Essays Tagged: "pawns"

A short analysis of the 1950's film, Sunset Boulevard

e star system. It also takes the viewer inside the studios and depicts studio executives and studio pawns. It is a look at the writer and the game of writing and filmmaking in Hollywood. It depicts a ...

(2 pages) 114 0 4.7 Apr/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

This essay is about the causes and consequences of German reunification. The fall of the Berlin wall.

man people were never really in favour of a division in the first place . After the war they became pawns in a bigger game; one played by two opposing forces, the Western Allies on the one side and th ...

(6 pages) 229 1 4.2 Mar/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History

Arthur Miller's "The Crucible".

ness. She treats the girls with no regard for their feelings or well bein g, almost as if they were pawns. To her, their only purpose is to amuse her or protect her from punishment. "Let either of you ...

(2 pages) 55 1 4.7 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

To what extent, and by what means, did Hitler create a totalitarian regime?

itical authority over every aspect of 'life'. By suppressing opposition and making individuals mere pawns of the state this was partly achieved. Several strategies quickly ensured civilian support, wh ...

(4 pages) 69 0 3.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History

The Kennedy Conspiracy

in alliance with the Cuban exiles.By the time the Kennedy's came to power, organized crime and its pawns in organized labor, like Jimmy Hoffa and the teamster's union, had become enormously powerful ...

(12 pages) 127 0 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Presidents

Summary and respose "The Bicycle Thief" by Vittorio de Sica

ghout the city, the only glitch is that it requires a bicycle. He says he can get one, with that he pawns his family's linens to acquire a bicycle so that he can support them. During his first day on ...

(1 pages) 29 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Review of The Graduate

ime, a decade of political identification such as sexual and racial, The Graduate establishes clear pawns, and allows dualistic sympathy for either party in conflict. In the end, the liberal force suc ...

(3 pages) 76 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Evils of war

onetary gain, bloodshed and a means of justifying pride in one's country.Soldiers are just like the pawns of their governments in the war moved on the chessboard battle-fields; they think that it is g ...

(2 pages) 35 2 2.6 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Obasan by Joy Kogawa - Racial prejudice leveled against members in a society has a adverse effect on members inside.

in which the Japanese are weak even if they outnumber their attacker. "There are fifty small yellow pawns inside and three big blue checker kings. To be yellow in the Yellow Peril game is to be weak a ...

(4 pages) 57 0 2.0 Dec/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Parallels Between "Animal Farm" and Soviet History.

nd the events that occurred. The author, George Orwell, does this by using animals on a farm as the pawns of the Russian Revolution. Although this novel is seen as a well-written classic, the importan ...

(3 pages) 17 0 0.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

Haig and the Somme, GCSE coursework questions.

tes Haig's incompetence and incapability, and shows that he viewed his soldiers as little more than pawns in his grand scheme. Although he refers to the seemingly unavoidable high-casualty lists as 's ...

(20 pages) 37 1 2.5 Sep/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

Child Custody after Divorce.

n fit into this whole new life that is being created? Unfortunately children often become financial pawns in a divorce when child custody issues are being decided.When dealing with child custody there ...

(7 pages) 65 1 5.0 Jan/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Issues

The Big Red One

Fuller is trying to portray is the fact that the 1st infantry division is used in the same way that pawns are played in the game of chess in which there are many examples to support this throughout th ... Another way the American combat soldier is portrayed in this movie is that they were uses as pawns just as a pawn is used in the game of chess. It does not matter if you loose a pawn as long as ...

(6 pages) 1404 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Deeper philosophical meanings

od he was. He used Pentheus and a kind of sacrifice, and the women he drove to the mountains as his pawns. He used to women because he knew that the true power in the city lay in the women of the hous ...

(3 pages) 1102 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature

Eight men out

ic Gandil behind the fix. Players like Buck Weaver and "Shoeless Joe Jackson", who are portrayed as pawns in a game of chess, are overwhelmed by the gamblers and other players involved. One cou ...

(8 pages) 10 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Hamlet spying and deception

stern to spy on Hamlet.Although they are supposed to be Hamlet's schoolmates, Claudius uses them as pawns in his attempt to reveal what Hamlet is doing. Claudius gets Rosencrants and Guildenstern to a ...

(3 pages) 5001 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Hamlet

The Relationship Between Gene & Finny Is A Microco

lled by over-glorified lies, which enthrall the youth to join the war effort, where they are merely pawns in a global conflict. The misconception of war that the youths' have parallels their fear of t ...

(9 pages) 3 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

HOMECOMING- Bruce Dawe

sents war from a different perspective - the fallen soldiers. Soldiers should not be conscripted as pawns to fight a war for disputes between governments, as life is very precious; everyone deserves t ...

(1 pages) 25 1 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

The Graduate

ime, a decade of political identification such as sexual and racial, The Graduate establishes clear pawns, and allows dualistic sympathy for either party in conflict. In the end, the liberal force suc ...

(7 pages) 23 0 1.7 Apr/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Downfalls Caused by Weakness

ia into spying on Hamlet. Polonius demonstrates that he is capable and willing to use his family as pawns, as well as do anything to keep Claudius happy. Polonius’ relationship with Claudius is n ...

(8 pages) 6268 0 5.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama