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"Killings" by Andre Dubus, 2002.
This paper looks at the play "Killings" by Andre Dubus, focusing on the way in which Dubus has inserted his own point of view about murder.
1,214 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 41.95
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The writer interprets the stylistic elements in Dubus' writing that reveal his position about the social and individual consequences of murder. According to the paper, this is done through the title, plot, and the characters of the play which strengthen the connection between the story and its reader.
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"The play?s title also points to the suffering of Frank?s loved ones. The victim?s death was so disturbing for his parents that the father?s heart was dying to kill Strout. Matt tells his friend ?(Ruth) can?t even go out for cigarettes and aspirin? without seeing Strout, ?it?s killing her? (Dubus 64). The constant daydreaming of Frank?s murder killed Matt and Ruth from inside until they took out their revenge on Strout and calmed their emotions. Simultaneously, the playwright also reflects through the thoughts of Matt Fowler, how the loved ones of Richard Strout would be killed inside by his murder. Thus, the writer builds on a deeper meaning for the play?s title by depicting how the emotions of families are killed on the deaths of their beloveds."
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Dave and Andre Dubus, 2001.
A comparison of Richard Wright's "The Man who was Almost a Man" and Andre Dubus' autobiography "Giving up the Gun".
950 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 33.95
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This is a compare/contrast essay. It compares Dave from Richard Wright's "The Man who was Almost a Man" and Andre Dubus from "Giving up the gun". It shows that their experiences with guns were very similar despite the great differences in their background and upbringing. Their motives for the use of the gun, however, were far apart.
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"Another important difference between the two characters is in their goals for having a gun. Dave wants to be a man. Because he has a job and earns his own money, he considers himself a man. Even though he is seventeen, his parents still treat him as a little boy. He can't even manage his money. Not only Dave's parents, but his neighbors treat him as a little boy. He sees that almost every man in the village has a gun. He believes that owning a gun will bring him some respect that Dave has never gotten from anyone. He dreams to get one and practice shooting. He asks his mother: "Ma, ef yuh lemme buy one Ah'll never ask yoh fer nothing no mo" (Wright 388). Dave believes that the only way to prove himself as a man is to get a gun. On the other hand, he is not planning on a very dangerous action. After buying the gun from Mr.
Hawkins, Dave does not bring it to his mother as she had told; "instead he had stayed out in the fields, holding the weapon in his hand, aiming it now and then at some imaginary foe…" ( 389). Without realizing that he could hurt someone he kills a mule. Because of this accident he will never get respect from people in his community"
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?Killings?, 2002.
A review of the essay ?Killings? by Andre Dubus.
1,101 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper discusses the essay ?Killings? by Andre Dubus about how Matt Fowler, struggles externally with the task of murdering another man in an effort to avenge the death of his son. It examines how Andre Dubus tells the story of a group of people who are faced with conflict on a daily basis and how the dominant idea or theme of the story is that all men will act on their emotions and every emotion exhibited in the story is anger. The end result is a group of characters that can only be classified as murderers and no one is truly better than the other. It shows how the story revolves around inner and external conflict and how the plot, setting and characters all reflect a dominant theme of darkness and despair.
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"The story later describes how each of the characters had experienced many emotional changes that caused their violent and sometimes bizarre behavior. Matt Fowlers aggressive and revengeful behavior certainly resulted from his feelings of remorse over the loss of his son. But what of the character that killed his son. What type of conflict did he face, and what caused him to be able to commit such a terrible act without any feelings of guilt or sorrow? What type of conflict did the other characters in the story feel, such as Matt Fowlers relations? Interestingly, Dubus describes each of these characters in great detail, elaborating on the ideas of conflict, and intertwining conflict with the mood and dreary theme of the story."
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"The Killings" and "Viruddh", 2005.
Comparison of the Indian movie to the Andre Dubus's "Killings".
1,839 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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The paper compares the movie with the story. It explains that the movie was based on "The Killings." It identifies the main characters, their roles, what they do and how the stories end. Also includes personal opinion at some points.
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"The story entitled "The Killings," by Andre Dubus, and the Indian movie "Viruddh," directed by Mahesh Manjrekar, are both narratives about two families that go through a similar tragedy. In "The Killings," the youngest son is killed, while in "Viruddh," the family's only son is murdered. The family in the Dubus story is American, and the family in the movie is Indian. The title of the movie means "Revenge," and this, therefore, suggests the theme of the story and the movie. They both are about how the family gets revenge for the deaths of their children. The Indian movie is the culturally diverse version of the American movie "In the Bedroom," which is also based on the Dubus story. It is astonishing to see how two different cultures can react identically to the same situation."
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To Kill or Not to Kill: The CIA's Anti-Castro Operations, 2002.
Discusses US - Cuba relations and CIA's attitudes to Fidel Castro.
