Hollywood History Essays and Term Papers

Remembering The Music Of George Gershwin

Who was George Gershwin? Today, most people would answer that question by saying that he was the composer of the song that’s in the airline commercial. Although that is true, he was much more than that. Gershwin was the most celebrated and wealthiest American composer who expressed the ...

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Advertising

" has developed and supported great industries, bulwarked-"or increased- "entire economies, and changed a sufficient number of human habits" (Wood 3). Like that paragraph says, effects people in what they do and how they do it. It has effected the Kleenex company, the Nylon manufacturers and a ...

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Julia Roberts

One of the most widely known actresses, Julia Fiona Roberts, was born on October 28, 1967. This now 5’9", brown eyed, chatain clair haired girl was born in Smyrna, Georgia. She attended Campbell High School, also in Smyrna, Georgia,where she graduated in 1985. Julia’s favorite of only ...

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In Depth Analysis Of Keats’ “Ode On A Grecian Urn”

John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn” depicts a timeless theme relevant in any society throughout the history of our civilization. Through his use of movement and of language, Keats has created a work of art in its own right whose overall idea and inspiration will remain unchanged generation after ...

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Charles Manson

has been named "the most dangerous man alive." Society referred to him as the devil. They believed he was the reason society was so bad in the 1960's. The 1950's to the 1960's was uncontrollably filled with violence. Our culture was shattered by the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, ...

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Character Development In Dead Poets Society

Throughout the history of the movie industry and since man began to tell stories, there has been one dilemma. It is not the plot, nor the setting, nor any other device of writing, but that of character development. By the time our society invented the movies, character development had become a ...

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Grunge Literature

What quality in a novel is it which prompts it to be labelled as "grunge literature"? And why do so many authors of books which fall into this genre object so strenuously to the label? Grunge is the literature and fiction of young people living in inner cities around the world, it is not a new ...

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Breast Implants

One of the first uses of silicone in a medical implant came in the form of lifesaving tubes implanted into young children to funnel excess fluid from the brain into the chest cavity, where the fluid could be safely metabolized and excreted. Since these "shunts" were first used, in the late 1950s, ...

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The Scarlet Letter: Review

Adultery, betrayal, promiscuity, subterfuge, and intrigue, all of which would make an excellent coming attraction on the Hollywood scene and probably a pretty good book. Add Puritan ideals and writing styles, making it long, drawn out, tedious, wearisome, sleep inducing, insipidly asinine, and ...

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R.I.C.O

In the 1931 Hollywood film, Little Caesar, Edward G. Robinson, playing the role of Caesar Enrico Bandello (a.k.a. Rico), dies at the hands of the police while uttering his last words: "Is this the end of Rico?" While Rico's career in organized crime had been terminated, the film's implied message ...

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Analysis Of Stephen Crane's "War Is Kind"

My first impression of the poem "War Is Kind" by Stephen Crane (1871-1900) was that this young man had experienced the ferocity of war in all of its intensity. Published in the year of 1899 at the same time when America was rejoicing with the conclusion of its victorious foreign involvement, The ...

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Review Of Musical Singin In The Rain

Regarded by many as the best movie musical, “Singin' in the Rain” is an extraordinary mixture of dancing, humour and sharp observation as Hollywood takes a good look at itself. The setting is during the Twenties when films were just making the progression to sound, a time of skepticism for many ...

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Streetcar Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) is a controversial film classic, adapted from Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play of 1947. This film masterpiece was directed by Elia Kazan (his first piece of work with Williams), a socially conscious director who insisted that the film be true to the ...

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Igor Stravinsky

is considered by many the greatest composer of the 20th Century. Several composers have made breakthroughs and great accomplishments in the past 100 years, but Stravinsky has dominated nearly every trend set. He was born near St. Petersburg, Russia in Oranienbaum, on June 17, 1882. He was born to ...

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Hypnosis 2

Hypnosis: a highly controversial topic in the medical field. Capable of changing a person’s behavior, modifying daily routines, causing odd reactions to normal things, plus countless other phenomena’s. Many people believe that the mystic of hypnosis does not exist and is just a simple ...

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How Advertising Affects What You Buy

English 1A MW 4-515 Dr. Bergmann OUTLINE Thesis: Advertising has different effects on consumers, it changes their prospective on what is, and what is not, worth buying, what they buy and when they buy it. 1. How advertisers target a certain background or area for their product, and ...

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The Biography Of Husband E. Kimmel

I have chosen to review a biography about Husband E. Kimmel, USN, Ret. VA. In 1941, Adm. Kimmel was the fleet admiral to the Pacific forces at Pearl Harbour. Admiral Kimmel was accused of treason by the American government after the Pearl Harbour attack on December 7, 1941. The book The Accused, ...

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ON Doc Hollidays Death Bed

Few gunmen in history have been as notorious as the late John“Doc” Holliday. Part of the reason Doc has enjoyed such a famedhistory is because of the overall descent man he was, that is when hewasn’t gambling, drinking, and gunslinging. When Doc died he mighthave had a handkerchief, a pocket ...

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The Scarlet Letter

Adultery, betrayal, promiscuity, subterfuge, and intrigue, all of which would make an excellent coming attraction on the Hollywood scene and probably a pretty good book. Add Puritan ideals and writing styles, making it long, drawn out, tedious, wearisome, sleep inducing, insipidly asinine, ...

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The Godfather: Gangster Genre

Crime stories in this genre often highlight or glorify the rise and fall of a particular criminal, gang, bank robber, murderer or lawbreakers in personal power struggles or conflict with law and order figures, an underling or competitive colleague, or a rival gang. Headline-grabbing situations, ...

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