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Thematic Comparison of Short Stories ‘Newton’s Gift’ by Paul J. Nahin, ‘Absolutely Inflexible’ by Robert Silverberg, and ‘Meddler’ by Philip K. Dick

decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...

The Relationship of Men in Gangster Films

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...

Myths and Reality of the U.S. Reconstruction Period

in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...

Historical Accuracy of Hard Times by Charles Dickens

inflexible educational system is accurate in his attempt to reveal his own educational experience and also does well in his attemp...

Evaluation of Sudden Fiction Edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas

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....

Science Fiction Writing and Ray Bradbury

realms that were considered science fiction. For example, one looks at his work "The Martian Chronicles" and immediately assumes...

Gates and Jobs and Hewlett and Packard

he met his soon to be arch rivals, Bill Hewlett and David Packard. Bill attended MIT part time after a stint at Stanford ( "Agilen...

Distress by Greg Egan and Human Values

ordinary life, one can take the comments at face value, or use them as somewhat of a springboard for further thought or discussion...

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and Denial

As mentioned before, the first edition of The Martian Chronicles was written in 1950, a time during which the Cold War was startin...

Actor John Travolta

time Travolta began doing the leaps and pirouettes on the flashing dance floor in Saturday Night Fever, he was already a veteran a...

American and British Screenplays and Their Sociocultural Text

the constraints which the box-office places upon both screenwriters and directors is a major influence on American film, whereas t...

Myths and Legends Surrounding Vampires

The term "myth", on the other hand, is reserved by anthropologists and folklorists for those stories which deal with the creation ...

Naturalism and Realism in the Literature of the Nineteenth Century

is often an important feature. The individuals portrayed are not depicted as standing outside of their own historical background a...

Education and Historical Fiction Uses

time and place, the cultural and historical reality of the storys characters and the capability and comprehension of the person re...

Tombstone, Arizona Life and Wyatt Earp

for no good reason except he was afraid of them and what they might do to him. The truth is that the...

A Comparison of Shelley's Frankenstein and Scott's Blade Runner

forever hovering overhead beckon to the fleeing people that their safety exists in the off-world colonies, demonstrating that eart...

Life and Morality

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...

Authority and Power Through Language in Quentin Tarantino's Movie Pulp Fiction

from his well-received form of art. "Normally, both of you would be dead as fucking fried chicken by now, but since Im in a trans...

Contemporary Oedipus Imagery

if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...

Christ A Crisis in the Life of God by Jack Miles

by the Nazis to advance their agenda (and died insane) and Paveses died by his own hand. Miles posits that Gods intention in i...

Kurt Vonnegut and William Gibson's Science Fiction

cyberworld just ahead of the concern which began to take place in the real world. Unlike many of his predecessors who liked to pre...

Adolf Hitler, Thomas Jefferson, and Frankenstein on Achieving Justice Through the Legitimacy of Violence

fall of the Tower of Anor and the end of the realm of Savron. He encourages the people to:...

Apocalyptic Representation Supporting Authoritarianism in Science Fiction Movies

What often happens though is that there is evidence in some films that the authoritarianism is a positive influence. This is ofte...

Novel Essays by George Lukacs and Virginia Woolf

criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...

Crime Fiction and Alienation

solve this crime. The extent to which any ethics and morals exist at all reflects the primary aspect that separates each mans lev...

Mid Twentieth Century Missile Gap Between the United States and the Soviet Union

matters worse, just one month later still, in November 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II (October 1957, 2002). Alth...

The Sparrow by Mary D. Russell

conveniently Earth-like, with an oxygen atmosphere, abundant plant-life that is non-toxic for human consumption, and bi-pedal, rou...

Analysis of Alan Lightman's “The Diagnosis”

has a serious neurological breakdown of his own. Bill has a sudden and disturbing memory loss - he is unable to remember the name...

Jonathan Swift/Gulliver's Voyage to Lilliput

is ale to jump "the highest," succeeding to high office (Swift). As this suggests, Swift was lampooning the machinations require...

Conformity and Individuality in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

No, Montag, admits, because books are illegal, but her question unnerves him to the point that he tells her, "You think too many t...