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The Inevitable Consequences of Obsession in "Vertigo", 2003.
A close examination of the spiral motif in Alfred Hitchcock's film, "Vertigo", and the consequences this theme has on the characters and plot.
3,797 words (approx. 15.2 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 104.95
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An analysis of the spiral motif in Vertigo, beginning with a close look at suspense and terror. Establishing suspense as the main source of fear in the film, this paper gives a detailed examination of how spirals create suspense through repetition of scenes, settings, and character obsessions, followed by a summary of other spiral effects in the film (Scottie's hallucinations and vertigo). A careful look at the characters, and the spiral nature of their identities, including a look at how the characters interact and force the action of the film towards destruction.
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"Beginning at a single point and spinning outwards, the curve of a spiral never hits the same point twice, but the pattern that it follows is always identical. Spirals form the dominant image in Alfred Hitchcock?s Vertigo, beginning in the opening credits with the spirals appearing in the close-up of a woman?s eye. All of the slight details, from Carlotta Valdes? hair to the repetition of clothing, point towards the spiral as a major theme, and the physical spirals direct the viewer?s attention to the repetitions in plot and character. Alfred Hitchcock introduces a spiral motif that permeates all aspects of Vertigo and drives the action towards its inevitable conclusion, but suspense is created as all attempts to break the spiral are thwarted and all hope for happiness fades."
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Weight Obsession, 2001.
This paper discusses the obsession that some women have about their weight and how society contributes to this obsession
1,500 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 9 sources, $ 49.95
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This paper takes a look at the obsession that women have about their weight and size. It claims that advertising, social pressure and media all have major roles in fanning this obsession. It provides a history of the fashion industry and show how this too has influenced this phenomena.
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"36-24-36? Those numbers might not mean a thing to some, but for many women, they are the hallmark of western society's obsession with weight. Everywhere you look, scantily clothed women with well-defined midriffs are smiling back from televisions, movie screens, magazines, and billboards. The advertising world wants you to believe that these women have it all: they are beautiful, they are thin, and as a result, they are happier than you. While most people would agree that this is certainly not true, a growing number of women are left wondering: Do I have to be thin to have it all?"
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Obsession in "In the Realm of the Senses" and "Sugarbaby", 2004.
A comparison of the obsession exhibited by the central couple in "In the Realm of the Senses" and "Sugarbaby".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses the central couples in two films, "In the Realm of the Senses" and "Sugarbaby", and how the two couples move in opposite directions from each other. The paper explains that the couple in "In the Realm of the Senses" begin by being engaged with the world, but allow their obsession with each other to isolate them, while the couple in "Sugarbaby" use their obsession with each other to connect not only as a couple but to all of society - and to life itself.
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"Where can love take us? A very great distance. It can carry us to lands that we never thought to visit, lands both metaphorical and real. Love can redefine the nature of reality, can redefine how it is that we see ourselves. Love can make us do things that we never believed were possible or right or good. Love breeds obsession and is bred from obsession. It breeds desire and is bred from desire. Both Nagisa Oshima's "In the Realm of the Senses" and Percy Adlon's "Sugarbaby"..."
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"The Kennedy Obsession", 2003.
An examination of John Hellman?s "The Kennedy Obsession: The American Myth of JFK".
1,241 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper briefly reviews Hellman's book, which explores America?s obsession with John F. Kennedy and the entire Kennedy family. Hellman notes that, despite Kennedy?s charisma and charm, America has long been obsessed with the Kennedy family, far beyond any seemingly reasonable interest or curiosity.
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"Hellman notes that despite Kennedy?s charisma and charm, America has long been obsessed with the Kennedy family far beyond any seemingly reasonable interest or curiosity. Hellman?s text explores Kennedy?s deliberate creation of his self-image, and how his public persona interacted with the mass media and the political machine to create the pervasive Kennedy myth. The book is concise and illuminating, and never falls into the sensationalist or trite. Overall, Hellman is an engaging and interesting author who does a lot to bring the already interesting subject matter to life."
