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"Shallow Grave" and "The City of Lost Children", 2005.
A comparative analysis of the films "Shallow Grave" and "The City of Lost Children".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper examines how the films "Shallow Grave" and "The City of Lost Children" both tell the story of the inevitability of destruction to those who benefit from ill-gotten gains. It looks at how what is unique about each film is how each director fully utilizes their respective genre in terms of place, visual effects and character development.
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"The films Shallow Grave and The City of Lost Children both tell the story of the inevitability of destruction to those who benefit from ill-gotten gains. What is unique about each film is how each director fully utilizes their respective genre in terms of place, visual effects and character development. However, in comparison, Shallow Grave is more effective in holding a mirror up to the nature of friendship, greed and morality in self-absorbed societies. Shallow Grave is an example of a black comedy with modern film noir nuances. The characters, perhaps lacking in moral fiber are not criminal, in fact are professionals with gainful employment, until the exact circumstances present themselves. The noir aspects of the film exhibit as paranoia and guilt over the act of dismembering Hugo and continue to grow and become more tangible."
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"Shallow Grave", 2002.
A review of the film "Shallow Grave".
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 89.95
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A paper on the 1994 film, Shallow Grave. Closely following the course of the friendship among three flatmates, the film begins a search for a fourth flatmate, and quickly darkens in both tone and humor, as the newly chosen flatmate is subsequently found dead.
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"The Lost City", 2002.
Analyzes Alan Ehrenhalt?s "The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of Community in America".
1,347 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 45.95
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Alan Ehrenhalt?s "The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of Community in America" challenges many of the commonly held assumptions and culturally held beliefs about progress and how the idea of progress has changed throughout the course of this American Century for Americans. This paper discusses the book as an elegy to the 1950's and examines Ehrenhalt's theory that this decade was not as bad as we seem to remember it, despite its insularity, discrimination of minorities and excessive consumerization.
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"The book examines the 1950s as the time before Baby Boomers began to attack the institutions of education, government, religious belief ? the visible sociological forms of authority ? and draws connections between these feints against the established order and the fact that American streets are no longer safe to walk along at night (although, of course, they were never entirely safe, and one hazards that despite all of Ehrenhalt?s elegiac words, they were particularly unsafe for a black man in Mobile in a white neighborhood). Baby Boomers, Ehrenhalt correctly if just a touch simplistically writes, demanded more personal autonomy and a greater sense of individuality, and in the process of acquiring these traits they destroyed the institutions that were holding American communities together: churches, schools, even families."
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The Lost City, 2002.
An analysis and review of Alan Ehrenhalt?s "The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of Community in America".
1,050 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 1 source, APA, $ 36.95
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The author of this paper analyzed Alan Ehrenhalt?s "The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of community in America" and shows how Ehrenhalt challenges many of the commonly held assumptions and culturally held beliefs about progress and how the idea of progress has changed throughout the course of this American Century for Americans. The paper notes that in many ways the book can be seen as an elegy to the 1950s. He feels that Ehrenhalt?s major reason to write the book was to argue that this decade was not nearly as bad as we like to think it was. Even if it were not the ideal decade in many ways, it did contain virtues that were still well worth praising because they offered to Americans something precious - a sense of community - that it would have been worth giving up something important in exchange.
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"Ehrenhalt demonstrates his thesis by concentrating on several neighborhoods in Chicago in the 1950s, evoking the character of the time and place as well as that of his non-fictional ?characters? with the skill of a novelist. But all of this beautiful writing cannot hide the controversial and for many unpalatable nature of his thesis, which is that people want rules, regulations, and authority figures, that we all desperately want someone out there telling us what is right and what is wrong and what will happen to us if we stray from a path of moral virtue that someone else has defined for us."
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"The Lost City" by Alan Ehrenhalt, 2000.
A review of the work on the benefits and costs of a community-based society, focusing on the culture of the 1950s.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, $ 31.95
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"Alan Ehrenhalt's The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of Community in America challenges many of the commonly held assumptions and culturally held beliefs about progress and how the idea of progress has changed throughout the course of this American Century for Americans.
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"Alan Ehrenhalt's The Lost City: The Forgotten Virtues of Community in America challenges many of the commonly held assumptions and culturally held beliefs about progress and how the idea of progress has changed throughout the course of this American Century for Americans. In many ways, it might be seen as an elegy to the 1950s, not an era that is often elegized, but Ehrenhalt argues that it was nearly as bad as we like to think it was - in terms of insularity, pressure to conform, excessive consumerization of the economy, and suppression of the rights of women, gays and racial and religious minorities. But he also at times seems to argue that even if it were not the ideal decade in many ways, than it was still worth it because it offered to Americans something so precious (and something that is in such short supply these days) that it would have been worth giving up..."
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Augustine's Understanding of the "City of God and the City of Man", 2002.
