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"Johnny Guitar", 2002.
A review of the film "Johnny Guitar".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 35.95
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A critical analysis of the western genre movie "Johnny Guitar" directed by Nicholas Ray.
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The Myth of Western Outlaw Johnny Ringo, 2006.
An analysis of the life of mythic hero, Johnny Ringo.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper analyzes the mythic hero, Johnny Ringo, defined as such because Western frontier society admired perceived gunfighter traits such as courage, self-reliance, ambition and individualism. According to the paper, the real man possessed these traits to a certain extent, but he was not the heroic figure many of his contemporaries and twentieth-century movies and TV Westerns made him out to be. Like Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and other gunfighters of the Old West, he became a symbolic hero of a Western frontier culture that never really existed. It further reports that the true story of Johnny Ringo can be ascertained by examining Internet websites such as Johnny Ringo.com, where the factual history of his life is available.
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"Burning Chrome" and "Johnny Mnemonic", 2002.
Examines the representation of organic existence and consciousness in Gibson's "Burning Chrome" and "Johnny Mnemonic".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 44.95
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This essay will argue, with respect to the stories "Burning Chrome" and "Johnny Mnemonic", that Gibson represents the relationship between technology and the body as a dynamic process that is in continual flux. The characters in his stories attempt to determine fixed meaning in this cybernetic chaos, but come to accept the deferment of certainty and meaning that is a consequence of technology's continual reshaping of the boundaries of the body and its consciousness.
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Analysis of "Johnny Got His Gun", 2000.
This essay looks at the moving book by Dalton Trumbo inspired by the horrors of World War One.
2,715 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 81.95
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This paper examines Dalton Trumbo's "Johnny Got His Gun", a book which attempted to enable its readers to understand the horrors of war. The main character, Joe, who is completely crippled, unable to speak, hear, see, or move, is analyzed by the author who discusses how his thoughts are all he has to live for. The paper also looks at how war is romanticized by people, but in reality, is sheer hell.
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"Joe is crippled by an artillery shell which takes out his face and all of his limbs. He can not speak, move, see, hear, taste, or smell. Amazingly kept alive by doctors, he is essentially a piece of meat which can think. There are several specific messages which Trumbo strongly asserts in his novel: the idiocy of regimentalism and nationalism; that we can not comprehend what it is like to be a casualty, dead or alive; that war is terribly brutal and dehumanizing, and therefore unnatural; and that it is always the little guy who fights the rich man's wars. Trumbo's sentiment is reflective of the pacifism of the interwar period, and which led to appeasement towards Hitler until his invasion of Poland."
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Oral History of Johnny Hemphill, 2003.
This is an oral history of an African-American, WW II veteran. It is the result of four hours of interviews.
1,538 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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The paper presents a straightforward history of the man and then provides some analysis to place his experience in the context of world events.
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"Johnny Hemphill, born in Asheville in 1924, was drafted into military service in 1942 directly after graduation from high school. He was initially taken to Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, N.C. for a battery of tests to determine his physical and mental condition. At the time, Fort Bragg served as a sorting point for soldiers and draftees from North and South Carolina so Hemphill, along with two friends from the Asheville area, boarded a bus for Fayetteville to await their fates. Hemphill recalls being desirous of a position in the National Guard, as he perceived it as an institution where ?a colored guy could really get ahead, could actually move upwards.? This stood in direct contrast to what Hemphill had heard about other branches of the military; ?my brother had just gone to the army and he told me, ?don?t you go in the army?, he said ?don?t you go where you got to sleep on the ground.??
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"Burning Chrome" and "Johnny Mnemonic", 2002.
Analysis of the literary genre known as "cyberpunk" and its focus the use of computer technologies.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 62.95
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The literary genre popularly known as "cyberpunk" blends elements of hard-boiled detective fiction with speculative reflections on the impact of computer networking technologies upon the body politic and the body organic.
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The Electric Guitar, 2005.
An examination of the evolution of the electric guitar from its invention in the 1920s.
1,954 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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The paper presents a short description of the electric guitar and its components in order to explain how the instrument works. It also discusses the most well-known and important producers and manufacturers who contributed to the guitar's evolution. It contends that the electric guitar is still undergoing many changes to suit today's musical needs, explaining that different musicians prefer different sounds for diverse purposes. The paper also introduces and discusses the guitar playing of various influential musicians.
