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- 3031: Medea: Looking for Revenge
- ... the children with gifts...to the bride...and if she wears them upon her skin...she will die." (784-788) This shows her cleverness because she is trying to keep from being linked to the crime, though everyone is able to figure out that she was responsible anyway. In a way, though, she is almost anti-heroic because she is not doing the "dirty work" herself, which makes her appear somewhat ...
- 3032: The Scarlet Letter
- ... The novel contains only a couple main characters that are well developed. The main character in the book is Hester Prin. She is the one who wears the scarlet letter A because she committed the crime of adultery. Hester is attractive and has a good personality. Hester has a child who is the product of her sin and Hester won't tell who the father is. The next character is Pearl ...
- 3033: Violence on the Tube
- ... television. During these hours of viewing, children are constantly being shown acts of violence. Why? Simple: violence sells. People are drawn to violence in films, television dramas, books, professional wrestling and boxing, and reports of crime and warfare. Does violence do more than sell, however? Do media portrayals of violence beget violence in the streets and in the home? It seems clear enough that there are connections between violence in the ...
- 3034: The Shawshank Redemption
- ... in prison. He is sent to the Shawshank prison, the state prison in Maine which is known for its harshness. At the beginning of the movie, one does not know if Andy committed the horrible crime of murder. But what is known is that he is not ready for prison and honestly doesn't seem like a man who would survive. His thinking going in is just to survive and blend ...
- 3035: Jurrasic Park
- ... attraction to the public he needs specialist to approve the park. He brings them to the island and begins to show them what he has accomplished. While they are touring the island one of the computer programmers, Dennis Nedry, is secretly planning to steal dinosaur embryos from the park and sell them to a company that is trying to compete with Hammond. The only way Nedry can obtain these embryos is ...
- 3036: The Chamber: A Look Into the Novel and Film
- The Chamber: A Look Into the Novel and Film Stories about crime prove to be a strong part of America's entertainment in this day. In The Chamber, John Grisham writes about a Klansman who is convicted of murder and a grandson who tries to save his ...
- 3037: Televised Violence is Here to Stay
- ... people with a harmless outlet for latent hostility and by enabling them to relieve their pent-up aggression (Larsen 143). It is wrong to blame television for outbreaks of violence and the alleged increase in crime and delinquency rates. Many factors other than exposure to the media, such as relationships and experiences with parents, brothers, sisters, teachers, and companions, cause real life violence. Interaction in primary groups (such as the family ...
- 3038: Star Trek - The Next Generation
- ... leaving the planet's resources free for plunder. At this time we did not know if we should trust Captain Shaq, so I decided to send an away team to investigate his ship and its computer record. As I was ordering my number 1 officer, Commander Riker, with the away team over to the Checkmate, Shaq warned me against such action claiming that he had initiated a self-destruct sequence before ...
- 3039: Six Hours of Television
- ... realistic than the other shows, NYPD BLUE, and HIGH INCIDENT represent the closest what life is really like. To a foreigner seeing these shows, they would probably believe that America is a blood bath of crime and ill will towards other people. While this isn't true the whole nation over, there are many cities like those portrayed in these two shows. Like the other shows I will discuss, these two ...
- 3040: Romeo + Juliet: An E Ticket Ride
- ... which a private familial rivalry is occurring. The rapiers are guns, but a duel is a duel. The two warring families, the Capulets and the Montagues are presented as if they are two rival organized crime families. As a movie-goer, we have seen this conflict before and do not need to question why it would be so dangerous and extreme for the children of these families to fall in love ...
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