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DeSica?s "The Bicycle Thief", 2005.
This paper analyzes the role of Bruno, the son, in the Italian neo-realist film, "The Bicycle Thief." It also explores the father-son relationship of Bruno and his father, Antonio, in its ethical dimensions.
1,523 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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In this paper, the author focuses on two scenes from "The Bicycle Thief:" The restaurant scene and the final scene in which Antonio attempts to steal a bicycle. By focusing on these scenes, Bruno?s role in the film as an ethical counterpoint to Antonio is made clear.
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"In Victor de Sica?s The Bicycle Thief (1948), the main character is Antonio, a working-class Italian living in Rome after the end of WWII and trying to support his family. However, equally important to the story is Antonio?s son, Bruno. Throughout the film, there are many events, but it is through Bruno and the relationship between him and his father that they are given value and meaning. In some ways, de Sica uses Bruno as a ?barometer of the condition of Antonio?s spirit as he pursues his agonizing search for the lost bicycle (http://www.enl.umassd.edu/InteractiveCourse/Ethompson/bicyclethieves.html).?"
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The Bicycle Thief, 2008.
This paper examines the themes of poverty and dignity in Vittorio De Sica's film "The Bicycle Thief".
2,123 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 66.95
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The paper examines Vittorio De Sica's 1948 film "The Bicycle Thief" that portrays the thousands of Italians suffering in the desperate times of the 1940s. The paper describes how the film employs the experiences of one man in order to illustrate the detriment of poverty to the human condition. The paper shows how the film explores the protagonist's essentially admirable motives, his desire to retain dignity and ultimately, his ethical dilemma. The paper highlights the film's conclusion that poverty directly alters and degrades the individual human experience.
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"The cinematic representation of poverty is, especially in the European output of the mid-20th century, subject to all manner of interpretation. Following the wretched stagnation of the Depression Era and the cataclysmic duration of World War II, the conditions of economic despair had become widespread. A direct product of this tumult, Italy of the 1940's was a shattered nation with a long rebuilding process ahead of it. Vittorio De Sica's 1948 masterpiece, The Bicycle Thief, offers a snapshot of this moment in his nation's history. There is, in his piece, an intercession between a film background which captures the thousands of Italians suffering anonymously under the thumb of desperate times and a foreground which depicts one family's struggles. The macro and microcosmic landscapes merge to present the viewer with a demonstration of poverty's human ramifications."
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Historical Significance of 'The Bicycle Thief', 2006.
A review of the film, 'The Bicycle Thief' from a historical perspective.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper reviews the film 'The Bicycle Thief', which provides a view of Rome in the Post-war period when society became a harsh and uncaring place to exist and in which the poor were battling for a meager form of survival. This struggle for existence emerged through Italy involvement in war and resistance against controlling entities within Italian society. Political parties of the time were attempting to gain control of the lives of citizens while the citizenry was receiving conflicting messages about the ability of the country to regain any form of stability.
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'Bicycle Thief' and 'Un Chien Andalou', 2006.
A review of Vittorio De Sica's 'The Bicycle Thief' and Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's 'Un Chien Andalou' as two examples of avant-garde cinema.
1,798 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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This paper reviews two examples of avant-garde cinema, Italian neorealist filmmaker Vittorio De Sica's 'Bicycle Thief' and Spanish filmmakers Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's 'Un Chien Andalou'. According to the paper, avant-garde pushes the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm within definitions of art, culture and reality.
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" For example, Lamberto Maggiorani, the actor who played Antonio, was in real life a factory worker in Rome ("Bicycle Thieves"). (In the aftermath of World War II, it is also likely, however, that this casting of "real people", instead of professional actors, was done to save money by not having to pay professional actors). The documentary-style camera work of De Sica's The Bicycle Thief, moreover, further increases for the audience the sense that the film is about true-to-life people and real situations, a characteristic also typical of post-World War II Italian neo-realist cinema. This is, also, an avant-garde filmmaking technique that resists, explicitly and implicitly, the commercialism of Hollywood, while offering, instead, a "purer", more "realistic" (and lower-cost) alternative to film audiences."
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"The Bicycle Thief", 2002.
A textual analysis of this 1948 film on post-WWII Italy, directed by de Sica.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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De Sica is probably best remembered for his 1948 film, "The Bicycle Thief". It is a compelling cinematic commentary about post-war, post-Mussolini Italy. One of the striking features about it is the way in which de Sica downplays the emotions of the lead character in order to allow the setting, Rome, to take precedence.
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Flying Mane Bicycle Store, 1993.
