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'King of Masks', 2006.
A review of the old Chinese movie, 'King of Masks'.
761 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 27.95
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This essay reviews the classic Chinese movie, 'King of Masks'. The paper reviews the gender and societal implications and discriminations of old China as portrayed in the film. The paper further discusses how art imitates life, and in understanding the artistic assets of the film from costumes to plot to set design, the essay illuminates the culture that has built -and perhaps still sustains- China.
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"Another discrimination against womanhood is their low appraisal in the black market. While a boy's parents can demand huge amounts of money for the custody of their child ('Ten dollars and he is yours.'), a girl's parents can only beg for minimal compassion ('You don't have to pay a cent.', 'If you feed her, I'll be content.'). Of course to put a price on a child's identity is the lowest form of judging an individual's value. But even money cannot substantiate the worth of a little girl."
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"Black Skin, White Masks", 2002.
A book report on Frantz Fanon's "Black Skin, White Masks".
830 words (approx. 3.3 pages), 0 sources, $ 29.95
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Fanon's book is an analysis of identity and racism issues about blacks in a culturally white world. This paper discusses this book in terms of its title and how it relates to the author. The paper begins with background information about the author himself and explains how this book is based on first hand personal experiences of racial issues.
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"In order to understand Frantz Fanon's book, Black Skin, White Masks, it's important to understand a little bit about the author himself. Fanon was born in French Martinique in 1925 and moved to France in 1943. He had always thought of himself as French and it was here in France that he had his first taste of racism. He began to write political essays and plays and it was here that he wrote Black Skin, White Masks."
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African Masks, 2003.
An analysis of the African Sowei mask as an object of art.
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper analyzes the African Sowei mask. It discusses the object as art and as a reflection of the spiritual and cultural values of the community. The author also mentions the connection to African aesthetics and reproduction.
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"African art combines the visual image with spiritual beliefs and social purpose. As an art object the mask is a piece of sculpture that represents the cultural attitudes embodied in the meaning or content of the object. The image of the Sowei mask carved in ..."
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The Mask in Literature, 2008.
An analysis of the theme of mask in Charles Waddell Chesnutt's "The Sheriff's Children, Henry James' "The Beast in the Jungle" and "The Real Thing" and Theodore Dreiser's "The Lost Phoebe".
4,872 words (approx. 19.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 124.95
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This paper examines the theme of the mask, how people are constrained to hide their true personalities and, often, their true will and identities from themselves and each other. First, the paper looks at how "The Sheriff's Children" uses the mask theme negatively: hiding one's true soul leads to tragedy. In comparison, the paper examines how "In The Beast in the Jungle", the two main characters John Marcher and May Bartram are portrayed to wear masks for their evasion of social and personal responsibility. The paper also examines how "The Real Thing" plays with the reality-illusion dichotomy and how for the painter who narrates the story, the genuine article proves all too useless for artistic purposes. Lastly, the paper discusses how in "The Lost Phoebe", the character of Henry is afraid of starting a new life with a new woman or taking the responsibility of her and consciously puts himself under the mask of internal conflict.
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"The two major figures of The Sheriff's Children, Sheriff Campbell and his mixed-blood son, are both plagued by crises of personal identity; their reactions to these crises both exploit the theme of the mask and exemplify Chesnutt's structural use of the mask concept. These achievements make a powerful story. If Chesnutt had not made the revelation of the relationship between the Sheriff and the son whom he had abandoned as a child its central point, his story would never have attained any particular significance. Chesnutt instead uses the Sheriff's parenthood as the starting point for an examination of its tragic results. "
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"We Wear The Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar, 2007.
An analysis of Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem written in 1913 - "We Wear The Mask".
941 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 33.95
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This paper analyzes the poem "We Wear The Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The writer explains that the poem suggests that the nature of the mask that is worn is far more complex than a mask made of paper or plaster. The writer further discusses how the poem strikes a contrast between African Americans' exposed social faces and the bleeding hearts within their apparently smiling, happy exteriors. The writer points out that Dunbar does not speak only for himself in the poem, but for his entire race of people. The writer concludes that the poem does not tell Whites to treat African Americans with greater dignity, instead it functions as a revelation and an explanation.
