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Oliver Stone and the Vietnam War, 2002.
A review of Oliver Stone's various depictions of the Vietnam War.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 11 sources, $ 71.95
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A paper that depicts Stone's representation of the Vietnam War in various movies.
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An Analysis of "Platoon": Oliver Stone's View of War, 2000.
A new look at the movie and the war that has shaped our modern vision of armed conflict.
1,259 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 42.95
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This paper details Oliver Stone?s film "Platoon" as a commentary on modern warfare and a look into the human psyche. It is written from the perspective of a student studying the causes of war and discusses the the often brutal portrayal of warfare in modern filmmaking. A look a the causes and repercussions of warfare and a brief discussion of the Vietnam Conflict are also included.
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"Although upon cursory inspection, Oliver Stone?s masterpiece of war cinematography, ?Platoon,? is essentially a film about Vietnam, it has become a model for how the world views war in the late twentieth century. It is a film that documents the actions and emotions of a platoon of U.S. Army infantrymen in the steamy jungles of Southeast Asia during the height of the Vietnam War. The central character is Chris Taylor -- a green ?flatfoot? neophyte, wide eyed, and fearful of the confusing realities of war that characterized the experiences of most soldiers sent to Vietnam. Chris? platoon is run largely by Staff Sergeant Barnes (?affectionately? referred to as just Barnes for much of the film), who is Stone?s characterization of a paper Satan."
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Film: Oliver Stone's "JFK" (1991), 2007.
An analysis of the facts presented in the film "JFK", by filmmaker Oliver Stone, regarding the autopsy of President John F. Kennedy after his assassination.
1,005 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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This paper explains that, in the political docudrama "JFK", Oliver Stone asserts that Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone, that the F.B.I. had a vested interest in hiding important information from the public and that the C.I.A. had an active role in the assassination in hopes of fueling the military industrial complex of the United States. The paper further explains that, in the film, Stone attempts to make viewers conscience of the possible tampering of evidence and lack of investigation into the murder of the president. The author stresses that Oliver Stone does not want his viewers to accept all of the events portrayed in the film. Rather, Stone directed this film to act as a "counter-myth" in reaction to the "myth" he believes the Warren Commission Report fed the public. The paper stresses that Stone's accusation that the Archives somehow lost the brain, which it did not, affects the viewer's understanding of what actually happened.
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"Perhaps the most shocking claim that Oliver Stone makes in his film in relation to the autopsy is that John F. Kennedy's brain has been lost by the National Archives. This particular claim arose in 1972 when pathologist Cyril Wecht was allowed to examine the Kennedy autopsy records at the National Archives. Wecht tried to open the footlocker where the stainless steel container and microscopic tissue slides were held, only to notice that they were gone. Wecht then blames the Archives for losing an important piece of physical evidence due to negligence and carelessness."
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Oliver Stone, 2001.
A look at the career and work of film director Oliver Stone.
840 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 3 sources, $ 29.95
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This paper presents an autobiography of the famous film director, Oliver Stone. The author discusses Stone's career, famous works and examines the main themes of his films such as political events and social history.
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"Oliver Stone is a director who rose to success against high odds through hard work and perseverance. He began as a screenwriter for the film industry and saw script after script either rejected or rewritten by other, more senior and established writers. His directorial debut was a low-budget horror film released in 1974 called ?The Hand?, but his first real success was as a writer. The movie ?Midnight Express? (1978) earned him an Academy Award for best screenplay adaptation. He next returned to directing with ?Seizure? (1981), followed by his third effort ?Salvador? in 1986 which was characterized by inventiveness and frugality which earned him the opportunity to make ?Platoon? (1986) based on his own screenplay. ?Platoon? redefined Vietnam War films and earned four Academy Awards including best director and best picture."
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Oliver Stone, 2002.
A biography of the life and work of the film director Oliver Stone.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper follows the history of American film director Oliver Stone. The director has seamlessly traversed genres, created his own blend of break-neck stylistic urgency, and elevated his actors to new heights of personal expression. This paper presents his films with their meanings as well as an analysis of the director himself.
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Oliver Stone: Revered, Reviled and Out of Control, 1997.
This paper provides a comparative analysis of Oliver Stone's work through the eyes of genre theory.
1,035 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 4 sources, $ 36.95
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This paper explores the validity of genre theory in cinema by comparing and contrasting the works of renowned director, Oliver Stone. The author looks in particular at two of his films, "JFK" and "Natural Born Killers". It attempts to prove the significance of genre theory in cinema as a basis for the study and indexation of film.
