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"Amores Perros", 2002.
A review of the movie "Amores Perros" directed by Alejandro Gonz?lez Inarittu.
922 words (approx. 3.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper briefly reviews the film "Amores Porres", which was made in Mexico in 2000. The movie is divided into three interrelated plots that intersect at key and surprising moments. The first of these three is about Octavio, who enters his pet Cofi in dogfights to earn money, so he can run off with his brother?s wife. The second story centers on a supermodel, her pet terrier Ritchie, and her boyfriend, who left his wife to be with her. The third interrelated story is about a homeless man and lover of stray dogs who has been hired as a hit man by a corrupt cop.
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"The story of Octavio and Cofi depict the seedy underworld of dog fighting. This brutal and cruel sport is practiced all around the world, and the film shows that it can be quite popular in Mexico City. Cofi is a beloved pet, and both Octavio and his brother love the dog. However, Octavio?s brother is abusing his wife and Octavio wants to rescue his sister-in-law. The money he makes from fighting Cofi will pay for them to run away. This segment shows the horrors of dog fighting, revealing how lucrative and seductive gambling can be. Octavio is obviously a kind-hearted man who is genuinely in love with his brother?s wife."
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Literary Comparison: "La Vita Nuova" and "Amores", 2006.
This paper examines and analyzes the similarities and the differences in Dante's "LaVita Nuova" and Ovid's "Amores."
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This paper details the similarities and the differences in both works of poetry by Dante and Ovid. For example: When comparing Dante's "LaVita Nuova" to Ovid's "Amores," the main difference that quickly becomes apparent is one of attitude. This paper explores both poets' attitude towards love and the extent to which their own lives coincide with their writing. Both poets describe love in religious terms, where love plays the role of a god. Dante elevates his character to sainthood upon her death whereas Ovid, in sharp contrast, views his leading character in a more flippant and superficial manner. This well-written paper details the plots and characters of both works of poetry.
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"Dante is much more contemplative of love as a concept and of the lady that he loves. The Provencal tradition is transcended when love is described not only in loftily idealistic terms, but also when the lady in question is viewed as significant in spiritual terms. Beatrice, of whom Dante writes, is described in nothing but the purest terms. The poet meets her when he is a young child, and throughout the work learns lessons about love through her. In his view, Beatrice is a creature of unsurpassed beauty, who is able to satisfy the dreams of a child, the desires of a young man and the highest aspirations of the mature artist, from whose point of view he is writing. Not only is she an extremely ideal woman; she is also nearly Christ-like in her perfection."
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"El Libro de Buen Amor", 2003.
An analysis of the theme of love in "El Libro de Buen Amor" by Juan Ruiz.
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This paper analyses the Spanish novel "El Libro de Buen Amor" by Juan Ruiz with an emphasis on the meanings of the term "buen amor" ot true love. It looks at how the term ?buen amor? was used in medieval Spain, in order to narrow down what in fact Juan Ruiz might have been implying every time he used it and how the term can have different meanings, courtly love, the love of God and honourable human love or divine love.
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"Although the word in the title is ?amor? this does not simply translate as ?love? because at the time love and sex were not clearly distinguished from one another and it was sometimes a synonym for sex. The book primarily instructs on how to seduce women and how to determine the most desirable woman. The question is, why is he providing sex education? And how does this stand alongside his attitude to religion and the Virgin Mary, whom he refers to as ?comien?o e ra?z?de todo bien? It is clear that the work is not an attack on clerical celibacy as there is evidence that Juan Ruiz is in fact opposed to it. Juan Ruiz writes of the love of nuns, ?tienen a sus amigos en viciosos? and it could be said that he fears the consequences of clerical celibacy."
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Tom Jones Finds Sophia, 2001.
This paper is an account of the amoral nature of the character "Tom Jones" in Henry Fieldings' classic novel of the same name.
1,778 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 5 sources, $ 57.95
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This paper contrasts the selfless amoral actions and the motives thereof of Tom Jones with the other characters of Henry Fielding?s classic novel ?Tom Jones?, most notably with that of Blifil (Jones? rival suitor). This paper looks at exactly why the amoral doings of Jones leads to his attainment of Sophia (Greek for wisdom), and why the moral doings of Blifil do not. This is all explained as a conflict between morality which serves to augment the self and that of amoral action which is desire driven and thus lessens the effect of self-awareness. This unconsciousness then, that Jones lives in is proved to be wisdom; this fact is then proved through references from William Blake, Carl Jung, and Fredreich Nietzsche.
