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Humanity's Future, Science Fiction Visions

This essay pertains to the novel "Dawn" by Octavia Butler and the films "District 9" and "The Omega Man," and argues that each of ...

Science Fiction Genre and Postmodern Individuals

made up of many windows and RL is only one of them"(Turkle 1995). What she uncovered, however, has many alarmed. Have we traded ou...

Two Science Fiction Story Characterizations

stars for me, weaponed me to make my way in the world...Did I slay him, what horror would come upon me and mine?" (Anderson 305). ...

Three Science Fiction Novels and Intelligent Machines

In five pages this paper analyzes how intelligent machines are featured in Galatea by Richard Powers, Neuromancer by William Gibso...

Social Order and the Science Fiction of Ray Bradbury and Ursula K. LeGuin

In eleven pages this paper discusses how contemporary society is portrayed in this comparison of Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury an...

Richard Matheson's and H.G. Wells' Use of Science Fiction to Portray Alienation

In a paper consisting of 5 pages alienation as a theme are explored in Matheon's I Am Legend and in Wells' The Time Machine and Th...

Invasion of the Body Snatchers Science Fiction Film Review

In three pages this essay presents an analysis of Invasion of the Body Snatchers in a consideration of character development, cine...

James Cameron's Science Fiction Films Terminator and Terminator 2

In five pages this paper examines the changes director Cameron made in the second Terminator film and also considers the overall s...

Return of the Jedi Science Fiction Film Review

In three pages this paper examines how filmmaker techniques are applied to advancing the film's theme, development of plot, and to...

Night of the Living Dead Science Fiction Film Review

In three pages this essay presents an analysis of Night of the Living Dead in terms of the development of characters, camera angle...

Tremors Science Fiction Film Review

to avoid being consumed, Bacon, Ward, Finn and a number of townspeople spend a significant amount of time on the roof of houses, h...

The Haunting Science Fiction Film Review

In three pages this paper presents an analysis of this film in terms of the emotional punch it packs along with a consideration of...

Science Fiction, Alien and Human Communications, and Sociolinguistics

In six pages the E.T. film is analyzed in terms of sociolinguistics theory and the problems that exist between alien and human com...

Dark Future in the Science Fiction Novel Neuromancer by William Gibson

In nine pages this paper examines how technology can lead society into a dark dystopia in an analysis of William Gibson's Neuroman...

Contemporary Robotics

In fifteen pages this research paper discusses U.S. industrial uses for robotics and considers artificial research technologies an...

Real World Information System Uses

Information systems are defined and their real world uses are explained in this paper consisting of eleven pages. Six sources are...

Fiction and the Depiction of Women

of winning her own way in the larger society and from the beginning, the character generally takes herself very lightly (19). She ...

Literature Review on Artificial Neural Networks Use

have been conducted since the late 1980s that reflect the effort to integrate artificial intelligence, especially artificial neura...

Using Fiction to Depict the Vietnam War in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...

Fiction and Non-Fiction Narrative

literature, for he is only telling his story. For example, he states such things as "I began thinking about my friend the other da...

Howard Fast's April Morning

alive to confirm conversations nor recording equipment to verify accuracy. However, an author writing historic fiction must do a g...

Using Real People as Analogies for Brand Names

which is being described. It has also been stated by William James, a US philosopher and psychologists, that if "people pe...

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...

History and Testing Measures of Intelligence Theory

is supplemented by innate elements of the intellect (DeLouth, 2002). This theory keyed into the nature-nurture debate. Skipping ...

Intelligence and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

at any other time of his life. He always wanted to do well, but always seemed unable to perform to standard: My earliest recogni...

Hypothetical Criminal Intelligence Unit Examined

the Criminal Investigations Bureau but it is also identified as "a support function for the Special Weapons and Tactics Team (SWAT...

Anderson's "Feed" - Sinister Possibilities And Prodding

of consumerism - the perpetual wanting of more and more materialistic tangibles until there is nothing left to appreciate - reside...

Nurture or Nature in the Intelligence Debate

generalist view intelligence as some sort of innate capability, a capability which is determined by some particular factor which i...

Greensboro Sit-Ins

turned into many as the protest continued for almost 6 months.5 In addition, it sparked many other protests throughout the South a...

Sitcom Portrayal Of Homosexuality

TV" (Holleran 65). II. THE TIDES OF CHANGE The typically flamboyant portrayal of homosexuals like Sean Hayess Jack McFarland on ...