PROPOSAL The proposed topic for this research topic is the impact of diet culture and media on eating disorders in young women in the late 20th to early 21st century. This project attempts to explore how the emergence of diet culture and an increased media presence impacted young women with eating disorders. Diet culture that […]
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Bibliography and Topic
Project Topic-Diet culture and its influence on eating disorders in the 21st century Biederman , Alyssa. My Rory: A Personal Journey Through Teenage Anorexia. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2005. Binstock, Melissa. Nourishment: Feeding My Starving Soul When My Mind and Body Betrayed Me. Deerfield Beach: Health Communications, Inc., 2001. Burns, Maree, and Helen Malson. Critical Feminist […]
WEEKLY RESOURCE BLOG
Hi! My name is Margie and I am a senior majoring in History and Political Science. I grew up in Maine, so quite a ways from Virginia. I love to be outside, read, and am a member of the swim team here at Mary Washington. I am super excited to take this course because I […]
Final Assignment
A ranking and analysis of the accuracy of the films that we watched that are based around an American war. Enjoy! CITATIONS History 329 Wiki. Accessed Tuesday December 6, 2022. http://courses.mcclurken.org/wiki/doku.php?id=329:questions:hist329–us_history_in_film–fall_2022 https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-gone-with-the-wind-1939 https://www.newsweek.com/gone-wind-80th-anniversary-15-things-you-didnt-know-about-classic-movie-1314659 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097441/ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1008415-glory https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-glory-still-resonates-more-three-decades-later-180975794/ https://www.militarytimes.com/off-duty/military-culture/2019/06/27/civil-war-epic-glory-returning-to-theaters-in-july/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104691/ https://letterboxd.com/film/the-last-of-the-mohicans-1992/ https://www.intofilm.org/films/4315 https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/details/The-Patriot/16602 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/born_on_the_fourth_of_july https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/born-on-the-fourth-of-july https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/periods-genres/film-tv/best-movie-soundtracks/1980s/born-fourth-july/ https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-best-years-of-our-lives-1946 https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/TheBestYearsOfOurLives
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ackerman, Kenneth D. Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the assault on civil liberties. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2007. “Books and Arts: Dirty Hoover; New American Film,” The Economist, Nov 19, 2011, 94-n/a, https://umw.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/magazines/books-arts-dirty-hoover-new-american-film/docview/905230120/se-2. “Fact-Checking Clint Eastwoods ‘J. Edgar’ Biopic.” All Things Considered, NPR. Hosted by Robert Siegel and Beverly Gage. December 28, 2011. […]
Primary or Secondary?
When looking at movie through a historians lens, one of the most important questions is whether the film can be used as a primary or secondary source. Though sometimes it can be difficult to determine whether a film falls under primary or secondary source category, J. Edgar is quite easy to decide. It is wholeheartedly […]
Historical Context
The FBI (or the Bureau of Investigation as it was called then) was established in 1908 at a time when there were very few federal crimes. Many of these first agents came from a law enforcement background but received no formal training from the FBI. The role of the Bureau started to shift during WWI, […]
J. Edgar Introduction
I hereby pledge on my honor that I have neither given nor received unauthorized help on this work. -Margaret Jones J. Edgar, a 2011 film directed and produced by Clint Eastwood, portrays the life of J. Edgar Hoover and his role in shaping the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The film takes the viewer through Hoover’s […]