1,483 words (approx. 5.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper discusses the methods the CIA used to try to "get rid" of Fidel Castro and overthrow the communist Cuban government. This paper gives light to some of the many plots the CIA came up with to rid the world of history's longest ruling communist dictator.
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"To say that the relationship between the United States and Cuba is complicated is a major understatement. Ever since 1959, when Fidel Castro came into power in Cuba, the two nations have had a strained relationship at best, and a highly adversarial relationship when things got worse. Now that the Cold War is over and Cuba is no longer receiving weapons and aid from the defunct Soviet Union, relations between the two countries are much more relaxed. However, during the height of the Cold War, during the Kennedy administration and even before that, the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States developed and planned several ways to bring down the communist Cuban government; the catalyst they kept going back to in order to bring down the government was the assassination of Fidel Castro."
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A Literary Comparison, 2007.
This paper compares "A Father's Story" and "Killings" by Andre Dubus.
1,630 words (approx. 6.5 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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This paper compares the father figures in Dubus' two works. It explores their action and motivations for their actions and comes to highlight why fatherhood can be painful. It expands on the fathers' need to protect their children and discusses the moral and ethical outcome of their actions. The paper offers quotes from both texts to qualify points made.
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"The murderer Richard Strout gets out of jail on bond awaiting trial, and Matt's wife Ruth keeps seeing her son's killer around town ("...she sees him all the time, it makes her cry" (p. 65). Meanwhile, Matt "every day in his soul... shot Richard Strout in the face..." (p. 68). His motivation is thus two-fold, to protect his wife from having to see her son's killer face to face everyday, and to avenge the senseless death of his son, which he cannot escape from. "...Since it happened he had not been able to think about any of the small pleasures he believed he had earned, as he had earned also what was shattered now forever; the quietly harried and quietly pleasurable days of fatherhood" (p. 65). "
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Honor Killings, 2005.
An examination of honor killings in Pakistan.
1,339 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper describes the problem of honor killings and looks at the history of honor killings in Pakistan. The paper then explains that the establishment and strict enforcement of laws protecting women from this kind of abuse and violence, as well as the cultural pressure to make change, are the basic approaches to rid the world of this kind of murder.
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"Women throughout the world have long suffered at the hands of their husbands, fathers, and other male relatives. Why would a father, husband, or brother kill his daughter, wife, or sister? In some parts of the world, including Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Brazil, Uganda, and many countries in the Middle East, when a woman's family believes that her behavior has threatened the "family honor," killing her is seen as the only alternative . The practice of "honor killing", which is the murder of a (generally) female relative who is perceived to have brought dishonor to the family (which can be defined in terms as broad as looking at a man in a sexual manner, adultery, refusing a marriage proposal, refusing to have sex, or even being raped) by a male member of the family, has the highest level of reported incidence in the nation of Pakistan."
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Andre Breton, 2002.
This paper discusses the French Surrealist poet Andre Breton and analyzes how his Surrealist art philosophy influenced the art world in the twentieth century.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 7 sources, $ 80.95
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This paper discusses the French Surrealist poet Andre Breton and analyzes how his Surrealist art philosophy influenced the art world in the twentieth century.
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Andre Derain, 2007.
An analysis of the life of Andre Derain and an analysis of his artwork, "Charing Cross Bridge."
1,537 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper discusses the life and works of Andre Derain, who was one of the most interesting artists of the 20th century. The paper discusses Derain's various painting styles, but describes him as best known as one of the fathers of fauvism, which was the first movement of the modern period which developed in France. The paper specifically focuses on analyzing his artwork entitled "Charing Cross Bridge."
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Introduction
Charing Cross Bridge
Conclusion
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"The abandoning of more traditional modes of painting is extremely evident in this painting. The photographic quality that is often scene in landscape paintings is not present. In addition, Derain uses extremely vivid colors and the colors have very little variation (light and dark shades). Instead Derain uses flat color. At the time this was a very revolutionary form of painting. Indeed Bazin et al explains that most of the fauvists including Derain were often confronted with bourgeois conformity or the tutelage of younger artists (Bazin et al). However they displayed a type of progressive freedom in the way they carried themselves and how they spoke (Bazin et al)."
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The Photography of Andre Kertesz, 2005.
A reaction to the photography of Andre Kertesz.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper is a visceral and historical reaction to the photographic work of Andre Kertesz, a Hungarian born photographer born in 1894. The paper traces Kertesz's historical development as an artist, discusses some of the more general points regarding his significance to the history of photography, and presents and examines three of his photographs.
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"Perhaps what is most striking about the photography of Andrew Kertesz - all shot in black and white - is how familiar it all seems, even if one has never heard of Kertesz before. Andre Kertesz was born in 1894 and died ninety-one years later in 1985. He took his first shots as a photographer in 1912 at the Budapest stock exchange where he worked as a clerk with a camera that his mother gave him ("Andre Kertesz" par. 1-3). This was the beginning of a career in photography that would span decades and leave the world with a photographic legacy that is powerful, emotional, and seemingly ubiquitous. Once Kertesz had his first camera, it became a semi-permanent part of his own body. He took it nearly everywhere."
