Audio and visual analysis: 1988 Inside edition report on Nintendo and the super Mario brothers
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
In 1988, Inside Edition reported on the new craze to be sweeping the nation: the Nintendo video game system and, in particular, its super-hero characters, the Super Mario Brothers. The piece begins with a short introduction inside the newsroom, followed by report by Joel Loy. The piece focuses on...
Artists and art in the 1920's and 1930's
Case study - 2 pages - Arts and art history
What are the effects of art in 1920-1939 on art today? Art between 1920 and 1939 set a large example for later art. Artists (mostly ones who practiced Art Deco) paved the way for a lot of artists in the ‘90's and the 21st century. Art Deco, for example, was a huge style then, and has become...
Hannah Montana tour prompts lawsuits and advocacy against ticket brokers
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
This phenomenon is nothing new, but the freshest teen singing-acting-Disney sensation, Hannah Montana, real name Miley Cyrus, 14, is shaking up the concert industry like Britney Spears never did. Parents even join their youngsters in enjoyment of her music and hit television show, also called...
The Philadelphia Eagles: Champions of 1960
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
It's no longer at the corner of 62 Street and Walnut, but Bill Barnes will never forget Donahue's. The former Philadelphia Eagles running back remembers going to the restaurant every Monday before a game with the team. The 1960 Eagles would discuss the game, eat and have fun. “We were very,...
Social spheres and genteel women
Book review - 2 pages - Journalism
The book The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives In Georgian England by Amanda Vickery is a study of “genteel” women during Georgian England. These women came from prominent families (however, not aristocracy) who were daughters of lawyers, clerics, minor gentlemen, merchants and...
Human trafficking and trading
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
Human trafficking is the politically correct term for modern slavery. There is nothing polished or proper about this trade of human flesh. Most modern day slaves are women and children. The women are addicted to drugs by their pimps, then used as prostitutes. The girls are often lured away from...
Current communication: Ancient aphorisms
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
Communication separates human from animals. The ability to have distinct languages and understandings of them sets the human race apart. Humans have volumes of literature, books, plays, and poems that have survived throughout the centuries. Thus, efficient means of communication become...
Bollywood: On the road to conquering a challenging world market
Thesis - 6 pages - Film studies
The topics studied under this heading will include: a lack of attraction for foreign investors, low profitability, and a lack of international recognition for Bollywood owing to the inadequacy of Bollywood films in international market, and the structure of the Indian film industry. Our objective...
Comparison of depictions of Native Americans in Ford's films
Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies
An examination of Hollywood films of the past, particularly those that fall into the genre of the Western are entertaining, but also serve as an interesting window into the context of Native American relations in the nineteenth and twentieth American centuries. The two movies Drums Along the...
Jonestown, USA
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
The most fruitful ways to reflect on Jim Jones and the events leading to the mass suicide of the People's Temple is to look at them with a functionalist sociological perspective and an inter-actionalist perspective. Jim Jones is a dynamic, ambiguous figure. When discussing his life and actions,...
Sensory writings: My bedroom at 12
Essay - 2 pages - Journalism
At age twelve, I lived in Elkridge, Maryland, a country town that was on its path to the suburban. I lived with my mother in a two bedroom, two bathroom apartment on the second floor of a corner building. My room was the farthest room from the front door. In order to reach my room, one had to...
The song of Alfred J. Prufrock: Critical reflection
Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies
Professor Arnold Weinstein's expertly expounds upon T.S. Eliot's personal and professional background to provide valuable insight in reading and perceiving “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Eliot's “elitist, cosmopolitan, and international” language and social circle is...
Preserving modern history: The Flood Building of San Francisco
Thesis - 1 pages - Architecture
Situated just outside of Powell Station and next to the cable-car turnaround, the Flood Building is located in the heart of downtown San Francisco. It fits snuggly into a somewhat diagonally-shaped plot of land, an usual feature for an urban office building. The building's high-style, polished...
The comparison of He's just not that into you, Book vs. Movie
Book review - 4 pages - Journalism
Both the book and movie He's Just Not That Into You by Behrendt and Tuccillo give realistic advice to women, on how to date men. Many women have always been confused about knowing how men feel about them and what goes on through men's heads. For centuries females have been making mistakes with...
The art of social justice in today's society
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
Social Justice is a pledge to take care of social issues, the economy, and the environment of one's planet for the future. Respecting the planet is a task we were all born with; either by recycling, planting tress, or going green is a definite was to empower a transformation of socially. It's a...
