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"Waiting to Exhale", 2005.
This paper examines the issue of race in Forest Whitaker's movie, "Waiting to Exhale".
1,795 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 0 sources, $ 57.95
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This paper discusses the issue of "black films" and whether director's like Forest Whitaker are seen as "black directors" or just directors. This paper also discusses the themes and plot of the movie, "Waiting to Exhale", in the context of racial issues.
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"Forest Whitaker is the director for Waiting to Exhale. Forest was born on July 15, 1961 in Longview, Texas, but then moved with his family to California when he was still a baby. Forest grew up to be an athletic and talented football player in high school, which ultimately landed him a football scholarship at Pomona College. At Pomona, Forest not only preformed on the field, but also on the stage as an actor. During his freshman year, a Hollywood agent discovered Forest, which landed him his first acting job in ?Fast Times at Ridgemont High.? Forest decided to pursue his career as an actor and earned a scholarship to the University of Southern California. Forest eventually ended up earning a scholarship to the Drama Studio of London, which molded him into one of the film industry?s most talented young actors. Throughout the 1980?s and early 90?s Forest worked along side some of today?s top actors in many films. In 1988, Forest won ?Best Actor? at the Cannes Film Festival for his work in ?Bird.? Forest slowing started pursuing his interest in directing with a few small projects. His first feature film to direct was ?Waiting to Exhale? in 1995, which proved to be a success at the box office ? making over $70 million when it only cost $14 million to produce the film. Forest Whitaker continues to direct and act in films. When asked about his success, Whitaker responds, ?I?m an actor. And I guess I?ve done so many movies I?ve achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.?"
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"Soul Man", "Waiting To Exhale" and "Jerry Maguire", 1999.
Examines three films' depiction of race relations and the impact of race of the director.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 8 sources, $ 47.95
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"Race and the divide between the races is either the subject or the subtext in many films. The theory of the creation of "the Other" as delineated by Bell Hooks applies to these works and helps illuminate how they handle the issue of race. In terms of film, this concept may apply differently according to the era in which the film was made and whether the film was made by blacks or whites. The issue can be considered in terms of specific films from different periods, using Soul Man from 1986, and Waiting to Exhale from 1995 and made by a black filmmaker and Jerry Maguire made in 1997 by a white filmmaker.
Hooks notes how race is used not merely to discriminate against one group or another but to make that group discriminate against itself:
Though systems of domination, imperialism, colonialism..."
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Terry Mcmillan, "Waiting To Exhale", 1999.
Analyzes the novel's characters, plot and the changing views of an African-American family from a women's perspective.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"Waiting to Exhale is the story of four African American women who share the pain and triumphs of living. All four--Savannah, Bernadine, Robin, and Gloria--have one thing in common, each is searching for a special man in their lives. The theme of this story is that family consists, not of the traditional nuclear structure, but of all those supportive others who provide love and support in time of need.
At the beginning of the story each of the women have men in their lives but none who would qualify as good husband material. Savannah is single, never married. She has a promising career in television and has just made the move from Denver to Phoenix, partly because she has not been able to find a husband in Denver. Robin is another professional woman; she is love with Russell, an incorrigible ladies' man. Bernadine, a wealthy housewife, has ..."
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"Waiting to Exhale" by Forest Whitaker, 1999.
Analyzes the 1995 film's portrayal of four black women's roles, expectations, relationships, cultural restrictions & biases.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 47.95
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"The film Waiting to Exhale (1995), directed by Forrest Whitaker, tells of the problems faced by four black women as they try to have relationships with men who are not worthy of them. The four women are friends, and they are metaphorically presented as always being on the edge of life, holding their breath, and so waiting to exhale. The women are all beautiful and have no problem finding males, but those males treat them more as commodities than as human beings. In some degree, these women have been accomplices in their own degradation, carrying on relationships with married men and other men they know are not going to be committed to them for any length of time. As shown in the film, women are second-class citizens in part because they have allowed themselves to be so regarded, and they will not change this situation until they take control of their lives and.."
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"Waiting for Lefty" - "To Kill a Mockingbird", 2001.
This paper compares the play "To Kill a Mockingbird" to the novel "Waiting for Lefty", both set in the 1930's United States.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 3 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper compares and contrasts "To Kill a Mockingbird" with "Waiting for Lefty". They were both set in the 1930's in the United States, but they are addressed from very different points of view - one through the eyes of adults in New York and the other told by children in the deep South. This paper analyzes these different perspectives.
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While both Waiting for Lefty and To Kill a Mockingbird are set in the United States during one of the poorest times in American history - the 1930s - both the locations in which the play and the novel are set, as well as the perspectives from which the stories are told are vastly different. The physical setting of Waiting for Lefty, a relatively short but intense play written by Clifford Odets, is New York. His play is told through the eyes of several adults. The setting of Harper Lee?s equally intense To Kill a Mockingbird is a rural, deep-south county in Alabama. Her story is told through the very credible eyes of several children. Although one might presume that the adults would fare better during this trying time of the ?have-nots,? it is, instead, the children who seem better able to cope with circumstances. Both play and novel contrast and compare the manner in which the time of the Great Depression affected the lives of not only the poor, but those of all backgrounds. ?Atticus said professional people were poor because the farmers were poor?."