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"The poet Paul Laurence Dunbar wrote his 1913 poem "We Wear the Mask" in open defiance of the commonly accepted fallacy of his day that African-Americans were happy in the severe roles they were forced to assume in the face of white racism. Dunbar uses irony to redefine the positive connotations of smiling. He also uses the religious rhetorical tropes of exclamation and crying out to God to further convey the difference between the false face African-Americans were forced to wear to earn a living in white society and the pressure they feel within as a result of this cognitive dissonance."
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W. B. Yeats: The Masked Poet, 2005.
Explains how self-imagery in the poetry of W. B. Yeats relies on his "Doctrine of the Mask", a projection of his anti-self that changed the style of his poetry permanently.
1,864 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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W. B. Yeats believed that poetry should be "personal utterance" but from from the accidence of daily life. This paper discusses how after his first two collections, he adopted the device of the mask to project a harder anti-self to control his passionate speech. It shows how the mask changed his style and altered his themes significantly.
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"The spinning coin of Yeats's poetics bears his personal profile on one side and his self-projection on the other. His poetry of "personal utterance" thus avoids personalized subjectivity by exploiting the notion of the self and anti-self, as he categorizes those supposedly antithetical profiles in his theory of the mask. Yeats adapts persona and mask to prevent the "accidence" of his personal life from distracting from his calculated "personal utterance" in print, and thereby creates associated fables of his mythology of self, embodied by the heroicized or visionary company that populates his poems."
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"We Wear the Mask?, 2002.
An analysis of poet Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem ?We Wear the Mask?.
860 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper examines the poet Paul Laurence Dunbar?s 1903 poem ?We Wear the Mask?, which is in open defiance of the commonly accepted fallacy of his day that African-Americans were happy in the subservient roles they were forced to assume in the face of white racism. The paper describes Dunbar's uses irony and the religious rhetorical to convey the disparity between the false face African-Americans were forced to wear to earn a living in white society. The author shows how the prose illustrates the theme of the socially assumed mask.
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"The title of Dunbar?s and first lines of the poem may at first suggest a mask that an actor or a performer wears. ?We wear the mask that grins and lies, / It hides our checks and shades our eyes.? (Lines 1-2) However, the next lines of the poem suggest that the nature of the mask that is worn is far more complex than a mask made of paper or plaster. The poem strikes a contrast between African American?s exposed social faces and the bleeding hearts within their apparently smiling, happy exteriors."
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Mask Dance in Indian Culture, 2004.
An analysis of the mask dance in Indian culture.
1,369 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses the Indian culture's mask dance. The paper explains that the nation of India has a long history associated with dance as a form of communication and expression. The paper contends that dances are more than just a fusion of choreographic movements; dance in India represents a way of telling tales of historical events, passion, romance, and even tales of treachery and woe.
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"Dance in the culture has always represented some of the more inner reflections regarding the country's combination of historical turbulence mixed with the nation's religious and inner peace oriented factions such as Hinduism. "The Arts of India are the illustration of the religious life of the Hindus. Like their faith, the arts have been preserved for the past three thousand years, from change and decay, from foreign invasions, and from the fury of the nature. We owe its preservation to the future generations. For, it exemplifies how life can indeed revolve around the arts." (Kamat, 2004) In other words, dance in Indian culture is seen as more than just a fusion of detailed and non-meaningful movements; it is more a system for delivering aspects of the culture to the masses."
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"Rex" and "The Mirror and the Mask", 2002.
An analysis of Ciurlionis' painting, "Rex", using Borges' story "The Mirror And The Mask" as a comparison of common themes.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper examines the painting "Rex" by M. Ciurlionis, a famous Lithuanian artist and composer. It uses the short story by Borges, "The Mirror and the Mask," as a point of comparison and analysis, bringing together ideas about human nature and the nature of art that are present in both works.
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"The Mask of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe, 2001.
A look at the writing style and the structure that Edgar Allan Poe uses in his novel "The Mask of Red Death".
