Western canon

The hierarchy of evidence utilized to evaluate the strength of evidence for each article was the Oxford Centre for Evidence-based Medicine – Levels of Evidence table obtained from the Center for Evidenced Based Medicine (2009). The search engines and databases searched in the literature review were chosen to optimize the literature search for high quality evidence. CINAHL (Current Index to Nursing & Allied Health Literature) is a bibliographic search database, which contains references to…

Section D: Solution Description The proposed solution in the evidence-based practice (EBP) project is the plan to overcome an identified problem. It should be reasonable and accomplishable within the time frame and the budget constraints. The evaluation of the outcomes should be quantifiable by the empirical evidence (Roberts & Yeager, 2004). The evaluation will enable one to determine the limitations in the implementation, its correction and to support the desired effects to get the best…

Psychological practice has been transformed and critiqued for over a century. What started out as talk therapy and discussions of subconscious desires is gradually being empirically tested. Psychological practices are becoming more evidence based, leading to improved psychological assessments and treatments. This paper will be a summary of the article, “Evidence Based Practice,” as well as a critique of the strengths and weaknesses. Evidence Based Practice in Psychology (EBPP) is defined as the…

30 July 2016 Pachelbel Canon in D Major Canon, meaning regular pattern, is a kind of polyphony. A voice part of melody always chases with another voice part until the end of section or final chord. Pachelbel Canon in D Major, full Title-Canon and Gigue in D for three violins and Basso Continuo, was created by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel. It is the most famous composition in canon music. Canon refers to the song’s structure and Gigue is a baroque dance. Canon in D major, created…

her works Everything is a Human Being is an exceptionally striking piece that uses a Native American literature style as opposed to the more western-centric western literature style. Walker’s text Everything is a Human Being shows the difference between Native American and western culture and the connection between the abuse of natural resources by western civilization and the mistreatment minority peoples. Walker attains this by using intertextuality and linking the current destruction of…

Western’s a genre with a purpose For almost as long as the medium of filmmaking has existed so too has the Western first showcased in Edwin S. Porter film The Great Train Robbery. Though overall a simple film in retrospect the way in which it pushed the medium forward was revolutionary in containing a narrative. Cowboys are the initial American heroes of filmmaking which all others pull from; Westerns as a male focused genre the central genre trope of masculinity have been constructed on a…

The following essay will compare the cinematic language of the two Western classics Stagecoach (John Ford, 1939) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) while analyzing the claim that both film respectably are pioneers of the Western genre during their times proven on the basis of their original work in editing and narrative, and its influence on other filmmakers. After a brief summary of both movies, I will continue with the analysis of both, in particular with the formal…

this obsession with the past can be seen at the very beginning of the film as we follow a tumbling tumbleweed, an iconic symbol of the old west, as it tumbles through the California desert. An old Gene Autry song evokes nostalgic memories of old westerns as we hear a voice over from narrator Sam Elliot, known as the Stranger, which in tone and word choice is very reminiscent…

Western Film “For over forty years, from 1926 to 1967, Hollywood produced more Westerns than any other kind of film” (pg.243). The western film I chose was one of Sergio Leone’s famous trilogies, which included A Fistful of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. These are known as Spaghetti Westerns. The film The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly takes place during the American Civil War and follows three men on the hunt for Confederate gold. Many westerns focus…

The Searchers is a “classic” western. It tells the story of Ethan Edwards who is accompanied by his nephew Martin Pawley and their five-year-long search to find his niece after she is captured and her family killed by the Comanche Indians. Little Big Man is a “revisionist” western. It tells the story of Jack Crabbe, a 121-year-old man asked to tell his story about his life, which includes being captured and raised by the Indians and living in a white society with a variety of jobs leading him to…