Drawing on Key Elements of Bakhtin’s Notion of Carnivalesque?

    To what extent can BFC be viewed as drawing on key elements of Bakhtin’s notion of carnivalesque? Bowling for Columbine is a post-structural film produced by Mike Moore. It leaves a message about America and its people. Today, the world is not a safe place. However, the world is made unsafe by the people who don’t believe it is safe. This is what the film is based on: fear and guns. Bowling For Columbine is

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Mikki
  • Review of the Movie Good Night and Good Luck

    Review of the Movie Good Night and Good Luck

    Good Night, and Good Luck is a movie about a group of newsmen who work for CBS. Who believe in the basic American freedoms, and Senator Joseph McCarthy is a man who could destroy those freedoms. Senator McCarthy goes on TV and tells who ever will listen; that he has unsubstantiated claims that there were large numbers of communists and soviet spies and sympathizers inside the federal government. He also calls people who have opposing

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    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Jessica
  • What Makes a Great Movie

    What Makes a Great Movie

    Great movies do not always have to be something that immediately strikes a viewer’s interest. They can be based on a subject you have always disliked, or have not previously watched because the sheer filming and cinematography could become of great intrigue. Special effects, which play on people’s imagination, a noteworthy soundtrack, scenery, and camera angles, can make a movie spectacular. Movies that relate to real life events and touch the audience’s hearts through strong

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    Essay Length: 367 Words / 2 Pages
    Submitted: January 1, 2010 By: Janna
  • Ethnic Identity and African Americans

    Ethnic Identity and African Americans

    Ethnic Identity and African Americans Ethnic Identity Ethnic identity is the sum total of group member feelings about those values, symbols, and common histories that identify them as a distinct group (Smith 1991). Development of ethnic identity is important because it helps one to come to terms with their ethnic membership as a prominent reference group and significant part of an individuals overall identity. Ethnic reference group refers to an individuals psychological relatedness to groups

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    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Janna
  • 12 Angry Men - Movie Review

    12 Angry Men - Movie Review

    Twelve Angry Men is a classic movie depicting how one determined leader can alter an entire crowd. Through dedication, curiosity, and the pursuit for the truth he is able to persuade a group of twelve to second guess even themselves. Within this heterogynous group are a dozen different personalities - some of which were leaders and most of which were not. The strongest leader in this movie by far is the Architect in the White

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    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Jessica
  • The Prestige Movie Critique

    The Prestige Movie Critique

    The Prestige is a great movie and it has many similarities and differences to the movie Citizen Kane. The PrestigeЎЇs starts up with an eye grabbing scene where a man is murdered after performing an Ў°electrifyingЎ± magic trick while another man watches him die. This is much like the beginning of Citizen Kane, where a man also dies, but not as exiting as in The Prestige. The beginning of Citizen Kane is more mysterious and

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Jessica
  • The Impact of Ethnicity on My Family

    The Impact of Ethnicity on My Family

    Name: Title: The impact of ethnicity on my family Subject: Due Date: Growing up, my family consisted of my mother, father, and my three brothers. My father was of German decent and my mother was of Irish. There was a stigma attached to being a German American back in the late 1940’s and as a result, my father would have nothing to do with this German heritage. He changed his name from Willie to William

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Max
  • A Time to Kill (movie)

    A Time to Kill (movie)

    A Time to Kill Are things the same now in your life than 5 years ago? Everything in our life is based on change. We would not be where we were today without changes. We have to deal with these changes in our everyday life whether they are bad or good. People do not like some changes that occur and revolt against them to slow down the changing process. We are still not over some

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: regina
  • Spring, Summer, Fall Winter, and Spring” Movie Review

    Spring, Summer, Fall Winter, and Spring” Movie Review

    You don't have to be into religion to understand and allow yourself to get into this movie. Excellently set on a secluded lake in the mountains in Korea , director Kim Ki-duk has created a classic love story with a religious twist with the movie Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, And Spring. The movie doesn’t have a lot of talking and characters. The title is used to show the growing up of a young boy

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Mike
  • An American Tail Movie Project

    An American Tail Movie Project

    An American Tail (1986) Director: Don Bluth Performers: Fievel Mousekewitz (Voice of Philip Glasser) Papa Mousekewitz (Voice of Nehemia Persoff) Mama Mouskewitz (Voice of Erica Yohn) Tanya Mousekewitz (Voice of Amy Green) Bridget (Voice of Cathianne Blore) Digit (Voice of Will Ryan) Gussie Mouseheimer (Voice of Madeline Kahn) Henri the Pigeon (Voice of Christopher Plummer) Honest John (Voice of Neil Ross) Irish mouse on boat (Voice of Warren Hayes) Italian mouse on boat (Voice of

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    Submitted: January 5, 2010 By: Mike
  • Ethnicity and Soccer

    Ethnicity and Soccer

    Ethnicity and Soccer: The effect of non-English speaking immigrants on the establishment of soccer in Canberra in the 1950s and 1960s. Nick Guoth Abstract: Soccer in Canberra as a sport had died prior to the war. The advent of Australia's new immigration policy after 1945 saw a solid influx, over the next two decades, of non-English speaking Europeans to Australia and through their input they assisted in the re-emergence of soccer as a main sport

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    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Fatih

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