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Essays 301 - 330
without ever becoming preachy. Tim OBrien wrote Things They Carried, and not so coincidentally, the texts narrator was also named...
"Atomic Theory" (Taaffe, 2002). The novel begins with the frank statement "Not everybody knows how I killed old Philip Mathers" (...
realms that were considered science fiction. For example, one looks at his work "The Martian Chronicles" and immediately assumes...
he met his soon to be arch rivals, Bill Hewlett and David Packard. Bill attended MIT part time after a stint at Stanford ( "Agilen...
has a serious neurological breakdown of his own. Bill has a sudden and disturbing memory loss - he is unable to remember the name...
conveniently Earth-like, with an oxygen atmosphere, abundant plant-life that is non-toxic for human consumption, and bi-pedal, rou...
he is about to leave home, his oldest daughter asks her mother to do the can-can. His wife kicks up her heels and begins to dance....
ordinary life, one can take the comments at face value, or use them as somewhat of a springboard for further thought or discussion...
criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...
matters worse, just one month later still, in November 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II (October 1957, 2002). Alth...
solve this crime. The extent to which any ethics and morals exist at all reflects the primary aspect that separates each mans lev...
fall of the Tower of Anor and the end of the realm of Savron. He encourages the people to:...
What often happens though is that there is evidence in some films that the authoritarianism is a positive influence. This is ofte...
by the Nazis to advance their agenda (and died insane) and Paveses died by his own hand. Miles posits that Gods intention in i...
cyberworld just ahead of the concern which began to take place in the real world. Unlike many of his predecessors who liked to pre...
time and place, the cultural and historical reality of the storys characters and the capability and comprehension of the person re...
forever hovering overhead beckon to the fleeing people that their safety exists in the off-world colonies, demonstrating that eart...
role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...
if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...
for no good reason except he was afraid of them and what they might do to him. The truth is that the...
the constraints which the box-office places upon both screenwriters and directors is a major influence on American film, whereas t...
is often an important feature. The individuals portrayed are not depicted as standing outside of their own historical background a...
As mentioned before, the first edition of The Martian Chronicles was written in 1950, a time during which the Cold War was startin...
time Travolta began doing the leaps and pirouettes on the flashing dance floor in Saturday Night Fever, he was already a veteran a...
This paper addresses the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from both the perspectives of science-fiction and reality. The au...
They fought and screamed and never should have been married. I can remember hiding under the kitchen table one day and just wishin...
The term "myth", on the other hand, is reserved by anthropologists and folklorists for those stories which deal with the creation ...
entitled Gates of Fire, as well as others, one can get a sense of how the Persians lived at the time. In the novel, Pressfield foc...
power structures and organization are often present in her writing. In fact, it would be more accurate to describe her writing as ...
In six pages this report examines the thematic subtleties of the supernatural in these two great works of American fiction. Five ...