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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" (...
The Blair Witch Project The Blair Witch Project fits perfectly with the popular conception of what constitutes an independent fil...
may not have gotten married (there is apparently no certificate of marriage ever recorded) (Gelfant and Graver 424). Samuel Lerne...
This research paper pertains to the topic of genetic manipulation and how advancements in this field were predicted by science fic...
This paper examines the value fiction has in formulating ideas that can actually evolved to real-world technology, real-world tech...
This 7 page paper gives an overview of the book The Time Maching by H.G. Wells. This paper includes explanations of how the book p...
has its own set of rules, mostly that there are no rules. So perhaps a better paradigm to explore is whether or not, within a giv...
mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...
form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us, the possible consequences, and the possible...
the standard framework for a mystery detective novel, each of these works share similar themes that are indicative of current Amer...
This essay describes how comedy was achieved in two science fiction films, "Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home" and "Galaxy Quest." Th...
Psychologists are challenged when trying to separate fact from fiction as it respects the extent to which childhood abuse occurred...
legal perspective provides an "imaginary frame that seems/seeks to establish narrative truth on the side of verisimilitude" (Cohen...
I tried for a second or two to brace up and out with it, but I warnt man enough--hadnt the spunk of a rabbit. I see I was weakeni...
eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...
decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...
to each other only by code names ("Mr. Pink," "Mr. White", etc.). They relate to each other mainly by wisecracks ("Do I have to be...
power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you cant...
Tituba is viewed as the first witch--black or white-- to actually confess (Anderson). This makes this black woman quite an interes...
(Garrison, 1988). Garrisons book chronicles his investigation into what was perhaps the most notable murder case in America. Gar...
in the Piazza della Minerva (Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 2006). Pope Alexander VII commissioned Bernini to design a support structure to...
style presented in this story, a style that clearly speaks of a dark and foreboding reality, we present some of the opening paragr...
to culminate in a conclusion. The purpose here is to find that middle ground in complaints that hypertext allows writers to impar...
gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...
the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...
narrates her story with forthright honesty. She explains that--while she is named after the Virgin Mary--she is far from saint-lik...
Ophelia to see how women characters have changed over the years. Penelope was able to fight off suitors for decades while maintain...
but complications arise. Not one, but two suitors join them on their trip. During the trip both men vie for her affections. In the...
in the shadow of Irelands Iron Mountains, a few locals have populated a bog and settled into their ways" (Freeman, 2002). The enti...