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People live life wanting everything they can’t afford. Millions of Americans idealize famous movie actors and musicians, and wish to aspire to that degree of wealth. Many people are envious of such billionaires as Bill Gates, and tell themselves they could have done that. Everyone wants to be rich. They feel that if they had…

Analysis of Clockwork OrangeThe film, “A Clockwork Orange,” is, to me, an almost exact replica of today’s society. Basically, one kid, who seems to have come from a financially sound home and community, goes through about three stages–1. He violates the laws society has set forth to maintain order. 2. He is caught and punished…

Movie critics and philosophers alike agree that the movie The Matrix is indeed based upon certain Platonic themes from Book VII of The Republic. In this story entitled “The Allegory of the Cave,” he describes a dark underground cave where a group of people are sitting in one long row with their backs to the…

It took me many hours of thinking back to my past to figure out who or what I was going tomake a tribute speech over. Then I thought back to my childhood to what I enjoyed doing themost. I remember the great times I had with my mother, and how she would always get me…

The Fellowship of the Ring AnalysisIn J. R. R. Tolkins novel The fellowship of the Ring Frodo and his friends attempt and dispose of the Ring once and for all. By distorying the Ring it insures that the ring wont ever fall into the wrong hands and be used for evil. The center of this…

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest12-6-96General PsychologyDr. SabinIn the movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s nest, there was a character named McMurphy, played by Jack Nickolson, who was admitted into a mental institution for medical testing after having been convicted of statutory rape. It was obvious that he was only faking and he thought that…

Each war had a serious impact on the individuals surrounding it, whether it be the soldiers, Indians,slaves, women, children, and even the entire feeling of the countryside. The commonality in each of thethree films, “Last of the Mohicans,” Mary Silliman’s War,” and “Glory,” was war, but each centered on adifferent segment of the population and…

Raging Bull (1980) is not a so much a film about boxing but more of a story about a psychotically jealous, sexually insecure borderline homosexual, caged animal of a man, who encourages pain and suffering in his life as almost a form of reparation. Martin Scorseses masterpiece of a film drags you down into the…

The role of the hero in Ken Kesey’s novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, is played by Randle P. McMurphy, a wrongly committed mental patient with a lust for life. The qualities that garner McMurphy respect and admiration from his fellow patients are also responsible for his tragic downfall. These qualities include his temper,…

Ms. CooperU. S. History II19 march 2004Three Mile IslandThree Mile Island is a nuclear power plant located in Harrisburg, PA. Ithad two pressurized water reactors. One in which began its service in 1974and is the best performing reactor in the US. However its other reactor isalmost brand new and suffered a server nuke clear meltdown….