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Early Greek Art
Essay Grade: 86%   (603 words, approx. 2 pages)
Provides an analysis of early Greek architecture, sculpture, and architectural sculpture. Describes how three beliefs really define Greece and its perspective, humanism, reason and order. Details how these three beliefs are reflected in Greek art.
Early Medieval and Early Christian Art
Essay Grade: 96%   (639 words, approx. 2 pages)
A comparison of the art of the early Medieval era and early Christian art and an analysis of art's transition into the Middle Ages and its desent into the schematic.
Early Paleolithic Art
Essay Grade: 83%   (964 words, approx. 3 pages)
Provides a personal reaction and analysis of Pre-Historic art. Explores the history of Paleolithic art, known to have started around 32,000 years ago. Provides examples of some of the earliest signs of sculpture.
Early Roman Fashion and its Outside Influences
Essay Grade: 96%   (489 words, approx. 2 pages)
Roman Fashion and how the Egyptian and Greek civilizations influenced it.
East of Eden, A Film Review
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,124 words, approx. 4 pages)
Reviews the movie "East of Eden," made in 1955 and directed by Elia Kazan. Discusses the plot of the Academy Award winning film, based on the John Steinbeck novel. Compares the film to the biblical story of Caine and Able.
Editing critique of Tery Zwigoff's Ghostworld
Essay Grade: 96%   (1,430 words, approx. 5 pages)
A critical analysis of the various editing techniques used in the film, and how they contribute to the films overall effectiveness.
Educating Rita - An Examination of Complex Issues'
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,503 words, approx. 5 pages)
Discusses how in his play, Educating Rita, British writer William Russell explores a number of complex issues including sexism, identity and education.
Effect of Classical Music on Intellectual Development
Essay Grade: 78%   (137 words, approx. 1 pages)
This is an editorial about classical music and its positive effect on social, creative and intellectual development.
Effects of Supersizing
Essay Grade: 86%   (957 words, approx. 3 pages)
Discusses the film Supersize Me, a documentary by Morgan Spurlock. Describes the unhealthy effects of a fast food lifestyle. Argues that parents must wean themselves and their nearly-addicted children from fast-food and learn to teach their children good eating habits.
Egyptian, Greek and Roman Figure Art
Essay Grade: 88%   (675 words, approx. 2 pages)
Examines Egyptian, Greek and Roman figure art. Describes similarities between each style and how each is distinctly unique with their own ideas and guidelines.
Elephant, a Film Analysis
Essay Grade: 88%   (898 words, approx. 3 pages)
Evaluates the Gus Van Sants film, Elephant. Relates the film to the tragedy at Columbine High School. Discusses Van Sants' technique of Sant choosing random high school students and granting them the freedom to act as they want in this film.
Elvis Presley
Essay Grade: 95%   (1,861 words, approx. 6 pages)
Essay discusses the life and accomplishments of Elvis Presley.
Elvis Presley
Essay Grade: 86%   (699 words, approx. 2 pages)
Provides a brief biography of American rock star Elvis Presley. Traces his life from his humble beginnings in Tupelo, Mississippi to his great success in the 50s and 60s. Details the events leading up to his death.
Eminem
Essay Grade: 91%   (739 words, approx. 3 pages)
Eminem is a controversial rapper who, despite living a difficult life, and being protested against, is still very successful.
Eminem
Essay Grade: 77%   (85 words, approx. 0 pages)
Eminem about his life.
Emma/clueless
Essay Grade: 78%   (737 words, approx. 3 pages)
Clueless the movie directed by Amy Heckling, is based on the Classic Emma by Jane Austen. The film changes the original context, from a 19th C, middle class home, to the wealthy and privileged playground of L.A. teens, the movie simplifies the complex narrative that is Emma, Amy Heckling makes a valiant effort to embrace Austen's style in her different medium, and reflects many of the values represented in the original texts.
End Justifies the Means in Mississippi Burning
Essay Grade: 91%   (797 words, approx. 3 pages)
Mississippi Burning, how the end justifies the means.