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" Virtue and happiness (wisdom) oppose one another. Fielding himself writes in the first chapter of book fifteen of Tom Jones, ?? if by virtue is meant (as I almost think it ought) a certain relative quality, which is always busying itself without Doors, and seems as much interested in pursuing the good of others as its own; I cannot so easily agree that this is the surest way to human happiness?(601; bk.15, ch.1). The fulfillment of desire then, leads to happiness and true wisdom; this wisdom being an unconscious realization of the universe at large; a wisdom that is Sophia."
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Tech Mate: Sex and Sinister Science, 2000.
A look at how dark science has invaded sexuality in pursuit of satisfying the sinister ends of its amoral political patrons.
5,020 words (approx. 20.1 pages), 36 sources, $ 126.95
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Dark science has invaded sexuality in pursuit of satisfying the sinister ends of its amoral political patrons. Today phenomena like pregnant men and baby factories no longer sound so absurd. In this paper, the author examines the effects of such advancements on society and the world in general.
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"The scientific techniques of the 21st century are certain to change the traditional views and practices of sexuality and reproduction forever. But questions beg to be asked: Are the developments rooted in such techniques positive steps in our global society? Has science and technology been given the adequate ethical and moral oversight necessary to insure a reasonable measure of public safety? At present the answer is a depressing negative."
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"The Great Gatsby", 2002.
A discussion of whether "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a book obsessed with opulence and amorality of wealth.
2,162 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 67.95
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This paper reviews F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel "The Great Gatsby", a book primarily concerned with the lives of wealthy people, set in a period of American history where wealth was of greater importance than ever before, owing to the increasing affluence of the population and the start of mass public investment in the stock market. It examines how the novel deals with two of the great issues of its time, the social extravagance and pleasure-seeking spirit of the roaring twenties and the ruthless social climbing of those at the top of organized crime. It looks at how the book shows that the ideals of hope, morality and honesty are no longer existent and how the novel?s obsession with wealth and the amorality that surrounds its wealthy characters demonstrates that money is only an object of worship.
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"Perhaps the greatest demonstration of the way the novel is bewitched by the dishonesty and lavishness of wealth is in the eponymous hero. While the narrator seems in awe of the luxury of his parties, there is little comment on the rather corrupt and unsavoury means by which Gatsby has acquired his wealth. At one of his parties a guest comments that he once ?killed a man?. This is never condemned, and his friend Meyer Wolfsheim is a distinctly shady character whose corruption and underworld connection seems little cause for alarm to Nick. This is great symbolism in Gatsby?s favourite term of endearment, ?old sport?. This is meant to evoke thoughts of fair play, but it only serves to remind one of Jordan?s cheating at golf and Wolfsheim?s fixing of the world series go to show that sport, traditionally a bastion of morality, is now full of such underhand practice. However, Meyer Wolfsheim?s molar cufflinks get more comment than his corrupt activities."
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Love Poetry of Pablo Neruda, 1999.
Examining the development, themes and subjects of Chilean's love poems. Lookds at Neruda's life & career; focusing on the poem "Cien Sonetos de Amor".
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 47.95
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"Pablo Neruda: Cien Sonetos de Amor
Pablo Neruda was born on July 12, 1904 in Parral but was raised chiefly in Temuco (Pring-Mill xvi). Christened Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basualto, he adopted the name "Pablo Neruda" out of fear his father would blame his poetry for his poor grades in math (Pring-Mill xvi). Pring-Mill argues Neruda's poetry was influenced profoundly by his childhood in southern Chile, as demonstrated by the range of natural objects that supplied Neruda's imagery (xvi). In addition, the geographical background of his life took on a thematic importance in his later poetry as he began to use it as the substructure for his view and interpretation of the world (Pring-Mill xvi).
Neruda's first poem was published when he was fourteen years old. While at the Liceo de Hombres of Temuco, Neruda worked for.."
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"Strangers on a Train", 2001.
This essay looks at Highsmith's and Hitchcock's Amoral Characterizations in "Strangers on a Train".
