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Lucille Ball, 2005.
This paper discusses actor Lucille Ball, one of the premier actors in American television and considered the paramount women in the television world.
3,685 words (approx. 14.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 102.95
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The paper explains that Lucille Ball, once regarded as one of the 'B-grade' cine-star, found the new medium of television as the true opportunity to exhibit her expertise of physical comedy. The author points out that "I Love Lucy" was considered unique in that it was one of the first television programs to use live film, utilizing a multiple camera technique before a studio audience and creating a permanency that allowed Ball and her husband, Desi Arnaz, to benefit from re-runs syndication and foreign distribution. The paper relates that Lucille Ball attained four Emmy Awards, a Lifetime Achievement Citation from Kennedy Center and a Presidential Medal of Freedom. She became the first actress to be incorporated into the Hall of Fame of the Television Academy.
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"Ball could search out the key to success of televisions and generated a character that the Americans found indispensable. While 'The Lucy Show' was telecasted, Ball was engaged in reformulating the show and starring in yet another series concentrating on the same character. "Here's Lucy" was immediately approved by the networks and became prime time telecast up to 1974. At this moment, Ball found it worthwhile to divert and began performing outside lines of comedy. She was rewarded with enthusiastic reviews for her acting on Broadway in 'Wildcat' of 1961s. With continuance of the success, Ball co-starred Bob Hope for two feature films and acted with Henry Fonda in the critically acclaimed "Yours, Mine and Ours". Thus, the accomplishments of Ball include more than seventy films, hundreds of television appearances and the struggle of running a studio that could succeed in producing major television series like "Mission: Impossible" and "Star Trek", depicting her true understanding of the potentialities of television even prior to the understanding of itself."
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Alan Ball?s Film: "American Beauty", 2005.
This paper discusses Alan Ball's film "American Beauty", a masterpiece depicting American culture.
890 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper explains that Alan Ball's film "American Beauty" combines the elements of identifiable characters, a realistic story and a powerful ending to create a socially valuable and sometimes painful look at the typical American family. The author points out that film critics argue that this film is not an accurate representation of the average American family and that some aspects of the movie devalue the overall experience. The paper relates that Ball uses average characters to allow the audience to identify with each one, so that the film's meaning can reach deeper into every viewer, which is an important aspect to socially valuable films because the audience must be able to sink themselves into the film and come out of the theatre with a better understanding of their own culture.
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"The Fitts family is the division of American society that, except for Ricky Fitts, has the lifestyle of people in the past. Colonel Fitts is a military man whose regulated past and homophobia characterize him as the typical stubborn conservative. His wife, Barbara, is the submissive mother and spouse whose entire life revolves around the pointless tasks of housecleaning and cooking. These characters are important because they provide a wide spectrum that accurately catches even the less prominent aspects of society. The film's social value stems from the ability for the audience to identify with these true-to-life characters on-screen, allowing Ball to explore the universal experience that can be applied to anyone who views the movie."
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"The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner", 2002.
The paper analyzes the poem "The Death of the Ball Turrett Gunner" by American poet Randall Jarrell.
1,055 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 0 sources, $ 37.95
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An analysis of the poem "The Death of the Ball Turrett Gunner" by Randall Jarrell about a plane gunner and his death in battle. The paper covers areas such as denotation and connotation, imagery, literary techniques, symbols, irony and tone of the poem.
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"Flak,? ?nightmare? and ?woke? are words especially well chosen. Flak in the poem refers to flak from machine-gun fire but the word flak also has a second meaning of criticism. This double meaning implies that he is disliked with the actual flak a product of this dislike. Jarrell then describes the fighters shooting at the gunner as ?nightmare fighters.? The word nightmare on one level means terrible but on another links to the feeling of the complete terror in a nightmare. This double meaning gives an insight into the gunner?s fear. The word ?woke? also has important connotations. While the denotation ?to wake? is important, it also implies a greater significance in the connotation meaning ?becoming aware of.? The ?woke? then means not only that he woke up but also that he realized something."
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Mesoamerican Ball Game, 1997.
