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"Logan's Run", 2002.
An analysis of the movie "Logan's Run".
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper will cover the movie "Logan's Run" and assess the dystopia in political reasoning that the film represents. By making comparisons to other literature, such as "A Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley, we can see how this movie describes a wide range of learning on the political arena. The way that the movie is made will be examined, with a focus on the author of the tale, and the way that the director interprets it within the movie making process.
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"Run Silent, Run Deep", 2006.
A review of the 1950s film "Run Silent, Run Deep"
750 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper reviews the film "Run Silent, Run Deep", produced 13 years after the end of the Second World War and starring some of the premier actors of the time. The author gives the film high praise, calling it an intense human drama of ego and duty. According to the author, the film avoids pandering to Cold War stereotypes, instead examining how in the midst of horrific conflict, the line between the ego and duty can easily become blurred.
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"Run Silent, Run Deep brilliantly captures the claustrophobic and tension-ridden atmosphere of a submarine at war. Made in 1958, it's a fast paced and thoroughly engaging wartime drama that stars some of the preeminent actors of the day: Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. Alongside the two leading men is an excellent ensemble cast that includes Don Rickles and Jack Warden."
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The Logan Health Center, 2008.
This paper looks at the Logan Health Center, studying its aims, philosophy and strategies.
766 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 27.95
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In this article, the writer notes that the Logan Health Center was established in 1995 by the Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center and New Haven Unified School District. The writer points out that the intention of the Logan Health Center is to provide a place where students at James Logan High School can learn healthy behavior such as sports and injury treatment or sexual treatment. The center also teaches injury prevention, and provides high quality health care. The writer looks at the philosophy of the Center and maintains that overall, the Logan Health Center is a positive place where students can have their physical and psychological needs met. The writer concludes that by allowing students to have a place where they can learn positive health behavior as well as positive social actions, the center successfully addresses many of the issues that students face.
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"By offering psychological as well as physical services, the center strives to make sure that the students come to school ready to learn. Though the center focuses on physical health, it recognizes that psychosocial problems often are what keep students from attending school. Therefore, these services recognize that the student is a whole person, not just a physical body.
"This strategy prepares the students for success. The strong focus on the whole person, the center allows an environment that is beneficial for those who are active physically and need a small amount of physical help to those who are having difficult social problems."
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Running, 2004.
Discussion regarding the positive effects of a regular running program.
1,668 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper examines the beneficial aspects of running on the cardiovascular and nervous systems. It does so by first looking at the different types of running and then by explaining the biomechanics of running.
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"From a sports professional point of view running is of three different types namely sprinting, middle distance and long distance or (marathon). Sprinting events are those races that are up to 400m. During the sprinting activity the muscles? metabolic pathways supply the required energy at a rate which is several times higher than the regular aerobic systems. This is verified by the decrease in PCr (phosphocreatine) by 67%, muscle glycogen by around 32% and ATP by 28%. Furthermore anaerobic glycolysis increases muscle lactate level by 20 fold. For sprinting, the thrust during the propelling period is very important and sports scientists have reported that the maximum force that a muscle can generate is directly proportional to its cross sectional area. This implies that good Sprinters usually are more muscular compared to marathon racers. For middle distance and marathon running the oxidative systems are the chief energy suppliers and there is a predominance of slow twitch muscle fibres."
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?Rabbit, Run?, 2004.
This paper reviews John Updike?s ?Rabbit, Run?, published in 1960, but depicting the American society of the 50s, and the first book in a four-book series.
2,245 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 69.95
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This paper explains Updike?s general literary statement in ?Rabbit, Run? was that, in the middle-class American society of the 1950s, people were going through the motions of a meaningful life, but not achieving satisfactory meaning from it. The author points out that the central character is so bizarre from time to time that he keeps the reader off balance, which is what Rabbit is actually doing in a fictionalized state to his wife Janice and others. The paper relates that continuity is the key to Updike?s maintaining character growth throughout the series he wrote; of the characters Updike uses in the first book, ?Rabbit, Run?, almost all continue to appear in his three novel sequels: "Rabbit Redux" (1971), "Rabbit is Rich" (1981) (Pulitzer prize); "Rabbit at Rest" (1990); and the novella, "Rabbit Remembered" (2000).
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"The author was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania, in 1932, and he later attended Harvard University and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Arts, located in Oxford, England. He began his professional writing career by contributing poems, articles and book reviews to "The New Yorker" magazine (1955-1957). Updike, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982 for "Rabbit Is Rich", has written over 25 books. He is the father of four children, and lives in Massachusetts. It is believed that the central character in Updike?s ?Rabbit? series (four novels, beginning with "Rabbit, Run"), was a real-life basketball hero who hailed from Shillington, Pennsylvania, where Updike grew up."
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?Raymond?s Run? by Toni Cade Bambara, 2004.
