This paper is a review of ?Crossfire? by Jim Marrs, an encyclopedic collection of information about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, 2002, $ 39.95
Abstract This paper states that "Crossfire" presents virtually every conspiracy theory ever applied to the JFK assassination. The author feels that the biggest problem with this book is the sheer amount of information it provides with so many minute details, that it is easy to loose sight of the big picture. The author feels that Marrs presents an inescapable conclusion that the President's assassination was the result of some kind of conspiracy.
From the Paper "Marrs? background as a journalist serves him well as he examines theories claiming everyone from the Mob to the CIA to anti-Castro Cubans to J.Edgar Hoover's G-men to Lee Harvey Oswald were responsible for Kennedy's assassination. He points out inconsistencies within and across theories. Nor does he spare the official versions of what happed. He pounces like a hungry tiger on the unexplained elements of the Warren Commission Report raising questions that are difficult to answer or explain away as irrelevant."
Abstract This paper examines the essay entitled "Growing Up in the Crossfire," by Modris Eksteins, a Latvian expatriate who moved to Canada as a child following World War II. The paper discusses the historical, emotional and intellectual points of view that are presented in the article. It also discusses Eksteins' writing style and reviews the accuracy of the historical content of the article.
From the Paper "After being spirited away to Berlin, the Eksteins family, we are told, are then placed in a situation of lessened mortal threat but unbelievable poverty: a refugee camp where young Eksteins is to spend the next four years of his life. Eksteins evokes the end of the war in a unique fashion: not with silencing of gunfire or with friendly handshakes but with "a forest floor swept absolutely clean", which "is hard for Canadians to imagine" (356). This very statement sums up the essence of the overwhelming strengths of Eksteins' article: personalization of a phenomenon so foreign to us that we can only fully and emotionally comprehend it through excellent story-telling; little details that fill us with both horror and wonder."
Abstract This paper examines the genocide in Darfur, and also brings in information about other genocides in the past. The paper explains that even though the United States calls what is happening in Darfur "genocide" and the United Nations refers to it as "...the worst humanitarian disaster in the world today," little is actually being done to stop the slaughter of innocent people. The paper points out that there are no clean hands in this conflict - many rebels have turned to being bandits and just steal and sack villages wherever they wish to make trouble. The paper then looks at how innocent civilians, peacekeepers and humanitarian aid workers are caught in the crossfire.
From the Paper "Journalist Hunter-Gault did her homework prior to coming to Sudan, and was aware that tensions had been building for a long time between the Arabs (Muslims) and Black Africans; indeed, there were ongoing issues including land and grazing rights in the area. A "rebel Darfur group" - mostly Black Africans - actually took up arms against the government in Khartoum, which is principally ruled by Muslims. Africans wanted a bigger share of the wealth that they claim the government was enjoying, but Hunter-Gault continues, instead of inviting a discussion of how life could be made better for the native Africans, the government responded with "a vengeance." They bombed rebel positions and began supplying arms to the Janjaweed militia (Janjaweed means "men on horses"), which is the marauding force that rapes women, kills men, and burns villages."
Explores themes, intentions, responses to rise & fall of Hitler & Holocaust in "House of Rothschild" (1934), "Great Dictator" (1940), "Crossfire" (1947) & others.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, 1996, $ 55.95
From the Paper "The Holocaust was not a known quantity in the years when America was intent on fighting World War II. After the war, knowledge of the Holocaust would increase, beginning with the terrible pictures sent around the world as the Allies liberated the prison camps and discovered what had been taking place in them. References to these events then made their way into a number of post-war films, among them Crossfire, Gentleman's Agreement, and The Stranger. During the years of the war itself, though, anti-Semitism was barely a subject at all in Hollywood films in spite of the fact that Hollywood was known as a "Jewish" industry because of the number of studio heads and producers who were Jewish.
Judith E. Doneson wants to call the films reflecting anti-Semitism around this time Holocaust films and offers a definition.."
