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- 6401: Media Mergers
- ... questions are rising to the surface, as to how much power and information these “mega-merged” companies hold. One more merger could mean massive control by only a few men over what is sent into American’s households. Now that networks are allowed to own their own programs, information flow could be corrupted beyond recognition. Should the people of the free world be wary of what these mergers have in store ...
- 6402: Death Penalty
- ... and William the Conqueror (1066-1087) was the death penalty not used, although the results of interrogation and torture were often fatal (Kronenwetter 12). Later, Britain reinstated the death penalty and brought it to its American colonies. Although the death was widely accepted throughout the early United States, not everyone approved of it. In the late-eighteen century, opposition to the death penalty gathered enough strength to lead to important restrictions ...
- 6403: The Modern World Needs A Don Quixote
- ... Anthology of World Masterpieces. New York: London, 1909. Nabokov, Vladimir. Lectures on Don Quixote. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanich, 1983. Ortega y Gasset, Jose. Meditations on Quixote. New York: Norton 1961. Rescher, Nicholas. "Quixotic Skepticism" American Philosophical Quarterly April 1993: 182-183. Riley, E.C. Don Quixote. London; Boston: G. Allen & Unwin, 1986. Scanlon, Donna L. "Don Quixote de la Mancha" Opera News January 1994:38-40. Starkle, Walter. Don Quixote ...
- 6404: Kabuki
- Kabuki Kabuki is a traditional form of Japanese theater. Created around the year 1600, around the same time the English began to form colonies on the American continent, the history of Kabuki is as long as that of the United States and just as multi-faceted. Okuni, a shrine maiden from Izumo Shrine, created Kabuki. Her performances in the dry riverbeds of ...
- 6405: More Than Just A Place
- ... is the place we can express ourselves. It’s the place our parents teach us, its the place we move away from, and then, it’s the place we dream of finding. It is the American dream, to have a home, or is it to get there?
- 6406: Fiesta the Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
- ... Also Rises: Hemingway's depiction of the traditional hero The Hemingway Hero Prevalent among many of Ernest Hemingway’s novels is the concept popularly known as the “Hemingway hero”, an ideal character readily accepted by American readers as a “man’s man”. In The Sun Also Rises, four different men are compared and contrasted as they engage in some form of relationship with Lady Brett Ashley, a near-nymphomaniac Englishwoman who ...
- 6407: Grease: Theme
- ... years and so have all his old movies. Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Urban Cowboy, they get rented out of the video store on a daily basis. People are so Travolta-hungry they watch the dread American Bandstand reruns on VH1 waiting for the one episode he performed (i.e. lip-synched) in. Then there's Olivia Newton-John. She's actually pretty in GREASE, you can't say that about her ...
- 6408: Kundun: An Analysis
- ... to restore Tibet to the motherland, as it had previously been. In 1906, a treaty between Great Britain and China recognized that Tibet was a part of China. However, with the outbreak of the Chinese Revolution, Tibet declared their independence and expelled all Chinese. China saw their actions as finally reuniting part of their country with the motherland. Another interesting point to consider is the irony in the fact that the ...
- 6409: “Love Story”
- ... underling themes to enhance its main story without straying from its original plot. All being said, “Love Story” touched an emotional nerve in all who watched it. According to a survey of the top 100 American films “Love Story” ranked 31, (filmsite.org). With its tagline, “Love means never having to say your sorry”, its academy award winning score, and its portrayal of two lovers conquering all, then losing each other ...
- 6410: Modern Torture
- ... and 8,050,000 people have experienced torture. Many of these people are found among the 600,000 refugees who have reached California. Disabled by the aftermath of their experience, they struggle to integrate into American society. Without assistance, many torture survivors may be unable to adapt and fully function as contributing members of the community. Torture is a slow process that is designed to render its victim helpless, dependent and ...
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