This paper discusses the character development of the protagonist, Squeaky, in ?Raymond?s Run? by Toni Cade Bambara.
720 words (approx. 2.9 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 25.95
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This paper explains that the protagonist, Squeaky, learns a valuable lesson about the worth of others by noticing that her brother, Raymond, who is ?not quite right,? runs well in the May Day race. The author points out that Squeaky seeing Raymond in a different light causes her to see not only herself in a different way, but also the character, Gretchen. The paper concludes that Raymond?s simple act of running allows Squeaky to realize that everyone has something to offer, no matter how they may seem on the surface.
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"Squeaky no longer sees Gretchen as competition; she sees her as someone with whom she has something in common. She writes, ?Maybe she?d like to help me coach Raymond?, which indicates that she wants to be her friend. With this thought in mind, as the winners of the race are announced, Squeaky and Gretchen exchange a ?great big smile of respect between us. It?s about as real a smile as girls can do for each other, considering she don?t practice real smiling every day?."
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Steven Kissing's ?Running from the Devil?, 2005.
This paper discusses the autobiography "Running from the Devil: A Memoir of a Boy Possessed" by Steven Kissing, a humorous treatment of the concept of the Prince of Darkness versus the Prince of Dorkness.
1,020 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 36.95
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This paper explains that "Running from the Devil: A Memoir of a Boy Possessed" is the epic saga of author Steve Kissing, a sharp yet disturbed child of the 1970s who, in the fifth grade, began having spells, which lasted for only a minute or two, in which he suddenly would see strange sights and hear strange voices: Otherwise, he was a perfect child, got "A" in most of his studies, was a good athlete and even an alter boy. The author points out that, to send the devil away, among other activities, Kissing continued his obsessive long distance running training, which resulted in his becoming a high school track star. The paper relates that this book is a spiritual guide because Kissing's story, especially when he gets back to clarity, is extremely credible.
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"The way in which a child's worldview is fashioned by faith, family and fate is the source of the humor and the insights of "Running from the Devil". The powers of imagination, redemption and self-discovery are also highlighted. The boy dealing all alone with his supposed craziness in the mind and the body forms the base of the book. The story telling is done in a funny and entertaining way. The Catholic religion and its rites form the structure of the book, and the spiritual change of the coming of age is also well described."
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Film: "Chicken Run", 2005.
This paper discusses the movie "Chicken Run".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper is a comparison and synthesis of the movie "Chicken Run" with the article "Empowerment as a Trojan Horse" by Yates, Lewchuk and Stewart. The author points out that the film contains many elements of lean production, such as the prison atmosphere and confined space for the chickens. The paper states that, in real life workplaces, the workers also arecontrolled completely .
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"Although "Chicken Run" involves chickens attempting to survive automation, the film contains many point discussed by Yates, Lewchuk and Stewart in their article. Most especially, the film demonstrates the emphasis on automation and lean production. The impacts on the chickens and on humans are similar in many respects. Tweedy Chicken Farm is located in England, and is designed like a prison or a concentration camp. Surrounded by barbed wire fences and patrolled by Mr. Tweedy, the farm is made up of numerous buildings for the chickens that are spaced close together and have crowded conditions inside."
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Running for the Gold, 2002.
A look at the demands, psychological and other on a world-class running athlete.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 10 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper presents an examination of the psychological demands and the technical and tactical demands that will provide a world-class performance in the area of middle distance running.
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Don DeLillo?s ?Running Dog?, 2002.
This paper discusses Don DeLillo?s use of women as objects for pornography and propaganda in his book ?Running Dog?.
550 words (approx. 2.2 pages), 2 sources, $ 19.95
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This paper explains that while not itself a pornographic novel, "Running Dog" objectifies women, thereby exemplifying the essence of pornography-- escape into fantasy through the subjugation of women. The author describes how DeLillo both masterfully juxtaposes and intermingles Nazi propaganda with the lures of pornography by subtly exposing the propagandic aspects of woman as object in pornography.
The author believes that, ultimately, DeLillo reduces pornography and its connoisseurs to the comic.
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"From Moll Robbins and Grace Delaney to Tran Le Mudger and Nadine Rademacher, female characters lack power against the men with whom they come into contact. Simply, they are objects, not people. Grace presents the relationship between men and women best: ?I was married to the same man for eleven years. I did his bidding. Not fully realizing. His silent bidding. Somehow, mysteriously, unspokenly. It?s built into the air between us. It?s carried on radio waves from galaxy to galaxy?. Sadly, hers is not a speech of liberation empowering her coworkers, as Moll fails to comprehend the depth of Grace?s words, and the secretary Bess Harris only drinks in silence."
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?A River Runs Through It?, 2004.
A comparative analysis of the novel, ?A River Runs Through It? by Norman Maclean, and its subsequent movie version.
