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"Thirteen Days", 2004.
Critical analysis of a film about the Cuban Missile Crisis, "Thirteen Days".
903 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 32.95
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This paper points out the weaknesses in the film, "Thirteen Days". The paper talks about the shortcomings of some of the performances, the inaccuracies of the script concerning historical events, and the exaggerated importance placed on President Kennedy's assistant, Kenny O'Donnel.
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"The film ?Thirteen Days? is an epic film about the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. The film is chronicled through the eyes of Kenneth O'Donnell, John F. Kennedy's appointments secretary. While the basis of the story is true, there is still much in the film that is based on historical speculation."
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"Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird", 2004.
Poetry analysis paper of "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens.
1,364 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 45.95
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This paper discusses the view of perception and reality presented in each stanza of "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Wallace Stevens. The issues of reality and imagination, or the perceived and perception, is discussed as it was presented by Steven in each stanza. Poetical devices, images, and quotes are used too.
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"In his poem entitled ?Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,? Wallace Stevens states that in the silent winter landscape, ?the only moving thing / Was the eye of the blackbird? (2-3). This raises an interesting question. Who is looking at who? Does Stevens see the blackbird or does the blackbird see Stevens? Stevens? poem is about the blackbird in its environment, but on a deeper level it deals with the state and mutuality of focus and context, imagination and reality, perceiving and perceived. The distinct and seemingly disjointed images provide the work with continuity and a series of paradigms depicting this relationship between thought and perception."
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"Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis", 2002.
An analysis of Robert Kennedy's book describing his account of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
2,070 words (approx. 8.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper begins with a summary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The basic plot and the main characters detailed in the book are then identified and the decision-making process is analyzed. A background of the author and origins of the book are provided. A critical analysis of the book follows.
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"Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis published in 1969, is Robert Kennedy?s account of the major symbol (the Cuban missile crisis) of cold war confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. In the year 1962, after the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the USSR increased its support of Fidel Castro?s Cuban regime. In the summer of the same year, Nikita Khrushchev, who was heading the Soviet Union, secretly decided to install ballistic missiles in Cuba. In October, the U.S. reconnaissance flights revealed the clandestine construction of missile launching sites,
[?U-2 had just finished a photographic mission? (Kennedy: 1971, 19)]
Which led to President Kennedy publicly denouncing the Soviet actions. He imposed a naval blockade on Cuba and declared that any missile launched from Cuba would warrant a full-scale retaliatory attack by the United States against the Soviet Union. On October 24, Russian ships carrying missiles to Cuba turned back. On October 28 Khrushchev agreed to withdraw the missiles and dismantle the missile sites. Consequently, the United States ended its blockade on November 20, and by the end of the year the missiles and bombers were altogether removed from Cuba."
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Dante's "Inferno", 2004.
A review of Cantos Five and Thirteen from Dante's "Inferno".
899 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper details two cantos from the tale of Dante's "Inferno" and attempts to derive how accomplished a writer Dante actually was because of his use of imagination and reality through a review of Cantos Five and Thirteen. It assesses Dante's skill in telling his story by tying together his vivid imagination with his ability to describe people realistically. It shows how, in Dante?s hell, the sins of the individual souls describe both how the individuals lived their lives before death and how they will spend eternity after death and how Dante?s imagination mixed with reality made his tormented characters believable and opened a window into their lives.
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"Dante had a definite interplay between reality and imagination. For example, one would think that with the many tortures and the constant torment, these levels of hell would reek horrendously. Although not from either Canto five or thirteen, this example demonstrates how the author combined real and imagined to describe the smell of hell and his imagination makes it very real. ?Dante arrives at the verge of a rocky precipice which encloses the seventh circle, where he sees the sepulchre of Anastasius the heretic; behind the lid of which pausing a little, to make himself capable by degrees of enduring the fetid smell that steamed upward from the abyss, he is instructed by Virgil concerning the manner in which the three following circles are disposed, and what description of sinners is punished in each.? (DANTE) Dante captures the stench precisely."
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The Many Revolutions of 1776, 2008.
This paper examines the American Revolution and the thirteen colonies' different attitudes towards independence.
