Essays Tagged: "recounts"

A Critical Analysis of Thomas Keneally's Schindler's List

hindler and his heroic actions in the midst of the horrors of World War II Poland. Schindler's List recounts the life of Oskar Schindler, and how he comes to Poland in search of material wealth but le ...

(5 pages) 143 0 4.6 May/1996

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

A Critical Analysis of Thomas Keneally's Schindler's List

hindler and his heroic actions in the midst of the horrors of World War II Poland. Schindler's List recounts the life of Oskar Schindler, and how he comes to Poland in search of material wealth but le ...

(5 pages) 126 0 4.1 May/1996

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

Mozart

narration by the court composer, mostly in flashbacks, of how he caused this death. Salieri recounts that while he was playing games as a boy Mozart was playing music for the King. At the age ...

(4 pages) 168 2 3.3 Apr/1997

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

A comparative essay of I Cladius by Robert Graves and Augustus by Alan Massie

e been dead for millenia.In these books a modern author assumes the role of a historical figure and recounts the subjects life and history of the time period through a first person narritive.Claudius ...

(8 pages) 58 0 5.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

America - The Decisive Years a discussion on slavery; Britain's treatment of the colonies and weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation.

e at least two voyages to the West Coast of Africa, in 1678 and 1682 (Mintz, Stephen, 2002). Barbot recounts that "those blacks" were sold as prisoners of war by their own countrymen (Barbot, 1732). B ...

(5 pages) 147 0 5.0 Jan/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Change of Character. This essay is a character analysis of Dee in Alice Walker's short story, "Everyday Use." The grade was an 85 and could have been higher if the grammer would have been better!

speaker, who is also Maggie and Dee's mother, tells the story of their old house burning down. She recounts that event and tells, "sometimes I can still hear flames and feel Maggie's arms sticking to ...

(2 pages) 221 1 4.3 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Use of Metaphor, Diction, and Symbol in Sharon Olds' The One Girl at the Boys Party

ry associated with the minds of the female gender, and the strength of the adolescent, whose mother recounts a vicarious experience that seems to stand a landmark in the social and sexual development ...

(2 pages) 121 0 5.0 Feb/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

In My Place, The Life Of Charlayne Hunter-Gault and is a good paper for people who are looking for a civil rights assignment.

signment was In My Place, by Charlayne Hunter-Gault. This book was written by Charlayne herself and recounts her life year by year until the day she decided to change history. Charlayne went against t ...

(3 pages) 31 0 4.2 May/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights

Logical and emotional thoughts of life using examples of the 25th movie.

The 25th HourThe movie "25th Hour" recounts the 24-hour period immediately prior to the start of a seven-year confinement for a convict ... this specific criminal in spite of what he has done in his past.The 25th HourThe movie "25th Hour" recounts the 24-hour period immediately prior to the start of a seven-year confinement for a convict ...

(14 pages) 54 0 4.3 Jun/2003

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

Learn everything about Catcher in the Rye. The main points of the story and a well written essay by me.

en Caulfield realizes this in J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. As Holden tells his story, he recounts the events since leaving the Pencey School to his psychiatrist. At first, Holden sounds lik ...

(4 pages) 63 0 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

A book review/summary on "The Lovely Bones" by Alice Sebold.

hance to read it.The novel is narrated by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Susie recounts the event of her murder and rape by a neighboring man. At the time of her death, the 1970s, ...

(1 pages) 82 1 5.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

This is an essay about the last days, a movie by steven speilberg. It talks about the final solution, the treatment of jews, and about concentration camps.

in which they were imprisoned.Through the eyes of the survivors and other witnesses, The Last Days recounts one of the most brutal chapters of this dark period in human history, when families were ta ...

(4 pages) 32 0 5.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II

Baz Lurhman describes 'Moulin Rouge' as "Audience Participation Cinema". Analyse the techniques he uses in the opening of the film, to remind us that "we are watching a movie"

eyes, provocative display of raw emotions, seduction, titillation and lost love. The contrived plot recounts a witty love story, revealing the tale of the meant to be together yet condemned lovers. Ch ...

(18 pages) 119 0 5.0 Jan/2004

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

Macbeth - William Shakespeare Response Journal: Act I

e story then shifts to a battlefield, where a sense of the cruelty of war dominates. As the captain recounts the heroics of Macbeth and Banquo, he particularly stresses how Macbeth courageously slaugh ...

(3 pages) 17 0 4.0 Feb/2004

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

Depression Story, Interview.

his hands shake and he works nervously with his pen on the plastic cap of his open pop bottle as he recounts some of the horrific incidents that caused his illness.Other members of the group take fewe ...

(6 pages) 131 0 4.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide

Role of Religion in "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

rmingly and deceptively simple: narrated in journalistic investigative mode, it pieces together and recounts how the Vicario brothers set about and finally avenge the honor of their sister, Angela, wh ...

(6 pages) 196 0 4.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature

Soren Kierkegaard: Stages on Life's Way

gaard realized that his philosophical theories did not fit into the mold of that time. "Kierkegaard recounts in his Journal that he led a dissolute life in his early student days and that, in doing so ...

(2 pages) 60 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Phoenix versus Phoenix Eudora Wetly, story of Phoenix Jackson

es, "A Worn Path" has a deceptively un-complex organization. The major portion of this story simply recounts the journey of an old Negro woman into Natchez (A city of southwest Mississippi on the Miss ...

(5 pages) 59 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

"Dulce et Decorum est" Wildred Owen

en's expression is mocking the high moralistic standards of soldiers dying at war. The poem recounts the vile experience of gas suffered by soldiers in action during the Great War. This poem c ...

(3 pages) 49 1 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

"Powder," by Tobias Wolff (English 1302) Literature:Short Story

ecific ski trip taken with his father, at a time when his parent's were on the verge of divorce. He recounts the day with vivid detail, telling us the reasons why his parents divorce was imminent, but ...

(2 pages) 29054 0 5.0 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers