Alexandra Frederickson
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Eli Roth is a Good Director... And A Whiny Little B*tchAfter the recent box office "disaster" formally known as Hostel: Part II, director Eli Roth discussed the film's "failure"-oh god, a film that only grossed $8,203,391 on 2,350 screens across the country its opening weekend! What is the entertainment world coming to?!?...
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The Top 5 Crazy Hot Chicks in Films from the Past 15 YearsThat's right: crazy hot chicks. And we're not using "crazy" as an adverb to emphasize the unbelievable degree of hotness that these chicks possess.
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Politician Actors: Otherwise Known as the Guys Who Really Know How to BS PeopleFormer Tennessee Senator and Law & Order cast member Fred Dalton Thompson "unofficially" announced last month that he will "most likely" run for President in the 2008 Presidential election. -
Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon and Bahktinian TheoryDespite the literature published that presents Song of Solomon as an illustration of Mikhail Bakhtin's theories on heteroglossia and the multiplicity of language, Toni Morrison's novel also complicates the theory Bakhtin describes in "Discourse in the Novel."
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The Chemistry of Film: Exploding Movies!Imagine getting ready to watch your favorite movie. You take the DVD out of its case and put it into your DVD player. Suddenly, there's an explosion! Smoke fills the air. Your DVD player is on fire!
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The Chemistry of Film: the Exploding Entertainment MediumWhen director Brian Helgeland finally received permission last year from Paramount Pictures and actor Mel Gibson's production company, Icon, to create the film of his dreams, he was concerned.
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The Chemistry of Chocolate: An Allergy UnderstoodChocolate, seemingly so deliciously simple, is actually a complex substance that contains over 300 different chemical compounds with names ranging from the pronounceable and familiar substance caffeine to the tongue-twisting P-hydroxyphenylacetic-acid and Stearodiolein.
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Ferdinand De Saussure and Linguistic MeaningThis idea of linguistic meaning created through opposition comes from the work of Saussure, who believed that "Language is a system of interdependent terms in which the value of each results solely from the simultaneous presence of the others" (66).
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Friday Night Lights' Boobie Miles: "A Badgering but Endearing Little Brother..."The position of H. G. Bissinger with regard to Boobie Miles appears to be one of barely-veiled disdain, based on the way in which the author characterizes the young football player throughout Friday Night Lights. -
Cinematic Form and Function: Anémic Cinéma, Un Chien Andalou, and Triumph Des WillensA cinematic exploration of the form and function of Anémic Cinéma, Un Chien andalou, and Triumph des Willens.
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Crosscutting and Emotion in Oscar Micheaux's Within Our Gates (1919)Micheaux's use of crosscutting in Within Our Gates (1919) suggests not only parallelism, but also simultaneity and juxtaposition, such that the effect is to bring together two events that do not take place at the same time. -
Youtube.com: A New Independent Independent CinemaThe creation of Internet video forums like YouTube.com over the past two years has arguably redefined what has come to be accepted as the "independent film" genre.
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Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy (1969): Social/Economic Class and Urban SpaceAs early as the nineteen-teens cinematic representations of cities have been heavily invested in illustrating the relationships that exist between class-both social and economic-and urban space. -
Falling Down and Menace II Society: Urban Mobility & the Relationship Between Race and ClassThe cinematic trope of mobility, traditionally an important component of certain film genres like Westerns and gangster films, has long been a cause for anxiety within the history of visual representations of the city of Los Angeles...
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It's Good to Be IrishThe funny thing about being Irish in our culture today is how much it seems to matter, especially when March rolls around.
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Synthetic Pheromones: Are They Really Everything They're Cracked Up to Be?Get More Dates! Improve Your Sex Life!While these claims may sound like catchphrases from the subject lines of the spam e-mails we find in our inboxes each day, they're actually advertisements from the homepages of countless Web-based perfume and cologne manufacturers. -
300 Ways to Interpret Zack Snyder's "300"After seeing Zack Snyder's 300 again last night, I decided that it was time to respond to some of the dominant reactions of audiences, critics, and international politicians alike. -
The 'Film Guy'By my third day working as a student intern at The Sun Chronicle, it seemed as though I might have made a mistake in taking the position. It seemed as though I had shackled myself with the ball and chain of boredom.