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"The genre theory is both constraining to film producers and beneficial to audiences. Audiences will go into films advertised as being of a certain genre with a pre-concluded set of expectations from the film. The director focused on in this essay works predominantly in one Genre. 7 of his 10 films published before 1994 were Historical Dramas, with the remaining 3 being horror and Fictional Drama. The two films to be analyzed will be JFK, 1991, a Docudrama Based on the 1963 assassination of U.S. president John F. Kennedy, and Natural Born Killers, 1994, a controversial look at two white trash serial killers/mass murderers who become Tabloid-TV darlings thanks to a sensational press."
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The Vietnam War in Film, 2002.
A review of the films "Full Metal Jacket" by Stanley Kubrick and "Platoon" by Oliver Stone on the war in Vietnam.
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper analyzes two films about the war in Vietnam, "Full Metal Jacket" by Stanley Kubrick and "Platoon" by Oliver Stone, showing how each bends the conventions for the war film to depict the insanity and horror of this particular war and of war in general.
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Narrative Paradigm & "Wall Street" ( Oliver Stone ), 1997.
Examines 1987 film, using sociologist Walter Fisher's strategic concept for decision making & action. Insider trading, ethics, characters' values and anti-materialism theme.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 13 sources, $ 95.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine Wall Street, a film directed by Oliver Stone, with reference to the narrative paradigm theory described by Walter R. Fisher. The plan of the research will be to set forth the principal elements of Fisher's explanation of the narrative paradigm as a strategy for decision and action, and then to discuss Wall Street in light of Fisher's theory, as well as with reference to the film's function vis-?-vis more general sociological perspective, in a manner that points in the direction of the manner in which the film as narrative might provide, as Fisher suggests, "a rationale for decision and action" in the business world.
Fisher's elaboration of what he terms the narrative paradigm is meant to give an account of the efficacy of persuasive moral argument in the context of literary and dramatic patterns of..."
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Oliver Stone, 1995.
Examines style, images, themes and social and political views expressed in "Born on the Fourth of July", "The Doors" and "JFK".
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 7 sources, $ 47.95
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"Oliver Stone is a filmmaker who makes use of history as a springboard for political and social commentary, and he often includes history in the form of newsreel footage as well as in terms of references and historical characters who are part of the story. He makes use of fragmentary editing as well to create a sense of reality, placing the viewer at the event and in the historical era. He also has a strong sense of sentimentality that is not always recognized and that derives from the way in which he connects past and present, often in an ironic fashion to show how the promise of one era has been tainted by the reality of another. He begins the process of drawing the viewer into the connections he is making between past and present from the first frame, and the opening sequences in his films prepare the viewer for what is to come, sometimes with foreshadowing as well as with ..."
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The Vietnam Soldier, 2004.
A look at the movie, "Platoon", and the book, "The Things They Carried" by Tim O' Brien, about the Vietnam War and how they present a different approach to traditional views of the war.
1,421 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper explains how Oliver Stone (director of "Platoon") and Tim O?Brien (author of "The Things They Carried") approach the Vietnam War in a different light. Rather than focusing on the political and social aspects, it shows how they highlight the role of the common soldier. They take the focus away from the bigger picture and give it to those who had to carry out the deeds of the politicians and generals. It explains that their stories focus around the personalities and experiences of the thousands of soldiers who fought in the jungle and continued to fight the war even after returning home.
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"As previously mentioned, both the book and the movie tend to avoid the political and social contexts of the war, and instead focus on the individuals fighting it?their personalities and their lives before and after Vietnam. O?Brien begins his book emphasizing this same theme. He first introduces us to the things the soldiers carried. We (the audience) learn that Jimmy Cross caries letters from his girlfriend back home to help him remember what is waiting for him after the war (O?Brien 1). We learn that Dave Jenson, who is obsessed with hygiene, carries an extra toothbrush, dental floss, and large bars of soap (O?Brien 3). O?Brien also touches on the mandatory gear (i.e. guns, explosives, poncho, rations, ect.), but his focus is on the items that give the characters personality."
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"Oliver Twist", 2005.
An analysis of the use of imagery in "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens.
840 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper examines how in the novel "Oliver Twist", Oliver lives a predominantly sad life of loss and despair and how Dickens uses imagery and setting to create a tone of hopelessness.
