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"American History X" in a Psychological Context, 2003.
Analyzes the motives behind the racism, hate, and prejudice in this movie on racial disputes in Los Angeles.
1,173 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 40.95
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In this paper, the film, "American History X", is analyzed to provide a clear perspective on the formation of biased ideas. Covering different manifestations of political socialization, the concept of resocialization and the behavior associated with these characters, one can see how people can be driven to these beliefs. Comparisons with several sociological texts on indoctrination and resocialization are provided.
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"Cameron Alexander could be considered the major persuasive element in American History X. He does a good job of being a ?credible communicator?, which according to Myers ?is someone the audience perceives as credible and trustworthy? (Myers 2004, pg. 164). Cameron is a middle-aged propagandist who seeks to recruit Caucasians disillusioned by how other races are supposedly taking over America and adopts them into his ?family?, which makes it easy for Derek and Danny to look upon him as a father figure."
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"American History X", 2002.
An overview of the conflict theory in the movie "American History X".
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper will discuss the movie "American History X" in the sociological medium of the Conflict Theory and it implications. The movie is based on the racism that is inherent in every sociological mode and will studied within the scope of this model to truly tell its implications in a conflict. The struggles of the central character will reveal to us the nature of his beliefs and the source of conflict that drives them within the film.
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"American History X", 2008.
This paper discusses the issue of racism that is present in the film "American History X".
1,665 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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In this article, the writer maintains that while 'American History X' tries to be a movie about ultimately overcoming racism, it fails in this task.
The writer looks at the unstated contrast between the white characters and the black characters in the film and discusses that throughout this movie, the various groups interact in ways that reflect confrontation and eventually violence rather than cooperation. The writer also discusses that the implicit message in this film is that whites have made huge sacrifices on issues of civil rights. The writer notes that according to the film, the whites are the ones who have gone through the transformation, so they are now the ones suffering from discrimination.
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"Throughout this movie, the various groups interact in ways that reflect confrontation and eventually violence rather than cooperation. In one of the critical scene, a flashback, three black youths try to break into Derek's car. Alerted by little brother Danny, Derek rushes out to his car and shoots two of the three youths. This is his murder scene, and he clearly enjoys the power of life and death over the black youths."
"This movie tries to be a story about the dangers of white supremacy, but in many ways it is almost literally the opposite of that. It contains many white supremacist messages and a great deal of problematic imagery and material. While the filmmakers may not have intended that it be read in this way, they may have inadvertently perpetuated many of the very stereotypes that they claim to have wanted to challenge. This is often a problem of insidious rather than overt racism."
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The Transformation of Derek Vinyard in "American History X", 2004.
A look at the film "American History X", its plot, main character and the message it presents to society.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses the film, "American History X", in terms of culture and the images it presents to society. The paper focuses on the transformation of the main character from a skinhead to someone who rejects both racism and violence.
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"American History X" depicts the several transformations of Derek Vinyard, a Neo-Nazi skinhead whose life is depicted in a series of flashbacks. Shreve Vinyard is a young man who is introduced as a serious student with no racial prejudices and who becomes a radical skinhead after the murder of his fireman father by African-Americans during a fire in a crack house. In prison Vinyard is befriended by a Black inmate..."
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Psychology in the Context of Security, 2002.
This paper discusses what physical and psychological methods of security can hopefully render a nation secure.
1,725 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 55.95
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This essay explores the issue of security in a rapidly expanding globalized community, one in which nuclear weapons are an ever expanding threat. The question arises as to what method of security is truly the best, a pacifist, non-nuclear stance versus methods of deterrence.
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"In a global community ravaged by increasing tensions, economically, culturally, and politically speaking, one cannot help but sense some sort of impending doom awaiting our planet. As conflicts rage all about us while our capabilities of self-sustainability dwindle, the world continues on in the pattern of every day life. Rarely does one question the possibility of war spreading from another country to their own. While some may attribute this complacent reaction to global affairs to ignorance or denial, it is, in truth, a sense of security that renders in most people a sense of well being in their state of their surroundings. Objectively speaking, this seems somewhat absurd. In today?s society, where military expenditures in some countries could easily feed, clothe, and educated millions in others, the possibility of military action and the means through which it could be executed is crushingly prevalent. Thus, it is blatantly obvious that major threats to security exist, but in the overwhelming presence of such dangers, how is it that people can still be secure?"
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Darwin and the Formation of American Psychology, 2002.
A look at the influence of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution on American psychology.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper examines and analyzes how Charles Darwin's theory of evolution led directly to the formation of psychology as an American enterprise.
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"American History X", 2002.
This paper examines the film "American History X" and explains why it is one of the most thought-provoking films in modern society, covering issues of racism and hate crimes.
861 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 30.95
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This paper answers several questions, including what makes "American History X" such a special film, why it is thought-provoking, how it can change audience perspectives on the subject it addresses, and what lessons can be learned from the points made.
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"Most people view movies as a source of entertainment ? something to watch for a few hours to get away from the world. They make us laugh, cry, or feel in some way that we usually do not. There are, however, a few films that strike deeper into the human psyche that the run of the mill flick. Usually these films have a point to make about life in general, and allow us to step outside ourselves for a moment and see the world in a different way. These are the ones that stick, the ones that leave us with a feeling as we walk away or turn off the television, and maybe in some small way change how we think about things. One such movie that leaves an impact is American History X starring Edward Norton. "
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"American History X", 2002.
An analysis of the movie "American History X".