Honors contract: The future of the newspaper industry
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
Newspapers are not doing well: circulation is down, staffs are dwindling, and websites are getting more hits than pages are getting turned. The New York Times' website in October 2008 saw 20 million users, while the print product went to 1 million readers (Hirschorn, “End Times”). This...
Free education for students
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
An education is one of the most important things any person could ever receive. It is so important, that we make school mandatory for all children until they reach the age of 16. A college education is incredibly important to many people. To get any job these days, you must have at least a...
Tom Cruise and the character of Charlie
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
There are many lessons that parents teach their children. Parents teach their children to be honest, patient, nice, kind, non-materialistic, giving, and many, many more. As we go and we learn our society's films reflect the same messages. The movie “Rain Man,” directed by Barry Levinson...
The issue of abortion
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
Abortion is a tricky issue that has been debated about for hundreds of years. Abortion itself is the act of terminating a pregnancy. There are two sides to this issue: pro-life or pro-choice. Pro-lifers take the stance that abortion should be illegal (mostly because of moral issues), while those...
Tax reform meets renewable energy solutions
Essay - 1 pages - Journalism
Yesterday, the House introduced H.R. 6049 the Energy Tax Extenders Act also known as the Job Creation Act. The bill serves to reinstate tax incentives for American-produced renewable energy sources which are critical to creating more jobs with a focus on renewable energy, as well as preserving...
Poverty, "smells too much like fear"
Essay - 1 pages - Journalism
The “Parallel Universe” as described by Barbara Ehrenreich, is the coexistence of two classes within the same city. In Key West, Florida the author attempts to tackle low-wage service work in the tourism climate of South Florida. While she provides brief glances into her own life, she...
Numbers, charts and facts: The department of education
Essay - 1 pages - Journalism
40% of American school children are deemed “low income,” unable to pay for higher education without private funding. 40% equals almost 20 million students under the age of 18. Across the country those low income students have a reading comprehension 27% below the national average, by...
The North Dakota quarterly: Summer 2007
Essay - 1 pages - Journalism
The words "My wild and irregular life" open the summer 2007 issue of the North Dakota Quarterly. From the first illustration, to these arousing words on the opposite page this issue of NDQ engages the reader, never letting him go. Creative and articulate, as a whole, the journal is a refreshing...
Travel Log
Essay - 1 pages - Journalism
In The Expedition of Humphrey Clinker by Tabias Smollett, readers receive an insight into the ever-changing life of the traveling man and his daily interactions as well as his travel findings. The novel can be read as a travel log because through these men, the reader learns of the landscape over...
Iconoclasm and its role within the Islamic communities of the world
Essay - 1 pages - Journalism
Iconoclasm, the destruction of important images or icons, in this case religious symbols is often taken as defamation on that religious culture. It is the breaking of an assumed image taken in a new context to create a new meaning. In Finbarr Barry Flood's article, “Between Cult and Culture:...
A letter to a black hole
Essay - 1 pages - Journalism
Silence is known as the lack of sound or movement but it is also characterized as the restrain from the exercise of any function, privilege of instruction. The two views are very different, but yet are the same. Silence isn't always intentional or good. In some cases silence is good because it...
My life during summer
Essay - 1 pages - Journalism
This is the life. My body hanging gently suspended in the air by a finely woven hammock. The warm air has generated a thin line of sweat that caresses my shirtless chest and arms. Comfortably folded behind my head are my arms, fully relaxed and unflinching. Every muscle feels at ease, in its...
Couldn't fool me
Essay - 1 pages - Journalism
One of the stories that gets told a lot about myself by my family members, especially my brother and mother, was the story of me when I was about seven or eight years old. I had just woken up from a nap and I'm typically crabby when somebody or something wakes me up. My brother made a video...
Letter of reflection
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
I just finished reading my Letter of Reflection from last year to get an idea of what to write. After reading I realized how different things are and yet how similar they are. Much of what I wrote is true and some is not, or at least not “me.” So this time I have decided to explain me...
Never fully returning
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
“Last survivor from World Trade Center leaves hospital;” “Katrina survivor calls Aiken home;” “Hurricane survivor mourns;” “Holocaust survivor to be reunited;” “Accident survivor shares nightmare;” “Bomb survivor recalls mayhem;”...