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Was the Cold War Inevitable?, 2004.
An analysis of the history behind American-Russian relations and an argument that the Cold War was inevitable.
1,646 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper argues that the Cold War was the inevitable consequence of the global shift in power. It outlines the change in the balance of world powers during the Second World War. Then it explains how the American plan for free market trade was irreconcilable with Soviet plans for continued Communism and a buffer zone of Communist states. The paper discusses American idealistic universalism and the closed, suspicious nature of the Soviet government and the Soviet revival of communism. It then outlines the history of tension between Russia and America and shows that the only reason open war did not break out was fear of nuclear weapons.
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"Stalin heightened tensions with the west at the end of the war by promoting a siege mentality in the Soviet Union. "This feeling of fear and insecurity lived and flourished and came to underlie almost all Soviet thought about the outside world." Russian statesmen were insular, apparently without personal contacts or interests in the Western world and concerned with international life only as it relates to Russian security. At the end of the war, Stalin told Churchill he is hoped for the "successful and happy development in the post-war period of the friendly relations which have grown up between our countries in the period of the war." But Stalin had revived communism after the war, which was ideologically anti-western and which was offensive to people in the United States. To Americans, "The institution of private property ranks with those of religion and the family as a bulwark of civilization...To tamper with private enterprise...will precipitate a disintegration of life and liberty as we conceive and treasure them." Therefore, in addition to conflicting economic interests and American ideology, the Russian siege mentality and revival of communism made the Cold War inevitable."
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America?s Obsession with Notoriety, 2002.
A look at the American society's obsession with notoriety, as reflected in Elizabeth Searle's "Celebrities in Disgrace" and the movie "Ed TV".
654 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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In America, fame and celebrity have become ends to and of themselves, often at great cost to those who seek fame. This paper shows how Elizabeth Searle's "Celebrities in Disgrace" and the 1999 movie "Ed TV" help to demonstrate the high costs of fame and celebrity. Ultimately, America?s obsession with notoriety reveals the superficiality and spiritual and moral bankruptcy of a nation that seemingly values fame more than accomplishment. The paper explains how "Ed TV" and "Celebrities in Disgrace" show us some of the real costs of this attitude. While fame may be a very quick, superficial fix to our problems, it ultimately fails to affect any deep changes. The paper argues that real growth has to come from effort and insight, and a desire for a deeper knowledge.
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"In recent years, America has seen an unprecedented explosion of people in the public consciousness, and fame has become a goal in and of itself. Certainly, the glut of reality television has made instant celebrities of a wide number of people who have no special talents or abilities. These celebrities are simply everyday people who are thrust into notoriety.
This democratization of fame has come at a high cost. Today, fame and celebrity are goals of their very own. People strive to be on these reality television shows, and children like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold seem to have relished the idea of fame that would follow their horrific school massacre in Columbine. Perhaps those seeking fame feel that it will imbibe their sad lives with meaning. After all, in America, fame is coveted and sought after. America has long believed that successful people are somehow happier and better than the rest of us. As such, it is not such a stretch to believe that those who have achieved celebrity live in a much different and happier world than the rest of us."
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Obsession: The Double Edged Sword, 1998.
This paper is an exploration of the issues of obsession, identification and trying to be something you're not in Winterson's "Oranges Aren't the Only Fruit," and Larsen's "Passing."
2,370 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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This paper explores how characters from both novels become obsessed with people who can live the life they secretly want. They identify with these people and want to be like them, but end up hating themselves for their secret desires. Winterson's novel deals with sex and religion, whereas Larsen's novel deals with racial issues. Characters in both novels are trying to be something they're not so they can fit in.
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"In Larsen?s Passing, Irene is an African-American woman who, because of her light skin, has the ability to ?pass? herself off as a white woman. Irene was also a self-proclaimed race woman who was involved in activism on behalf of her race. She tells Clare, ?I?m on the ticket committee, or, rather, I am the committee (Larsen, 197)? of the Negro Welfare League. Irene doesn?t actively engage in passing, that is, she doesn?t make a conscious effort to convince others she is white, but she does take advantage of the fact that she can pass as white."