1,540 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 50.95
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This paper examines how Patricia Hightsmith's characters, as interpreted by Alfred Hitchcock on the screen, are interpreted from a moral point of view. The author analyzes how Hitchcock incorporated Highsmith's literary technique to develop these characterizations in the film.
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"Riding on a train is, in life as well as in film, a curious situation. It draws together strangers of apparently different backgrounds. It is a situation of forward motion, a fact conveyed by the film's use of train sounds, from the beginning shriek of a train whistle (paralleling the shriek of a murdered victim) and also through such sounds as the churning engine. The sight of the wheels pulsating forward on the tracks also suggests such propelled, forward motion. Yet a train is not only a representation of forward motion, for tracks cross, the train must stop at certain points, and in a similar way individual's lives cross and intersect."
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Lawyers in Literature, 1996.
Positive & negative portrayals of lawyers' ethical images in fiction & non-fiction, from servant of society to amoral anti-hero.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 17 sources, $ 87.95
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"This research paper outlines and discusses the ethical images of lawyers, as they are portrayed in fiction and in non-fiction, including legal writings. For centuries in Western literature-in novels, short stories and plays, lawyers have been cast in a negative light, as corrupt, untrustworthy and shifty, which reflected popular perceptions of the workings of the law. American literature through the Depression continued and elaborated upon this theme. Then, for a relatively brief period in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, lawyers were seen in fiction in a more positive light, a period which corresponded with the growth of a widespread and more equitably shared prosperity in the United States and a rethinking by many lawyers of their role in society. In the 1980s and 1990s, a new moral image of the lawyer..."
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The Treatment of Love by Dacre and Byron, 2006.
A comparative analysis of the treatment of love in Charlotte Dacre's romantic poem "Il Trionfo del Amor" and an extract from Alfred Lord Byron's romantic poem "Don Juan" (canto I, stanzas 90-117).
1,450 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper examines how the use of the concept of love in both poems is similar in that both poems distinguish between spiritual and physical attraction while calling both 'love'. It also discusses how both poets seem to ultimately (though Dacre- explicitly and Byron - most probably unintentionally) agree that males are more inclined - by nature - to physical relations and women - to the transcendent kind of love. In other words, the separation of love and sex, commonly considered as late twentieth century obsession, originated in the Romantic era.
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"In contrast, Charlotte Dacre's poem is only sixteen-lines long, arranged in four quatrains rhymed in a much less flamboyant abab scheme. The poem seems to be a letter/note from the author to her aspirant but uses a slightly more ornate language than Byron's. Dacre drops no name and belittles no one. No one in particular, that is: the very choice of Spanish for the title - Il Trionfo del Amor - is a very subtle way of telling all her male contemporary colleagues and readers alike, that she, too, is well learned and well read... Likewise, when she makes a direct reference to broader erudition, it is put in parenthesis and bites at the learned males and their perception of learned women. Indeed, "(So charms the witchery)", for being put in parenthesis and for insinuating she is familiar with witchery, could be read as teasing the contemporary (male) perception that "women's writing is an affront to God-given, 'natural' gender roles" (Gilroy, in Bygrave, p.183)."
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Pulp Fiction & Nietzsche, 1994.
Places the characters and world of Pulp Fiction into Nietzschian terms. The thesis is that while these characters may not reflect the attitudes and ideas of Nietzsche, their world of amorality (as opposed to immorality) does.
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"The film Pulp Fiction (1994), directed and written by Quentin Tarantino, presents a series of characters from the Los Angeles underworld. They are minor criminals battling one another for territory, for supremacy in the drug trade, and for a certain sense of honor based on an unwritten code that seems to support all their activities. This code can be very important to them even when they are unable to articulate why, for it gives them a structure within which their violent world can make some sense to them. This is also a world of kitsch, of pop icons, of commercials, of fast foods, of brand names, and so on, but it is a world that these individuals have imbued with a certain philosophy. One of the hit men has indeed started developing a more full-fledged philosophy based on his reading of a passage in.."
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"Seductions Of Crime" ( Jack Katz ), 1999.
Reviews this work on crime as an evil, amoral, existential, god-like behavior, based on interviews with criminals.
