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This paper interprets the movie "Boys Don't Cry" using the personality theory of Erik Erikson. The author presents a brief synopsis of the movie and an analysis of its main character, Teena Brandon. The paper concludes that, based on Erikson's conceptual framework of personality and psychosocial development, Teena has an issue of identity diffusion.

Tags:Boys, Don't, Cry

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In this philosophical analysis of the film "Don't Look Now", the dynamics of the film are discussed. The writer examines the impact upon parents upon the accidental death of their child. The writer employs the philosophies of Sartre, Plato and Aristotle in order to explore how subjective views can create their own reality.

From the Paper
"The film 'Don't Look Now' is a moody suspense story about a couple's life after the accidental death of their child. The child, Christine, dies in the first few minutes of the film, yet she haunts it for the next hour and a half. Although the film suggests at first that the couple has moved on from their child's death, it eventually becomes clear that they have not in fact done so. As a result, the film provides an opportunity to explore the concepts of subjectivity ... "

Tags:aristotle, sartre, plato, don't look now

Abstract
This paper discusses the government's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy regarding sexual orientation in the military. The paper specifically discusses Aaron Belkin's article, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Is the Gay Ban Based on Military Necessity?" The paper argues that the lifting of the ban on the "Don't Ask Don't Tell" policy should be one that is quickly applied to the military.

From the Paper
"The appropriate reaction of a squadron leader is to decipher who physically started the altercation and to punish them accordingly without interpreting sexual orientation as the cause of the fight. For a squadron commander it should not necessarily matter the cause of the fight only the initiator of the fight and to ensure that the two members do not work closely together until they can settle their differences. In a tight group such as a military squadron, however, altercations should not be very common as has been stated prior, they all have a common goal that unites them. In some cases the squadron leader needs to make other members continually aware of this fact, and this can be accomplished through making both parties of an altercation responsible for the same work detail. This way the members have to communicate and are reminded of their common goals."

Tags:squadron, sexuality, soldier, leader

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This paper analyzes the impact of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy on homosexuals in the military and considers policy alternatives. The paper discusses the necessary objectives of a new policy and looks at how the policy should meet the needs of homosexuals in the service, meet the needs of the military, and bring the policy more in line with the current legal and social standards regarding the status of homosexuals.

Table of Contents:
Purpose
Summary
Background/Discussion
Policy Goals
Alternatives
Recommendations

From the Paper
"It is critical that the legislation that will replace Don't Ask Don't Tell meet all of our policy objectives. For this to occur we need to make sure that the issue has been given adequate study. The sensitive nature of the subject demands that all possible objections and problems be met with informed, reasoned responses immediately. At present, we are not convinced that this is the case - the focus seems more on repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell than on how it would be replaced."

Tags:DADT, segregation, unit

Abstract
Examines the history and current state of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which allows military officials to fire service members for revealing their homosexuality. The paper shows how the policy is ineffective and unjust by looking at personal accounts, spending policies of the military, and a wide array of research.

From the Paper
"The exclusion of openly homosexual individuals from military service reveals homophobic undercurrents to society, as well as raises questions about militarism being above the law. During the Clinton administration, President Bill Clinton attempted to overthrow the ban restricting gay and lesbian members from joining the army and allow them to serve openly. However, after "having promised in his campaign to extend this civil right to gays and lesbians, Clinton faced a difficult challenge when he attempted to fulfill his pledge, opposed as he was by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and prominent members of Congress" (Belkin 1). Instead, in 1993 Clinton passed the "National Defense Authorization Act" (Belkin 1), better known as the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue" policy, which allows homosexual people to serve in the army as long as they do not reveal their queer sexual orientation or engage in so-called "homosexual conduct.""

Tags:clinton, gender, queer, winchell

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This paper discusses how the books "Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor Frankl and "Warriors Don't Cry" by Melba Pattillo Beals are comparable on many levels. It looks at how both deal with oppression of a group of people because of religious and/or ethnic differences. It examines how Frankl's novel is a recollection of his experiences in the Nazi Death Camps during World War II, and how he found a way to survive not only physically, but mentally as well. It also looks at how "Warriors Don't Cry" is about Beals' experience as one of nine black children to be integrated into Central High School in 1957 and the persecution that she and her fellow classmates faced.