Essay on the Movie "The Fringe Dwellers"
Essay Grade: 86%   (803 words, approx. 3 pages)
The character Troby in the movie "The Fringe Dwellers" experiences an identity crisis as an aborginal girl living on the fringes of white society in Australia.
Essay Outline on African Architecture
Essay Grade: 80%   (509 words, approx. 2 pages)
The following provides an essay outline on African architecture.
Ethical and Moral Issues Presented within Gattaca
Essay Grade: 83%   (707 words, approx. 2 pages)
Gattaca is directed by Andrew Niccol and the film is set out in the "not too distant future." The main ethical and moral issue presented to the audience in the film Gattaca is the discrimination of someone considering their genetic makeup, or the way they were born, if it were natural or unnatural.
Eugene Ionesco
Essay Grade: 81%   (0 words, approx. 0 pages)
A biography of the playwright Eugene Ionesco. Known as the father of the Theatre of the Absurd, Ionesco is remembered as being a great writer of bold, controversial plays about the faults of mankind, often dealing with fear, torment, and destruction. In his later years he also became a human rights activist and a supporter of the arts in Romania.
Europa Europa
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,351 words, approx. 5 pages)
Essay gives a "Europa Europa" film review in relation to a set of questions.
Eurpidies and Women
Essay Grade: 83%   (1,325 words, approx. 4 pages)
There has never been any doubt that Euripidies was interested in the nature, behavior, impact and social status of women. Aristophanes presented him as a notorious hater and slanderer of women. In our present century he is more often seen as one who excites pity for the sufferings inflicted on women by gods and men.
Evaluating Art
Essay Grade: 86%   (525 words, approx. 2 pages)
Discusses if the evaluation of art is an objective or subjective experience. Written in Spanish.
Evolution of Rock and Roll
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,521 words, approx. 5 pages)
Nearly everyone is familiar with rock-and-roll music, but nobody knows how it started. A study of rock-and-roll's origins reveals that technological advances in music, particularly the electric guitar, influenced it heavily; and that rock-and-roll evolved from numerous other styles of music, including the blues, jazz, and rhythm and blues.
Evolution of the Blues
Essay Grade: 94%   (1,682 words, approx. 6 pages)
Evolution of blues music.
Examining Ethical Decisions in Finding Forrester
Essay Grade: 83%   (612 words, approx. 2 pages)
Examines the film Finding Forrester, directed by Gus Van Sant and starring Sean Connery. Discusses the many struggles faced by main character Jamal. Examines the ethical decisions made by Jamal and other main characters.
Examining the Music of Big Fish and Cold Mountain
Essay Grade: 92%   (1,877 words, approx. 6 pages)
Compares and contrasts the musical scores of the two films Hollywood films, Big Fish and Cold Mountain. Relates the style of music to the character's moods. Details how the music serves as a plot device in both films.
Examining the Musical Score of the Film Pitch Black
Essay Grade: 92%   (2,034 words, approx. 7 pages)
Provides a highly detailed accounting of the score in the Hollywood film Pitch Black, starring Vin Diesel and directed by David Twohy. Presents the use of the score that helped give the film its substance, including running times to the very second. Examines how the electronic music complemented the futuristic film.
Exploring the Racial Divide in "Rabbit Proof Fence"
Essay Grade: 81%   (595 words, approx. 2 pages)
The movie "Rabbit Proof Fence," directed by Pillip Noyce, reveals the racism that took place between white Australians and Australia's aboriginal people. Many aborigines were displaced and discriminating against in Australia's history.
Expressionism in Drama
Essay Grade: 86%   (3,773 words, approx. 13 pages)
A reflection on the aspects of expressionism and the ways in which they can be applied in drama. Emphasis is given to three basic terms found in expressionist drama: montage, the alienation effect, and geste.
Extremities as a Whole Element
Essay Grade: 88%   (1,452 words, approx. 5 pages)
This essay describs the short play Extrwmities, by William Mastrosimone,and describes the characters as elements of Earth wind and Fire and water.
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