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The Question of Human NatureThe question of human nature has haunted mankind for years: are we born with genetically predisposed characteristics and behaviors, or are we born as blank slates, our characteristics and behaviors to be determined?
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Postmodernism in The MatrixThe Matrix is a film bursting with imagery and ideas that attempt to convey the principles of Baudrillard's postmodern theory.
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Art Coelho's My First Kill: The Queering of Gender Roles and Sexual IdentityThe varying forms of sexual desire and the question of gender identity are explored in Art Coelho's short story, "My First Kill," under the guise of a twelve-year-old boy's experience with his first automatic rifle.
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Psychoanalysis in LiteraturePsychoanalysis's true strength lies deeper than its simple ability to analyze literature; instead, it is psychoanalysis's ability to inspire a greater consciousness among people which is admirab
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The Ever Present Hypocrisy and Dystopia Within More's UtopiaOne would imagine that an ideal society would be free of such injustices as religious persecution and any other form of discrimination or judgment, but Utopia is a place where all these non ideals not only exist, but thrive.
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DeLillo's White Noise: Media as Culture in American LifeDeLillo's fascination with exploring American culture is no secret, and though he has been criticized for including lists of products and brand names in his novels, these lists are essential to understanding the lives of the characters in White Noise.
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Examining Karl Marx, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, and Emile DurkheimWithin the realm of social theory, the common thread that serves to bind Karl Marx, Max Weber, Sigmund Freud, and Emile Durkheim together as valid today is their collective interest in explaining the ever-present misery lurking within modern society.
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André Gide's The ImmoralistAndré Gide's The Immoralist is a fairly conventionally structured novel, with a concrete beginning, middle, and end.
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Time's Meandering Borders: Cunningham's The HoursThe Hours ruminates over the inescapability of time within the self - that each day is temporary but has the potential to exist forever in the mind due to the whims and motives of the individual.
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Social Consequences of the Great Depression in American TheaterExamining trends in American theater during the Great Depression, one finds that social concerns are loudly voiced in numerous works, thus showing that plays served as a reflection of the problems caused by the economic collapse of the 1930s
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Ten Reasons Why You Should Not Buy a Pan-Style Litter Box for Your CatWhy settle for your grandmother's cat litter box when your cat could be sitting pretty in any number of technologically advanced cat boxes? Pan-style litter boxes might be the most obvious choice, but they're also the worst.
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Postmodernism in the Film AdaptationAdaptation is a film which deftly mixes the present with not only the past and future, but also with the imaginary, which often takes the viewer by surprise.
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Chavez's The Last of the Menu Girls: A Queer ReadingThe Last of the Menu Girls presents the realities of the people and places that Rocio Esquibel, the protagonist of the novel, has known throughout her years.
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Analysis of Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala LettersThe main relationship explored in The Mixquiahuala Letters is the enduring friendship between Teresa and Alicia.
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Reading Monique Truong's Book of SaltIn The Book of Salt, salt figures prominently in the life of the cook Binh: not only as the source by which his past and present are revealed, but also as the source that enables him to understand and be understood by others
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Spike Lee's Bamaboozled: The Power of Images in SocietySpike Lee's Bamboozled is a film so rich with meaning that it can seem a little daunting to peel back the layers to get to the film's resounding message; the film implores the audience to consider what affect images and people have on each other.
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Reading Carole Maso's AVAThe only way to read Carole Maso's Ava, perhaps, is to forget the form that novels have taken traditionally, to forget the way language has been manipulated before, to immerse yourself completely in the text.
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Reading Ian McEwan's Atonement: A Closer Look at BrionyBriony demonstrates a strange combination of childishness with maturity; though she is clearly intelligent enough to consider something at some length and depth, that which she considers is as ordinary and self-evident as her own hand
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Fragmentation of Form and Content in Mary Swan's The Deep and Carole Maso's AvaBy tracing the fragmentation of form and content through Mary Swan's The Deep and Carole Maso's AVA, one can understand how the authors establish a symbiotic relationship between form and content in their stories.
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Ten Reasons Why You Should Not Buy Jonathan Product's Add Moisture Shampoo & ConditionerJonathan Antin may be getting famous for his haircuts on Bravo's "Blow Out," but he has a lot to learn about hair products. Jonathan Product leaves a lot to be desired, from the flimsy bottle to the sub-par formula within.
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Ten Reasons Why You Should Not Buy Benetint by Benefit CosmeticsBenefit loves to tout Benetint as "the original" stain, having cooked it up in 1976, but let's remember that original doesn't always mean best, especially when newer technology has revolutionized make-up.
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Reading Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus: Faustus as Flawed EverymanIn this reading of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, I examine Faustus as a flawed "everyman" character who fails to meet his own potential.
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Representation of the Transgender Experience in Literature and FilmGender roles and societal attitudes towards queerness particularly affect the transgender experience
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Consumerism and Rationalization in American SocietyConsumption is increasing due to rationalization, and rationalization is increasing due to consumption.
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Globalization: A Complex Web of Political, Social, and Cultural IssuesGlobalization, the process in which peoples are united into one global society, raises economic and idealistic questions. The issue of globalization involves the interplay of politics, social inequality, and cultural perspectives.