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The paper reviews Willard Gaylin's "The Killing of Bonnie Garland" emphasizing the role of psychiatry and religion in trials.

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"In "The Killing of Bonnie Garland", Willard Gaylin, a psychiatrist, examines the murder of a young female student at Yale named Bonnie Garland by her boyfriend Richard Herrin. Central to the book is the conflict between the two significantly different approaches to assessing Herrin's actions exhibited by his supporters in the Catholic Church and members of both the legal and psychiatric professions who define responsibility differently. Gaylin, quoting Bonnie Garland's mother, makes the case that Herrin escaped the full penalty of..."

Tags:Willard Gaylin, The Killing of Bonnie Garland, psychiatrists

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This paper reviews the film, Bonnie and Clyde. The writer posits that a thoughtful critique of the whole film as an artistic creation offers the best understanding of its violent aspects, as formal, narrative and stylistic aspects are all involved in the presentation of the violence. The main theme throughout the paper is how to perceive the violence displayed, whether it be societal, historical, or otherwise.

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"Viewers, critics, and film scholars have reacted strongly to the violence in the film Bonnie and Clyde (1967). Reactions have varied widely from those who see the violence as significant and symbolic, to those who see it as a major milestone in the history of film violence, to those who find it ridiculous, gruesome and overdone. A thoughtful critique of the whole film as an artistic creation offers the best understanding of its violent aspects, as formal, narrative and stylistic aspects are all involved in the presentation of the violence.

"Yet another way to view the violence is as a symbolic representation of the struggles faced during the Depression years depicted in the film. Stylistically the film makes obvious reference to the violence of the Barrow Gang as springing not just from sociopathic personalities, but from the pressures of the times. When Clyde first says "We rob banks," (Film) it's to a poor farmer who has lost his home to one of those rotten, money grubbing banks. The violence in the film is presented as an escalating class consciousness, a survival necessity with which multitudes of poor Americans can identify. Bonnie & Clyde are the ones who get the viewers sympathy, in spite of the violence."

Tags:Bonnie, Clyde, film, violence, ARTHUR PENN, Faye Dunnaway, Warren Beatty, gangster, Warner Brothers, Barrow Gang, Acadmy Award nominations

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This paper explains that Bonnie Parker's poems suggest that the three main reasons for Bonnie and Clyde's crime spree were based on psychological, financial and social factors. Next, the author argues that Bonnie Parker, the sensitive poetess female companion of Clyde Barrow, is just as much a criminal, if not more so than he was, because she showed no remorse. Although Bonnie's poetry does not reconcile the images of Bonnie and Clyde as murderers and as Hollywood heroes, the paper does conclude that the use of personal writings do have implications for the study of criminology and of literature.

Table of Contents:
Outline
Introduction
Who were Bonnie and Clyde?
How Do They Fit into History?
Why Should They be Studied?
Thesis: Bonnie and Clyde Committed Their Crimes for Psychological, Financial, And Social Reasons
Bonnie and Clyde Committed Their Crimes for Psychological Reasons
Struggle for Power in the Midst of Oppression
Bonnie's Poetry
Heroic Following
Bonnie and Clyde Committed Their Crimes for Financial Reasons
Personal Financial State
Great Depression Economic Situation
Bonnie's Poetry
Bonnie and Clyde Committed Their Crimes for Social Reasons
Poverty as a Condition of the Great Depression
Desire to Defeat Oppressors
Bonnie's Poetry
Bonnie: Poet or Criminal
Personal History
Reasons for Becoming Involved
Poetry as Expression of Philosophy
Conclusion

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"Bonnie's involvement in the crime spree could also easily be as a result of psychological factors. Bonnie's background also placed her in the realm of oppression. Her first marriage began at fifteen or sixteen and was an unpleasant affair. Her husband would often leave home for days at a time, and before the two were married for one year, he was serving a fifty-five year prison sentence, which forced Bonnie into the working world. While she was well-liked as a waitress , one can easily see how the young girl may have felt oppressed in her overpowering circumstances."

Tags:ballad, action-packed death, evidence oppression, gangster lifestyle

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This paper explains that, although much has been written about wives of presidents, little has been investigated about the influence of their mothers. Bonnie Angelo's "First Mothers: The Women Who Shaped the Presidents", the author reveals, underscores that, rather than their wives, the First Mothers made a greater impact on the success and stature of their sons and therefore deserve more than mere mention of their contributions. The paper relates stories from this book about Sara Delano Roosevelt, Martha Ellen Young Truman,
Ida Eisenhower, Rose Kennedy, Rebekah Baines Johnson, Hannah Milhous Nixon, Dorothy Gardner (Gerald Ford), Lillian Carter, Nelle Reagan, Dorothy Walker Bush (the first President Bush), Virginia Clinton Kelley (Bill Clinton) and Barbara Bush (the second President Bush).

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"Bill Clinton's mother, Virginia, had tragedy to overcome when her first husband, William Blythe, was killed in a one-car accident in 1946. She was pregnant with the future president, and when he was born named him William Jefferson Blythe III, in honor of his father. Even when he later took the name of his step-father, Clinton, he seemed to be the man of the house. Angelo quotes him as saying, "I was 40 years old by the time I was 16.""

