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Joseph Heller: "Picture This", 2002.
This paper reviews the novel ?Picture This? by Joseph Heller, American novelist and dramatist.
640 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 22.95
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The author describes ?Picture This? as a work of fiction about Rembrandt's painting ?Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer?, which was sold to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1961. The author considers the book to be more than a pure novel, as Heller takes the reader through history from Plato to Rembrandt and through the history of the painting itself. The review states that Heller in ?Picture This? has written one-liners for comic effect that sometimes appear to be incoherent.
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"However, scattered through the book, the writer has given a good deal of material about the canvas painting itself: the model who posed for Aristotle, the circumstances of its creation, the bust of Homer, the commission that directed to this picture and much more. Furthermore, its lineage, which is the list of people who consecutively owned it as it made its way from Amsterdam to Sicily to England to the Metropolitan, has also been discussed. However, the book overall is more or less directly about the painting."
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Joseph Heller's "Catch-22", 2004.
This paper applies the message of Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" to contemporary life.
1,080 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper explains that the title of Heller's novel refers to the contradictions of war itself and inherent contradiction of this code, "Catch-22,' a code of military ethics stating that one does not have to fight if one is crazy, but one is not be crazy if one does not want to fight, suggesting that it is insane to want to die fighting a war. The author applies this code to contemporary military terms, saying that a similar Catch-22 is evident in the rhetoric of leaders who justify the need to stay in Iraq to sustain the peace, even while the American military presence creates more conflict. This paper relates that, in war, the military deprives a person of his or her private language and life, creating its own system of values; in this way, the military is similar to many other spheres of society, which create insular cultures of their own, locking in participants who, once entrapped within a particular system, cannot escape.
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"Yoassarin, the paranoid hero of the novel desires to leave service, especially after dealing with the death of one of the men of his unit. He too, he finds, is subject to the Catch-22 clause that to be excused from military duty by reason of insanity, one must be insane enough to want to fight on, rather than to live and opt out of armed conflict. Thus, the central problem of the novel is not only the insanity of war, but also how to opt out of a system that demands a clear yes or no--either one must validate the war and insanely agree to armed combat to be excused, or one must validate the war by continuing to fight on, while sanely refusing and saying that war is death, thereby proving one?s own sanity and proving one?s fitness to fight."
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Joseph Heller's "Catch-22" and Grace Paley's "The Little Disturbances of Man":, 1994.
This study compares the worlds described in Joseph Heller's novel "Catch-22" and the stories in Grace Paley's collection "The Little Disturbances of Man": Uses of humor, absurdity, emotional impact, life problems, characterization and gender perspective.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, $ 39.95
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"This study will examine and compare the worlds described in Joseph Heller's novel "Catch-22" and the stories in Grace Paley's collection "The Little Disturbances of Man". The study will consider the differences and similarities of the problems in both books, their views of society, the authors' outlooks, and other related issues, such as ethnicity, gender, etc.
The most obvious similarity in the two books is the abundant use of humor in the presentation of the problems and the outlooks of the authors. Both Heller and Paley see the absurdity in life. The first lines of both books establish this fact. In heller, we read: "It was love at first sight. The first time Yossarian saw the chaplain he fell madly in love with him".Paley's first story begins: "I was popular in certain circles, says Aunt Rose. I wasn't no thinner then, only more stationary in the ... "
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"Catch-22" (Joseph Heller), 1999.
Analyzes the conversation between Colonel Cathcart and Chaplain in Chapter 19 in the context of bureaucratic madness.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, $ 39.95
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"The conversation between Colonel Cathcart and the Chaplain in Chapter 19 of Catch-22 illustrates the theme of bureaucratic mentalities. Colonel Cathcart is the epitome of the bureaucratic mindset. Joseph Heller, the author, emphasizes Colonel Cathcart's selfish motives by presenting him in contrast to the Chaplain, who suffers for others. The episode between Colonel Cathcart and the Chaplain proves that there is always a "catch-22," even for diehard bureaucrats.
Colonel Cathcart is a man blinded by irrational ambition. His desire is to make general, and he plots to accomplish this by calling attention to his own deeds: "He was complacent and insecure, daring in the administrative stratagems he employed to bring himself to the attention of his superiors and craven in his concern that his schemes might all backfire" (197). Colonel..."