967 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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The paper discusses how the American Revolution came about as a result of a complex process of compromise and coordination among the unique interests of the thirteen colonies. The paper discusses the differences between the colonies in terms of their economies, the differing population numbers of Loyalists to the Crown and the colonies' timing of the declaration of independence. The paper explains how, after the Revolution, the Articles of Confederation allowed these disparate colonies to continue to maintain their "sovereignty, freedom and independence".
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"The character of the American Revolution of 1776 had a lot to do with the nature of the colonies themselves, so in a sense one could almost say that there were as many Revolutions during the time frame of the 1770s as there were colonies. The unique way in which the eastern coast of North America had been colonized since the 1600s affected the way each of the colonies grew and developed and also the way that each one would react to the possibility of Revolution or to the various incidents involving British actions in North America over the years leading up to it."
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The 911 Commission Report, 2006.
An in-depth analysis of this thirteen-chapter review of the events leading up to the September 11 attacks on the United States.
3,444 words (approx. 13.8 pages), 0 sources, $ 97.95
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One of the main questions asked by the American public regarding the 911 terror attacks, was: Why was nothing done to prevent this? The 911 Commission Report is a bipartisan analysis set out to answer this question and many others. This paper discusses how the extensive thirteen-chapter review looks at everything from the history of al Qaeda and other terrorist networks, to the exact approach the FAA, NORAD and our countries' leaders took in deciphering the attacks as they happened. It shows how, in the closing chapters, the commission gives advice on reorganizing the U.S. government's foreign as well as domestic policy as to better suit societies changing ways. This essay evaluates all these circumstances leading up to September 11, as well as evaluates the entire volume as to the author's opinion of the 911 Commission Report.
Paper Outline:
The History of the Attack and our Response
Fanatic Islam
Counter-terrorism
Recommendations of the Commission
My Opinion
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"While I can agree with the commission's foreign policy recommendations, their recommendations with regard to domestic security are somewhat suspect. I can accept a biometric screening system for foreign nationals; however their recommendations with regard to identity documents sound like a national ID system. While for border security this is not too big a concern, the creeping reach of government programs means it will eventually be used for tracking citizen's movements within the US. That is not acceptable, no matter how many people terrorists kill."
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Resistance to Early British Rule, 2002.
Examines why indentured servants, Native Americans, and African slaves did not join together to overthrow the oligarchy that ruled over the thirteen British colonies in the seventeenth century.
1,122 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper discusses the many reasons why a large-scale revolt against the British never took place: The three groups did not often have a language in common; the government of the colonies (and the government of Britain) were well-organized and armed; there was nowhere for people in revolt against the system to flee if they could not seize control; there was relatively little contact among the groups in many areas; and, if successful, these groups would have had to defend themselves against outside forces while engaged in the very difficult struggle to feed, house, and cloth themselves in an alien environment. It further discusses that the principal reason why there was no major seventeenth-century revolt was the differences in the dominant group's policies toward indentured Europeans, African slaves, and Native Americans which, in turn, produced different ideal goals among the people in these categories.
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"The absence of significant cooperation among the oppressed groups in the British colonies was not the case in Spain's Caribbean possessions. As Carew notes, there were many instances throughout the sixteenth century of the "joining together of Blacks and Indians in a common struggle" in the Spanish colonies--such as the cimarron revolts in Puerto Rico and Hispaniola (105). Such revolts and even more frequent acts of cooperative resistance continued for over 200 years in these colonies. But behind this cooperation was a "sense of community that was continually forged and reproduced in their everyday lives by virtue of the places they shared in the system of exploitation" (Carew 106). The difference between the situation of Caribbean and North American Indians was, however, that the former peoples were generally absorbed more directly and far more successfully into the system of slave labor than were the Indians of the British colonies. And in the seventeenth century African slaves were imported to the Spanish colonies in much greater numbers than in Britain's territory. Therefore the two groups were in immediate, constant contact and the chances of cooperative action were far higher."
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The Declaration of Independence, 2002.
This paper discusses the Declaration of Independence.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 35.95
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This paper provides a detailed account of the effect of the Declaration of Independence over the Thirteen Colonies later known as the Thirteen States of America.