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Introduction
Guitar Components
The Need for an Electrified Guitar
Early Methods of Amplification
Pioneers of Electrification
Lyod Loar
Rickenbacker's "Frying Pan"
Les Paul and "The Log"
Early Guitar Manufacturers
Gibson
Fender
Bigsby
Most Popular Models/Musicians
Gibson Les Paul
Fender Telecaster
Fender Stratocaster
Later Producers
Danelectro
Jackson
Conclusion
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"The need for an electrified guitar arose in early 1920's when musicians and bands became more and more popular and their audiences grew larger. The artists realized they needed louder and more powerful instruments in order to compensate for their increasing audiences and growing venues. Bands started using microphones set up near the sound hole of their acoustic guitars to amplify the sound. This was effective only in small concert halls where there was not a large space for the sound to fill. It also caused a problem when the guitarist wanted to move around on stage. If the player moved to far they would loose the amplified sound, needing the guitar to be very close in front of the microphone to produce efficient volume. The desire for an improved method of amplification was evident."
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Washburn International Guitars, 2008.
A case study analysis of Washburn International Guitars' new product line and price point.
714 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 25.95
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This paper discusses Washburn International Guitars, which is a guitar manufacturing company based in Chicago, Illinois. It looks at the launch of Washburn's new product line and their suggested price point and batch number. Additionally, the paper analyzes the company's consideration of relocating its manufacturing and production facilities to Nashville, Tennessee.
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Statement of the Problem
Summary of the Facts
Analysis
Recommendations
Conclusions
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"The global economy has allowed competitors in almost every industry to compete in markets that are geographically removed and diverse. Researchers note that because of comparative advantage across markets, the sheer cost-savings achieved by shifting production and manufacturing to overseas locations makes this option requisite even for companies that traditionally have not competed on price (Measuring, 2005). The reason for this is that as these overseas contract manufacturers have improved their infrastructure, technologies, as well as competencies in the manufacturing process, they are increasingly offering higher quality products at the same cut-rate pricing schemes. This is an equation that retailers and distributors cannot ignore."
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The History of the Electric Guitar, 2004.
An introduction to the electric guitar and a look at its history.
1,656 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 53.95
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This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the topic of the electric guitar. Specifically, it discusses the history of the invention of the electric guitar and its primary inventor/developer, Les Paul. The paper also looks at what his contributions as a designer and as a musician were and how the technical developments in electric guitars and amplification have affected the evolution of rock music.
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"Guitars have existed in history for thousands of years. Related to lutes, (which had only two strings), most guitars had six strings, and were designed to be strummed or plucked. It was not until the 20th century that the acoustic, hollow-bodied guitar metamorphosized into the solid-body, electric model so known and loved today. Many people often credit Les Paul with designing the first viable electric guitar, but actually, many men contributed to the electric guitar's history and ultimate success."
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"Variations on a Blue Guitar", 2004.
Overview of the style, content and core philosophy of
Maxine Greene's "Variations on a Blue Guitar".
1,050 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper reviews the work of Maxine Greene, an educational theorist, on arts education entitled "Variations on a Blue Guitar". The review consists of three sections. First, there is a report on the text itself and the philosophy of the author,. This is followed by a reaction to the author?s philosophy on the part of the writer and ends with some response and reflection questions for the reader so that the reader may actively engage with the text, as is commensurate with the philosophy of active learning of Maxine Greene discussed and analyzed in the paper.
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"The educator and educational philosopher Maxine Greene?s thoughts, in the form of lectures she gave during a summer session at Lincoln Center, have been compiled in the text entitled Variations on a Blue Guitar. Greene?s lectures, conducted while she was still in residence at Columbia University?s Teacher?s College, centered around on the topic of aesthetic education and how the principles of imagination could be infused into the standard academic curriculum. Greene?s ideas, as expressed in these lectures and throughout her life, encompassed both the general principles of human transformation and variation and fused them in a spirit of what she called scholastic rebirth. Education, she believed, could enlarge the human spirit and its capacity for potential, as well as the human mind?s capacity for intellectual excellence."
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Joe Satriani: A Guitar Hero, 2006.
A review of the life and music of guitarist Joe Satriani.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 45.95
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This paper studies the musical stylings of guitarist Joe Satriani, whom Entertainment Weekly has called "a guitar hero". By critiquing Satriani's various records, as well as examining the personal and professional milestones of his life, the paper provides a well-rounded insight into the man and his music.
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"In these first years of his career, Satriani was entirely self-taught. It wasn't until 1974 that he began taking lessons in Queens and Glen Cove, New York, with Lennie Tristano and Billy Bauer, respectively. [2] Once he outgrew that scene, Satriani moved to Berkeley, California, where he began teaching guitar at a studio called Second Hand Guitars. Here he also instructed other notable guitarists such as David Bryson from Counting Crows, Metallica's famous guitar shredder Kirk Hammet, Primus' Larry LaLonde, Alex Skolnick of Megadeth, Slayer and Judas Priest, as well as the upstart jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter. [3] This teaching stint occupied another ten years of Satriani's life and was a critical time of development and learning."