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Picture Archive Communication Systems (PACS), 2005.
This paper discusses extensively the effects of picture archiving communications systems (PACS) and computerization on radiology workflow and turnaround time.
7,225 words (approx. 28.9 pages), 22 sources, APA, $ 160.95
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This paper explains that digital radiology applications of picture archiving communications systems (PACS) provide improved workflow and faster turnaround times by virtue of instant display of images thereby facilitating immediate diagnosis. The author points out that radiology information systems and picture archive communication systems provide a radical departure from the traditional current film and chemical imaging applications by meeting significant and unfulfilled needs for instant imaging and quick diagnosis both in the field and in the clinic. The paper relates that while these technologies were relatively expensive just a few years ago, their cost has dropped to the point where virtually all clinicians who feel their patients can benefit from them can afford to integrate them into their diagnostic regimen. Charts.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Review and Discussion
Background and Overview.
Benefits of Radiology Information Systems (RIS).
Benefits of Picture Archive Communication Systems (PACS).
Current and Future Trends.
Conclusion
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"The authors report that observations of the radiologists in the clinical environment showed that they relied predominantly on interpretation of images from PACS to render their conclusions, with only occasional RIS terminal use and even less frequent HIS access. The principal explanation for this behavior most likely relates to the inconvenience of accessing such data: Three different computers are required to access three separate clinical systems (ie, PACS, RIS, HIS). The Internet was not used by attending radiologists to search for external medical evidence; instead, they relied on their training and experience to reach conclusions; however, residents frequently used the Internet and reference textbooks as a source of external information while they waited for the attending radiologist's review."
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?Large Bad Picture?: Positioning the Painting, 2005.
Examines the role of the painting in ekphrastic poetry, using Elizabeth Bishop's poem, "Large Bad Picture" as an example.
1,870 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper examines the role of paintings in ekphrastic poetry (the rhetorical description of a work of art). It shows how Elizabeth Bishop makes her fictional painting 'real' through her poem, "Large Bad Picture". It presents a comparison between "Large Bad Picture" to W.H. Auden's "Musee des Beaux Arts." The paper also provides an examination of how Bishop divides her poem between setting the scene and then delivering the poem's argument.
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"Having settled her reader comfortably, Bishop then takes the next two stanzas to describe in clear, precise language the subject of the painting. In one long sentence enjambed over two stanzas, she describes the sunset, the span of high blue cliffs and the small caves that dot their base. The final line of the third stanza returns the reader to the title describing the caves that riddle the cliffs as being "masked by perfect waves." (12). Her description of the waves as being "perfect" give the first hint of her contention that this is a bad picture. The reader begins to understand that this composition, while possibly well executed, is unrealistic, that the painter has seen perfection in natural phenomina that are inherently imperfect and organic."
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"The Picture of Dorian Gray", 2002.
Analysis of Oscar Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and the concept of death in the novel.
2,415 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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In Oscar Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray", concepts of mortality and death are tied to concepts of aesthetics. This paper shows how Dorian Gray fears death but also considers art as a way of overcoming death. He then makes himself into a work of art, while the true artwork, the painting of him produced by Basil Hallward, is subject to all the mortal disintegration which rightfully should be suffered by Dorian himself.
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"Gray also embodies the New Hedonism expressed by Lord Henry, another challenge to aging and death. However, aging and death are part of the natural order and cannot be escaped in any way except through art. Dorian does see himself as a work of art, but he lives not for an aesthetic but for the love of self. In the end, age and death come to him because he has not lived a balanced life. Critics point out ways in which ideas of aesthetics are embodied in the novel along with moral issues concerning immortality and the ability to evade responsibility for one's actions."
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"Queer Theory" and "The Picture of Dorian Gray", 2004.
An analysis of "Queer Theory" by Annamarie Jagose and "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde.
802 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper discusses Annamarie Jagose's book, "Queer Theory" in relation to Dorian Gray's character in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. The paper contends that Jagose and Wilde's discussion and portrayal of queerness reflects how this concept is associated to an almost utopian mind state, where the individual has no biases, prejudices and malicious intents in life. The paper assesses that according to these books, queerness is a state where equality and ambiguity is accepted and considered the norm.