1,025 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 4 sources, $ 39.95
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This paper discusses the intricacies of American History X and critiques the film.
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Analysis of the Film "American History X", 2001.
A look at racism as related to the film "American History X."
4,200 words (approx. 16.8 pages), 6 sources, $ 112.95
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"Racial slurs, discrimination, and hate crimes are all detriments to society. They represent an unbalance of power and well being. These examples of detriments all come from an identity formation. In this sense, identity formation is the process in which an individual learns his/her behaviors, ideas and thought process through influential examples. People are discontent to communicate with or be surrounded by people other than their own race. This isn't new and recent; it has been practiced for thousands of years."
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Martin Luther King, Jr and Malcolm X as African-American Leaders, 2002.
A comparison and contrast of the two prominent and influential African-American leaders.
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Compares & contrasts the 2 prominent & influential African-American leaders. Their lives, thoughts, philosophies & differing responses to racial injustices. History of race relations in U.S.--slavery, segregation, protest, Civil Rights Movement. How the different life experiences of King & Malcolm Little (Malcolm X) influenced their beliefs and actions: King's straregy of non-violence and integration & Malcolm X's call for black separatism. Their assasinations
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"Martin Luther King And Malcolm X
Introduction
Journalist Peter Goldman once described white America's perception of Martin Luther King Jr. as the "Angel of Light," and Malcolm X as the "Angel of Darkness." Goldman commented that what was missing in that view was the "...extent to which both men, Malcolm and Martin could set the pulse of America racing."
I have a dream that on day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed, >We hold these truths to be self.evident, that all men are created equal. Martin Luther King, Jr.
No, I'm not an American. I'm on of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. . . .
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"American History X", 2000.
Examines the 1998 film's protagonist's racist attitudes in context of socioeconomic problems of youth in U.S. society.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, $ 63.95
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"The environment presented in the film American History X is one of social conflict between two different ethnic groups, with the tensions between the two exacerbated by economic realities. The film depicts a racist household and shows how one generation hands its racism off to the next. The film also shows how various social welfare policies add to the conflict between the races and do little to alleviate the sorts of social tensions and underlying forces which create hatred and lead to violence. The main problem in the film is the way racism is perpetuated long after many people think it has been eliminated, or at least alleviated to the point where it is rare. Among certain groups, however, racism and hatred become ways to express frustrations, and as the film shows, racism and hatred can be especially hard to address when the misguided come to associate such un-American..."
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The Historical Context of the American Civil War, 2001.
This paper examines the historical background to the Civil War.
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This paper explores the different factors that lead to the Civil War between the North and the South in the U.S. It shows through the context of the Industrial Revolution, slavery, and State and Federal rights how a war was brought about.
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"Before the Civil War, many Americans perceived their participation in the American nation to be a loose, amorphous connection to a larger entity. They saw themselves as citizens of a state, rather than a nation, Virginians or Georgians rather than Americans. The Civil War confirmed the United States? solidity as a Union, as a specific, united, conglomeration of states. Yet the Civil War did not ?come out of nowhere.? The period preceding the declaration of war on April 12, 1861 with the firing of Southern troops on Fort Sumpter was an equally tumultuous one."
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Historical Context of American Literature, 2005.
A look at how the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Harper Lee and John Steinbeck were influenced by the times and places in which they lived.
1,522 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper takes a look at how three classic American novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Great Gatsby", Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath", reflect not only the drama of the "different Americas" in which they take place, but also the "different Americas" in which each of these novel's authors lived and wrote.
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"These three novels share certain similarities. Each one deals with the idea of social class, of the haves versus the have-nots, and of the educated versus the uneducated. Social class, though a near-universal concept, is not the same in every time and place. Different societies have, over the years, had very different ideas about what it means to be a member of a social class, and even of what constitutes a social class. Tom Joad's hopes for a better life for himself and his family would have been markedly different if he Joad, or for that matter, Steinbeck, had been born and raised in India. Assuming the Indian Steinbeck never to have traveled to, or read of, America, he could hardly have conceived of a tale in which movement through the social classes was actually possible. The terrible privations endured by the Joads during the Dust Bowl were an experience common to any poor farming family living in the same region. Many real farmers too made the trek to California, seeking after improved circumstances. For people growing up in Oklahoma at that time, California represented a kind of earthly paradise. John Steinbeck knew California well. He had grown up there, and his own family had carved a living out of virgin wilderness. "
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Psychology and the Psychological Study of Human Aggression, 2000.
A look at various psychological studies and opinion on human aggression.
1,695 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 9 sources, $ 54.95
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"Psychology is a science dealing with behavior and mental processes. It concerns the hows and whys of individual human behavior. Psychological research employs the scientific method, which utilizes the techniques and procedures of naturalistic observation and experimentation to deal with facts, data, and their interpretation according to certain principles. In a given study, the dependent variable under study is considered to be a function of the 'independent variables. Typically, one independent variable is manipulated - the experi-mental variable, while the other independent variables are controlled. Statistical methods are then employed to anal, the research data to ascertain if the findings support or refute the experimental hypothesis......."
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The African American's American Dream, 2002.
An overview of the history of the African American's American Dream through the works and ideals of W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper is an examination of the history of the African American's American Dream. It looks at the history of independence-minded thinking in W.E.B. Du Bois and follows through the civil rights movement with the contrasting style and messages of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. It concludes that the American Dream for the African American has not fundamentally improved over the past one hundred years, and it seems almost more limited now than it was before the civil rights movement.
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