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"Losing Isaiah", 2005.
An analysis of the issues presented in the movie "Losing Isaiah".
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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This essay is an analysis of the movie "Losing Isaiah". It looks at some of the issues identified in the family support course that the main characters are influenced by. The essay first summarizes the film and then goes on to explore the following issues: the definition of family and motherhood, what is a good mother, the types of families that exists and their characteristics, the role of the genders in child-rearing as well as the issues of race and socio-economic status.
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"Analysis of a Movie - Loosing Isaiah This essay is an analysis of the movie Loosing Isaiah. It looks at some of the issues identified in the "Family support" course that the main characters are influenced by. They essay first summarizes the film and than goes on to explore the following issues: the definition of family and motherhood, what is a 'good' mother, the types of families that exists and their characteristics, the 'role' of the genders in child-rearing as well as the issues of race and socio-economic status."
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"Rob Roy" & "Losing Isaiah", 1996.
Compares 1995 films' qualities, popularity, effectiveness, subject matter and sociohistorical significance.
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 5 sources, $ 39.95
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" Films have an afterlife that is not always predictable, but for that matter the reaction to a film when it first appears is not really predictable. Films appeal to audiences of their time for a wide variety of reasons, and that appeal may continue into the future or may dissipate for mysterious reasons. Films today have a longer immediate life because of video. That is, where a film in the past would have shown in theaters and then disappeared for a time before showing up, perhaps years later, on television, today films reach the video store within a few months and cable shortly after that. This keeps their titles, at least, alive for a much longer initial period and may build an audience that might come back to the film in subsequent years. Still, some films will hold interest over time, while others will be viewed through whatever medium is available and then will be.."
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"Losing Matt Shepard", 2007.
An analysis of Beth Loffreda's book about the murder of Matt Shepard, entitled "Losing Matt Shepard".
1,097 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper analyzes Beth Loffreda's book, "Losing Matt Shepard". The paper discusses the media's role in the prejudiced feelings toward Matt Shepard, a gay student, following his murder. It then discusses how people across America responded to his murder and how the media's publicity of the murder contributed to this response. The paper briefly discusses gay rights at the time of the incident, in 1988 in the United States.
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"Uncovers how the residents of Laramie responded when Matt Shepard, a young gay student at the University of Wyoming, was brutally beaten and left to die by the side of the road in the fall of 1988. Loffreda's project investigates the media's manipulative role in publicizing the murder and how intense scrutiny transforms a usually quaint, subdued community into a hate crime capital. Eschewing the stereotypes and platitudes fed us by the media, Beth Loffreda interviews a wide range of the so-called ordinary people in Laramie and uncovers a wide array of complexities and prejudices."
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"Losing Matthew Shepard"--A Review, 2007.
A presentation of the facts surrounding an anti-gay murder from B. Loffreda's book "Losing Matthew Shepard."
1,795 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 2 sources, APA, $ 57.95
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This paper describes the murder of Matthew Shepard, its background and repercussions, as portrayed in B. Loffreda's book "Losing Matthew Shepard." The reviewer first delves into the myths Loffreda presents surrounding gay populations outside of major urban centers. The paper then outlines the active homophobia in some rural areas, such as Wyoming, where the Shepard murder took place. The reviewer finds Loffreda's analysis to be extensive, since she was able to talk to many people in the town who otherwise avoided speaking to the media. Her investigation took place at the same time as the trial and other events related to the crime, making her ability to get answers from a shell-shocked public all the more remarkable.
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"Wyoming is a part of the country that sees itself as separated from the sort of tensions ascribed by the populace to places like New York City. Some may also see New York and Los Angeles as bastions of gay populations while trying to deny that there are any gay people at all in the hinterlands, though clearly there are. Shepard had jus recently joined a group at the university called the Lesbian Gay bisexual Transgender Association (LGBTA), and though this was the only gay organization on campus and in Laramie as a whole, its existence shows that there was a sizeable gay population in the area. Others in the group had been attacked, leading to a view that anti-gay feelings were pervasive and that these might have contributed to the death of Shepard."
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Losing Virginia, 2008.
A creative essay about an innocent girl who tired to bring hope and God's love to the world.
847 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 30.95
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This paper presents a creative writing story about the short life of a young Christian girl - Virginia - who is eventually killed by jealous girls her age. The paper looks at Virginia grew up and her strong beliefs that kept her close to God. The paper describes how God helped her to spread light and joy to the lives of others. The writer believes that the chosen ones (Christians) will take Christ's place to show the world that losing Virginia was never truly lost.
