However 'Land of the Black Gold" can be accepted as an exception. ... Hergé's biographer, Benoît Peeters mentions that, "no book has gone through more ups and downs", than Land of the Black Gold and I agree with the statement as that aids me to differentiate the admirable aspects of the story more inherently. ... At the end of the day he is just like any other normal human being who brings out the extraordinary in the ordinary. ... However it is Abdullah's hysterical pocket tricks like his itching powder, sneezing powder that eventually leads Tintin to re...

• Word Count: 1962
• Approx Pages: 8
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In premise, it sure reminds me of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, where a small town in Massachusetts goes stark crazy over what seems to be a huge witch hunt but in this case, it's not the 1600's anymore and it's hard to believe this was the United States in 1954 under the iron-mouthed Senator John McCarthy. ... Black listing, which was a list that had prevented the people on it to acquire jobs because of the potential communist threat, made many artists whom lost their jobs were unable to acquire any more work; lives were ruined. ... McCarthy was then seen as brash and te...

• Word Count: 597
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

As the poem goes on, racism becomes more evident, especially in the third stanza, which lines portray her as an intolerant person when she is asking God to protect all of Britain's colonies including "Gallant blacks from far Jamaica, Honduras and Togoland" and while these words seem kind she then asks God to protect even more the whites. ... It is written in a tone in which the woman seems to belief she is better than everyone else and because of the social class she belongs to and her wealth, she has the right to order God and feel like she has authority over him like he was o...

• Word Count: 875
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

People would rather be in the presence of someone that they like than some person that they dislike because people favor to be in an atmosphere where hate does not present itself. ... Furthermore, I became friends with someone else when he was useful to me rather than me helpful to someone else. When I went through depression over the death of my father, my friend Long helped me to go on with my life and stopped me from inflicting any more damage to my soul and body. ... He helped me to wake up from the black hole that I had made of depression because he said things to encourage me to live ...

• Word Count: 1198
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Diaspora was completed in 1992, the first of the Diaspora trilogy, made up of 288 canvas boards in the shades of brown, red, white and black. ... It gives me the impression that "I" is referring to Tillers, but "Thou" was referring to the people during the Second World War. ... To me, it seems to be Tillers and his siblings. ... How Tillers portray the four faces with long necks, how the four faces seems to be stretching their necks to reach the word "RIGA", appears to me how they longed to be part of "RIGA", how much they wanted to go to where they feel they belong, where they can be identifi...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Once many wars were concluded the United States tried to put in a strict set of laws much like our own, the ideal behind Democracy are not bad, but what is bad is forcing countries to adapt rules without a choice, or severe consequences will take place. ... I interpret this pact much like the proverbial bully and the milk money fiasco were the bully hits kid for milk money and then the bully is punished but we all know the whiny kid will get his for telling on the bully. ... That seems like a prime example of some Orwellian terms to me. ... Once again it is ok for Democracy to spread but not...

• Word Count: 1826
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

A wide array of films including Double Indemnity (1944), and Murder, My Sweet (1944), Out of the Past (1947), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), reflect the tensions and insecurities within film noir, and counter-balance the optimism of Hollywood's musicals and comedies. It was the style of black and white American films that first evolved in the 1940s that became prominent in the post-war era, and lasted in a classic "Golden Age" period until about 1960 which was marked by Orson Welles' Touch of Evil (1958), described as the "last" film of the classic film noir era. ... It "port...

• Word Count: 1145
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the end of the conference, a skeptical journalist, Beckworth, remains unconvinced and tells Colonel Kirby, "Your brainwashed sergeant didn't sell me," to which Colonel Kirby replies by asking if the journalist has ever been to Southeast Asia. ... Though at times, Coppola does create realistic historical scenes, like the helicopter and napalm assault on Viet Cong villages that resemble the massacre at My Lai, the film's central story line of an army captain named Willard trekking across Vietnam and into Cambodia to assassinate a Special Forces colonel named Kurtz is largely unbelie...

• Word Count: 3681
• Approx Pages: 15
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate