.... of employment for Angela Bassett (an actress) as well as Joe Kent (a stunt man) or Tisha Hackett (a stage designer). Not only does movie making provides jobs for the immediate crew but also all the people not directly involved in the movie. Some of these people include the persons working in the car factories manufacturing the vehicles used, the persons working in the furniture factories for the furniture used, and the catering service used for the food in the movie. So you can see making movies provides job security and keeps the unemployment line down. On the other hand some may say that spending this type of money on a movie is insane. The money should be used to ....

.... you think that the play itself is racist, and provides a forum in which racism can grow and become only a bigger problem. I think that this is a flawed way of looking at it. I see the play as a confrontation of a modern day problem which society still faces. Rather than providing a forum for racism to grow, the play provides a forum for anti-racism discussion, if all proper steps are taken. When I say if all proper steps are taken, I am referring to having this play taught by a teacher, who can explain the plays meaning in it's fullest so that the students do not miss any important points from it. Another point that may have been missed when the presentation was ma ....

.... the novel it is portraying important. Speilberg obviously had little, if any, respect toward the original story, by Alice Walker. He slaughtered a story most people had heard of, but never read. I thought the movie itself was rather good. It had it's own good and bad points. Up until about when Sofia left Harpo, they were almost identical. After that they are almost two different stories with the same ending. The movie was written purely for entertainment. It added a small number of scenes, but cut more than it added. Also, it emphasized different parts of the story than the book. The film is about a young black girl growing up in the south, abused by, first, he ....

.... be discriminated against. The racism was actually not gone at all, just muffled by many people's views. The 54th regiment was incorporated because people thought it would only be fitting that blacks be able to fight for their own freedom. The problem was that the blacks were still thought of as inferior individuals. This is why it took so long for a black regiment to come into existence. A good example of the racism that was still existent in the north is when the 54th met the white regiment coming back and were called "nigger"s and were taunted. Another good example was that Blacks were not allowed to go to military academies, and that is why the regiment was led by whit ....

.... the Levels of Being when he talks about naming all objects, including those that are inanimate. In this situation, Andre explains how in order to ensure that everything is treated with equal respect, everything deserves a name. He describes how, in his travels, he "met" a refrigerator who was named and a stove that was names something else. He said that in naming these objects, you would refrain from taking better care of one than the other or taking them for granted. He even made the parallel between the respect you have for these objects and the respect you would have for your wife. With all of this in mind, one must understand that this interpretation is one of th ....

.... planting in Macbeth helps to bring about an atmosphere of evil. The words of Banquo to the witches: "If you can look into the seeds of time,/ And say which grain will grow and which will not," (I. 3; 58-59) plant early in the play a conception of time as something which fulfills itself by growing---and which, the season being wrong, can swell to monstrous shape. " . . . the troubles of Macbeth's character are planted early in the play, and they foreshadow his downfall," (Brooks). In the early scenes of the play evil is scarcely visible in Macbeth, but it spreads through his soul at an alarming speed. Macbeth takes his first giant step towards complete corruption when he ....

.... been made about Oedipus as soon as he was born. Once the destiny was foretold by the gods, no amount of hope, faith, or vain effort by human beings could have prevented it. As soon as there was interference with fate, it was counteracted by the divinities. Jocasta wanted to kill the baby, so she skewed his legs together, had a servant bring him to the forest and leave him for dead. The servant does not want to carry out this deed and therefore "saves his life" by handing the baby to someone else, so that he can be raised in another city. Further, a drunken man in a tavern tells Oedipus about the prophecy, so he runs home to question his parents about his fate. Instead ....

.... source of today's laziness in children. They believe it teaches the viewer to live in a fantasy-land, where violence is permitted and bathroom humor is considered comedy. They say it will turn a mind into mush. I disagree with these thoughts. Television and cable are not just comedy shows, they offer educational background as well. Through this technological breakthrough, I can receive up to the minute coverage of breaking events around the world instead of reading about it a day late in the paper. Television offers a picture to go with the words unlike the radio. It serves as a quick and easy information source for people who work. To read about a war in the paper is nothing ....