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a) French film “La Femme Nikita” is a romantic action drama based on the convicted felon Nikita, who is than trained and given a new identity as a top secret assassin. b) Writer and director Luc Bessson of drama “La Femme Nikita” directors Ann Parillaud to showcase the process of Nikita’s (Anne Parillaud) hard transformation…

1912 was the beginning of the terminal for many people ; unbeknown to the general populace the First World War would rule the lives of all. The Titanic would put canvas, but shortly come to an icy terminal, the Wall Street Crash would shortly lay waste to the economic system and the universe would be…

, Research Paper Violence and Punishment in Pulp FictionPulp Fiction, one of the most extremely acclaimed movies of 1995, was without a uncertainty a shocking and controversial film. Drugs, sex, and particularly force filled our eyes and our ears. Director Quentin Tarantino brought into the mainstream a genre that had ne’er had such mass entreaty,…

To everyone the specifics of their American Dream are different, but overall it all gets to one point…happiness; it does not matter how you get there. Even in the 1880’s happiness was the American dream. There is a definite difference in the way happiness is found today from when The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was…

            Edmund Burke’s ideology about the existence of state for the people is evidently present during his speech about conciliation about the Colonies. Burke believes that the state should work for the people and not for the people to work for the state (Auerbach, 1959, p. 57). Corruption on the side of the state blinded…

IntroductionThe American dream was created by James Truslow Adams in 1931, James Truslow Adams believed that the American dream was of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunities for each according to ability or achievement, the American dream was targeted at poor people who wanted to…

TrumanCapoteHarper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is considered a classic text because it is based on the meaning of a mockingbird, the idea of growing up, and the theme of prejudice and racism which still is a problem today. George Orwell’s Animal Farm is considered a classic text because it holds historical importance and shows…

“A century’s journey: How the great powers shape the world” For all the claims of globalization, says Robert A. Pastor, a handful of countries still define the world at the end of the 20th century–and will continue to do so in the 21st. This statement infuses new blood into the current foreign policy discussion about…

Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, a novel set in World War I, centers around the changes wrought by the war on one young German soldier. During his time in the war, Remarque’s protagonist, Paul Baumer, changes from a rather innocent Romantic to a hardened and somewhat caustic veteran. More importantly, during…

During the pre-1914 period a number of stories had a gothic theme. The Red Room, Jane Eyre and The Fall of the House of Usher are three good examples. Gothic was the architectural style of architects when they design arches and buildings. It consisted of pointed arches and steep roofs, windows larger in proportion to…