John Woo has re-mixed the basic ingredients of the Hong Kong action film and created a new recipe that others try to emulate. Like a great chef he has cooked up haute cuisine using the same basic materials as his contemporaries, but has shifted the measurements so that the final result is finer and more complex. He incorporates the techniques learned from directors he has worked with and/or admires while putting his own unique stamp on the action films he creates. Woo credits his distinctive style to various events early in his life, these factors have influenced the theme and focus of thos...

• Word Count: 2769
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

These traits help create a formidable force to contrast the evil or, in the case of a play, the antagonists. ... It also complements his character in dealing with the play's antagonists. The evils of the antagonists are immediately contrasted by Othello's righteous traits. ...

• Word Count: 2635
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I. Introduction The horror movie has been a curiously gratifying medium for over one hundred years due to its almost paradoxical effects on the human mind. Since the first horror movie in 1896, people of all ages have spent precious hours of their weekends making their way to the local cinema, spe...

• Word Count: 5550
• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Normally, the classical Hollywood narrative style focuses on the conflict between protagonist and antagonist and how the protagonist accomplishes to face the antagonist (Gianette 2013). The conflict then is deepened and built up in a rising action pattern through the cause and effect relationship to come up with a climax where the protagonist and antagonist fight each other leaving one winner at the end. ...

• Word Count: 5359
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami's demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the residents were fed up. Thanks to the task force, drug arrests went up by 27%, and drug seizures went up by 50%. With that, the need for prosecutors and judges also rose. ...

• Word Count: 4899
• Approx Pages: 20

In 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miami's demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the residents were fed up. Thanks to the task force, drug arrests went up by 27%, and drug seizures went up by 50%. With that, the need for prosecutors and judges also rose. ...

• Word Count: 4953
• Approx Pages: 20

SETTING The novel is set in Oceania, a superstate that includes the continent of America and the British Isles. Most of the action takes place in London. The other setting is the village of Paddington, which is not very far from London. In addition, there are two other superstates with...

• Word Count: 3503
• Approx Pages: 14
• Grade Level: High School

Loneliness Webster's Dictionary defines the word loneliness as 'being alone and without companions'. That definition perfectly describes the feeling and atmosphere of John Steinbeck's novel "Of Mice and Men". Steinbeck describes brings his readers into the lives of two lonely farm workers and descr...

• Word Count: 3171
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

What do you think of when you hear about the early American frontier? Do images of rifles or coon-skin caps come to mind? Or do you ponder the idea of covered wagons, the Oregon Trail, and pioneers and Indians? How about cowboys and horses, stage coach robbers, little towns in the middle of no where, or the first railroad crossing the United States? It is interesting to see how each person, or generation of people for that matter, has developed their own interpretation of the early American frontier and what its values and ideals stood for; and although as years go by and the representatio...

• Word Count: 3770
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School

"As You like It" was written by William Shakespeare, and published by the Penguin Group in 1963.The play is 138 pages. "As You Like It" is a happy, romantic Shakespearean comedy. It is a pleasurable play filled with witty language and unique characters. Its love of nature, love of falling in love,...

• Word Count: 3271
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

1. INTRODUCTION 2. NEUROENDOCRINE CONTROL OF REPRODUCTION 3. HYPOTHALAMIC-HYPOPHYSEAL CIRCULATION 4. THE HYPOTHALAMUS AND GnRH SECRETION 5. PHYSIOLOGY OF GONADOTROPIN SURGE 6. CONTROL OF GnRH PULSES ...

• Word Count: 9441
• Approx Pages: 38
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

I. Introduction While working on a draft of this essay, a copy of Chao Xi's [Chinese characters?] new book, Corporate Governance and Legal Reform in China (2009) came across my desk. The existence of such a book, published in English, written for a specialized area of legal practice, is an important marker. Over the past twenty years, Chinese law has undergone a truly astounding metamorphosis. ...

• Word Count: 9567
• Approx Pages: 38
• Has Bibliography

James Otis The Revolutionary War brought out dynamic personalities of men, which have made freedom a reality for us. One such man was James Otis who had a sincere concern for liberty and who believed in man's singular sovereignty, while publicly guarding against the practice of absolutism in go...