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Digital Video Editing, 2006.
A production analysis of the film trailer for "A Touch of Evil -- The Strangest Vengeance Ever Planned!".
2,625 words (approx. 10.5 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 79.95
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The editors of the trailer of the film "A Touch of Evil" were provided with thirteen minutes of film to be edited from the Orson Welles' masterpiece, "A Touch of Evil." This paper examines how using these thirteen minutes of film, the editors produced a one-and-a-half minute trailer using Adobe Premier Professional. The process is described followed by a summary of the project in the conclusion.
Outline
Introduction
Review and Discussion
Background and Overview
"A Touch of Evil"
Steps to Trailer Production and Rationale
Conclusion
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"The music in "A Touch of Evil" was written by none other than Henry Mancini. According to Nowell-Smith (1997), "The fate of jazz as film music strongly resembles that of classical music: it was taken over by established film composers like Henry Mancini, Lalo Schifrin, Dave Grusin, John Barry, and Michel Legrand, who took elements of its basic language and integrated them into a 'mod' style tailored to the flow of the film" (p. 563). The film is set in a fictional Mexican border town, "Los Robles" (described on a billboard at the edge of town as the "Paris of the Border" (Case, 1996); however, it was actually filmed in Venice, California because the place looked "convincingly run-down and decayed" (Plot Summary, 3)."
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"Articles of Confederation", 2005.
This paper discusses the "Articles of Confederation" and compares it to the U.S. Constitution.
1,645 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 53.95
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This paper explains that, from 1777 to 1787, the United States acted under a set of rules, established under the "Articles of Confederation", which were little more than a loose alliance among the thirteen original states with no real effort to create a strong national government. The author points out that, following the American Revolution, it was apparent that the rights of the government and citizens under the "Articles of Confederation" were insufficient but there was still a substantial desire to limit the powers of government. The paper relates that, although the Constitution was a definite departure from the "Articles of Confederation", many rules regarding the nation remained the same such as the name of the newly founded nation; however, the most significant change was that the Constitution made the election of federal officials direct from the populous where, in the "Articles of Confederation", they were elected by the state legislatures.
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"For the United States to remain united, the federalist stance needed to prevail over the states' appeals for self-government. It is important to note that when the United States was conceived of as a single nation, it was essential that the doctrines that held it together cater to the needs of the individual states. After all, they were significantly separated geographically, and had become quite accustomed to instituting and enforcing their own laws. Therefore, the new government of the United States needed to demonstrate to its inhabitant territories that the implementation of this regime was not going to drastically alter their way of life, and neither was it going to establish expansive laws that were contrary to locally held customs or beliefs. Ideologically, this was the foundation for American federalism."
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Film: "Copy Cat".
This paper discusses abnormal psychology as related to the character Dr. Helen Hudson played by Sigourney Weaver in the film "Copy Cat" (1995) produced by Arnon Milchnar.
1,060 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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This paper explains that, throughout the movie "Copy Cat", Dr. Helen Hudson deals with panic attacks and everyday life by taking a large amount of prescription pills and washing them down with bourbon whiskey to control her intense fear; she has been in her house for over thirteen months. The author believes that she would be diagnosed as having a panic disorder with agoraphobia associated with post traumatic stress disorder caused by the attack on her life in which she almost died herself after seeing a cop get shot. The paper concludes that the problem with the movie's portrayal of these conditions is that, at the end, she is cured instantly from agoraphobia, drug and alcohol abuse and panic attacks; plus she beats the bad guys and, all of the sudden, psychological life is grand.
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"The character in the movie I would like to focus on is Dr. Helen Hudson (Sigourney Weaver). The movie starts out with Dr. Hudson being a very intelligent and capable person who is giving a lecture on serial killers at a University in San Francisco. The lecture goes well but afterwards she is attacked in the bathroom by a man (Harry Connick Jr.). We later learn that this man was on trial for murder and Dr. Hudson testified in court against him with her advanced knowledge on the subject. The attack was pretty graphic and she was rescued at the last minute by a police officer who heard gun shots. The movie then flashes to the present where Dr. Hudson is at home and suddenly wakes up sweating and hyperventilating. The images of the attack in the previous part of the movie now represent the dream she was having. In my opinion, they wanted the audience to think she has reoccurring nightmare about the attack."
