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"?If They Move...Kill ?Em?: The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpaw", 2006.
An examination of David Weddle's biography of Sam Peckinpaw.
2,346 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 0 sources, $ 72.95
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The paper discusses the biography of Sam Peckinpaw and gives insights into the director's life. In commenting on the book, the writer also manages to describe Sam's life in such a way that allows the reader to understand the extreme highs and lows that were to bookmark the future career of Sam Peckinpaw. The writer comments on Weddle's use of Peckinpaw's film career and of those who worked with him to clarify events in his life. The writer is clearly impressed with the biography and the manner in which Weddle clarifies the time-line of Peckinpaw's life.
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"David Weddle has fashioned a tour-de-force biography of one of Hollywood's most controversial directors: Sam Peckinpaw; a man praised as a genius and just as equally reviled by his peers. Weddle manages to connect the dots, and in so doing bridges the professional life of an artistic rebel and the personal hell an independent spirit in Hollywood sometimes faces. His narrative is straight forward, and he manages to let the historical record illuminate the parts of Peckinpaw's life that were truly extraordinary."
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"The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpaw", 2006.
Reviews the book, "If They Move...Kill 'Em" : The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpaw" by David Weddle.
2,360 words (approx. 9.4 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 72.95
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This paper shows how David Weddle has fashioned a tour-de-force biography of one of Hollywood's most controversial directors : Sam Peckinpaw, a man praised as a genius and just as equally reviled by his peers. Through his book, "If They Move...Kill 'Em" : The Life and Times of Sam Peckinpaw", the paper shows us how Weddle manages to connect the dots, and in so doing bridges the professional life of an artistic rebel and the personal hell an independent spirit sometimes faces in Hollywood .
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"Sam Peckinpaw was never a man to be trifled with. From his early years in the farm regions of Fresno California where he grew up, to his later skirmishes with the Hollywood establishment, Sam -- or Sammy D as he was known to relatives and family -- seemed to be controlled by inner and often tumultuous forces common to the prestigious Peckinpaw family; the men, all hearty outdoorsmen, who little understood Sam's poetic side, his strong desire for artistic expression."
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The New York Times vs. The London Times, 2002.
This paper uses the story of the Cuban child Elian Gonzalez as the base to compare the professional journalistic approach of the New York Times and the London Times.
3,265 words (approx. 13.1 pages), 21 sources, MLA, $ 93.95
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This paper discusses the differences between the way the story of the Cuban child Elian Gonzalez was told in the New York Times and the London Time. The author believes the stories differ because of the differing interests and the application of different frames used on both sides of the Atlantic for shaping and delivering the story to the public. The author selected the New York Times and the London Times because they are both venerable institutions, not just in their own countries but also around the world, serving as models for how a newspaper should be run and as sources for major stories and issues.
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Introduction
Newspapers
Preliminary Observations
Media Frames
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Conclusion
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"The first filter is the fact that ownership of the media is highly concentrated among a few dozen of the largest for-profit corporations in the world, and many of these have extensive holdings in other industries and nations. Their desire for profit severely influences the news operations and overall content of the media. The second filter is advertising, which is responsible for most of the media's income and shapes what is discussed by proscribing certain issues on threat of withdrawal of support. The third filter is the need for sourcing, whereby "the mass media are drawn into a symbiotic relationship with powerful sources of information by economic necessity and reciprocity of interest" The fourth filter is the development of right-wing corporate antagonists to the media to put pressure upon them to follow the corporate agenda, a filter developed extensively in the 1970s when major corporations and wealthy right-wingers became increasingly dissatisfied with political developments in the West and with media coverage. The fifth filter is the ideology of anticommunism, which was long integral to Western political culture."
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Hard Times for "The New York Times", 2006.
This paper examines how "The New York Times" reported the war in Iraq as well as the paper's questionable relationship with the Bush administration.
1,795 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 57.95
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This paper explores the recent controversies surrounding "The New York Times" during the buildup to the war in Iraq in 2003. This paper delves into the controversial matter of veteran Times reporter Judith Miller who wrote a series of articles that validated the Bush administration's claims that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. This paper also focuses on Times reporter Jayson Blair who broke every journalistic rule by fabricating stories and lifting material from other newspapers as well as selecting details from photographs to create the impression he had been somewhere or seen someone when he had not. The writer explains how these incidents along with others detailed in this paper shook the editorial board of "The New York Times."
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"During the buildup to the war in Iraq, the New York Times sent their veteran reporter, Judith Miller, to the Middle East to report on the developments in that region. Ms. Miller had worked for the New York Times for nearly thirty years and had a reputation for being a hard-nosed journalist with expertise in intelligence and security issues. She also had many highly placed political sources, which made her an important reporter for the newspaper. At the time, the Bush administration was getting tough on Saddam Hussein, the leader of Iraq."
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"A Time to Kill", 2002.
Examines the difference in the versions of John Grisham's novel and Joel Schumacher's movie "A Time to Kill".