• Word Count: 2505
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The essay "Militaries and Revolutions,"" by Zoltan Barany tries to explain the various input factors that could successively lead to an accurate prediction of the militaries response for or against in regards to a civil revolution. The essay highlights a multitude of variables both internally and externally that could lead to military's decision whether to be in favor of or against a revolution against the status quo regime. The essay highlights critically four main category variables that are suggestive of the action or decision a military might make upon these bases, namely the military...

• Word Count: 2665
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

According to Webster's dictionary the definition of conflict is a: competitive or opposing action of incompatibles: antagonistic state or action (as of divergent ideas, interests, or persons) b: mental struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or external or internal demands. ...

• Word Count: 2651
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography

Before 1960 it was very uncommon to hear of the "contemporary Spanish American novel": there were Uruguayan, Ecuadorian, Mexican or Venezuelan novels. However, during this decade, a literary explosion of Latin American literature took place named "The Boom." El Boom "was simply the discovery of a ...

• Word Count: 2611
• Approx Pages: 10

How C.S. Lewis uses love and enchantment to communicate the major Christian theme of good and evil In a writer's world, it is important to discern the audience and write in detail to pay attention to the surrounding culture and community around us. C.S. Lewis, an acclaimed author of fiction and the creator of the famous Narnia series, puts these ideas into action persuasively and effectively. He interweaves his ideas of love, enchantment, and Christian theology into almost all of his fictional books, especially the Narnia children's novels. ...

• Word Count: 3600
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

At the opening of the Lord of the Flies, a plane, transporting a group of boys from England is attacked and crashes in the jungle. Two boys, Ralph and Piggy, meet and make their way to the beach. Upon their arrival, they discover a conch shell near the water. Using the shell as a trumpet, Ralph summons the remainder of the boys to an assembly. A large number of boys, varying in age, emerged from the jungle, accompanied by Jack Merridew and his choir, marching in military formation. ...

• Word Count: 7266
• Approx Pages: 29
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In a quest for developing the ideal society, economists like Karl Marks and Adam Smith have developed extremist's economic models that propose the recipe for structure, balance and social welfare. In modern society, the amount of wealth possessed dictates a person's social class, position, and influ...

• Word Count: 2880
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography

In a short essay entitled "Musica Practica,"" semiologist Roland Barthes wrote that "there are two musics (at least so I have always thought): the music one listens to, the music one plays."" The former requires the individual to be passive "acting as a point of reception for a stream of melodies...

• Word Count: 3080
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

 The Life and Death of Détente: Nixon, Carter, and Reagan, 1968-1988 "If we can learn to live together on these issues and work together and negotiate on these we may change the world. In the end, what it has to do with is the survival of the United States and with it, the...

• Word Count: 3059
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien is set in a fantasy world that has differences, as well as similarities, to our own world. The author has created the novel's world, Middle Earth, not only by using imagination, but by also adding details from the modern world. Realistic elements in the book enable...

• Word Count: 2796
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

During this era the majority of the Iranian people became fairly antagonistic towards American influence in their country, this lead to a variety of Islamist fundamentalist movements emerging during the 1960's and 1970's. ...

• Word Count: 3432
• Approx Pages: 14
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Romeo and Juliet is ultimately a play of choices, some ill-timed, some ill-fated, but all freely made". In a close analysis of the play discuss the truth and accuracy of the statement. William Shakespeare's play, Romeo and Juliet, is one of the greatest love stories of all time. The play was written around 1595, but the story has proven to be timeless. The play is a story of forbidden love that is resolved in two tragic deaths. ...

• Word Count: 2629
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

The Two Towers John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (J. R. R.) was born on January 3, 1892, in Bloemfontein, South Africa. While he was at Pembroke College, Oxford, as a Professor of Anglo-Saxon from 1925 to 1945 and then, until his retirement in 1959, he was a professor of English language and literature....

• Word Count: 2853
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School