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Frank Miller's 300: "Prepare for Glory!"Zack Snyder's newest film, the cinematic adaptation of Frank Miller's popular graphic novel, 300, leaves other filmic adaptations of the battles of the ancient world in its blood-speckled dust. -
Contemporary Literary Theory: Rivkin, Ryan, and 'Reality'"Reality is objective and is directly and unequivocally knowable..."
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Former Attleboro Artist Honored with Museum in MidwestA renowned artist who once ran a busy studio on Mechanic Street in Attleboro and worked as a designer and die cutter for the Robbins Company is being honored with an art museum to be dedicated in his name at Iowa State University. -
Wheaton Men and Women Join Global V-Day Effort to Stop ViolenceStudents of Wheaton College join the global movement to end violence against women and girls as part of the V-Day 2007 College Campaign. -
Going to College in My Hometown: Norton, MassachusettsGrowing up, Wheaton was simply a place a few miles from my home, a place where I went to summer camp and where each May I helped little old ladies climb into and out of golf carts as a volunteer during the college's Commencement Reunion.
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College Life and the Cell Phone PhenomenonThe controversy ignited by the Jan. 9 unveiling of Apple's newest product, the 'revolutionary' iPhone, has once again brought the issue of changing technology and its ramifications to the forefront of many people's minds.
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Norton, Massachusetts's Hidden Gem: Wheaton College's Kresge Experimental TheaterLocated in what was once considered the basement of the Wheaton College Watson Fine Arts building is the Kresge Experimental Theater...
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Your Resume: It May Include More Than You Intend to SubmitDuring the past six months, a new practice adopted by many companies when considering college students/recent college grads for jobs/internships has received increasing press coverage: screening of applicant profiles on social networking sites like Myspace.
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Seven Events in '07: Wheaton College's Performing and Visual Arts CalendarWheaton College will reopen on Jan. 23, beginning the spring 2007 semester and marking the start of the college's busy visual and performing arts calendar. The spring semester will host a wide variety of visual and performing arts events.
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Give Me Bogart and Bacall Any Day..Ask just about any other girl my age to name her favorite actors and you'll probably be bombarded by any number of Brad Pitts, George Clooneys, Johnny Depps and Orlando Blooms.
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The Poetry of Countee Cullen: "A Brown Girl Dead" and "Death to the Poor"As Harper and Walton assert in The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, Countee Cullen's poems are often considered to be "a fluid coalescence of black life and English forms" (Harper 153).
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The "Black Aesthetic" - Hoyt W. Fuller and Trey EllisComparison of the writings of Hoyt W. Fuller and Trey Ellis on the idea of a "Black Aesthetic" provides a reader with valuable insight into the development of what ultimately was the quest for black racial upward mobility.
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Examining Gender Roles: My Personal ExperimentIn order to explore gender assumptions, I decided to abandon the characteristic go-along-to-get-along attitude-often seen as an innately female way of dealing with conflict-that I use with people in situations in which some other type of conflict arises.
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You Are Not Alone: Living with Depression and AnxietyI wasn't taking Fluoxetine when I applied to Wheaton. In fact, I wasn't even taking it when I was accepted to Wheaton...
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My Crippling Terror: Public SpeakingAs far back as I can remember I've been terrified of public speaking. The irony is that I would love to speak publicly, if not for one small problem. As soon as I begin to speak, I lose my self control.
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Does King Henry V Have a Legitimate Claim to the French or English Throne?The question of whether or not Henry V has a claim to the French throne lies not in blood, as most claims of succession usually do, but rather in international law.
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Henry V starring and directed by Kenneth BranaghDespite the fact that movies are usually never quite able to capture the sentiment that lies in the written word, Henry V starring and directed by Kenneth Branagh does indeed portray Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play rather well.
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The Stylings of Two Contemporary American Writers: Tony Kushner and Billy CollinsEach artist has, logically, his own subject material, as well as his own personal tone, method of presentation, and interaction with the audience...
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Psychological Breakdowns and Illness in Society TodayHumans are biologically incapable of dealing with high levels of stress. When we are under too much stress, the cells in our hypothalamus, the part of the brain that controls our stress levels, actually start to shrink...
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Laurence Sterne's Novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy and A Cock and Bull StoryA Cock and Bull Story plays with continuity editing, exposes the apparatus of the film's production, and utilizes characteristics of the relatively new "mockumentary" genre...