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"Virginia never had any real friends. She was hurt so many times that she gave up on trust. She knew that God would never turn His back from her. She knew that He was always watching and protecting her. She was close to Him and thought of Him as a friend. She walked the streets late at night dreaming about a perfect world in which she would no longer cry in agony and pain. She stared amongst the stars perhaps trying to take a glimpse at heaven above. She prayed aloud to Him to give her strength to live on to tomorrow. She asked Him to help her shine and light up her school.
"People noticed the change immediately the next day. Virginia glowed with love and joy. The kids saw that change and flocked to her. They seemed to not get enough of her inner beauty. She touched hearts from all over with just a smile. She gripped their hearts when she greeted them. They began to see through her. The no longer thought of her as just another girl. They saw her as a child of God's who loved God and would do anything to prove that that love was true."
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Losing Cultural Identity, 2003.
An examination of American influence on foreign cultures.
2,646 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 79.95
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This paper discusses how, over the years, U.S. culture has managed to integrate bits and pieces of itself into the languages, music, movies, television and the traditional values of foreign cultures, thus changing them. It evaluates how the amount of integration has become an increasing problem as more and more U.S. culture becomes prevalent in foreign cultures and how foreigners may be in jeopardy of losing their cultural identity to U.S. cultures. The paper also includes the effects of influences such as individualism and feminism.
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"Another section of U.S. culture that squirms its way into other cultures and influences that culture is music. Many great U.S. bands have started their careers in other countries. Jimi Hendrix got his big break by touring the United Kingdom, and most U.S. citizens will never forget that, for some reason, Germans love David Hasselhoff. The big artists in the U.S. today play a large role in foreign cultures. Many bands such as N?Sync, Marylin Manson, and Weezer depend on foreign markets as a major part of their income. The 2002 MTV Asia Awards are a prime example of this kind of influence. There are six international categories for music artists to compete in, and the winners were picked by viewers that called in their votes (Morris). In each of these categories no Asian artists were nominated, and these nominations were mainly of U.S. artists such as Britney Spears, N?Sync, the Backstreet Boys, Linkin Park and Bon Jovi(?The Nominees?)."
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Losing Religion in Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist", 2001.
A argument for the loss of religion in an effort to find the true self in Joyce's protagonist, Stephen Dedalus.
1,786 words (approx. 7.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 57.95
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This essay depicts Joyce's rejection of religious dogmas in favor of self discovery. It provides much literal supporting evidence for its claim that the main character, Stephen Dedalus must lose his religious shackles in order to truly find himself as a person.
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"In his A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce continually and actively seeks to chronicle his protagonist?s struggle to discover the truth of life, and his rebellion from politics and religion. It is his struggle to emancipate his mind from the ingrained religious ideals of Catholicism that stifles and frustrates Stephen Dedalus in his quest to ?forge? in his soul his own ?uncreated conscience.? Joyce attempts to argue for the artist?s quest for existential truth through many different literary devices; the most important of these being the limited omniscience of the narrator."
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Losing Integrity: The Crisis Within Canada?s National Parks, 2001.
The essay is an examination of the problems facing National Parks in Canada.
2,270 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 16 sources, APA, $ 70.95
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This essay deals with four areas which are causing Canadian National Parks to disappear--extreme government cut-backs, identity crisis, improper management and ecosystem destruction. It also suggests ways in which the government can change its polices to save these parks.
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"Canadians look at the infamous National Park?s landscape and see a vast and beautiful range of Canada at it?s best. Unfortunately, what one sees is often deceiving. The truth is that the state of Canada?s National Parks is alarming. Entire species are disappearing, vegetation is being destroyed by development and urbanization, and the pristine lakes and rivers are being contaminated by pollution. The Canadian Government has not been fulfilling its managerial role in protecting the essential resources that are comprised in Canada?s National Parks. The problems that have generated in the Park?s system have often dismissed due to their seemingly insignificant characteristics. Unfortunately, all of the insignificant problems joined together to create a devastating picture of dyfunctionality of the National Parks. There are four pivotal points that have caused the Park?s disastrous spiral aimed at oblivion. Extreme cuts to the Parks Canada?s budget has forced them to compromise their principles on how the parks should be run, and resorted to doing what they could. Parks Canada has found itself in an extreme identity crisis, as financial pressures are pitting conflicting philosophies against one another. The Canadian Government is the root which many, if not all of the posing threats the National Parks has emerged from. Their improper management and mentality has potentially shattered any chance of Canada?s ecosystem to flourish. Until the Canadian Government stops seeing the nation?s national Parks yet another way to generate a clever income for their institution, the parks will continue to lose their ecological integrity until they fade from man?s sight completely."
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The War on Drugs: Fighting a Losing Battle, 2001.