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Honor Killings, 2003.
Discusses the application of Article 340 to "honor" killings in the Jordanian Penal Code.
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Examines reduced sentences for male perpetrators who commit "honor" crimes against female members of their family, attempts to abolish Art. 340, the background of honor crimes, and violent acts against women, including murder.
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"This research paper discusses and analyzes the origins, including the legislative and judicial history, of Articles 340 and 98 of the Jordanian Penal Code, which sanction reduced sentences for, or total ..."
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Characters in Literature.
This paper analyzes a character in Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye," Andre Dubus's "Killings, Anton Chekhov's "The Lady with the Pet Dog," Robert Frost's "Home Burial," and Ernest Hemingway's "Soldier's Home".
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This paper theorizes the prevailing social environment that each character lives in leads to their transition from being resolute to irresolute individuals determined to make beneficial or detrimental changes in their lives. The author points out that in one of the five literary works, "The Bluest Eye," Morrison creates the character of Pecola Breedlove, a black American in the 1940s American society, in whom the readers can see internal conflict; she is torn between accepting being a black American and aspiring to become a white American, hence her preoccupation to have the "bluest eye(s)". The paper relates that, in the last of the five works, Dmitri Gurov in "Lady with the Pet Dog" by Chekhov demonstrates a change in character for the benefit of romantic love when he finally admits to himself, for once in his life, that he needs a woman who will not only satisfy his physical needs, but also his emotional need to be understood and to feel for him as a man and partner in life.
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"Literary works have become significant artifacts for readers because of the similarities and almost-real depictions of the lives of its characters in a particular period and event in human history. Analyses of literary works include, among others, looking into transitions or changes that occurred within a character's personality or behavior throughout the story. This conscious effort to illustrate changes in characterization is vital to the development of the story, since literary works ultimately mirror the reality that it is through human acts that humanity's fate changes over time. That is, an individual's interaction with his/her society inevitably leads to a change in his behavior, and vice versa."
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The DC Sniper Killings, 2008.
A review of the events of the DC sniper shootings, including the preliminary shootings, the "Beltway" Attacks, the investigation during the attacks and the arrest of the two suspects.
1,844 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper examines the timeline of the DC sniper killings that took place in October 2002. It explains the preliminary killings and the actual "Beltway" attacks. The paper then analyzes the investigation during the attacks, the arrest of the two suspects and the logistics and tactics used by the suspects. Finally, it discusses the whereabouts of John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo prior to their arrest.
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Introduction
Preliminary Killings
"Beltway" Attacks
The Investigation During the Attacks
The Arrest of the Two Suspects
Logistics & Tactics Used By the Snipers
Conclusion
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"The deadly string of shootings finally came to an end on October 24, when Muhammad and Malvo were found sleeping in their 1990 Chevrolet Caprice, at a rest stop near Myersville, Maryland. Police were given the information by a truck driver who noticed the parked car. A .223-caliber Bushmaster XM-15 rifle and bipod were found in a bag in Muhammad's car. According to CNN, the rifle was found behind the rear seat of the 1990 Chevrolet Caprice, which had been modified to allow the rifle to be fired from inside the vehicle. The Bushmaster rifle is a civilian, semi-automatic version of the Colt M-16 military rifle, which can be fired in fully automatic mode. Ballistics tests later verified the same rifle matched 11 of the 14 bullets recovered from the attacks."
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Kent State Killings, 1996.
Background, major players & events, causes & effects of 1970 killing of four Vietnam War-protesting students by Ohio National Guard.
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"The 1960s was a period of ferment in American society and politics, and it was also a period of violence both by disaffected groups within society and by society itself in Vietnam and against various demonstrators in the U.S., from anti-war demonstrators to delegates and news people as well as agitators at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. The event that most challenged America's view of the era and of itself took place at Kent State University in Ohio on May 4, 1970 as members of the National guard fired on student demonstrators, killing 4 and wounding 9. This was the culmination of a decade of student demonstrations both violent and non-violent. For some, the event was the fault of the students--nothing would have happened had the students been attending to their own business, and in any case the National..."
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"Man's Fate" by Andre Malraux, 1993.
A look at the existentialist themes, politics, characters' alienation and death.
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"The underlying thematic structure of Andr? Malraux's novel Man's Fate (which could be more expansively translated as "The Human Condition") sees the destiny of humankind in political action. The novel expresses an existentialist position that mirrors ideas later developed by Camus and Sartre concerning the position of the human being in the scheme of things and the meaning of life that can be derived from that relationship. In the existentialist view, people are ridiculous because they must die. No matter what they do or how they live, death is the ending. All men and women live with this knowledge. This is the fate of humankind as reflected in the title.
It is easy to see this fact operating in the novel--death infuses the action of the novel. The story begins and ends with a murder. Most of the characters die, and they tend to die..."
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