An organizational analysis of a hypothetical bicycle store to be located in Japan including financing, strategies, product, marketing and customers.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 1 source, $ 95.95
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"Business Description
The "Flying Mane Bicycle Store" will retail and distribute high quality racing and pleasure bicycles throughout Japan and ultimately the entire Pacific Rim. The company will be headquartered in Tokyo. This central location will initially service the entire country and then in the future, serve as a good central location for doing business throughout the Pacific Rim.
The company will also provide a complete service and repair facility for all of its bicycles. A retail bicycle business will be successful in Japan as well as elsewhere in the Pacific Rim due to the increased need, worldwide, for enjoyable aerobic exercise, as well as a viable method for reducing automobile generated pollutants."
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Bicycle Safety, 2008.
A lesson plan for a third grade class that aims to encourage the use of safety helmets for bicycles.
1,783 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 57.95
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The paper develops an age and developmentally appropriate lesson plan for a third grade class to promote the use of safety helmets when riding bicycles. The paper describes how the lesson will encourage class participation and will use the inherent developmental characteristics of eight year-olds to belong to a group to provide positive peer pressure. The paper explains that the lesson is also designed to provide reasons why the wearing of helmets is necessary for personal safety and to prevent injury.
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"There are 85 million bicycle riders in the United States, and 540,000 of them visited them emergency room, of those 67,000 had head injuries, 27,000 required hospitalization, and 45 to 85 percent of the brain injuries could have been prevented by a helmet. (Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute) About half of the bicycle deaths were children under 15. The use of helmets vary greatly in different sectors of society by orders of magnitude, white collar communities helmet use in children is approximately 80%, where inner-city children the use is closer to 10%. (Bicycle Helmet Safety Institute) The targeted community of Lacey, Washington would be classified as a white collar community with a white population of approximately 75% and a medium income of $43,848 (year 2000)."
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Mountain Bicycle Industry, 2002.
This paper provides a strategic and situational analysis of this industry focusing on one major bike producer.
2,800 words (approx. 11.2 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 83.95
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This study was undertaken with a purpose of analyzing and making recommendations based on the analysis of situation and strategy identified within the mountain bicycle industry. In particular, close attention is paid to Cannondale Corporation, the leading manufacturer and marketer of high-performance aluminium bicycles and its immediate rivals. Assessment of the nature and strength of competitive forces in the mountain bike industry is based on the five factors analysis and allow to identify key success factors that are a must for survival and profitability of any company that operates in the mountain bicycle industry. A graphical representation of current rivals allows to judge strength of the competition in the industry and influence the choice of alternatives and eventual recommendations for Cannondale corporation.
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"The global bicycle industry, including bicycles, parts and accessories, is estimated to have total retail sales in excess of $20 billion. The bicycle-manufacturing segment of the industry produces approximately 100 million units per annum. The global market for bikes is reported to be dominated by just a few big players, many of whom seem to bounce from owner to owner, and from cash crisis to cash crisis, on a distractingly regular basis. (bikebiz.com). Even though people seem to be "saturated" with bicycles and the mountain bike boom is proclaimed to be over (bikebiz.com), comments of the cyclist community allow to conclude that the industry's and segment's decline is not likely. It was also noted that the worldwide cycling industry is waiting for the "next big thing" in cycling which will likely shift position of major players in the industry if they can't keep up with the trend."
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Bicycle Industry, 1999.
Examines national & global marketing with a focus on mountain (all-terrain) bikes. Analyzes market size, major firms, distribution, consumer traits, environmental issues, technology and the future.
5,400 words (approx. 21.6 pages), 24 sources, $ 135.95
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"Introduction
The bicycle is one of the most universal modes of transportation in the world today. Other than the initial purchase, there are few operating costs associated with it, so it is popular among individuals who need basic transportation but who may lack the requisite finances for an automobile and its upkeep. Unlike public transportation, owners of bicycles do not depend on a pre-set schedule, and they have the freedom to go where they need rather than traveling along a predefined route. But bicycles are also used by many individuals as a form of exercise, as a way of touring, and by children as their only means of transportation. The bicycling industry is a multi billion dollar industry with global participants and global markets. Companies in various countries can be affected not only by demand in other nations.."
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Italian Neorealistic Film, 1997.
