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Mulvey's theory of the male gaze and film criticism

When Mulvey (1975) wrote about the psychological importance of the male gaze, most women would have recognized in her description of the dynamics of phallocentrism and the male observation of women their own experiences.

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My personal nonverbal communication patterns and cultural influences

I began by asking friends and associates about my non-verbal traits, and was actually surprised at their views telling me that often non-verbally I was more expressive than verbally.

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Epic themes and journeys in The Grapes of Wrath

This paper discusses how the idea of the epic can be found in The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. The novel itself is an enormous work of approximately 500 pages. And in the words of Howard Levant, it is "an attempted prose epic, a summation of national experience of genre" (Levant 91).

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Vietnam's impact on the conflicting American Dream ideal

The Vietnam era began under a cloud. Kennedy had inherited a government neck-deep in covert operations and rather than check the rate at which the U.S. exercised military might in foreign countries, he accelerated it.

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The need to update affirmative action laws for modern employment

The affirmative action laws have been around since the 1960s, but now there is a need to change them due to the changes that have been seen in society.

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Ambition and exploitation in "What Makes Sammy Run" and "Mildred Pierce"

The tale of Sammy Glick has been told by Al Manheim in the first person narrative. Al Manheim is the drama critic working for the esteemed New York Record. The tale of Sammy Glick is about an uneducated boy who becomes a screenwriter from a copy buy in Hollywood back in the 1930s.

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Macroeconomic model of aggregate demand with private, public, and international sectors

Derive the aggregate demand function. List the forces (i.e., factors) which are held constant for each behavioral equation. Select four of these and, for each, explain how a change in the exogenous factor will affect the aggregate demand function.

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Enlightenment views on atheism, deism, and religious toleration

We (most of us believe) that a person's choice of religion, of congregation, of philosophy is something that each individual must decide for himself or herself.

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Early human life in the prehistoric era and hunting-gathering societies

What do historians mean by "pre-history?" What was life like for early humans during these years? There are many things that we as citizens of the modern world take for granted. First among these is probably the enormous amount of recorded information that we have at our fingertips.

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Post-traumatic stress disorder in Americans after 9/11

On September 11, 2001, America and the whole world witnessed the most recent terrorist attack of a free, democratic country, wherein the World Trade Center Towers in New York City collapsed after two planes had crashed towards the two towers.

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