Examines the influence of Saint Augustine on Western religious thought and analyzes his text "City of God".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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Saint Augustine presented the idea that faith and understanding (in the broad and narrow senses) go hand in hand. Because of this, his teachings were that to understand life, one must have faith, and to have faith, one must pursue an understanding of life. Augustine has proved to be one of the most influential thinkers in European and western history. While still a teenager, Augustine converted, became a priest, then the leader of the Church in North Africa, and, before he became Bishop and his writing career was virtually choked off, Augustine was a prolific producer of scriptural scholarly works. The "City of God", which was written between the years 413 and 426, was Augustine's response to the criticism leveled at Christianity by the pagans after they had sacked Rome in 410. This work represents Augustine's most significant contribution to Western religious thought and, like many personalized texts, takes on the Aristotelian method of posing questions to the self in an argumentative fashion and systematically refuting and explaining away each.
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The Port Cities of New York City & Dublin, 2001.
This paper compares two large urban port cities: Dublin and New York City.
2,410 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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This paper illustrates the issues of large urban port cities as seen in Dublin and New York City. The paper provides an in-depth history of each city and compares the social issues of the urban environment, ethnic diversity, poverty and crime.
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"New York City is generally considered the doorway to America. It is the largest city in the nation, seven million strong, and a main hub of financial activity. This is probably the most racially and ethnically diverse of the large American cities, the epitome of the melting pot. A third of the population is of African descent, fifteen percent are Jewish, twelve percent Hispanic. Other ethnic populations have a vocal presence, including the Irish, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Indian, and other Asians. If one city has represent urban America over the last 200 years, it would be the harbor city of New York, New York.
" Across the Atlantic ocean lies another city, a little farther from the ocean, though not much. It is the ?fair city? of Dublin, that capitol of the Republic of Ireland. This is a fairly heterogeneous city, for it is the center of 4,000 year old struggle for cultural sanctity and independence. The vast majority of the citizens are Irish or British nationals, Christian and white. Most are Roman Catholic, and the largest ?minority? are the British Protestants. One fourth of the citizens of Ireland, approximately 900,000 souls all told, now live in Dublin and its suburbs, and its name is becoming synonymous with Irish culture and tradition."
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Lost Women of a Lost Generation, 2002.
This paper discusses lost women of a lost generation, between the 1920s and the 1930s, "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway and "Good Morning, Midnight" by Jean Rhys.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper states that both novels prominently feature women who live frivolously from day to day, desperately attempting to "buy" their happiness; or, at least, to buy the alcohol with which they may buy "forgetfulness" of their traumatic pasts. The author believes that, in many respects, the character of Sasha Jensen from "Good Morning, Midnight" may be seen as an older version of Brett Ashley from "The Sun Also Rises". The paper states that these two female characters serve as cultural "bookends" or markers to the long intermission between the wars.
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"City Of Dreadful Delight" ( Judith Walkowitz ) and "City Of Eros" ( Timothy Gilfoyle ), 1999.
Compares this works on prostitution in 19th Century London and New York City.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 2 sources, $ 119.95
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"This research will examine two books that deal with issues relating to the phenomenon of prostitution in 19th-century London and New York City, City of Dreadful Delight by Judith R. Walkowitz, and City of Eros by Timothy J. Gilfoyle, respectively. The research will set forth the general pattern of ideas in each of the works and discuss in detail the similarities and differences in the methods and narratives of social history that each book uses to give an account of the culture, physical environment, and personalities informing the shape that sexual praxis in general and prostitution in particular took in the centers of the English-speaking world during the period.
The differences between City of Dreadful Delight and City of Eros are not confined to the fact that the former deals with London prostitution in the late Victorian era and City of Eros deals..."
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Grave's Disease: A Grave Disorder., 2002.
This paper is a presentation about Grave's Disease.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 89.95
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Its symptoms, its causes, the way it affects different cells and the treatment are all outlined. Hyperactive thyroid causes many symptoms that are often overlooked by patients as well as their doctors. We discount them as they gradually creep up upon us and we tell ourselves there are other causes for the things that are happening. Once we have been diagnosed we then begin a treatment plan that can vary in intensity as well as options. The author takes the reader on a detailed exploration of the disease, the research and the treatment of Grave's disease.
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City Shoes: The Horseshoe Game for City Kids, 2002.
Presents a marketing plan to produce and market a lawn game for children, based on traditional horseshoes.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 4 sources, $ 80.95
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City Shoes(tm) is a lawn game based on traditional horseshoes that employs large rubber washers instead of metal horseshoes. It is lightweight, portable, durable and safe. The marketing plan includes a SWOT analysis, marketing strategies directed at sporting goods stores and lawn and garden shops and processes for control and analysis of the plan.
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The Homeless Problem in New York City, 2004.
This paper discusses that New York City is a city with a staggering homeless population, a problem that has persisted throughout the city?s history.
