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Stephen Sondheim
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Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim is profiled in this 6 page paper. His influence on American musical theater is integrated into a history of theater itself. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: Sondheim.wps

Steven Spielberg
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A 2.5 page paper which examines the work ethics of the successful film director. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: TGspiel.rtf

Steven Spielberg’s A.I.; Is David A Conscious Being?
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This 4 page paper considers David, the main character from Steven Spielberg’s film A.I. The paper examines his behaviour and reactions to determine if he could be classified as a conscious self aware being, or his actions and reactions are merely a result of his complex programming and artificial intelligence. The paper draws form a range of arguments to explore this subject. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
Filename: TEAIdavd.rtf

STEVEN SPIELBERG: DRIVE AND MOTIVATION
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This 3 page paper discusses the successes, drives and motivations of Steven Spielberg in regard to his career as a director. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: MBsteven.rtf

Stevie Nicks
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A 3 page paper which examines the life and work of Stevie Nicks. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: RAstn.rtf

Stock Characters
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3 pages in length. The stock character has persevered throughout centuries of artistic production to remain as pertinent an element in contemporary renditions of classical tales as it was during Roman times. Such farce and parody served to comprise the fundamental aspects of Roman comedies that were actually tragedies in disguise with an undercurrent of social truth running through them. To use stock characters who depicted the village idiot, the ditsy blonde and the overbearing wife was to poke fun at the very foundation of Roman populace; that such characters continue to reflect many of the same stereotypes of today speaks to the common denominator running through Plautus's The Braggart Soldier and the 1966 film version of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: TLCStockChar.rtf

Strangers in Good Company/Women and Old Age
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A 4 page film review on Strangers in Good Company (1990, directed by Cynthia Scott), which is an insightful film that is basically a character study of eight women, seven elderly ladies and their 20-something bus driver, who become stranded in the Canadian countryside after their bus breaks down. Application of the life course theoretical perspective developed by G.H. Elder, Jr. aids the viewer in understanding the film's thematic messages. To illustrate this point, this discussion of the film focuses on what it tells viewers, as informed by the Elder's life course perspective, about the life of one of the women, Catherine Roche, age 68, a Roman Catholic nun. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: khsigc.rtf

Stravinsky's "Petrushka"
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8 pages in length. The writer discusses the musical structure of Petrushka's four tableaus. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: TLCstrav.doc

STRINDBERG’S A DREAM PLAY
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This 9 page paper discusses the various elements of August Strindberg's play, A Dream Play. Themes, symbols, characters, expressionism defined and exampled. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: MBstberg.rtf

Structuralism in the Study of Media and Culture
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This is a 6 page paper discussing structuralism in the study of media and culture. Structuralism is based on the premise that “societies and sociological or cultural practices can be analyzed, along the lines of language, as signifying systems [and within] structuralism the subject is decentered, in other words the central focus on the individual in much social analysis is replaced by the focus on the structures, of which the individual is just another element”. Structuralist methods apply to various divisions within the social sciences such as the linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure, the cultural critical of Roland Barthes, the anthropology of Claude Levi-Strauss and the psychoanalysis of Jacques Lacan. Structuralism plays a large part in the presentation and perception of the media as some critics believe that viewers can look beyond media reports by perceiving the signs throughout the text while other researchers, such as Barthes in his post-structural phase, believed that language was not transparent by in fact most communication was distorted and could not be presented otherwise. Structuralism overall, tends to assume that there is a structure or a “depth model” in which researchers can find the “truth” and in so doing are able to “stand outside language using the meta-languages of linguistic, sociological or philosophical analysis. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: TJstruct1.rtf