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Raising the "Artists" Above the "Masses": Henry Louis Gates, Jr. And "Callaloo"Gates' assertion is particularly poignant with regard to the texts we have examined this semester, especially the black literary journal Callaloo...
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The Pit and the Ladder: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick DouglassLooking at the "horrible pit" as representative of the "mental darkness" Douglass describes, the similarities between the state of being trapped at the bottom of a pit and being without any knowledge of reading, writing, or current events...
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Black Masculinity and the Production of White MasculinityThe manipulation of black masculinity, whether through the use of hyper-sexualization or hypo-sexualization, in two of the most famous films in the history of the industry, was used to reassert a sense of white masculinity and to promote the white power structure.
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Action Films: Depictions of the Black and White Male BodyIt can be argued that one of the reasons that characters were "allowed" by Hollywood to be portrayed as hyper-sexualized studs in Blaxploitation films was because such films contain no strong white male character to overpower/overshadow a main black character.
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Postwar Japan and the Search for National IdentityJapanese architects Tange, Otani and Ebihara were driven to look back to premodern Japanese architecture like that of the eighth century during the postwar years by a desire to recreate and articulate a national identity that was uniquely Japanese.
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A Spike Lee Joint: BamboozledThomas Dunwitty, one of the many important characters in Bamboozled, is a self-absorbed, blue-eyed blonde television producer for a network called CNS...
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The Role of Masculinity in the Male Correctional SystemMasculinity plays an important role in shaping men's punishment and punishment outcomes. In fact, the role of masculinity in the male correctional system affects both prisoners and guards, and largely dictates the way in which prison facilities are socially structured.
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Gender, Social Networks, and Residential Burglary...Based on Mullins and Wright's work, the "gendered character" of residential burglary becomes extremely clear to the reader.
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Looking at Chinese Culture in Bound Feet, Western Dress: A MemoirLooking at Chinese culture as it is depicted in Bound Feet, Western Dress: A Memoir from the perspective of one raised in America in the late twentieth century, Yu-i's experience of gender as a social construction may at first glance appear to be a wholly negative one.
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The Male Use of Deviance in His Sexual ConquestsMany men used the Carpe Diem tradition to persuade women to submit to male desires. In section 61 of the poem, the speaker, a man, is addressing a woman with whom he is romantically involved in an effort to persuade her, after she has already refused, to sleep with him.
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God Be with You All: Shakespeare's Henry VHenry V expertly employs devices and ideas from both Lannon's The Writing Process as well as traditional Elizabethan Rhetoric, including the use of deliberative rhetoric, the presentation of a debatable point, and an ability to connect with his audience.
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Analyzing Youth SuicideWhen we hear the word suicide, we often think of the terminally ill, who wish to end their pain and suffering by taking their lives, or the mentally ill, who often take their lives while in the throes of depression or despair...
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Monica Ali's Brick Lane: Fate or Fiction?Brick Lane, a novel about a young Bengali girl named Nazneen, her sister Hasina, and the girls' ongoing struggle with the prominent cultural idea of Fate as a guiding principle in life, clearly illustrates the idea that character, rather than Fate, dictates our lives.
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The Unbearable Lightness (or Not) of Jedediah Purdy's Being AmericaAs Professor Josh Stenger writes in his essay "'AMERICAN' IDLES: Spinning, Disappointment and Desire in Purdy's Paradise Lost," there is indeed something "slippery and insubstantial about [Jedediah Purdy's] style of writing" (Stenger 5).
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Bush Mama Reveals State Tactics of "Absorption" and "Insulation"Bush Mama (1976) utilizes strong imagery and multiple narratives with a politically and historically informed soundtrack to reflect the ways the welfare system was used by the state as a tactic of "absorption" and the legal system was used s a tactic of "insulation."
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Female Threats in The Big SleepThe Big Sleep (1946) presents through diegetic construction and narrative treatment of its two main female characters, Vivien and Carmen Sternwood, two examples of the types of threats women posed to patriarchal order during the 1940s in the United States.
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The Astronaut Farmer: As Bad as the Title ImpliesThe premise of Astronaut Farmer is (unfortunately) exactly as the film's title suggests: a failed astronaut-turned-rancher named Charlie Farmer (Billy Bob Thornton) is building a nuclear-warhead-style rocket in a large barn on his Texas ranch.
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David Lynch's Inland EmpireFor avid David Lynch fans the five-year-long wait for another product of the filmmaker's seemingly tireless genius is finally over.