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Scientific Knowledge and Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

In six pages this report analyzes Verne's text in terms of how scientific knowledge influences plot, character, and subplots. Fou...

Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne

discoveries because he is curious. He refers to some alchemists of the past, indicating the inherent nature of humanity in relatio...

Writing the Future and the Accurate Jules Verne

In four pages this paper examines the accuracy of Jules Verne's technological predictions in such works as Paris in the Twenty Fir...

Jules Verne and Competition in The Space Race

This paper presents Jules Verne's arguments regarding the space race in his work, From the Earth to the Moon. The author discusse...

"Around the World in 80 Days" as a Guide to 19th Century Globalization

a deck steward on a tramp steamer. The film points out quite nicely the fact that the book really is a travelogue, with each episo...

National Geography Standards and Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days

Firstly, this element explores how to use maps and other geographical representations, tools and technologies to acquire, process ...

Adventures and Protagonists

the long journey is not necessary, but that does not mean that the odyssey as a concept was not necessary years ago. Indeed, in th...

Around the World in Eighty Days by Verne

detail as his protagonist, Phileas Fogg. Phileas Fogg is the central character, without whom there would be no novel, and yet o...

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne and Freedom

this man. Not only had he put himself beyond the pale of human laws, but he had made himself independent of them, free in the stri...

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne and Futuristic Technology

as if it existed at the time. Carter Kaplan notes that "Verne exhibits strict adherence to known science or pseudo-science, a jour...

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

of nineteenth century author Jules Verne (1828-1905) helped to create the foundation of the modern science fiction genre. The fert...

Early Europe, Scientific Theory Development, and Counterfactual History

as social and political ideologies, group interests, and even competing personal and professional interests has greatly impacted o...

Jules Winnfield's Transformation in Pulp Fiction Film

truths binding on everyone. Postmodernism is most often characterized by power struggles and a lack of objective reality, boundari...

A Consideration of the American Museum of Natural History

Hanks takes the helm of a virtual spacecraft that left Earth, flew past Mars, Jupiter and Saturn, and hurtled through the Milky Wa...

Knowledge Management

Management In the past it may be argued that knowledge management was a potential source of competitive advantage, but i...

Earth's Equilibrium

of ice that have broken free from their stable foundation; to analyze this single example is to understand the potential catastrop...

Enrique’s Journey

of the book Lourdes is preparing to leave Honduras: ""The boy does not understand...Enrique has no hint of what she is going to do...

The Hero’s Journey

sight of their original teaching passion, or the education system insists that teachers simply instruct, as though the children we...

Journeys in Dante's 'Inferno' and Homer's 'Odyssey'

and his courage will constantly be tested. Without going into great detail, and there is a large amount of it in this classic, we ...

'The Company of Wolves' by Angela Carter, 'The Swimmer' by John Cheever, and Short Story Journeys

In six pages the deceptiveness of appearances is examined in a consideration of the journeys each of these short story protagonist...

Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' and Phileas Fogg in Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days Compared

In five pages the heroes in these classic works are contrasted and compared. Four sources are cited in the bibliography....

An Analysis of Heroism and the Journey in Star Wars

An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...

A Conceptual Metaphor for Life

considering the journey chronologically. Starting with childhood, the student can discuss what he remembers of his earliest year...

Theology in an Exploration of Space and Time

Moltmann's ideas are used to incite discussion on time and space issues in this paper of fourteen pages with time defined and the ...

The End of the Earth

as the End of Times. Many strong Believers believe we are already in the End of Times. It is during this time there are great Spir...

Can Knowledge Give a Company a Competitive Edge?

gained from experience as well as the collection of information, the experience may be the companies own experience, or that of ot...

Knowledge Management at Molnlycke Health Care

can be used by the company and its employees. Molnlycke Health Care, established in 1998 as the result of a merger between the c...

Self-Realization and the Hero’s Quest in ‘Beowulf,’ ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,’ and ‘Everyman’

the heros quest is self-realization, with the glory being more internal than external, the awakening of inner strength and self-kn...

Michael Wood: "In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great"

324 B.C. (Michael Wood: In the footsteps of Alexander the Great). Alexanders expedition was "a turning point in human history ... ...

Zen of On the Road by Jack Kerouac

In four pages this paper examines On the Road from a Buddhist perspective of a symbolic journey toward nirvana through knowledge. ...