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The War of 1812, 2005.
This paper provides an analysis of the war of 1812 and discusses that no resolution was produced in this conflict between Great Britain and the United States.
2,925 words (approx. 11.7 pages), 8 sources, $ 115.95
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This thirteen page paper examines why historians are in general agreement that no one won the War of 1812. The writer concludes that the second conflict in thirty years between Great Britain and the United States produced no practical resolution of any of the issues that led to the war. Further, the writer discusses that this prevailing view is based upon the inability of both sides to win a decisive land or naval battle, and reflects the reality that the political and geographical status quo after the war in 1815 was much the same as it had been before the war broke out in 1812.
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"Historians are in general agreement that no one won the War of 1812, for the second conflict in thirty years between Great Britain and the United States produced no practical resolution of any of the issues that led to the war. This prevailing view is based upon the inability of both sides to win a decisive land or naval battle, and reflects the reality that the political and geographical status quo after the war in 1815 was much the same as it had been before the war broke out in 1812."
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Maimonides, 2004.
An overview of the life and beliefs of Moses Maimon.
1,252 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper examines how Maimonides was born Moses Maimon and has been proclaimed as the man who has had the most profound impact on the Jewish faith. It looks at how Maimonides's interpretation of faith was firmly grounded in reason and intellect and how he believed that people who are not trained in philosophy or science might find his arguments intelligible. In particular, it examines how he developed the thirteen articles of Jewish faith that have made an indelible mark on the religion and its followers.
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"Being a student of Aristotle, Maimonides subscribed to his assumption of universal teleology i.e. every person comes into this world with a destiny and reached a natural final state after fulfilling that destiny. He felt that people move in a certain pre-ordained direction from the time of birth and continue their journey till they reach the final state of rest. He used teleology to provide the link between reason and faith and to prove that there existed no real conflict between the two. He took it upon himself to justify intellectually and scientifically the various principles and views prorogated by Jewish thinkers and rabbis."
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Female Architects, 2005.
This paper discusses female architects in Ohio and focuses on Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 13 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper briefly reviews the life and times of Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector. The paper describes her significant life achievements, the sexism she faced and the reason why society must remain vigilant against such attitudes today. Additionally, the paper contains thirteen sources, mostly internet-based, providing important information on this woman.
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"The matter of female architects in Ohio is an interesting one because, historically, women in Ohio - as elsewhere in America - faced great difficulty. Ms. Hayden - she later married James Rector and assumed the nomenclature Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector - was also an outspoken suffragist ("Women in Ohio History - Florence Kenyon Hayden Rector" 2005, paragraph 12). Fortunately, her papers can still be accessed in various University collections throughout America ("Guide to the Manuscript Collections - Hayden, Florence Kenyon" 2005, paragraph 36). Ms. Hayden's work did not begin and end with her design of the elegant Oxley Hall Women's Residence at the University of Ohio. She also designed the home of Ohio millionaire Ellis O. Jones ("Old Towne East - An Historic Neighborhood" 2005, paragraph 1)."
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?A Rose for Emily?, 2005.
This paper reviews William Faulkner's short story "A Rose for Emily".
760 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 27.95
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This paper explains that many of William Faulkner's short stories such as "A Rose for Emily", which he wrote in 1931 and originally appeared in his "These Thirteen" (1931), a collection of short stories, are set in fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi and are concerned with the interconnected fortunes of a group of families of different social classes from the Civil War to modern times. The author points out that "A Rose for Emily" is a descriptive story about an isolated sort of "creepy" woman who is the "talk of the town". The paper concludes that "A Rose for Emily" is very suspenseful because of Faulkner's use of flashbacks and the third person point of view by the characters of the town, which make the story come to life and seem real.
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"William Faulkner was born into a genteel Southern family and was raised
in Oxford, Mississippi, where he attended the University of Mississippi. Following World War 1, during which he served in the Canadian air force, he settled in Oxford, Mississippi, and worked for a time in the post office until he was forced to resign. He was lax in his duties and often became absorbed in writing or reading. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950."
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