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Inevitable Revolutions, 1990.
This paper analyzes the book, "Inevitable Revolutions" by Walter LaFeber, which discusses the exploitive relations of the U.S. with the Central American countries.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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'The purpose of this paper is to analyze and critique the book, "Inevitable Revolutions", by Walter LaFeber.
The central position of this book, which deals with U.S. relations with the five Central American countries--Costa Rica, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala--is that the United States has, for approximately 100 years, claimed those countries as fiefdoms of the United States, economically, politically and militarily, and thereby created the conditions for "inevitable revolutions," which have taken place over the last century and are still taking place today.
The story the author tells is nothing less than incredible, particularly since the facts and figures given in the book are generally not to be found in the American media. However, this is not surprising since in that media most information with a ... "
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The Inevitable Eye, 2002.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This three-page undergraduate essay discusses how a complex structure such as the eye could have arisen by evolution. The essay argues that, under conditions of random mutation, production of excess offspring through sexual reproduction, competitive forces, and vast expanses of time, the evolution of complex organs such as eyes is not only immanently plausible, it is virtually inevitable. Sources.
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Is Global Recession Inevitable?, 2006.
This paper discusses whether the world is on the brink of a global recession and examines its causes and effects.
2,676 words (approx. 10.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 80.95
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The paper explains that there are serious imbalances in the world economy and this could have international effects. This paper analyzes the seriousness of this impending adverse situation especially for developing countries and discusses whether as a consequence of this, a global recession is inevitable. The writer explores global current account imbalances and evaluates different views on the causes and consequences of the imbalances. Finally, the paper discusses the various macroeconomic policies and shocks that might remedy the imbalances.
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The Trans-Pacific Imbalances
Global Re-balancing
Concluding Remarks
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"The present phase of relatively fast growth in the developing countries is driven principally by strong global demand, especially, originating mainly in the US. This is further fuelled by the Chinese economic growth. During 1980s and 1990s, most developing countries embraced the market-oriented reforms agenda with the expectation that with this approach they will be able to integrate better with the other economies of the globe. The agenda included liberalization and deregulation at the national level and opening up through competition at the global level. Different countries advanced in this direction to different extents. However, after the East Asian Crisis of late 1990s, the approach of the affected countries changed and they started accumulating foreign currency, mostly dollars as a measure of insurance against any future probable risks and looking to the rise in the oil prices in the international markets. This is also a result of currency manipulative monetary policies of some of the countries like China. Many of the countries developed current surpluses which used to be mostly in red. However, the main sources of the inflow were the increasing trade surplus and FDI."
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Was the American Civil War Inevitable?, 2006.
A discussion of whether the American Civil War could have been avoided, and some examples of what caused the war.
2,518 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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This paper explains that the outbreak of the Civil War cannot be contributed to one cause or problem. The paper discusses the factors which contributed to the outbreak of the war. The factors were as follows: economic considerations, the ideologies of the people, and the expansion of the United States territory. The paper shows how slavery in itself was not the single factor contributing to war, but that each succeeding crisis in the country began to bring slavery up as a factor until the politics of the time were a tangle of issues, conflicting attitudes, and personal emotions. The writer explains that being unable to objectively separate these issues brought war upon the nation. In conclusion, the writer states that the ideals of homeland, political stability, freedom for all, economic gain, moral values, and heritage all combined to make the American Civil War inevitable.