975 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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This paper reports that, in 2004, New York City set a record when the number of homeless New Yorkers residing in shelters reached the highest point in the city?s history. The author points out that 90 percent of homeless New Yorkers are black or Latino, even though only 53 percent of New York City?s total population is black or Latino; moreover, over 60 percent of homeless families previously lived in four of New York City?s poorest neighborhoods, and over half of the homeless mothers have a history of domestic violence. This paper concludes that it will take years of dedication and focus for New York City to ease the problem of homelessness by creating not only adequate permanent housing for the homeless, which actually will cost less than the present shelter and other emergency care programs, but also available services for those suffering from mental illness and substance abuse.
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"According to the Coalition for the Homeless, in the month of August 2004, some 36,400 homeless men, women, and children were sleeping each night in the New York City shelter system, including 15,300 children, 12,700 adult family members, and 8,400 single adults, with many thousands more sleeping on city streets, park benches, and subway trains. New York City?s homeless shelter population has increased by 73 percent since 1998, from 21,000 to the current 36,400. The past six years has seen the number of homeless families sleeping in New York City shelters and welfare hotels increase by 99 percent, from 4,429 families in January 1998 to 8,726 families in August 2004. Moreover, the average stay for homeless families in the municipal shelter system has almost doubled over the past decade, from six months in 1992, to nearly twelve months today."
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Essays on the New American City, 2004.
Book review of a collection of essays on American cities in "The New American City Faces Its Regional Future: A Cleveland Perspective".
2,223 words (approx. 8.9 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 69.95
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This paper reviews a series of short essays dealing with the changing face of American cities compiled in the book, "The New American City Faces its Regional Future: A Cleveland Perspective". The paper explains how the book, which contains essays from several different authors while focusing primarily on the future of Cleveland in the new world order, also has a very national perspective and speaks at length about the problems of urban centers across the country. The paper discusses Part One and Part Two of the book and summarizes the authors's opinions regarding Cleveland's present situation, the role of Cleveland's city hall, and top-down style reform. The paper also summarizes how the authors deal with the reconstruction of a city and the need for mandatory regional government that overrides the local rule of suburbs.
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"Two basic situations were appraised by all of the writers in the first half of the book. The first had to do with the staggering inequality that coincides here with a deeply segregated living arrangement. Cleveland is apparently among the top five most segregated urban centers in the country, and the reason for this phenomenon is explored by all. The second issue is that of urban sprawl, with each author suggesting a course of action that might revitalize the inner city."
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Mexico City: 2012 Olympics, 2002.
Overview of Mexico City's and Mexico's economic condition and how the economic conditions make Mexico City a viable choice for the 2012 Olympic Games.
1,438 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper analyzes a report, prepared by Mexico City's Olympic Economics Committee, that was written with the intention of showing that Mexico City should indeed be a candidate to host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. The paper presents evidence of Mexico City's robust and growing economy by looking at such economic factors as GDP, jobs and industries, economic outlook, and the Olympic budget.
Economic Overview
GDP
What are primary jobs and industries?
How developed is Mexico City?
What about available workers, total population, etc.?
Currency
Economic Outlook
Infrastructure
Olympic Budget
Benefits for Mexico City
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"Mexico City has come a long way from its colonial economy that was based mostly on mining, particularly silver. Today it boasts an economy that is diverse. The economy today includes strong agriculture, petroleum and industry sectors. With this diversification, Mexico City is not only the largest city in the world, with approximately 20 million inhabitants, but the city is considered the second strongest economy in all of Latin America (Mexico: Mexico City)."
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The Phenix City Story, 2007.
A discussion of the history and evolution of Phenix City, Alabama.
1,973 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 62.95
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This paper discusses Phenix City in Russell County, Alabama, otherwise known as "Sin City, USA." The paper discusses the history of illegal activity in Phenix City and how the city became a haven for criminals. The paper then goes on to describe the efforts to clean up Phenix City and how its image has begun to evolve over time. The paper concludes by discussing the name of the city, "Phenix."
Table of Contents:
I. A.K.A.
"Once Known as "Sin City"
II. Commonplace Sins
A Haven for Hellish Activities?
Cleaning Up Phenix City
III. The name, "Phenix"
Excuses and Reasons
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"Hugh Bentley, a layman, decided to try to fire the churches into action against the sin and criminal activity in 1946. Bentley stressed that Phenix City's problem was a moral one and that until the moral breakdown was changed, things would not improve. January 9, 1951, Bentley's house was blown up with thirty-six sticks of dynamite, however, neither he nor any of his family was seriously injured."
"In 1954, Albert Patterson, a sixty-year-old Phenix City lawyer, adopted his campaign crusade to be cleaning Phenix City's gambling machine. At this time, Phenix City was described by Life Magazine as the "wickedest city in the United States, . . . everything from gambling to murder to arson to fraud." (Ibid.) June 1, 1954, Patterson won the Democratic primary."
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