The Empathetic Camera: Frank Norris and the Invention of Film Editing
By Henry Giardina The story of cinema begins in violence. The first motion picture camera was constructed by Etienne-Jules Marey, a French scientist who, in…
General Research Samples - Page 2
More personal and casual than regular academic research papers, general research papers are a joy to write if you want to look deep within a chosen subject. Look over our general research paper samples to garner a sense of what it takes to write one yourself.
Mother Goose’s French Birth (1697) and British Afterlife (1729)
By Christine A. Jones Unlike the Brothers Grimm, who recently metamorphosed from children’s story collectors to godfathers of gore for the fairy-tale series, Grimm, Charles…
When Chocolate was Medicine: Colmenero, Wadsworth, and Dufour
By Christine A. Jones In the seventeenth century, Europeans who had not traveled overseas tasted coffee, hot chocolate, and tea for the very first time.…
Lost in Translation: Proust and Scott Moncrieff
By William C. Carter Although Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff’s translation of À la recherche du temps perdu is considered by many journalists and writers to…
Animals in Sports and Entertainment
(…) In primeval times, humans had domesticated certain species of wild animals, making them serve their needs: food supply, clothes, transportation, agriculture, and working in…
Procrastination
(…) It is a paradox, to some degree, but technologies, along with increasing the efficiency of individuals’ performance in all spheres of everyday life, at…
Midlife Crisis
(two pages dedicated to the degree of the subject’s scrutiny) (…) However, since the term has been first introduced in 1965, significant changes in the…
The Authority of Television: The Oprah Winfrey Show
TV talk shows can be rightly called one of the most popular modern attractions, and The Oprah Winfrey Show remained the most popular of them for the…
Noren Ramus’ Three Lives as a Poet
Free general research paper sample and example, Noren Rasmus. Learn, understand, how to write.