This paper explores drug prohibition in America. It is written from a point of view that supports the legalization of drugs. Political, constitutional and financial affects on American government are discussed.
3,087 words (approx. 12.3 pages), 11 sources, $ 90.95
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This paper examines the repercussions of drug prohibition. This paper is written from a point of view that supports the legalization of drugs. It explores the history of America?s ?War on Drugs? from a political and financial standpoint. Crime, civil liberties, foreign countries economies and medical uses for illegal drugs are discussed. Many of the statistics that are studied in this paper are taken from the DEA?s web site and proven to be invalid through outside sources. This paper looks at where the government funding for drug prohibition goes; it also looks at drug prices, crime rates and statistics pertaining to the inmate population of drug offenders.
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"Every year America?s drug policies are debated in Washington. These drug policies are never debated seriously, the only aspect our elected representatives focus on is how much more money should America spend battling drugs. Outside of Washington there is a growing unease about the war on drugs. Many Americans are concluding that the drug war has been given a fair chance to work and has failed. America?s war on drugs is an unsuccessful battle, and it?s time for a governmental reform."
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Trying and Losing, 2002.
An overview of the impact of learning disabilities such as dyslexia.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper presents a critical look at learning disabilities and how they affect lives. The writer uses personal experiences to detail dyslexia and how it has impacted the educational route.
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The War on Terror - Who's Really Losing?, 2008.
This paper looks at the war on terror and discusses censorship in the United States in this regard.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that reactions to Dixie Chicks anti-war sentiments is proof that American freedom and Constitution-protected free speech is being squandered and illustrates how government dissent is becoming criminal. The writer maintains however, that the blame for the nation's censorship cannot be solely placed on the public, but lies deeper in society, in fundamental liberty protectors, and in government. The writer notes that the constitutional protection of free speech, freedom of press, freedom from government seizures without cause, freedom of association - all basic rights that the nation's founding fathers view as non-negotiable necessities to fight the evils of a police state - are under attack. The writer points out that the feeling of nationwide fear coupled with oppressive government tactics, notably the Patriot Act, has divided our country into two opposing groups and suppressed the anti-war side.
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"Now police and other law officials are allowed to investigate and arrest citizens without worrying about warrant. It allows police to act on their instinct and question anyone who they think may have connections to domestic terrorism without requiring a sanction from the courts. This is a huge disruption in the checks and balances system, where it eliminates the need for the court of law for authorization. This was a major blow to our civil liberties - depriving us of due process of law and freedom of speech among other freedoms.
"The biggest catalyst in political division is actually a secondary reactant, not directly from the government as the Patriot Act, but instead influenced by the government. It is the new patriotism spawned out of warped feelings of mandatory allegiance and national hysteria and fear following September 11th. The mindset has been established that those who are pro-America are good and those who are pro-Iraq are bad but those who are anti-war are bad as well. You cannot be in the middle you must take a side. Neutralism is the enemy."
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Matthew?s Use of Isaiah as Prophecy, 2003.
Five of Matthew's "formulaic passages" are unique because they are taken directly from the book of Isaiah, in this paper, the writer analyzes 5 passages taken from Isaiah's pages.
2,932 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 86.95
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Matthew?s text contains around sixty allusions and citations to the words of the Old Testament within its pages, of which the writer examines ten in this paper. Ten of Matthew?s references to the Old Testament are enclosed in a category of their own; they are referred to as the ?formulaic passages.? The writer focuses on Matthew?s use of Isaiah (passages from Isaiah compose half of Matthew?s formulaic quotations and the writer focuses on five of them: 1:22-23; 3:3; 4:13-16; 8:17; and 12:17-21) as prophecy. It begins with a textual analysis of these passages and then provides an observation of Matthew?s theology of fulfillment through use of the Old Testament.
