Alienation in characters and in ourselves
Thesis - 4 pages - Journalism
Human beings are by nature social creatures. We need to be raised by others, bred by other, and also to live with others. More than one short story this semester dealt with a theme that is the opposite of community- alienation. In the three short stories “Cathedral,” “The Man...
Ball game
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
What is it about baseball? No other sport can get inside you the way it does. America's past-time is America's past-time because baseball just contains different aspects of strength, strategy, and excitement which other sports simply lack. What is it that lets this game get inside you?...
Humor is best when funny
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
Here's a question. How necessarily serious should news be? Should it be straight forward, void of emotion? The powers that be taught us early on that news needs to be unbiased, objective, to the point. However, recently, the current trend is to throw a little of yourself into your work- real...
Go, captain planet!
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
Looking back now, I can vividly remember my father making me open up the pantry door to take out the can I had just thrown away, so I could correctly put it in the orange recycling bag. This would occur multiple times throughout my childhood. “Why can't we throw the cans away with all the...
To choose or not to choose
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
So now we come to the argument of free will. Do we choose our future? Or do we have a destiny? These two questions exist as the two competing arguments. Some think wholeheartedly one holds the truth, and some say there may be truth in both. These two conflicting views on choice are entitled...
The dropping of the atomic bomb
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
On August 6, 1945, Bombardier Thomas Freeble dropped the first atomic bomb from his airplane Enola Gay. The bomb was dropped at 8:15 am, and it fell for fifty seconds before it exploded 2,000 feet above the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Hiroshima had a population of 250,000 people, and was chosen...
3 voices analyzing "Drums along the Mohawk"
Thesis - 3 pages - Film studies
Drums Along the Mohawk,” a film made by John Ford from 1939. It is adapted from an historical novel of the same name. The film recounts the actions, relationships social and political tensions of the Mohawk River Valley during the American Revolution. The subject of this paper is the...
Pastoral images in poetic practice
Thesis - 4 pages - Arts and art history
Pastoral “is a double longing after innocence and happiness,” its “universal idea is the Golden Age…it is based on the antithesis of Art and Nature; and its fundamental motive is hostility to urban life. ” As educational awakening started to filter into the consciousness...
An essay on art
Thesis - 2 pages - Arts and art history
The art of Renaissance Italy is remarkable for its near complete break with past tradition, even as such art was still being made in the rest of Europe. The old forms and styles of the Middle Ages, which were primarily symbolic, gave way to a new art that strove for realism and at the same time...
Analyzing humor: The grand of them all
Thesis - 3 pages - Journalism
The Landlord, a Funny or Die exclusive video, is a comedy that makes people laugh until they tear up. The video shows two lethargic, aged men, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay, who are suddenly interrupted by the presence of their raging landlord because the rent is late1. Surprisingly, the landlord...
Compulsory heterosexuality, sexual autonomy and gender in Leslie Feinberg's 'Stone Butch Blues'
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
This passage from Leslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blues is a good- albeit disturbing- summation of the concepts of Compulsory heterosexuality, sexual autonomy and gender that coexist within Feinberg's own engendered identity. Stone Butch Blues itself is the compelling first novel of Leslie...
Killer angels: A fictionalized account based on factual historical events and people
Time lines - 3 pages - Journalism
Killer Angels is a fictionalized account based on factual historical events and people. It takes these actual people and events and hypothesizes their motives and inner most thoughts; it also extrapolates on their motives. It deals in particular with the Battle of Gettysburg and the main actors...
All quiet on the Western front: A review
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front is a powerful novel about the disillusionment brought on by World War I. The book is written in first person narrative based on Paul Bäumer's, a 20 year old German soldier fighting in France, experiences and the fate of his companions....
The America's: In women's hands
Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies
The film The America's: In Women's Hands provides a look into Chilean politics and the role women played in political transitions and regimes. In Chile, tradition and the Catholic Church defined women's role in society and the home; thus, Chilean women's politics have been motivated by...
Women's voices, women's power
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
Women's Voices, Women's Power provides insight into the life of Logoli women of Western Kenya. In the book, Abwunza clarifies the lifestyle of the tribe and its traditions, the role women play, and the intricacies of gender relations. Logoli women belong to a patriarchal society; however, they...
In the land of God and Man
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
In the Land of God and Man, juxtaposes the lifestyle of privileged uppers class Latin American women with that of the poor women of the region. While class differences affect the resources women have to cope with female hardships, all Latin American women seem to share in their struggle with...