Describes sport, geography, ball court, types, equipment, purposes (religious, social, recreational), feasting.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 13 sources, $ 63.95
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" The Mesoamerican Ball Game
Introduction
The Mesoamerican ball game was played for recreational, sociopolitical, and religious reasons. The ball game held a central, primary part in the lives of Mesoamerican people. It was played across a wide geographic area by many different peoples. The ball courts began emerging in the Maya lowlands, at the end of the Middle Formative period (Ashmore 496). There is much, about the ball game, which is only theorized or speculated. The archeological evidence concerning the ball game is limited to the location and design of the ball courts, a few pieces of artifacts found in refuse piles, the contents of caches (when they have been recorded), art work depicting the game in progress, and ethnographic accounts. From these sources of.."
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Edward Ball's "Slaves in the Family", 2002.
A review of this historical narrative.
1,280 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 43.95
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This paper reviews the historical narrative by Edward Ball, giving a synopsis of the book. It deals with the treatment of black slaves, differences in the duties of males and females and the women?s role as preservers of family history and as providers of insight into plantation life. It also looks at Ball?s investigation of the claim of the commonality of white slave owners sleeping with or raping their female slaves. The paper explains its view of the book as an example of sexism in society.
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"Edward Ball chronicles his family?s slave-owning history in the compelling historical narrative Slaves in the Family. Ball traces the lineages of his white relatives and their slaves and where possible recreates life as it was on the Ball plantations in South Carolina. Descendents of the Englishman Elias Ball bought and sold enough slaves to populate a city. By no means singular in their treatment of the Africans, the Balls prove nevertheless to be a prime example of a Southern plantation dependent on the blood, sweat, and tears of families and individuals ripped from their homeland and bought and sold as commodity. Cruelty was meted out equally among black males and females, but it is worthwhile to contrast the unique experiences of enslaved women on the Southern plantations. If nothing else, motherhood and childrearing set the women apart. They watched their newborns emerge into a world of shackles, often completely losing them to the slave traders."
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"Her First Ball": The Themes of Youth and Old Age, 1999.
An analysis of Katherine Mansfield's short story about a girl coming of age and tasting life for the first time.
2,075 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 1 source, $ 65.95
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"Katherine Mansfield?s short story, ?Her First Ball,? is about an eighteen-year-old girl, Leila, who is attending her first major dance. She is a girl from the country who has not yet had any experience with parties and romance; she is even called the ?country cousin? by Meg. Mansfield?s story is filled with images of life and also contains a reminder of mortality and death."
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Play Ball, 2002.
This paper provides the reader with an in-depth look at careers in professional sports players.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 11 sources, $ 80.95
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This nine-page paper provides the reader with an in-depth look at careers in professional sports players. The writer addresses the issue of injuries, risks, and methods to reduce those risks.
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Belles of the Ball Game, 2004.
This paper looks at the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
678 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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In this article, the writer looks at the history of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. The writer describes the rise and fall of the only league of professional women's baseball in America's history. The writer explains that this league began in light of the shortage of male players due to the war. The writer studies reasons for the league's demise.
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"When World War II began taking men off the baseball, diamonds in a crisis loomed in the world of sports. In order to avert such a crisis Philip K. Wrigley of the Chicago Cubs brought together a group of mid-western businessmen and baseball owners to form a committee and suggest alternatives. The committee suggested that they form a league of professional women's softball players to attract audiences and drive revenue. As a result the ... "
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Women and Self-Violence, 2008.
This paper examines the powerlessness of the women as expressed in "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gillman and "Forgiving My Father" by Lucille Clifton.
1,553 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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The paper focuses on the works, "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gillman and "Forgiving My Father" by Lucille Clifton, and how both outline the powerlessness of women and demonstrate examples of self-inflicted violence. The paper highlights how in "The Yellow Wallpaper" the woman is not allowed to express her feelings, even in her madness, while in the poem "Forgiving My Father" we witness the transformation of the woman from a completely helpless child to a self-possessed and angry soul.