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"What makes the queer concept vital to the study of gays and lesbians, as well as issues of homosexuality and heterosexuality is that it provides a 'gray area' in which no distinctions between male and female and gay and lesbian are found. Queer appeals to the 20th century philosophers and social scientists simply because it offers an avenue through which gender and sex can be discussed without the political inequality often found between male and female genders and the similarly dichotomous relationship between gays and lesbians. As Jagose had asserted, the queer concept was able to transcend the "natural sexuality" framework-that is, "queer's transcendent disregard for dominant systems of gender"-that society had often used as reference in order to fully understand the identity of an individual."
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"The Picture of Dorian Gray", 2002.
A review of Oscar Wilde's "The Picture of Dorian Gray", focusing on the good and bad influences on Dorian.
1,029 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 36.95
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This paper analyzes the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde. The characters are described and their influences on each other are discussed. The paper portrays Lord Henry Wotten as Dorian's devil, his evil inner self, and Basil Hallward as Dorian?s conscious, his guardian.
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"Oscar Wilde?s "The Picture of Dorian Gray" continues to mystify its audience. First published in 1890, it was originally criticized for being immoral. Wilde rewrote the novel and published it again the following year, this time with a pre-face announcing its theme of immorality. Set in late 19th century London, the novel centers around Dorian Gray and two of his ?friends? ? Basil Hallward and Lord Henry Wotten."
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A Review of Tomoko Makabe's Book "Picture Brides", 2008.
A summary and review of "Picture Brides" by Tomoko Makabe, which chronicles the lives of five Canadian-Japanese women.
1,408 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper critically reviews "Picture Brides" by Tomoko Makabe, a Japanese woman living in Canada, who became fascinated by the fact that women would go overseas to marry men they did not know. The author of this paper feels that, while the book is interesting to read, a person aware of Japan's 19th and 20th century history, and the longer story of the Japanese in North America will find little that is so 'amazing' in the experience of the five women informing Makabe's work.
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"Also, the phenomenon to which Makabe gave her attention involved a range of factors to which she seems not to have given ample thought led by the extreme gaps in Japanese social classes in the 19th and 20th centuries. Young women choosing to marry abroad, as ever, were often people with few or no alternative prospects. Makabe seems not to have considered a number of factors of the kind. For instance, a somewhat irritating aspect of Picture Brides is the author's repeated reference to how courageous the picture brides were, in a manner showing that the author has failed to imagine the turn of the 20th century and the courage that all men and women without prospects in Japan, or anywhere else, needed in order to simply survive. Makabe's informants had come to Canada as picture brides in the 1920s, by which time many Japanese women had undertaken the same sorts of journeys, going to join a settled and working man of whom their families were apt to know little or nothing. In addition to traditional family methods of locating spouses, brokers were often involved, a woman taking some risk as ever in terms of how her husband across the world turned out to be but she went abroad with the approval of her family having settled a daughter and sometimes expecting remittance funds.
As an Oral History volume, Picture Brides would be better if the author had managed a shorter introduction on herself and tried for a briefer introduction to 100 years of Japanese in Canada. More weight should have been placed on events in Japan in the later 19th and early 20th centuries that made becoming a picture bride of appeal. For instance, Makabe notes that the women were from village backgrounds and notes how a newly industrializing Japan had few waged opportunities for women that most could not work beyond the home. She seems not to see either that as elsewhere in Asia, marriage was a necessity for poorer families, and that embarking across the world as a picture bride could solve various family problems. Becoming a picture bride was probably more strategic or simply straightforward than courageous or heroic. One gains the impression that the author was fairly sheltered or had not reflected on social reality of the time in either Japan or Canada when beginning research with the assistance of the Multicultural History Society of Ontario."
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"The Picture of Dorian Gray", 2002.
A review of "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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This paper discusses several aspects of the central theme of "The Picture of Dorian Gray". The portrait and the soul are identified as being synonymous, so that Dorian is affected not by an object, but by his own true image.
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Edison and the Motion Picture Industry, 2002.
An overview of the history of the development of moving pictures and the role played by Thomas Alva Edison.
