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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Halloween were two low-budget films that had a lasting impact on the horror genre. Given their low budgets these movies were commercial successes, leading to the development and creation of the slasher subgenre of horror. With a budget of under $100 thousand, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre grossed almost…

This paper will be a two-part personality analysis of Jenny from the movie Forrest Gump (1994). Jenny is the childhood friend of the movie’s lead character Forrest. After the death of her mother when she is five, Jenny is left to the mercy of her abusive father until she goes to live with her grandmother….

This first article sis about many different ways the government attempts to restrict the limits of our first amendment rights. This includes the fighting words doctrine, of which may restrict someone‘s right to express anger towards another using such means as curse words or raising the middle finger. Although having acts and laws that prevent…

Kant: The Humanity FormulaFew formulas in philosophy have been so widely accepted and variously interpreted as Kants injunction to treat humanity as an end in itself(Hill, 38). Immanuel Kants views, as elucidated in his book, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, are based on the belief that people count by prohibiting actions which exploit other…

Thoreau had some serious problems with he way the United States was run. He was an outspoken opponent of slavery and bitterly opposed the Mexican-American War, which he viewed as an act of American aggression. In protest, Thoreau refused to pay his poll taxes. He spent a night in jail for this offense in 1848….

The two stories being compared in this paper are “I’m a Fool” by Sherwood Anderson and “The Lesson” by Toni Cade Bambara. “I’m a Fool” was first published in 1922 and “The Lesson” was first published in 1972. This paper will compare the two styles of the stories. In the first story, “I’m a Fool,”…

While nature may seem idle, it is also omnipotent; consequently, its progression and balance may often be too complex for mankind to comprehend. This lack of comprehension, as Aldo Leopold describes in his essay “Thinking Like a Mountain”, results in fear. In retrospect, it makes sense; unfamiliarity and fear are often synonymous in many forms…

In tough situations, the end may seem too distant to visualize. Traveling down the road, bumping into unwanted obstacles, sometimes it may be easier to just give up rather than continue. But behind every goal is a purpose, a reason, the source of motivation which fuels a person’s ambition and desire to continue forward. Especially…

Jane Tompkins discusses how she prepared to teach class on colonial American literature in her essay Indians: Textualism, Morality, and the problem of History. The essay is told the first person. It’s basically a personal account of what has happened. Like any other personal journals, the essay is written in an informal voice. The words…

Math is a subject that many people avoid or find frightening. However at some point in everyone’s lives there will come a time when math is required for accomplishing a seemingly difficult task. But, with the right skill sets and practice even the most difficult real world problems can be accomplished. There is nothing in…