From the Paper
"When the school year ended for Melba, as well as when the prisoners were liberated from the camps, happiness was not all of the sudden restored, but it was an emotion that had to be relearned in both situations. On page 310 in Warriors Don't Cry, Beals states, "It would take years of sorting out my Central High experience before the pieces of my life puzzle would come together and I could make sense of what happened to me". The trauma that Melba and her fellow black peers had experienced robbed them of all emotion that could be connected to the situation. In order to stop the pain, they blocked out feeling all together. "

Tags:concentration, camps, World, War, Two, African-American, black

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This paper examines the similarities in the films"Boys Don't Cry" and "TransAmerica". The paper explains that both films feature working class people, and the challenges of trailer park life--including the sexual stresses placed on vulnerable young people living in an environment where the walls, if they even exist, are thin. The paper also points out that both films are also both road movies, though this is more obvious with "TransAmerica" than with "Boys Don't Cry." Finally, the paper points out, what is most obvious about both films, that they are both films about transsexuals.

Tags:film, working, class

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This essay critically examines the film, "Don't Say a Word," by looking at the contemporary notions of modern psychology used both as the focus of the film's dramatic plot, and also in the way it plays out the themes of madness and sanity that run throughout the film.

From the paper:

"In "Don't Say a Word," Michael Douglas portrays a New York psychiatrist. He has a beautiful, young, and innocent daughter. He also has a mad, beautiful, nearly catatonic patient. This mental patient resides in a locked ward. She does communicate occasionally, but not in any comprehensible, normal fashion. Instantly the theme between madness and sanity is set up between the two girls, one young and innocent, one young and unappealing. It also introduces the theme of catatonia relatively recent in the plot."

Tags:structure, catatonia, prison, schizophrenia, impaired, communication/speech, transference, twisted, love, sexual, desire

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This paper looks at the book "Warriors Don't Cry" which is the story of a young African American child who was one of the first who forced racial integration into the Little Rock school system. The writer analyzes how the book, which is written through the eyes of a child, helps people realize the stupidity of their bigotry.

From the paper:

""We are not these bodies, we are spirits, God's ideas," Grandma India explained to Melba Pattillo Beals one afternoon as they tended Grandma's garden of four-o'clocks. "You don't want to be white, what you really want is to be free, and freedom is a state of mind" (6). It was perhaps those words of wisdom spoken to a child only six years of age that helped create the courage that would one day be needed by Melba to fulfill her destiny. Melba Pattillo would, ten years later, be among the first Black children to attend and help integrate Little Rock's previously all-White Central High School."

Tags:freedom, integration, hatred, intelligent, Arkansas, mob, segregationists, victory, diary, innocent

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This paper analyzes the book "You Just Don't Understand by the linguist Deborah Tannen. The sees it as a work of popular psychology written with the intention of analyzing and explaining the different conversational and linguistic styles of men and women. The author cites Tannen's central thesis that some of the difficulties in communication between men and women in the workplace and at home are the result of the inherently different conversational styles of the sexes.

From the Paper
"Some of Tannen's theories tend to support common preconceived notions of gender norms. For instance, women are thought to emphasize collaboration and consensus when coming to a group decision. Men tend to use confrontation, even when they are in some form of basic agreement with the individual with whom they are speaking. This male, confrontational style, even when done in a friendly manner, can be alienating to women. Women, in contrast, often use conversation not as a means of communicating information but as a way of reaffirming interpersonal connections. This is why men often think that women are talking about nothing. The purpose of such traditionally female speech is not the topic of conversation that is at hand, rather it is to say, "Yes we're friends", or Yes we're together", or simply "I am here for you." This is why women are often taken aback when, in trying to talk about their day, the man in their life tries to solve the problem their words have brought up, rather than simply listening to them and acknowledging and affirming "Yes, you did have a problem at work today."

Tags:gender, male, female, sexual identity, sex role stereotype