2,900 words (approx. 11.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 106.95
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This paper examines the role of Thomas Alva Edison in respect to the motion picture industry. Edison is considered b many historians to be the only true innovator of motion pictures, but there are other inventors who worked at the time and also had varied degrees of success. This paper focuses on the development of the phonograph, the Kinetoscope and Kinetograph nd Edison's involvement with the creation of a motion picture studio.
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The Creation of a Motion Picture Film, 2002.
This paper is an extensive discussion of the business end of creating a motion picture film.
10,690 words (approx. 42.8 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 212.95
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This paper explains the business background making a movie including budget ratios and the role of the film's accountant. The author feels that the time allocated for development and pre-production may seem extraordinarily long; however, time spent at this level is substantially less costly than time spent in production. The paper also includes macroeconomic strategies to further the global film industry.
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Issue Statement
Method of Investigation
Background on Film Production
Creative Development
Developing the Script
Creating the Package
Raising Production Financing
Studio Development and In-House Production Deals
The Studio Production-Financing Distribution Deal
Studio-Based Independent Production Company Financing
Independent-Distributor Financing
Pre-Production
The Production Manager
Creating a Budget
Above-the-Line vs. Below-the-Line Costs
The Shooting Ratio
The Production Schedule
The Production Board
Creating the Shooting Schedule
Script Breakdown
The Shooting Script
Studio versus Location Shooting
Shooting Interiors versus Exteriors
Pick-up Days
Sound
Crew Size
The Cross-Plot
The Director
The Cast
The Writer
Location Units
The Cinematographer and the Art Department
The Equipment
Lab Costs
The Production Accountant
Film Insurance
Conclusions Drawn from the Literature
Summary
Discussion
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"The first step toward the creation of any feature film is the development of the idea for the film. Development is what happens before any funding can be sought. Development comprises those activities relating specifically to taking a concept or idea and turning it into a finished screenplay. Essentially this is the stage where the idea begins to be turned into a reality and this reality will usually be in the form of a script synopsis or outline proposal. It is also the first hurdle for the project. It involves formulating and organizing the idea or concept for the movie, acquiring rights to the underlying material, preparing an outline, synopsis or treatment, and writing, polishing and revising the various drafts of the script."
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The 'Buddy Picture' Genre, 2006.
A look at the homosexual and the homosocial relationships in the film genre of the 'buddy picture'.
2,082 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper discusses how according to Michael Davis, American popular culture has always reflected a common "insecurity" about masculinity "at the global and local level." The paper further discusses how the films "Brokeback Mountain" and "High Fidelity," reflect this anxiety. The paper classifies both these films as 'buddy films'.
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"In classifying both of these films as "buddy film" genres, it is important to remember exactly what a film genre is constituted by--film genres are usually defined by various formulaic structures (such as the outsider nature of the protagonists, alone tending sheep on a mountain, or alone in their superior musical tastes in a bubble-gum pop music listening world) and identifiable types of characters (such as the inarticulate man, the boisterous 'kid') who behave in recognizable patterns. Genres also have standard relationships, such as male bonding in active friendships forged over saving the world or saving music. Genres also often make use of various forms of syntax, such as the frequent joking typical of buddy films that conceal real emotion, rather than displays emotion, unlike the language deployed between men and women. Also, genres deploy similar filmic techniques such as the buddy film's use of communication through action, and make use of conventions, such as the use of the road or a physical problem as a medium for getting to know one another (Dirk, 2006) "
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Motion Picture Special Effects, 1994.
In depth discussion and analysis of motion picture special effects. Includes such movies as JURASSIC PARK, TERMINATOR 2, TRUE LIES, TOTAL RECALL, FORREST GUMP, YOUNG INDIANA JONES, HUDSUCKER PROXY, WILLOW, & others.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 7 sources, $ 55.95
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" Motion picture special effects have been used since the beginning of the medium, with the early experiments of Georges M?li?s in France showing ways in which the new medium could be utilized to create images of things that seem to be happening but that in fact never happened at all. Special effects in recent years have taken a quantum leap forward with the advent of computer techniques to improve the use of established techniques of image processing and the use of traveling mattes and to initiate entirely new possibilities for such new effects as morphing and computer animation. Digital processing is clearly the wave of the future, and the wonders it has wrought already in films like Jurassic Park, Terminator 2, and True Lies are only the beginning. Computer animation techniques are being improved all the time, and the goal for many seems to be creating a film.."
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