YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Short Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut and Conformity and Appearance
Essays 61 - 90
A 6 page analysis of the societal message being presented in this work. Plot and characters are outlined and the emphasis that th...
is actually a waterfront town so this should not seem incredibly out of place in the summer. But, it is very different from what t...
shelters to get corpses out "as a sanitary measure," is how he puts it (Hayman et al). Even more gruesome was his description of t...
America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...
of such an objective that one becomes labeled as selfish and intolerant of commonly accepted methods. This negative connotation o...
In eight pages this paper examines the literary departure of James Joyce in this 1916 example of modernist fiction....
sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...
movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...
Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...
In five pages this paper examines how the conflict between appearances and reality is depicted in the short stories 'The Minister'...
PBS, tells the story of this despicable episode in the history of American jurisprudence. The saga of the Massie Affair begins in ...
and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...
mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...
decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...
movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...
an intelligent form of prey offers, in comparison to tracking animals. At the end of the text, Rainsford is forced to use all of h...
This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...
In eight pages the varied critical responses to Adams's fiction particularly as it portrayed class is discussed with reference mad...
In six pages the ways in which Walker employs fiction to express her concern about specific issues and love of humanity are consid...
In three pages postmodern fiction is defined and then considered within the context of 'Experiment,' a short story by Julian Barne...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the Sharon Olds' poem 'Sex Without Love' with Raymond Carver's short story 'What W...
humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....
on the nature of the fourth dimension, i.e., time, as well as the astronomical features and evolutionary development that he obser...
possible, but have not been invented yet. This will sound strange, because science itself is just getting started, but really, all...
literature, for he is only telling his story. For example, he states such things as "I began thinking about my friend the other da...
alive to confirm conversations nor recording equipment to verify accuracy. However, an author writing historic fiction must do a g...
of winning her own way in the larger society and from the beginning, the character generally takes herself very lightly (19). She ...
was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...
of consumerism - the perpetual wanting of more and more materialistic tangibles until there is nothing left to appreciate - reside...
book is that the author has primarily been a fiction writer. Why, all of a sudden, does a fiction writer attempt to write a non-fi...