In 1984, Thompson falls in love with a porno star at the time, which he probably met at one of his many Playboy Mansion Visits. 1985 brings another film, a half-hour long documentary illustrating Thompson's writing, and two lecture stops. ...
Autobiographical accounts of Fitzgerald relay that he lived a virtual playboy existence marked by excesses in spending and liquor, wild parties and associations, etc. This playboy lifestyle ends up being personified in the life Gatsby leads - the wild parties, free associations, mansion home, etc. ...
Pulp Fiction and Religious Thought "Pulp Fiction" has become the "Citizen Kane" of this generation. It has inspired thought and questioned movie-making logic, as we had previously known it. Quentin Tarantino wrote and directed this film, which has been a cult classic since its conception in 1995. Many people will tell you what makes Pulp Fiction amazing is it attention to detail, while others might say it is the way the story's explained. Quentin Tarantino put in every detail that someone coming out of his movie might question, but it is t...
Webster's College Dictionary defines feminism as "a doctrine advocating social, political, and economic rights for women equal to those of men; a movement for the attainment of suck rights- (Random House, 2000: 484). The act of doing whatever is necessary to attain equal treatment and the ability to live independently without a man in one's life are definitions that society has come to know feminism by (Humm, 1997). While many women wish to be equal, they also demand a certain degree of chivalry and politeness from the men that cross into their lives. Chivalry and feminism are not...
John Aristotle Phillips is an Obscure Individual. He graduated from Princeton in 78', repeating his senior year. He transferred to Princeton for his sophomore year, and landed an exclusive spot on the academic probation. He got average grades, and was on the path to flunking out. Then he did something that anything less of a genus couldn't accomplish. ...
AMARICA IN THE 1960"S The sixties were an exciting, revolutionary, turbulent time of great social and technological change: assassination, unforgettable fashion, new musical styles, "Camelot", civil rights, women's liberation, a controversial and decisive war in Vietnam, the antiwar protest to go along with the war, space exploration and the space race, peace marches, flower power, great TV and film and sexual freedom, and of course the great baby boomers. The sixties also showed Communism coming into the Western hemisphere and thus coming...
A Research of the Media Coverage of the War on Drugs: Marijuana: The Facts and the Media Coverage The "war on drugs" was announced by President Nixon in 1971. The media has been there since the very beginning: covering this so called war with every means at their disposal. Some feel that this media frenzy was caused, in large part, by the government of the United States of America. Others feel- that this heightened media coverage is a direct result of the consequences of drugs and drug abuse. For whatever reasons that the media was there, the participants in this pro and con ...