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?Waiting for Godot? by Samuel Beckett, 2002.
The paper analyzes in detail the play, ?Waiting for Godot? by Samuel Beckett, with emphasis on its religious implications.
1,395 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper states that, aside from the theme of waiting, the central theme of the play ?Waiting for Godot? is religious beliefs, especially penance and redemption. The author continues that all four major characters in the play represent a part of these themes. The play is reviewed in detail from this perspective. The paper concludes with the idea that in the last act, there is a turn of events wherein their roles are further reinforced and widened through a display of religious representations and implications.
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"Perhaps one of the first instance of the play?s religious theme is Vladimir?s reference to the story of the thieves in the Bible. In the first act of the play, Vladimir tells Estragon the story of the thief who repented, and was saved because of his repentance. This part of the play illustrates the first sign of hopelessness of the two protagonists in the story. Both Vladimir and Estargon are men who seem to have nothing at all, save for the boots of Estragon, and the hat of Vladimir, which were constantly referred to and discussed in the play. Their nothingness was further worsened when the fact that they were actually humans who were born to suffer was brought up in the first act. In this scene, Vladimir asks Estragon the need to repent so that they will also be saved from their sins."
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'Waiting for Godot', 2006.
A review of Samuel Beckett's play, 'Waiting for Godot'.
1,941 words (approx. 7.8 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 61.95
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This paper reviews and analyzes the play 'Waiting for Godot' by Samuel Beckett. According to the paper, the play is full of instances of repetition, circularity in structure, prose, and action that serve to enforce the play's theme of life always spent in waiting for something or someone that may never occur or arrive.
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"Similarly, the endings of both Acts are repetitive. Beckett reuses the ending of Act I with Estragon asking "Well, shall we go?" and Vladimir answering "Yes, let's go," in Act II. This exchange is followed by the stage direction comment "they do not move". The sole difference in Act II, however, is that it is Vladimir who asks and Estragon who answers. The conclusion of the play is deliberately recycled from the end of the first act. Beckett again uses repetition to support his observations of society's failure to act on their words or intentions. Vladimir recognizes this problem after deciding that they should try on the boots. Impatiently he says, "let us persevere in what we have resolved, before we forget." He is clearly aware of his own problem but this just makes his inability to solve it - to act and to move - seem even more exasperating and incomprehensible. Pozzo's and Lucky's scene in Act II also reflects this initial call to action and then subsequent inaction on Vladimir's part. He becomes abruptly passionate in helping Pozzo and shouts, "Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! Let us do something, while we have the chance!" The scene begins like an insistent rally against what he and Estragon have not been doing or have been incapable of doing throughout the play. However, Vladimir's unhurried and dawdling attitude towards helping Pozzo to his feet suggest that, even with the right intentions and resolution, helplessness as a habit cannot be broken immediately."
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"Waiting for Godot", 2005.
A discussion of religion in Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot".
3,415 words (approx. 13.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 96.95
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"Waiting for Godot" which was written by Samuel Beckett is considered to be his most famous work. This paper focuses on the meaning of the religious themes within the play. One of the key themes found in the play, is a call to action for the Christian audience. It explains that the scene and the players are suggestive of any man and any place. It is meant to be universal in its reach; with each day representing not only a new beginning but a continuation if what came before.
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"Nothing is completed because nothing can be completed. The despair in the play , which is never defined as such but which pervades all the lack of action and gives the play its metaphysical color, is the fact that the two tramps cannot wait for Godot, and the corollary fact that he cannot come. The rigorous use of the unities is demanded by the implacable interpretation of human life. The denouement of the play is another beginning ((Fowlie, pp 210-214).
Just the mere fact of the spelling of Godot's name adds to the metaphysical essence of this play. Godot is often seen as being short for God and the fact that these two tramps wait for his coming in reminiscent to waiting for the final coming of God."
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"Play Waiting for Godot", 2002.
An analysis of the concept of Gogo and Didi as one identity in the play "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett.
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This paper will discuss the relationship of Gogo and Didi and their relationship in the play "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett. The argument will be for the union of the characters in one identity and the paper will argue for their relationship as a union of the spirits of mankind within the universe. How they balance each other out is the ideal connection that will be discussed in the relationship.
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Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", 2006.
An analysis of Samuel Beckett's use and manipulation of dramatic and stage conventions in "Waiting for Godot".
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This paper discusses the innovations used by Samuel Beckett in his play "Waiting for Godot" such as the use of dis-connective dialogue, the sense and use of off-stage space, characters' understanding of and use of time, and the revelation of stage properties and characters as tools of the dramatist.
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"Within the very first lines of the play, we understand that the characters and their dialog do not relate to one another on the same plane. When Estragon says "Nothing to be done" and Vladimir replies "I'm beginning to come around to that opinion myself" it becomes clear that though Vladimir's response could be an appropriate one in an ordinary conversation, our visual cues tell us otherwise. In this moment, the characters are talking past one another and not to one another. One is attending to his boot, the other is philosophizing. In the first two lines Beckett shows us two very important things about the characters, that Estragon is a man who concerns himself with the physical, both discomforts and pleasure, and that Vladimir is a man of the mind. "
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Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot", 2008.
A paper describing several different interpretations of the play "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett.
1,234 words (approx. 4.9 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 42.95
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This paper talks about Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot" written in the 1950s. It has been performed world wide and has been critiqued and deconstructed many times, and many different interpretations offered as to its meaning. The author of this paper concludes with his own interpretation of what Beckett might have intended from this play - that is the he might simply have wanted people to sit still and reflect about what exactly is so significant in their lives.
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"In order to understand the comic relief of Beckett the philosophical view of Schopenhauer must be defined. Schopenhauer believed that the "will" is the inner part of man that drives the world forward--"will" supersede intellect placing desire before thought and "will" prior to being (Ross, 1998).
"In the 21st Century Beckett's Godot still has a place in theater including cyber-theater. Interactive art is all about the spontaneous and unpredictable occurrences between people coming together online and performing as if they were on a stage in front of an audience full of hecklers. The interaction between the performers and the audience is far more entertaining then the play by Beckett "Waiting for Godot" when it is performed open to anyone logged into the chat room at the Digital Storytelling Festival in Crested Butte, CO (Rosenberg, n.d.)."
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"Grapes of Wrath" and "Waiting for Lefty", 2001.
This paper analyzes the topic of labor disputes by comparing "Grapes of Wrath" with "Waiting for Lefty".
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A comparative analysis of the history of labor disputes in a changing American society by looking at the novel "The Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck and the play "Waiting for Lefty" by Clifford Odet. The rise of trade unions and a representation for the workforce was not an easy process and this paper looks at this through these two literary works.
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"Labor in America has been described as a stabilizing force in the national economy and a bulwark of our democratic society. In this past century, American labor has played a central role in the elevation of the American standard of living. The benefits, which unions have negotiated for their members, are, in most cases, widespread in the economy and enjoyed by millions of our fellow citizens outside the labor movement. The working people of America have had to unite in struggle to achieve the gains that they have accumulated during this century. Improvements did not come easily. Organizing unions, winning the right to representation, using the collective bargaining process as the core of their activities, struggling against bias and discrimination, the working men and women of America have built a trade union movement of formidable proportions. Two such stories capture our attention during the discussion of this paper. First is John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, an outstanding portrayal of the theme that people have always had to adapt to changing times. The second is a play Waiting for Lefty by Clifford Odet. "
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The Kin of Atta Are Waiting for You, 2006.
A review of the utopian novel "The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You" including synopsis of plot and biographical/critical material on the author.
4,008 words (approx. 16.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 108.95
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This essay includes a thorough analysis of the plot and thematic content of the utopian novel "The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You" as well as extensive biographical information, a detailed history of the author's writing, and a critical analysis of Bryant's overall career.
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"The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You is an utopian novel by Dorothy Bryant, published in 1971. The narrator, whose name we never learn, is an unsavory, malicious, degenerate man. A famous author of best selling books, he has myriads of female fans ready and willing to sleep with him. The book opens with a violent scene in which he murders one of these women, Connie, after casual sex. She had dared to object to his dismissive attitude toward her. Her demand to be seen as a person enraged him. Regularly plagued by nightmares, and stoned at the time, the author is unsure whether he has invented this character for one of his books, dreamed the murder, or really strangled her. In a panic, he leaves the body and runs away. Attempting to escape he drives aimlessly. Overwhelmed by conflicting voices in his head, uncertain if he is awake or dreaming, he loses control of his car on a mountain road. After the crash he could be dead, or having another nightmare, or just seriously injured. The wavering space between dream and reality haunt the entire novel."
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Samuel Beckett' s "Waiting for Godot", 2001.
A analysis of the theme of the anguish of waiting and the theme of existentialism.
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This essay explores the existentialist theme in Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" and how it is used in the play.
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"In Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot, Existentialism is the prevailing source of inspiration.
Beckett uses his characters to show that waiting is truly anguish and one must actively pursue the
meaning in their life. This essay explores both existentialism as well as its use in this play."
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"Waiting for Godot", 2007.
A discussion on Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot".
1,336 words (approx. 5.3 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 44.95
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This paper introduces and discusses Beckett's play. It focuses on slavery and its representation throughout the play. It also discusses how Beckett's characters mirror society and humanity. The paper offers quotes from the text to qualify points made.
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"Lucky is a pathetic character, and that is another characteristic of slaves. They are used by others and pitied by others. Lucky is pathetic because of the way Pozzo treats him. Pozzo says at one point, " POZZO: No no, he never defends himself" (Beckett). That sums up Lucky and his life. He just takes what he is given and does not defend himself, or stand up for himself. That is what makes him so pathetic. It is not because he is a slave; it is because he simply will not do anything to make his life and his situation different. That is why he is stricken dumb in the last act of the play. He does not need a voice, because he rarely uses it. Pozzo is blind because he is blind to the suffering of others, and Lucky is dumb because he does not speak up for himself."
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