Narrative
Essays

Framing crime drama: the police know that dockworker's union boss Johnny Friendly is involved with organized crime but cannot get any useful witness to snitch on him

Military Article Review The name of this article is "Demystifying the Title 10-Title 50 Debate: Distinguishing Military Operations, Intelligence Activities & Covert Action." The hypothesis that is presented at the outset of the article is that even though Congressional leaders have attempted to "redefine military preparatory operations as intelligence activities," those efforts are "legally and historically unsupportable" (Wall, 2011, p. 85). Moreover, the author expresses in the Abstract that Congress should "revise its antiquated oversight structure" to more accurately reflect the military's "integrated and interconnected world" (Wall, 85). Wall, who served as legal consultant for the U.S. Special Operations Command Central between 2007 and 2009, certainly has the experience and the insider's knowledge of this issue, and it comes through in his narrative. This is a unique study and the author's thesis and concerns are spelled out thoroughly.

An analysis of the influence of German Expressionism, Soviet Constructivism, and Griersonian Documentary Realism on Alfred Hitchcock's films. Films that were analyzed in these respects are The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes. Hitchcock used German Expressionism to determine what was seen on screen, Constructivism to determine how it was seen, and Griersonian Realism to elements the audience could relate to, thus allowing them to engage in the suspense on a personal level.

Last of the Mohicans has been adapted to cinematic versions many times before, which speaks volumes about the enduring popularity of the book. There is something about the novel that continues to attract modern…

From the perspective of pure plot, David Mamet's 1974 play, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, is not exactly easy to summarize, although this difficulty is formally built in to the play, itself, which quite consciously…

LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN: A SELECTIVE TIMELINE

A postmodern film studies critique of Woody Allen's 1994 film Bullets Over Broadway and David Mamet's 2004 film Spartan. The paper seeks to approach each film in terms of the auteur theory, by noting that each has a writer-director who has scripted a film with a single protagonist. The nature of Allen's identification with his playwright protagonist, and Mamet's identification with his Special Forces op protagonist, is questioned in terms of how each film examines questions of violence and duty. Postmodernism is invoked in the conclusion to show that the modernist desire to insist upon stable meaning can easily be deconstructed: David Mamet's film could be taken as an invitation for military men to place conscience over duty, leading Mamet to a conclusion where his story could be used to justify the actions of someone like Bradley Manning.

Chinese Religious & Philosophical Leaders

This paper is about treating people differently based on various characteristics. The prompt is an essay called The Double Safety Standard, by which they mean the safety double standard for men and women. Other examples of different forms of discrimination are also discussed along with the idea of society where everyone is equal.

Personal values are thought to be a combination of experience and belief, or the mixture of what a person has come to believe through what they have learned and what they may have experienced.