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"Matthew 1:22-23 is the first of the formulaic quotations that I will introduce and is probably the quotation that offers the most debate. Here, Matthew quotes from Isaiah 7:14 to show how Jesus fulfills prophecy because he is born of a virgin and named Emmanuel. The passage reads: ?All this took place to fulfill what had been spoken by the Lord through the prophet: ?Look, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall name him Emmanuel,? which means, ?God is with us?? (Matt. 1:22-23). However, M. Eugene Boring in the New Interpreter?s Bible, points out that the context of Isaiah?s passage was God?s promise to Judah of salvation from the threat of the approaching Syrio-Ephriamitic War ?before the child of a young woman who was already pregnant would reach the age of moral discernment,? adding that as a symbol of hope, the child was to be given the name Emmanuel, ?God is with us? (Boring, 135). Boring makes the important argument that Matthew misunderstood the Hebrew translation of the word ?almah (correctly translated as young woman) as virgin (or referring to virginal conception) (135). Boring also notes the importance in the tense of Isaiah?s passage. The conception is not meant to be seen as an event in the future, instead it is directed towards Isaiah?s own time and context (135). Robert Horton Gundry in his book The Use of the Old Testament in St. Matthew?s Gospel, however, would disagree with Boring. Gundry believes that all commentators who fail to see the prediction of a ?miraculous birth of the Messiah in Is. 7:14 neglect to establish one of two things which must be established for those views to stand? (Gundry, 226). Gundry then proceeds to delve into his own argumentative literary analysis of the passage. He begins, ?First, if the ?almah is a virgin, she will lose her virginity, conceive, and bear? meaning that if the young woman is in fact a virgin, she will not be much longer. However, if the woman were married or marriage was contemplated before the conceiving and birth, the text would be expected to say ?ishah or wife (Gundry, 226). The text's tense also suggests that the pregnancy has already begun, so therefore the conception and birth of the child must take place before or without the young woman's becoming ?ishah (226-227). He continues, ?Second, if marriage is not contemplated, ?almah is used in the sense of a young married woman.? He concludes, ???Almah refers to a mature young woman of marriageable age, but unmarried and presumably virgin unless otherwise stated? (Gundry, 227). Gundry therefore disagrees with M. Eugene Boring and concludes that Matthew correctly interpreted Isaiah?s passage. Given Gundry and Boring?s separate arguments, are we to say that Matthew interpreted Isaiah correctly or incorrectly? And how would the answer to this question effect Matthew?s use of Isaiah as prophecy? This raises an interesting and likewise important question about the impact of Matthew?s correct and/or incorrect interpretations of the Old Testament (such as Isaiah) that will be addressed later."
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Isaiah, Faith, Attribution and Practicality, 2007.
This paper looks at the Old Testament Book of Isaiah and discusses faith, attribution and practicality.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 60.95
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In this discussion of the prophetic work of Isaiah, the writer maintains that the work speaks to an overlying theme of God as the giver of judgment and salvation. The writer notes that the text provides a full display of God's rebellious people who must be punished and, eventually, redeemed. The writer then points out that a new form of redemption is introduced in the text--a redeemer to be found in a Messianic age. The writer relates that Isaiah's book of prophecy seeks to lay the foundation for revolutionary change. The writer also relates that the basic foundation for the text appears to be its poetry and its readability. Additionally, the writer maintains that the text works as an implement of understanding for God's people, helping them relate the events of their past to the promises of their future.
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"Through this new figure, there is no longer a need for sacrifice and man-made emblems. In this instance, it is possible to infer that the prophecy does not point to God, but to a Messianic figure. Of course, the problem still remains whether or not this new figure could question the monotheistic institution within the Israelite nation. If Isaiah is referring to a new divine figure, it this character a byproduct of Yahweh, or is it a fresh and equal cohort? Why does Isaiah use this new title as opposed to formal and informal names used by his predecessors? Perhaps Isaiah's purpose rests in unsettling the one-god issue. The unique characterization of the divine figures in the text only emphasizes the unique quality of the text itself. If monotheism is challenged, then it is done so to provide a considerable awareness of the change that is to come.
"Often, Isaiah uses personification to poetically explain his prophecy. This literary device creates a metaphoric system that seems to implement the clarity of the text."
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Micah, Isaiah, Amos and Hosea, 2003.
Looks at the social roles of the minor Biblical prophets - Micah, Isaiah, Amos and Hosea.
2,125 words (approx. 8.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 66.95
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Explores the lives and religious philosophies of the Old Testament prophets Micah, Isaiah, Amos and Hosea related to their Biblical and historical lives. There methods of prophecy and messages preached are compared and contrasted with reference to the time period in which they lived.
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"Usually referred to as the minor prophets, Micah, Isaiah, Amos and Hosea were Biblical realists who never forgot for an instant about the faithless and dangerous world in which they lived and worked. Unlike those sometimes called "heathens," these four prophets, whose words of wisdom can be found in their various books in the Old Testament, lived their entire lives in a tightly-knit social culture and were constantly focused upon the thoughts and behaviors of the common people that existed around them. The religious gifts which God (Jehovah) had given them and their personal relationship with Him could be understood as endowments that must be given back to the people of their times and to the world of practical affairs, being the ordinary happenings of human experience as they occurred in the social setting. But most importantly, these four minor prophets were highly concerned about spending their individual lives with God who had given life to themselves and their families which in essence greatly affected the social atmosphere of all involved."
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Isaiah, 2002.
An examination of the biblical book of Isaiah.
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This paper examines some of the major themes of the Book of Isaiah, focussing on the ways in which Jewish prophecies are interpreted.
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