Gone With The Wind

“Gone With the Wind” (1939) first originated three years earlier when Margaret Mitchell published the novel of the same name. The novel was immensely popular when it was first published in 1936 and has continued to flourish in popularity in the decades after. In recent years, a Harris poll named the book second after the Bible in terms of America’s favorite book. Even now characters, themes and portrayal of racism in the Old South are topics of much debate. The…...

Introduction "I have a different concept of producing than other producers. Some producers are money men, and others are just lieutenants. For me to produce is to make a picture. As a producer, I can maintain an editorial perspective that I wouldn't have as a director. I consider myself first a creative producer, then a showman and then a businessman. You need all three things to succeed in the business today -David O. Selznick The film "Since You Went Away"…...

“More Americans have learned the story of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction from Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind than from all of the learned volumes on this period” -Warren Beck and Myles Clowers The book Lies My Teacher Told Me was written by James Loewen. I choose to read Chapter 5: “Gone with the Wind”: The Invisibility of Racism in American History Textbooks. The chapters that I read discussed how in many of the American History…...

The Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States that began in 1861 between the North and the South, where slavery was a major cause of disunion. Lincoln was who fought for the legal status of slaves to free and end the slavery in America. Also, Lincoln declared that He would do everything necessary to keep the United States united as one country (American Battlefield Trust). Civil War changed many lives making the women to involucrate in…...

The most controversial aspect of Gone With the Wind is the film’s depiction of race relations. Though freed from the novel’s positive portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan, Gone With the Wind’s depiction of slavery remains decidedly simplistic. Adopting historian U. B. Phillip’s “plantation school” view of the institution, the film shows slaves as well-treated, blindly cheerful “darkies” loyal to their benevolent masters. Slaves are portrayed as normal employees, are rewarded with presents like the master’s pocket watch if they’ve…...

When you write a paper, you utilize some details that you have actually checked out in books, journals, on the Web, and so on. Your teacher might have told you, "Use your own words." To put it simply, even when you utilize somebody else's info, you are not allowed to use the words they wrote. You need to utilize your own. You have to state the same thing in a various way. This is called paraphrasing. For example, if the…...

This poem is by Ernest Dowson (1867-1900). Merely discussing him is a sad matter, because Dowson was both a student at Oxford for a time and a severe alcoholic whose life ended far too early. We can extend the parallel further in he was a Roman Catholic by conversion. We should not be surprised that he titled his poem in Latin; this was in the days, after all, when a knowledge of Latin was considered indispensable to a good education.…...

Notes adopted from Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama and A Short Guide to Writing About Literature Fiction: A name for stories not entirely factual, but at least partially shaped, made up, or imagined. Stories can be based on factual material (I.e., the historical novel) but the factual information is of secondary importance. Ex: Gone with the Wind. Types of Fiction: Fable: A brief story that sets forth some pointed statement of truth. Most fables involve animals endowed…...

The show business in India has actually outshined the economy and is one of the fastest growing sectors in India. However, it signed up a moderate growth of over 6 percent in 200. The industry is anticipated to grow from Rs. 166 billion (U.S. $ 3.45 billion) to Rs. 419 billion( U.S. $ 8.72 billion) by the year 2007. Movie entertainment is the most popular form of entertainment and it is this undiminished enthusiasm through the years that has actually…...

Essay about Reading How Do We Cultivate Interest in Reading?Essay about ReadingEver since I started learning to read, it has been one of my favorite hobbies. I love to submerge myself into a book and get the chance to go on adventures I never can in the real world. Usually, when I get hooked on a good book, I can’t put it down. I’m not myself anymore. My reality becomes eclipsed by something as simple, yet complex, as words on…...