Distinctive pleasures offered by independent features
Thesis - 8 pages - Film studies
The definition of what makes a film “independent” has been difficult to clarify with polarized opinion on whether independent status depends on finance or alternatively Andy Warhol's nihilistic perception of “independent” as meaning opposition to the dominant media on several...
No country for old men and evil
Thesis - 6 pages - Film studies
Evil is a term widely used, but rarely definitively defined. It is by definition, bad, and undesirable. But beyond this, every person has a somewhat different perspective about what evil is and to how to define it. It is possible that some evil is inescapable and is simply a part of life. But...
Carlo Goldoni and the Italian theatre reformation
Thesis - 2 pages - Arts and art history
When Carlo Goldoni began writing for the theatre in the 1740's, his Venetian audiences were still in the throes of commedia dell'arte, which had been popular for over two hundred years. However, Goldoni was ready to bring realism to the stage. He thought that the theatre should be bound up with...
American Beauty: Evaluation
Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies
If you're like me, you really enjoy a good movie. A good movie captivates us, makes us hold our breath and helps us forget the world around us. A bad movie has the audience itching for it to end, or to somehow improve. At the very worst, a bad movie will make us angry that we spent money on...
A report on classical concert
Thesis - 2 pages - Journalism
For my concert report, I ventured to Benaroya Hall to see the Seattle Symphony's performance of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. This performance featured two additional performances before the “main event.” First, two parts (Overture and Royal Hunt and Tempest) from Hector Berlioz's opera...
Film analysis - The dreamers
Thesis - 2 pages - Film studies
Once the protagonists of “The Dreamers,” Matthew, Isabelle, and Theo lose access to the “Cinematheque Francaise,” they become even further cut off from the reality beyond the apartment. In fact, nearly the whole film is shot within the magical rooms and tight corridors of the...
The many views of funk music
Thesis - 2 pages - Arts and art history
The music genre, Funk, is a style of music that is approached in many ways in an attempt to explain, create, or recreate it. Many different types of people shed insight onto this music, giving many unique perspectives. Anyone from musicians to journalists has attempted to articulate exactly what...
A review of Schindler's List
Thesis - 1 pages - Film studies
The little girl in the red coat was in color because she was made to stand out from the rest of the crowd so that the viewer of the movie would be able to easily recognize her. Having one particular person stand out that was not a main character, gave the viewer a person to follow all the way...
Drunken deconstruction
Thesis - 4 pages - Film studies
Drunken Master (Woo-ping Yuen, 1978) stars legendary martial arts film actor and kung fu master Jackie Chan. Even though it is a comedy and contains nonstop action, and fight scenes, the film does contain some very serious political and historical undertones and has a wide influence culturally on...
How would a Restoration comedy production stage female gender in a production of The Country Wife?
Thesis - 12 pages - Arts and art history
This paper is a theatre research paper documenting the appropriate approach to staging the female gender in a restoration comedy production of William Wycherley's “The Country Wife”. The paper considers dialogue, staging, sound and costumes in addition to the historical context of...
The history of ancient Palestine
Thesis - 4 pages - Arts and art history
For about 2000 years the name Palestine has been used internationally for the lands on both sides of the Jordan river. Cisjordan and Transjordan. The Greek historian Herodotus called Cisjordan the Palestinian Syria or sometimes only Palaestina. [The name] is derived from the Akkadian Palastu,...
The art of Colonial Peru
Thesis - 5 pages - Arts and art history
In more familiar terms, a gremio was essentially a professional guild while a cofradia was akin to a fraternal society. Gremios were artists' guilds/workshops and were often extremely trade-specific. There were gremios specializing in almost every minute aspect of artisanal production, from...
The female portrait mask
Thesis - 4 pages - Arts and art history
Completed in the second century Common Era, The Female Portrait Mask was constructed under the longstanding tradition of funerary wax portrait masks used to commemorate the upper classes and their distinguished ancestry. The seventeen inch tall and eleven inch wide mask presents the portrait of...
The complexity and meaning behind the structure of the Colosseum
Thesis - 6 pages - Architecture
The Colosseum in Rome is a piece of architecture that has captured the imagination of humanity for generations. Although marble was taken from the Colosseum by popes and other similar figures in the years after it had fallen into disuse in order to build other buildings, the outward look of the...
