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Taxi Driver explores the psychological madness within an obsessed, twisted, lonely individual, who misdirectedly lashes out with frustrated anger and power like an exploding time bomb at the world which has alienated him. Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), an enigmatic, loner enters into the personnel office of a cab company. He applies as a driver…

Mankind lives in a physical, tangible, material world, which is influenced by the invisible, spiritual world around us. The present day spiritual world is just as existent as it was nearly two thousand years ago when Lord Jesus walked the earth. The Old and New Testaments reveal to us from time to time, glimpses of…

New Jersey Vs. T. L. O. Decision : Reasonable standard held to be proper standard for determining legality of searches conducted by public school officials. On March 7, 1980, a teacher at Piscataway High School in Middlesex County, N. J. , found two girls smoking in the school lavatory, which was a violation of school…

Strict Construction: Judges should use strictly legal precedent for legal opinions. This is also known as legal formalism. Broad Construction, also known as Legal Realism, involves adapting and changing the law to fit the needs of contemporary society. Impoundment is another legal term. Refusal to fund a program if he doesn’t support it. Judicial activism…

e EssaysOffred of The Handmaids Tale I have decided to analyze the main character Offred because she seams to feel trapped in this new society. She speaks very openly about the situation thats she’s in and plays her actions very well. I will do an overall analysis of her actions. Offred is a very strange…

The Rastafarian religion has roots tracing to Africa, but it became well known in the ghettos of Jamaica. In these ghettos, a boy was born who would have an everlasting effect on the religion. This boy grew up to become a famous musician who then opened the world to the Rastafarian views and spread the…

It has been almost eight years since the Exxon Valdez ran aground on Bligh Reef in Prince William Sound, Alaska, and there are still questions of whether a lesson was learned. We hear story after story about the mistakes of corporations and how the responsible parties avoid conflict and slander by using the show a…

As this election 2000 is coming, each candidate is working very hard. They are doing debates, electoral campaigns all over the country in order to get more popular votes and therefore get the electoral votes they need to be the next president of the United States. In all of the inquiries that the media did…

During the last decade the world has witnessed a staggering elevation in serial killings. To give some insight into the scale of the problem posed by the serial killer, in the United States can be gained from examining the statistics for just one year. In 1989 (the last year for which detailed figures are available)…

rtOscar Wilde, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray, makes Basil’s lifechangedrastically by having him paint a portrait of Dorian Gray and expresstoo much of himselfin it, which, in Wilde’s mind, is a troublesome obstacle to circumvent. Wilde believesthat the artist should not portray any of himself in his work, so whenBasil does this, it…