1,263 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper discusses how the movie version of Norman Maclean?s 1976 novella, ?A River Runs Through It,? stays faithful to the original text in many respects. It looks at how Robert Redford keeps Maclean?s voice in the film, which he narrates himself, with an understated economy that reflects the spare beauty of the storytelling. It examines how this allows some of the movie?s finest and most memorable passages to illuminate the film.
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"Norman is a studious, dark-haired man who longs to escape Montana, and teach literature. As the movie begins he has just returned home from Dartmouth. His younger, golden-haired brother Paul is perfectly happy to stay in his hometown, and has become a reporter there. Paul is beautiful: Norman says, ?If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman.? His father says, ?You know more than that, he was beautiful.? He was also a natural at fly fishing, a genius of the art. The movie portrays this beauty in part through the sheer physical beauty of the actor himself. His simple presence conveys Paul?s grace and torment. It also uses the conceit of Paul calling Norman ?The Professor? several times, especially while eating breakfast with their parents. The book never does this."
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"A River Runs Through It", 2002.
An analysis of the brother relationship in the novel "A River Runs Through It" by Norman Maclean.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper will discuss the relationship between the brothers, Norman and Paul in the book "A River Runs Through It" by Norman Maclean. By analyzing the way that the two brothers get along, the way that the novel is structured will teach us how the author created them in this way. The notion in the relationships of the character as brothers, reveals the way that the story was crafted and we can see how the story is directed by their relationship.
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Rum Running in the Canadian Atlantic Region, 2006.
This paper analyzes the impact of the National Prohibition Act of 1920,a crucial legal apparatus in the United States that eventually triggered a whole new industry in rum running within Canada's coastal towns.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 5 sources, $ 80.95
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This study examines the history of rum running in the Canadian Atlantic region in the early 20th century. By understanding the effect of bans on alcohol and the United States Prohibition Act, many Canadian rum-runners found a viable business in smuggling rum all along the Atlantic coast. Furthermore, this type of illegal trade had a long lasting effect on local Canadian culture and economics by raising the standard of living for local fishermen. In essence, this paper brings forth the historical analysis of Canadian rum with a focus on how this trade influenced the various Canadian coastal towns on the Atlantic coast.
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Running a Restaurant, 2002.
Looks at the different aspects of running one's own restaurant, using an example of a seasonal restaurant in Maryland.
3,294 words (approx. 13.2 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 94.95
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The financial rewards and the personal satisfaction associated with having one's own business can be considerable. When the business is one with a high level of social interaction, such as a restaurant, there are personal rewards that move beyond the financial satisfaction that may result. The paper explains that a successful restaurant becomes a part of the community that it serves and can become a focal point of that community. This makes the restaurant business very different from other types of businesses and adds to the personal satisfaction that the owner receives. The paper shows, however, that restaurants also have traditionally low operating margins and are one of the riskier businesses that can be developed. This research examines the issues associated with running a seasonal restaurant in Ocean City, Maryland and the important considerations that such restaurateurs needs to take into account.
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"Over the years, there have been two trends among restaurants in the area which indicate that the region's appeal as a resort might be shifting. The first of these trends is toward remaining open year-round. Numerous restaurants (including those that specialize in the highly seasonal fish market) remain open throughout the year. Even those that close for some period of time are likely to close from January through March, or November through March, where they would remain closed for eight months 20 and 30 years ago. This shift indicates that the area is becoming more popular as a year-round destination, at least for diners, and that the local region is able to provide enough customers to support the businesses year-round."
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Race, Class and Gender in "Always Running", 2008.
A review of the impact of race, class and gender in Luis Rodriguez' memoir, "Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A."
769 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 27.95
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This paper analyzes Luis Rodriguez' memoir, "Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A." It particularly discusses how identity is shown to be a prison of race, class and gender in which few young Mexican-Americans are able to escape. The paper gives examples from the text that illustrate how the very first social interactions of Latino youth in Los Angeles are severely impacted by their undeniable Mexican-American identity.
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"Another substantial iron bar of Rodriguez's prison was that of Gender. Clearly, male bravado played a big part in the early teen trouble-making years of Luis and his fellow gang-members. One example closely follows a summer expedition to the beach with some friends--both male and female. Rodriguez tells the story of young teens at the beach, flirting and fondling--interrupted by the local police. One thing that is interesting is his description of one of the female's body rising from the water after being thrown in by one of his friends. It is the first detailed account of the female form, and the account's graphic nature shows that his interest in becoming desirable to women has now become important. This description of his subject of interest, Hermie, is harshly broken up by the young group's run-in with the local law-enforcement. The reason this seems significant is because when Rodriguez gets home, his mother scolds him for being a trouble maker, saying: "You have to work, to help us out here. You're a big man now." The close relationship between his graphic memory of untouchable Hermie and his inability as provider for his family shows that his role as a man amidst all the other social challenges had just added more height to his mountain."
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