Tags:impact, lifestyle, matriarch, fathers, dynasty

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" The gangster genre in film encompasses a number of different forms, and the range can be seen in a comparison of Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde and Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, two films which make use of conventions of the gangster film while extending those conventions into very different territory. The gangster genre in American film is primarily an urban phenomenon, while Bonnie and Clyde has a rural setting in keeping with a specific criminal history from the 1930s. Breathless draws its inspiration from American crime films of the 1940s and uses the conventions found there to express a different view of the urban criminal landscape and of the way a film should be structured. In some respects, the Penn film is more conventional in structure, but it as well reshapes the genre in service of a more mythic expression of American freedom and rebellion."

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The paper presents the thesis that "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and "Bonny Barbara Allan" are two poems which have the same underlying purpose. The paper explains that the objective is to provide information as well as to conceal certain vital information, and all elements of each poem serve that purpose.

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"Thesis: "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and "Bonny Barbara Allan" are two poems which have the same underlying purpose. The objective is to provide information as well as to conceal certain vital information, and all elements of each poem serve that purpose. (A) Each ballad is structured to provide tantalizing information as well as to fulfill the purpose of concealing necessary information. Whatever amount of analysis is done will not solve the riddles pertaining to..."

Tags:structure, scanning, relations

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The paper discusses that, although the films "Bonnie and Clyde", and "Scarface" are set in the same basic time period, the 1930s, the films were made more than thirty years apart and reflect different sensibilities in keeping with the time of production. The paper notes that at the same time they also reflect certain similar ideas about the nature of crime and violence, its origin, and the societal elements that contribute to both. The paper further notes that although both films are violent, "Bonnie and Clyde" is more overtly so, and also more able to show the results of violence in a more realistic way, unlike the characters in "Scarface" who are more likely to be shot and expire with hardly a mark on them.

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"Tony Camonte in the course of the film is squeezed more and more until he ends up in a small apartment, fighting off the police with only his sister on his side. The tone for the 1932 film is set by the huge sign across the way from Tony's apartment, a sign that glows with the message "The World Is Yours," an advertisement for a travel company. The sign seems to be a promise to Tony, but in the end, it becomes a taunt as he is killed in sight of the sign, suggesting something he cannot have, or had and lost. Tony Camonte is finished when his sister dies, and he never fires another shot."

Tags:potential, incest, relationship, rapid, montage, subliminal

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The paper compares the era of "Romeo and Juliet" with the times of "Bonnie and Clyde". The paper, by comparing the two works, speaks of the bloody environment in the times of Romeo and Juliet and the desperate economic circumstances during the 'Bonnie and Clyde' era in American history. The paper continues with a discussion on the similarities between these two time periods, noting the similar themes of "romantic outlaws", "passionate lovers", an emphasis on youth, and the anger at society. The paper concludes that the tales of both lovers show how, in a society that seems to have no future, desperate young people seeking validation and autonomy, resort to desperate measures.

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"Although Shakespearean love may be beautiful, especially love forged out of passion and the laws of a society that denies the freedoms of the young, it is not the society of Renaissance Italy that is beautiful and romantic. The fact that love can exist even in an atmosphere that a modern audience can identify as hopeless, crime-ridden, and decadent like Depression-era America will underline the most important aspect of Shakespeare's play, elements that might remain hidden in a production set in the Renaissance. Adult society and the laws of the land are corrupt in "Romeo and Juliet," likewise America ignores the suffering and despair of Americans living in the dustbowl during the Depression. Bonnie and Clyde rob banks, but during that era before banking reform many Americans lost their money in the stock market, or in bank runs, thus showing a lack of regard for the laws was something that was endemic to society and government, not just the outlaws."

Tags:bloody, confrontation, romanticizing, underlining, theme

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This paper examines three gangster films in detail from the perspective of the director's use of evoking an emotional range in the viewer that causes the characters to be as powerful dead as they are alive. It specifically examines "The Godfather," directed by Frances Ford Coppola, "Goodfellas," directed by Martin Scorsese and "Bonnie and Clyde," directed by Arthur Penn.

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"In each of these films, the directors have been able to kill off main characters, and create character personas that were in death equally as large as they were in life in the minds of the audiences. These are very successful films because of all the elements of filmmaking that were successfully pulled together; casting, directing, editing, scripting and wardrobe. Each of the three films are formulas for successful gangster films, which is a genre that is difficult to fail with because it is one with which Americans are endlessly fascinated with. However, add to that fascination the elements of success in filmmaking formula, and it is a box office smash."

Tags:filmmaking, characters, audience

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"The seventeenth century poem "To My Excellent Lucasia, On Our Friendship" by Katherine Philips was considered by her contemporaries as "a pure expression of idealized, platonic love" (Faderman 18).. A nineteenth century poem by Emily Dickinson was denied as lesbian by many twentieth century critics(43). The twentieth century novel Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall typified the medical inversion of lesbianism."

Tags:dickinson, emily, hall, katherine, lesbians, phillips, radclyffe, feminist