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A look at the structure and use of writing style in "The Mask of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe uses contrasting descriptions that work in conjunction with the literary elements to produce a dramatic impact. His use of contrasts helps tie the elements together and produces a powerful effect.
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"The Mask of the Red Death" is a fiction story with a structure strongly supported by literary elements, including tone, plot, symbols, characterization, and setting. The detailed description of the setting plays a key role in the structural development and helps the reader picture the sequence of events vividly. The plot is critical to the structure, as it unravels gradually, and the symbols and the tone complement it with strong detailed contrasts.
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J. D. Salinger: The Man Behind the Mask and his Writing, 1997.
A biography of J. D. Salinger and a detailed literary analysis of his works.
10,800 words (approx. 43.2 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 214.95
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This paper presents a detailed personal biography of Salinger, his youth, growth as a writer and religion. It also shows a critical evaluation and analysis of most works (Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, Bananafish, more...) Elements of style are thoroughly examined and a review of other critical analyses are presented.
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""Jesus, he has a helluva talent." The esteemed Ernest Hemingway has found one of the few ways accurately to describe J.D. Salinger. Truly one of America's most amazing authors, J.D. Salinger has rocked the modern world in a field where words of praise are scarce and criticisms are abundant. Inciting the adolescent populace with passion, Salinger calls attention to particulars in our society and questions the ethicality of people. ...
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Louisa May Alcott's " Behind A Mask" or " A Woman's Power", 2000.
A psychoanalytic study of whether the protagonist surrenders her integrity in order to achieve happiness and success in the novella and whether she is an hysteric.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, $ 47.95
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"This study will psychoanalyze the integrity of Jean Muir's happiness and success in Louisa May Alcott's novella Behind A Mask; or, A Woman's Power. The question is whether Jean surrenders all of her integrity, or even all of her true identity, in performing the various roles she plays as a governess, an actress, and an engaged woman, in order to achieve that success. The answer is that she may have lost some or much of her integrity, or even her identity in her reliance on the masks of her different roles, but in order to achieve success in the patriarchal, deception-ridden society in which she lives, she makes the choice to do whatever she has to do. This answer can only be appreciated if the reader accepts the world as portrayed by Alcott, and believes, as this reader does, that Alcott means Jean's tactics to be a sign of necessary strength, and not..."
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"Confessions of a Mask" by Yukio Mishima., 2002.
This review looks at the thought process of the narrator.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 35.95
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The narrator is unable to deal forthrightly and directly with any situation: instead he creates justifications and excuses to hide his emotions. Simple, honest urges, even something as basic as sexuality, are overintellectualised and entombed in dark cathedrals of thought and perverse fantasy.
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"If We Must Die" by Claude Mckay and " We Wear The Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar, 2000.
A comparison of the structures of works by African-American poets.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 23.95
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"The formal structures of Claude McKay's "If We Must Die" and Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask" operate in unusual ways. Because both poets were African Americans writing about the injustices suffered by their race, they were writing about fundamental feelings of rage and the struggle to avoid despair. But they were also writing specifically about the ways Africans Americans face the white world that oppresses them. Ironically, of course, they also wrote in the language and, at times, in the poetic tradition of the white culture.
The formal structures in these two poems are means by which the poets develop a greater intensity of feeling in the poems, and both Dunbar and McKay do this in two different ways. On the one hand, the regularity of their rhyme schemes and meters allows the poets to build their ideas and emphasize the major points in
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Henry the VIII, 2002.
A look at two historical perspectives of Henry the VIII in " Henry VIII: The King and His Court" by Alison Weir and "Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty" by Lacey Smith.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper will discuss the book "Henry VIII: The King and His Court" by Alison Weir, and the book "Henry VIII: The Mask of Royalty" by Lacey Smith, and seek to show how the first book gives us a clear look at the true Henry the VIII in action. By revealing the more Catholic and harsh view of Henry the VIII in Lacey's book, we find the Protestant reformer that is part of Weir's study to show his defiance to the Church of Rome. By pointing out both of the theories on the great King, we can see how Weir's book tells a more accurate story for Henry's rebellion against the Catholic Church.
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