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"Dickens uses imagery to support a tone of hopelessness. Dickens employs the phrase "despised by all, pitied by none" (28) to suggest the hardships that Oliver was born into, and the hardships that would carry on for a great portion of his life. His father died before Oliver was born, and his mother died while giving birth to him. He was born into the poverty of a horrifying orphanage where he would spend the first nine years of his life. He was lucky enough to survive the harsh conditions of the orphanage where the overseers would keep the money from the government and starve the children. Oliver had learned, in a non-respectable way, "that self-preservation is the first law of nature" (53). He became dependent on thievery as a way of survival. "
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"Oliver Twist", 2005.
An analysis of Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist".
842 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 29.95
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This paper reviews the classic novel of "Oliver Twist" written by Charles Dickens. The paper presents a tone of hopelessness that shows how Oliver handled many hardships. The paper elaborates on Dickens's use of imagery and setting to convey the harsh day-to-day life that Oliver had to endure.
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"For the next eight to ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception" (28). This passage from Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist resembles the horrible environment that Oliver was born into. Nobody cared for Oliver; the workers at the orphanage probably did not even know his name. Oliver lives a predominantly sad life of loss and despair. Dickens uses imagery and setting to create a tone of hopelessness."
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'Oliver Twist', 2006.
A review of death as a theme in Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist'.
1,117 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper reviews and discusses the idea of death in the classic, 'Oliver Twist', by Charles Dickens. According to the paper, 'Oliver Twist' contains dominant themes of social evils, exploitation of the poor and various characters' deaths, near-deaths or circumstances having to do with death.
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"Oliver is (again figuratively) 'scared to death', at that key moment in the novel that that turns out also to define his fate (the extra gruel request scene) when he is selected by the other boys at the workhouse for that most terrifying, unpleasant task. Then, moments after he asks, Oliver becomes equally scared that his still not-quite-to-be-believed question has now caused (so-to-speak) 'all hell to break loose' inside the workhouse, among the comfortably well-off, incredulous, poorhouse administrators. These well-fed individuals in fact cannot fathom, at all, how any boy so "lucky" as to be boarded and fed at their workhouse could possibly be so ungrateful as to request more than his daily starvation-level ration of gruel. "
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Oliver Cromwell, 2007.
An analysis of Oliver Cromwell's vision of the English Republic.
2,172 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 67.95
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This paper critically explores and analyzes the origins, defining features, and practical implications of Oliver Cromwell's vision of the English Republic. The thesis is argued that Cromwell's vision was defined not so much by ideology, belief or philosophy as by a conviction that compromise and moderation were central to the government of England during the particularly divisive seventeenth century. The paper contends that, only through an understanding of Oliver Cromwell's vision of moderation as key to the resolution of civil strife, can we be begin to understand his achievement in navigating the ship of state during this highly disruptive period.
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Introduction
A House Divided
The Divisive Seventeenth Century
Squaring the Circle: Resolving Cromwell's Contradictory Vision
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" Critics argue that it was Cromwell's youth growing up within an England in which the commercial classes and local squires were growing in power that contributed to his vision of an English Republic: "To all this new idea of government by squires and merchants Cromwell was born; in all this he grew up; all this was native to him when he appeared, almost thirty, in the first of the new rebellious Parliaments" (Belloc 13). Indeed, Cromwell's behaviour during the Long Parliament gives us critical insights into how at this early stage in his political career - long before he rose to near absolute power - Oliver Cromwell perceived the English Republic."
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Charles Dicken's "Oliver Twist", 2003.
An analysis of how Charles Dickens presents the theme of good and evil in "Oliver Twist".
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This paper reviews Charles Dicken's "Oliver Twist" with a focus on chapter 20, taking into account his use of environment, personality, social class and faith. It looks at how Dickens presents a heavily clich?d novel in which good and evil are divided completely, but also in which good (Oliver) defeats evil (Fagin and Sykes, who both die). It demonstrates how this is the basic tenet of Christianity ? that good will always overcome evil ? no matter what the odds are and how, Dickens is showing that Christianity is the way to overcome evil.
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"The last two of these foreshadowed events relate to Chapter 20, and the deliverance of Oliver to Sikes, and the subsequent break-in. Housebreaking was very serious in Victorian times, and burglars were usually executed for their crimes. Therefore, Oliver?s introduction to housebreaking was a pivotal moment for him ? it was the place in the novel where he finally met a good person ? his saviour from Fagin and Sikes ? in direst hour of need."
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