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"Women, under the auspices of a system of marriage that left this with very little recourse or power to prosper on their own often felt a sense of powerlessness that encompassed their whole mind and often showed in literature written by them. There are many examples of the kind of powerlessness that brought out within them the traits of human nature that beget powerlessness. In the case of women, as with men, violence was often the most common trait and yet, for women the very concept of violence was considered off limits and so the violence frequently became self-inflicted."
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"Forgiving My Father", 2002.
A reader/response analysis of the poem "Forgiving My Father" by Lucille Clifton.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 1 source, $ 62.95
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This paper will reveal an analysis on the poem of Forgiving My Father by Lucille Clifton. By assessing a reader/response and deconstructive analysis of this poem, we can see how Clifton creates tension and irony in the text.
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Process of Forgiveness, 2003.
A new critical reading of Lucille Clifton's "Forgiving My Father".
773 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper reveals how this work contains oppositions and ambiguities, but the unity is exposed. The underlying theme is revealed: The speaker struggles with her internal conflict. Should she forgive her deceased father for his lack of love? She realizes that it is too late.
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"In Lucille Clifton?s poem, ?forgiving my father?, the speaker focuses on the debt that her deceased father owes to her and her mother, in an attempt to undergo a process of forgiveness. The debt owed is not physical, but emotional, as a monetary debt is used to symbolize a lack of love and affection. Although the title of the poem indicates that the speaker has forgiven her father, much of the text reveals through its metaphors, that the daughter has resentment and anger toward him. Near the end of the poem, these oppositions actually balance the speaker?s feelings towards her father, in that she realizes that it is too late to forgive or blame, thus resolving her internal conflict."
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Pilates Helps Rehab Work, 2006.
A look at the combination of the principles of Pilates with core training on the stability ball.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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This paper analyzes the principles of Pilates and core training on a stability ball. Pilates has skyrocketed in popularity and the stability ball is an effective complement to the Pilates technique of body training. The six major Pilates principles are explained as breathing, concentration, centering, precision, control and movement flow/rhythm.
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"In Pilates, there exists a monumental focus on the quality of each movement, rather than the number of repetitions or rapidity with which they are performed. The body moves as one integrated unit, instead of isolating separate parts. Keeping proper alignment and form are crucial during exercise for achieving maximum benefits as well as preventing injury. (Crawford, 2002)
As Crawford writes, "Furthermore, training on a stability ball provides numerous benefits similar to those of Pilates, such as increased muscle tone and flexibility, improved posture, coordination and a greater sense of body awareness. The most significant difference is how the ball addresses core stabilization. Exercising on an unstable surface forces automatic recruitment of the body's core muscles to hold a position of balance."
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Life is What We Make of It, 2004.
An analysis of Katha Pollitt's essay, "For Whom the Ball Rolls".
1,250 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper contends that individual happiness comes more from within than it does from without. While we are taught early in life that groups are a way of learning to fit in and get along with others, we are ignoring the fact that group involvement opens the doors to forced conformity, which can kill the individual spirit. The paper reviews the essay "For Whom the Ball Rolls" by Katha Pollitt.
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"Personal choice has everything to do with happiness. Pollitt's essay brings this issue into light. I agree with her in that bowling leagues are the direct result of society's appetite for "fellowship and tenpins" (Pollitt 215). Her assertion that they are the result of a forced coercion seems more accurate. After all, one must wonder how much individuals can engage with each other while participating in a game of bowling. This is not exactly a bonding experience in the aspect that it will create lasting friendships. While the bowling league is only one example, it serves as a good one because it represents the type of engagement that Pollitt and Putnam are discussing. "
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Book Promotion, 2005.
A look at the principles of book promotion with a focus on Sophie Rowlands' "Belle of the Ball".
1,125 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper discusses the elements of book promotion, in particular Sophie Rowlands' romance novel titled "Belle of the Ball". It looks at how book promotion is expensive and how effective promotion and strategic publicity translate into increased sales and revenues. It also looks at how promoting a new book requires conducting detailed market research, persistence, and, above all, dedication to the task of promoting it by leveraging book publicity tools and innovative online PR opportunities.
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