Analyzes three major films: Rossellini's "Open City", De Sica's "Bicycle Thief" and Visconti's "Obsession". Examines style, themes and social messages.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 9 sources, $ 95.95
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"Italian neorealism developed under onerous circumstances and became a form by which Italian filmmakers could express themselves in a new way. Essentially, the early neorealist filmmakers were doing what they could with the tools at hand and doing it under the watchful eyes of an antagonistic ruling class, From the tensions this arrangement produced, they created something distinctive, allowing them to develop ideas and to do so in a new cinematic style. At the time, Italy was ruled by fascists, who viewed art as valuable only to the degree it was useful. Yet, these films were not made in service of fascist ideas but as a counter to them. The forces that helped shape these films, the style that was produced by these tensions, and some important examples demonstrate the vitality achieved by Italian directors as World War II ended."
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Italian Neorealistic Cinema, 1996.
Innovative styles & social themes in Rossellini's [Open City], De Sica's [Bicycle Thief] & Visconti's [Obsessione].
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, $ 55.95
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"Italian neorealism developed as a particular form of cinematic expression during the period when Italy was ruled by the Fascists. One of the best-known of what would be called the neo-realist approach to film was Roberto Rossellini's Open City (1945), and many of the characteristics of the movement were evident in this film. These films had an anti-establishment, revolutionary attitude. They had an extemporaneous, documentary quality enhanced in the early era by the materials from which they were made--war-time film stock, cobbled-together equipment, non-professional actors, and location shooting. Open City is a good example of this early period in neorealism, while Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief (1948) is an expression of the fully developed tradition from the period after the expulsion of the fascists and after the end of World War II. Luchino Visconti's..."
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"The Orchid Thief", 2004.
A review of the nonfiction book by Susan Orlean, "The Orchid Thief".
1,036 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper discusses "The Orchid Thief" by Susan Orlean, describing the narrative and non-narrative aspects of this nonfiction work. The paper contends that the book has both the expository quality of nonfiction combined with the character-driven psychological drama of fiction. The paper discusses the nature of the psychological obsession that Orlean chronicles: the pilfering rare flowers, namely orchids.
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"The non-fiction work by Susan Orlean, entitled The Orchid Thief, however, provides ample examples of the use of non-narrative and narrative exposition. The work thus has both the expository quality of non-fiction combined with the character-driven psychological drama of fiction. Orlean is writing about an event that actually happened, thus she writes in the tones of non-fiction, in an expository fashion. But this real-life obsession has its roots in the psychologically strange and inexplicable. Unless one understands the real-life protagonists? struggles and problems and internal conflicts, the events and the obsessions seem inexplicable."
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Italian art cinema, 2003.
A comparison between Hollywood films and Italian art cinema.
1,840 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 63.95
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This paper compares and contrasts classical Hollywood films with Italian art cinema. It explores the characteristics and elements of each. The paper provides examples from "Casablanca," "The Bicycle Thief," "A Fistful of Dollars" and "Last Tango in Paris." The author discusses the Hollywood star system and principles of Neo-Realism.
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Cannondale, 2002.
A case summary of the U.S. bicycle company.
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Case summary of the U.S. bicycle company. How and where products are sold. Sales growth. Bicycle industry. Growth potential. Competition for market share. Cannondale's intention to enter the motocross market .Need to develop an exit strategy for the motocross product. Analysis of the Company's strategic management process. Financial performance. Recommendations.
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"Case Summary
Cannondale is a highly successful bicycle company based in the United States. It sells its products through independent retailers rather than through discount or department stores, and the company specializes in high-end bicycles that appeal to serious riders. The company is an international marketer with sales throughout the world, and it has moved from traditional manufacturing techniques to a highly sophisticated system combining CAD/CAM technology with Cannondale.specific and unique components. The company's products have an excellent reputation both for style and quality, and the company has enjoyed sales growth for each of the past ten years, although growth has slowed in recent years.
The bicycle industry itself is highly competitive with a number of manufacturers ..."
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Starting a New Company, 2005.
Presents a business plan for Zero Horsepower Cab Company, a company that would provide modern-day rickshaws pulled by a person pedaling a bicycle instead of a regular cab.
1,808 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 58.95
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This paper first presents the business concept of the Zero Horsepower Cab Company, that of an environmentally friendly replacement for taxicabs in small resort towns, and then presents an overall business plan for the new company. The paper outlines the structure of the company, the type of consultants it will seek out and use, and its budgeting plan.
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"Because there is a good deal of liability to be assumed in a business in which customers are transported through traffic in open vehicles at a speed of no more than 5 miles per hour?while other city-street traffic may be doing 30 to 35 mph, it was determined that the structure of the business will be a corporation. Other forms?sole proprietorship, partnership and limited liability corporation (LLC)?do not offer the same degree of liability and other protections offered by a corporation, although those other formats are less expensive to form (Steingold, 2002, Findlaw Web site)."
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