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"Seven Guitars", 2003.
Analyzes the August Wilson play set in 1948.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, $ 55.95
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Discusses the playwright's depiction of the African-American experience and his use of a jazz and musical idiom to delineate his characters in a life separate from white society. Explores African American culture.
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"August Wilson focuses on the one way that blacks can try to develop their own culture. "Wilson continues his weave of African-American experience through a larger and sometimes hostile American culture" (Grant, 1993, p. 1). Wilson uses a ..."
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"A Prayer for Owen Meany"--A Review, 2007.
This paper reviews John Irving's novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany," with an emphasis on the friendship between the main characters, Owen and Johnny.
2,675 words (approx. 10.7 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 80.95
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This paper examines the extraordinary friendship between Owen and Johnny in John Irving's novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany." The review describes their friendship as transcending the normal and further discusses how each protagonist possesses unique characteristics that combined to form the likeness of one complete person. The reviewer concludes that "Owen and Johnny's friendship is something so deep it could never be defined or limited. They are two bodies that live and thrive off the other to form one whole being".
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"In A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, Johnny and his best friend Owen have a relationship characterized by many things that most people would consider to make a relationship special, such as forgiveness, trust, loyalty, protection, and sacrifice. But their relationship is much deeper than it appears to be. Johnny and Owen's friendship transcends beyond special and takes a leap into extraordinary. Society as a whole sometimes seems to overlook what makes a true friend. Anyone can refer to someone else as a friend of his or hers, but how many people actually mean it? How many people have a true friend who would lay their life on the line for the other? Some people have a close friend who they would even go as far as to consider them family, much like Johnny's mother, Tabby, and grandmother, Mrs. Wheelwright, see Owen. But how many people have a friend that actually acts as half of them? Not only do Johnny and Owen do things to be an extraordinary friend to one another, but they both possess unique characteristics that combine to form the likeness of one complete person."
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War in Two Novels, 2002.
A review of "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo and "Little Big" Man by Thomas Berger.
1,421 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper examines how in the two novels "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo and "Little Big Man" by Thomas Berger, individuals are changed greatly by war. It discusses how although both novels show war as a foolish endeavor which no one really wins, the authors treat war in different ways. It analyzes how Berger includes scenes of battle in his book, while Trumbo concentrates on the aftermath of war in the form of one blinded and crippled individual whose outer life has been taken completely from him, leaving him only an inner life of memory and immediate sensation. It also looks at how Berger presents his images of war in a comic manner, highlighting the foolishness and insanity of war through exaggeration and in his choice of details and how Trumbo's entire book represents the futility of war and the horror for those who are wounded.
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"Jack Crabb changes in various ways throughout the novel, shifting his personality to fit into the different worlds he finds himself in, first a settler, then an Indian, then a cavalry soldier, and always a man seeking to keep ahead of his fate. For Jack, war has different faces, depending on which side he is on at the time. This fact alone shows how war changes him, for he becomes what others want him to be. When with the Indians, he is told, "My son, those are white people that we are going to destroy" (Berger 91). When he is with the cavalry, he hears similar sentiment about how they are going to kill the Indian. For the real effect of war on the human psyche, there is Custer, who seems to be veering into insanity as he continues his campaign. War itself is depicted as insane, and it is not surprising that some of the warriors are as well, especially a committed leader like Custer."
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Dramatization of the Outsider, 2008.
An analysis of the language and symbolism used to dramatize the outsider in "AlterNatives" by Drew Taylor and "Amigo's Blue Guitar" by Joan MacLeod.
3,168 words (approx. 12.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 91.95
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This paper analyzes the definition of the outsider as discussed in two plays - "AlterNatives" by Drew Taylor and "Amigo's Blue Guitar" by Joan MacLeod. It explores how and why the various characters in the plays have constructed the outsider, while simultaneously fortifying their own position as outsider. The paper also analyzes the symbolism and language in both plays and discusses how this adds to the theme discussed.
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Introduction
Dramatization of the Outsider
Outsider Constructing the Outsiders
Consequences of Dramatization by Characters
Symbolism in the Two Plays
Conclusion: The Nature of Experience
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"In both plays, language is the main route to understanding the presumed outsider. At the same time, language is the main avoidance strategy. Elias, for example, serves a practical end for Sander in that Sander "gets to cut out of Spanish and English class and hang out at immigration. Everyone thinks he's some kind of hero" (MacLeod 38). When Martha is speaking quite rapidly to Elias and he requests that she slow down, she does understand but ignores him. Martha even repeatedly mispronounces Elias' name. Elias points out to both Callie and Sander that the most formidable barrier to comprehending his reality is language. "If you want to know my story, then you can learn my language" (MacLeod 42)."
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