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Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace: Summary, Analysis & Characters

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)January 26, 2012Leave a comment

Everyone has their own secrets, including their own reasons for having them. Alias Grace is a story about a girl who may have many of her own secrets. Grace Marks could be a magnificent story-teller: a deceitful young woman who is very good at manipulating people to get her way. Or, Grace’s story could be…

In the Valley of Elah Movie: Review & Summary

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)January 26, 2012Leave a comment

When first seeing this movie, an audience member may believe that it is only about war, and how it can cause a person to completely change. But it is also about family, and finding justice. There are a lot of difficult scenes to watch, and they do not fail to show the true difficulties of…

Autumn Sonata Movie: Review & Summary

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)January 26, 2012Leave a comment

The film “Autumn Sonata” is a terribly sad story about the relationship between a mother and a daughter, and shows how much a childhood can influence the way one grows up. This film is about facing and overcoming challenges, it is also about relationships that seem to be fine, but are very tainted. The meaning…

Claude Oscar Monet: Biography & French Impressionist Painter

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)August 24, 2011Leave a comment

Claude Oscar Monet was born November 14, 1840 in Paris, France. The initiator, advocate, and leader of the Impressionist style, Claude Monet’s many works of art serve as the definition of the Impressionist’s artwork. His father, Adolphe Monet, a grocer in Paris, brought the family to Le Havre when Claude was five. Struck by the…

Who is Charles Foster Kane? (Citizen Kane)

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)August 24, 2011Leave a comment

The story of Citizen Kane drew many people to the theatres since they wanted to find out who this Kane fellow is or was. It is unarguably one of the best films ever produced. Orson Wells portrays Kane as mysterious person but also a sad person. The different accounts are shown throughout the movie through…

Cathedrals of the 12th Century: Medieval Gothic

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)August 24, 20112 Comments

For nearly four hundred years Gothic style dominated the architecture of Western Europe. It originated in northern France in the twelfth century, and spread rapidly across England and the Continent, invading the old Viking empire of Scandinavia. It confronted the Byzantine provinces of Central Europe and even made appearances in the near East and the…

Camille Claudel: French Sculptor & Graphic Artist

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)August 24, 20111 Comment

Camille Rosalie Claudel was born on December 8, 1864 into a modest family, and she was the first daughter; Henri was the oldest, but died in infancy. Louise was born in 1866 and Paul in 1868. The family moved to Paris from the Champagne region in 1881. Camille didn’t quite get along with her mother…

Berthe Morisot: Biography & Impressionist Painter

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)August 24, 2011Leave a comment

Berthe Morisot, a French painter was born in 1841 into a wealthy family. Morisot started to receive painting lessons from Joseph-Benoit Guichard, and soon became interested in Impressionism. Morisot had married Eugene Manet and was declared sister in law of Edouard Manet. Though she was inspired by him and he was her mentor, she clearly…

Peter Weir’s The Last Wave: Movie Summary & Analysis

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)August 23, 2011Leave a comment

In the film, The Last Wave, the director is trying to communicate the idea of a culture within a culture or sub culture. The dominant culture in the film is the white members of society living in Australia. The subculture in the film is the Aborigines who were natives to the land before the white…

Blues Music: History & Origins

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)August 23, 2011Leave a comment

Blues is a very important type of music. Most music that you hear today has some form of blues in it. If it wasn’t for the blues there wouldn’t be any rock and roll, country, rap, pop, or jazz. Blues is also important for African American culture. African Americans were also the people who started…

The Truman Show: Movie Summary & Review

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)August 23, 2011Leave a comment

The Truman Show is a movie about a man who is held captive inside a world that revolves around him. Truman Burbank, the main character has been raised on a huge TV Soundstage filled with hidden cameras and actors who pretend to be his friends and family. This world is one where he is literally…

Winslow Homer: Biography & American Landscape Painter

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)August 9, 2011Leave a comment

Winslow Homer is said to be one of the greatest and most recognized artists of the 19th century. Homer has certainly earned his rightful place in the history of American art as well as a place in the history of American Culture. Winslow Homer was born in Boston to a well- established New England family. …

Jacob’s Ladder: Movie Summary & Review

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)July 7, 20111 Comment

Jacob’s Ladder is a film which draws specific conclusions on exactly what takes place in a person right before death, and the afterlife which await them. Hell is seen as a temporary stop where people’s memories and attachments are taken away so that they can enter heaven cleansed of their past life in order that…

The Shining: Jack Torrance Character Analysis

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)July 6, 20112 Comments

The story take place in Colorado and begins with Jack Torrance, going to a place by the name of “The Overlook Hotel” to be the caretaker over the winter months, because of coast of keeping a twenty-five mile road, in which it take to get to the hotel open, because of all the snow. To…

The Star Wars Trilogy: Complete Summary

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)July 5, 2011Leave a comment

The First of the three part series, Star Wars, is the tale of a band of heroes who team together for the good of the universe and the money. The story begins as Princess Leia is held hostage by the Galactic empire in order to crush the rebellion against them. During the attack on Leia’s…

Michael Moore: Writer & Film Director

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)June 21, 2011Leave a comment

Michael Moore is a writer and film director who stands up for the blue-collar, working class people. In his film, ‘Roger and Me’, he shows how these groups of people are mistreated and disregarded by the stockholders and the company chairman of General Motors. Moore shows that corporate America is the “American dream” perfected and…

Porgy and Bess: Opera Summary

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)June 20, 2011Leave a comment

Porgy and Bess symbolizes the end of the black musical tradition that flourished in the early part of this century. The play showed the height of white appropriation of what had previously been a black cultural form. All the creative talent backstage was white. This development had been occurring slowly, throughout the 1920’s, but black…

LONESOME DOVE: Mythic vs Realistic

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)June 17, 20111 Comment

While Larry McMurtry honors certain mythical features of the “Old West,” his epic, Lonesome Dove, is the quintessential representation of the realism of the “Old West.” By contrast, mythic representations of the “Old West” tend to look absurd and silly. Stories such as the one portrayed in the film “True Grit” appears to be ridiculous…

Katharine Hepburn: Biography & Actress

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)June 17, 20111 Comment

Kathrine Hepburn, the winner of more acting awards than any other actress in history, is a very dynamic woman. She was born in Hartford Connecticut, on May 12, 1907. She was the second oldest child of six. Kate,as she was called by her family members, had two sisters, Peg and Marion, and three brothers, Tom,…

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest: Power Structure

Media & ArtBy William Anderson (Schoolworkhelper Editorial Team)June 13, 2011Leave a comment

Peoples’ ability to use power to control and manipulate situations and people is a skill not many people have. Unfortunately this skill can lead to conflict as it did in Ken Kesely’s novel, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, when McMurphy and Nurse Ratched meet each other. McMurphy has been after Nurse Ratched’s power right…

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