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Jack Katz, in Seductions of Crime, explores the evil of crime as if it were a realm, with its almost sacred aspects, starkly opposed to religion, but at the same time with startling similarities. Katz sees much criminality not as a result of economic need, which most sociologists would argue, but as something more existential, more associated with the transcendent aspect of power, as if criminals were trying to be god-like in their behavior.
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"Jack Katz, in Seductions of Crime, explores the evil of crime as if it were a realm, with its almost sacred aspects, starkly opposed to religion, but at the same time with startling similarities. Katz sees much criminality not as a result of economic need, which most sociologists would argue, but as something more existential, more associated with the transcendent aspect of power, as if criminals were trying to be god-like in their behavior. The author is aware of the sometimes shocking nature of his study, but he will not be deterred. He claims to seek to understand the criminal mind and personality as objectively as possible, but the reader cannot avoid feeling that Katz's objectivity verges almost on admiration at times, or at least appreciation for the criminal mind, personality and behavior."
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Seaman Holmes, 2005.
A discussion on the moral reasoning of Seaman Holmes.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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The paper discusses the story of Seaman Holmes. The writer proposes that his story is tragic because, while it relates mostly to the lives that were lost at sea, it also is a case in which one individual was condemned as responsible for death, and this will be knowledge that he will keep with him for life. The writer argues that, while some during the time of the trial attempted to state that Holmes acted out of a desire for his own life to continue, it is evident from the story that Holmes acted with moral and amoral reasoning, always attempting to consider what was best for all aboard the boats. The paper further explains that, through moral reasoning, Holmes made the decision, with the sinking of the ship, which people's lives had to be saved. Holmes, placing the welfare of the passengers above his own, began to aid people to safety.
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"Heart of Darkness", 2006.
This book review compares the characters of Kurtz and Marlow in Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness".
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The writer shows how Kurtz is originally described as an idealist with grand goals, and later, as the novel continues, we see that Kurtz has become completely amoral. The writer states that Marlow realizes that Kurtz's eloquence is merely a disguise of his true character. The writer posits that the allusion of evil exits within all people. The paper discusses the presence of light and dark or good and evil within everyone, and how at different times, one or the other is predominant. In conclusion, the paper shows that Marlow and Kurtz have similar paths in life, but they each choose a different path.
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"In direct contrast to Marlow and Kurtz are the hollow men or more specifically, the pilgrims, general manager, and brickmaker. These men possess no morality but the superficial demands of propriety, and Marlow muses that they must be hollow. Marlow repeatedly stresses the importance of inner strength throughout the book, so this hollowness is a fatal flaw. At the end Kurtz is seen as not a body, but a voice, suggesting that he does not lack substance or knowledge. Unlike the hollow men who are empty, or rather just a body lacking substance. Kurtz may not have inner strength to overcome the darkness, but he does possess a different sort of strength within him."
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James Joyce's "The Dead", 2005.
A review of James Joyce's "The Dead", about the effect of women on the protagonist Gabriel.
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This paper examines how, in James Joyce's short masterpiece "The Dead", many small incidents at the party on Usher's Island produce a build-up of insecurity in Gabriel, which later manifests itself as an amorous passion for his wife, Gretta. The author points out that, ultimately the women at the party are oblivious to his rising and falling emotions, and his wife's self-centered mourning of a lost lover from many years before sends Gabriel into an irreconcilable funk, which weighs upon him like the grimness of death. The paper concludes that the story ends when Gabriel's soul "swoons", giving up its hope of self-importance and self-respect, and surrendering to gravity like the snow, "falling...upon all the living and the dead."
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"What Gabriel interprets as Miss Ivors' "heckling him and staring at him with her rabbit eyes" serves to counterpoint his later feelings for his wife, Gretta, who had "colour on her cheeks" and whose "eyes were shining." Yet even Gretta makes him uncomfortable in front of his aunts when she calls him "an awful bother" because he makes her wear galoshes. The aunts laugh "heartily...for Gabriel's solicitude was a standing joke with them." Embarrassed, he laughs nervously, then pats his tie "reassuringly," then wrinkles his brow and snaps back at Gretta with a tone "slightly angered." Later, after learning of the possibility for a summer vacation in Galway with Miss Ivors, Gretta jumps excitedly and begs Gabriel to take the offer."
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