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"By the 1850's there was an ever-growing imbalance between the North and South in the areas of population and distribution of wealth. The South was quickly becoming the minority faction in a Union based on majority rule. As the South saw themselves slipping into subjugation to the growing political power residing in the North, there was a rising need to defend their economic system in order to survive. Southerners as a whole began to defend slavery as a means of economic survival. With the defense of slavery came an attitude of defensiveness against everything Southern. The South was not going to by bullied by the overbearing North on any issue. This tended to gravitate both sides away from each other and away from methods of compromise. In all the various compromises proposed and passed by the government in the years prior to the Civil War there was never an economic solution to the slavery issue proposed. The North never tried to help the South abolish slavery by finding other methods to fill this need of plantation agriculture or to help bring industry to the South; they wanted slavery abolished without its further spread into the newly acquired territories and that was it.
"The economics of the pre-war United States played a large part in the inevitability of war even though by itself it was not a cause. The economic discussions and emotions asserted over financial distribution caused a political rift, which enlarged to become an uncrossable void. From the South's point of view, the government in Washington was pushing plantation owners into a corner and was destined to bring financial ruin to the south. Agricultural interests knew that for the South to continue to grow economically, the plantation system and southern agriculture in general must be expanded into other territories. It was from this standpoint that economics became tied to territorial expansion."
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Was Secession Inevitable?, 2002.
A discussion of the underlying causes of the secession of the South and the Civil War and whether the war could have been prevented.
2,380 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 72.95
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This paper examines the underlying social, political and economic causes of the secession of the South leading to the Civil War. It asks if war was inevitable or if there was any other possible solution to the crisis situation of the time. It focuses mostly on events leading up to the war and briefly describes battles and events.
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"By establishing a parallel between their desire for secession and the plight of the original colonists, the South believed that their arguments would engender a more widespread public sympathy and would also lend their claims greater legal strength and validity. They unified their position into what is called the ?compact theory?, first elucidated in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798. According to the theory, the individual states delegated their authority to the Federal government when they ratified the Constitution and could withdraw it through due process of another convention."
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War Coverage, Media Obsession, 2004.
A comparison of traditional media coverage and new media coverage.
1,532 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper compares traditional media to new media in an attempt to determine which one is more influential and how they differ in their stories and presentation methods.
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"Media is always biased, less trained, unprepared, and hasty or simply looking for sensationalism and that is the reason why the news that we receive is either insignificant or highly distorted. Apart from the reporting of various events during the recent Iraq War, which I trust were never reported accurately, the media also tried to divert public?s attention from pressing issues to those of minor significance by obsessing over trivial events. That media cannot be fully trusted for accurate account of events became a big issue when the story of Private Jessica Lynch came forth. Newspapers, televisions, local channels, radio stations and even the Internet obsessed over Jessica Lynch and her rescue from Iraqi forces. Almost overnight, she became the most important person in the world- an icon that everyone wanted to know more about. Lynch was presented as an epitome of courage and bravery and it appeared as if the only real purpose of having US force in Iraq was to rescue Jessica Lynch. ?In the fourteen days after her rescue, Lynch drew 919 references in major papers, according to a Nexis search. In that same period, General Tommy Franks, who ran the war, got 639 references, Vice President Dick Cheney 549, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz 389. She stood with the giants.? (Christopher Hanson, 2003)"
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The Inevitable Fall, 2002.
This paper addresses the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper addresses the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.
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The Kenyan Government's Inevitable Debt, 2002.
A study on Kenya's national debt.
1,545 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 50.95
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This paper examines the dimension of Kenya's national debt. It describes the enormity of the debt in human terms, as the author writes that the cost of paying just the interest alone on the debt is far larger than what the government spends on healthcare. The paper investigates the true motives of the Poverty Reduction Strategy.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Poverty Reduction Strategy
Purpose of the Poverty Reduction Strategy
Political Consequences
Political pressure by IMF
Internal violence
Conclusion
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"Africa spends four times more on interest on her loans than on healthcare.
?The issue of Third World debt is one that cannot be ignored or wished away. In just 10 years, it escalated from a little over $400 billion in 1980 to a staggering $1.3 trillion in 1990. Kenya's eternal debt is more than $7 billion?. Nairobi (The Nation, October 13, 1998) ""
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