1,712 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 55.95
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John Grisham's "A Time to Kill" is a powerful courtroom drama that examines the difference between social justice and moral justice in a small town in Mississippi. The paper explains that, given the legacy of segregation and racism in the south, it describes both the emotional and complex legal issues of fairness and equality in the eyes of the law. The story is about a young white lawyer, who successfully defends a black man, clearly guilty of killing the two white men who raped his ten year old daughter. This paper shows how both the novel and film version are riveting dramas, and compares and discusses their major differences which lie in the context of the two mediums.
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"The basic difference between a novel and a screenplay is that the former can indulge in the luxury of full descriptive passages and the latter must adhere to a very specific structure. Novels give us the opportunity to meet the characters and create a relationship with them. The details of who they are can be developed. We learn about their past. We see them in the context of where they live. The events in a novel move in linear time and with a novel, we have all the time in the world."
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"A Time to Kill", 2008.
This paper discusses the social implications of John Grisham's movie "A Time to Kill".
985 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 34.95
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The paper explores how the movie "A Time to Kill" addresses the issues that surround the rape and murder of a young African-American girl, the justice dealt to her white rapist-killers and how the revenge meted out by her father is dealt with. The paper highlights how, with the characters acting as realistic representatives of life in the American South, the movie shows how racist socialization is both widespread and inevitable.
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"The plot of the movie "A Time to Kill" contains several social implications. Each one of these social factors plays a role in how the movie addresses the issues that surround the rape and murder of a young African American girl, the idea of "justice" being dealt to her rapist-killers, and with how the vigilante justices meted out by her father is dealt. While the protagonist, portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson has clearly committed the act of which he has been accused, his character is more sympathetic than the men that he has killed. The sympathy that his story creates in the minds of both the jury--and the audience--is such that it transcends the actual demands of the justice system."
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Plato's Myth vs. "A Time to Kill", 2004.
Analyzes Plato?s myth of the cave and how it parallels the film, "A Time to Kill".
1,019 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 36.95
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This paper contends that Plato?s myth of the cave parallels the movie, "A Time to Kill", symbolically, through the concept of the lives that some people lead and how they are constrained by society.
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"In the world today, there are several kinds of people that exist all of whom have different ways of thinking and life styles. The way that some individuals behave may not seem acceptable to others because of cultural norms and preconceived notions based on societal mores. People may even appear to be different in the way that they eat, dress, and look. However, this does not in any way mean that they should be discriminated against, as it would probably be unfair to judge a person based on his or her physical characteristics. Perhaps, from a legal perspective such discrimination might be defined as criminal. However, worse than this the racial bias is the physically harming of an individual based on his or her appearance. Consider here the movie ?A Time to Kill? in which a ten-year-old African American girl is raped by white boys. Enraged by the death of his daughter, the girl?s father, Samuel Jackson shoots both the rapists and in the process injures a cop finally finding himself on trial in a southern state upholding ?white? racist values and yet, ironically being defended by a ?white? lawyer, Jake Brigance (Berardinelli, 1996). When we hear the summation speech of Brigance we realize that his concepts were similar to those presented by Plato?s myth."
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"Time to Kill", 2002.
A summary of the article ?Time to Kill-Europe and the Politics of Leisure? by Steven Muller.
904 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper provides summary and criticims of the article ?Time to Kill? by Steven Muller. The article discusses the significance of the economic issue of increasing unemployment and the gradual increase of leisure-related industries in Europe, particularly in the Western region of the continent. More importantly, Muller?s article explores the economic, social, and political implication of Europe?s unemployment crisis, and how unemployment can prove to be beneficial, or detrimental to the social and political state of the western European region.
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"In essence, Muller stated his stance as skeptical of the effect of service industries and other leisure-related industries as a solution to the unemployment problem of Europe, stating that the unemployment crisis will bring the continent to ?a period of acute economic stagnation, the undermining rather than the expansion of democracy, and serious social upheaval.? Muller states this position by discussing three important realms affecting the issue of unemployment and the increase of leisure and service-related industries to undermine the current economic crisis, which are economic, social, and political in nature."
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Intolerance and Racism in "A Time to Kill", 2008.
An analysis of John Grisham's novel "A Time to Kill," focusing on various kinds of intolerance.
1,062 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper explores "A Time to Kill," by John Grisham, a story about the human intolerance our society still has to face at several different levels. The writer focuses on the themes of racial conflict between black and white and the conflict between citizens and the law. The writer defines racism and explains that the story shows racism as a distortion of values in the minds of those who are affected by it. The moral conflict between right and wrong, the moral conflict within the people who have to judge the accused, and the intolerance shown by the supporting groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, are also issues in the story. The writer concludes that the book's message is that intolerance is inevitable, and people must work hard to fight and defeat it.
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"The story happens in the south. This is not a coincidence: the author was trying to deliver a message to the receptive reader, by placing this particular story in a world where racial intolerance evolved into a culture. The southern states had a long history of black and white confrontations, going back to the slave era when each color of skin had a very specific role in society. By (violently) ending this clear separation, the conflict grew stronger, as they were being forced to live together, even against their own will."
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Time to Kill, 2002.
A review of the article, "Time to Kill ? Europe and the Politics of Leisure" by Steven Muller, examining the efforts of Europe to reconstitute itself in the aftermath of the Cold War.
890 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper discusses Steven Muller's article, "Time to Kill ? Europe and the Politics of Leisure". The paper outlines Muller's main assertion that within the most technologically advanced nations, a reversal is taking place between the social functions and values of labor and leisure is already becoming increasingly apparent. The introduction of labor policies is discusses, such as job sharing, shorter working hours, and increased holiday entitlements which may initially stem the tide of mass unemployment. However, the writer notes that the rate of unemployment in most European nations has already begun to climb. The paper presents the reasons why Western Europe in particular will suffer from this situation.
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"Official statistics support Muller?s assertion that, in the world?s most technologically advanced nations, a major change is occurring in the relationship between labor and leisure. As a result of technological advancement, the requirement for human labor is decreasing and the amount of leisure time is increasing. I support the author?s claims that, of these nations, those within Western Europe are least likely to be able to cope effectively with the inevitable economic, social, and political difficulties. This support is based on the fact that, unlike nations such as the United States or Japan, the countries of Western Europe continue to be constrained by state intervention, inflexible and costly welfare systems, and a value system that is based on the traditions of class conflict and liberalism."
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"The Killing Time", 2007.
A review of the march on Morant Bay in 1865, as described in the book "The Killing Time" by Gad Heuman.
808 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 0 sources, $ 28.95
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This paper discusses the book "The Killing Time" written by Gad Heuman. It describes how, in 1865, a few hundred Afro-Jamaican farmers and sugar workers advanced on Morant Bay, in retaliation for the way they had been treated politically, socially and economically, regardless that slavery had been abolished many decades earlier. The paper describes the events as set out in the book.
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"According to Heuman, the 1865 rebellion came in large part as the culmination of grievances after the 1834 emancipation had led to ultimate freedom. The black majority still had unequal access to farmland, high taxes, unemployment, low pay and supervision primarily by white management personnel. Many of the African-Jamaicans were involved with the Great Revival that had encouraged a lack of credibility in the real outcome of the emancipation as a means of true freedom for the blacks. Many were members of the Native Baptist church, which for a long time had made up many of the judicial staff including judges, attorneys, police, justices of the peace and clerks for the parish affairs."
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"A Time to Kill", 2002.
This paper analyzes the film Joel Schumacher's "A Time to Kill".
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper examines the concepts of sociology and ethnography in Joel Schumacher's "A Time to Kill".
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Time to Kill, 2002.
A review of the article, "Time to Kill ? Europe and the Politics of Leisure" by Steven Muller, which examines the efforts of Europe to reconstitute itself in the aftermath of the Cold War.
890 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 31.95
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The paper outlines Muller's main assertion that, within the most technologically advanced nations, a reversal is taking place between the social functions and values of labor and leisure that is already becoming increasingly apparent. The introduction of labor policies is discussed, such as job sharing, shorter working hours, and increased holiday entitlements, which may initially stem the tide of mass unemployment. However, the writer notes that the rate of unemployment in most European nations has already begun to climb. The paper presents the reasons why Western Europe, in particular, will suffer from this situation.
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"Official statistics support Muller?s assertion that, in the world?s most technologically advanced nations, a major change is occurring in the relationship between labor and leisure. As a result of technological advancement, the requirement for human labor is decreasing and the amount of leisure time is increasing. I support the author?s claims that, of these nations, those within Western Europe are least likely to be able to cope effectively with the inevitable economic, social, and political difficulties. This support is based on the fact that, unlike nations such as the United States or Japan, the countries of Western Europe continue to be constrained by state intervention, inflexible and costly welfare systems, and a value system that is based on the traditions of class conflict and liberalism."
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"A Time to Kill", 2006.
Presents reasons why everyone should see this movie based on a John Grisham novel.
1,128 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 39.95
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This paper presents a brief overview of the movie, "A Time to Kill" about the defence case of a black man who is accused of murdering the white rapists of his young daughter. The paper then explains why it is important that everyone make an effort to view the movie, if not only because of its strong social message.
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"The ethical impact of this movie is relatively central to the work. The moral is not exactly straight forward. Of course the rednecks who did this terrible thing to a little girl deserved to die and her father did not deserve the death penalty for killing them. One moral is that rape and murder are both bad, but that crimes based on a sense of denied justice are more pure than those which are racist and sexist. Perhaps the most profound moral, though, is that racism and injustice in one area of life inevitably will lead to crime and destruction in others."
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"A Time To Kill", 2004.
An analysis of how cinematography and imagery are used in this film by Joel Schumacher.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper analyzes how cinematography and imagery are used in the Joel Schumacher film "A Time To Kill." This is based on the Grisham novel to convey meaning in a symbolic manner with respect to racism, hatred and justice.
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"The study of film permits an examination of connotation, the inherent meaning in cinematic images. Such a study of connotation illustrates the concept. Christian Metz establishes film as an art form, unique from any other. In Joel Schumacher's "A Time to Kill" we see that cinematography is used to help tell the story, establish pacing and convey such inherent meaning through images."
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