Essays 121 - 150
has a serious neurological breakdown of his own. Bill has a sudden and disturbing memory loss - he is unable to remember the name...
realms that were considered science fiction. For example, one looks at his work "The Martian Chronicles" and immediately assumes...
he met his soon to be arch rivals, Bill Hewlett and David Packard. Bill attended MIT part time after a stint at Stanford ( "Agilen...
ordinary life, one can take the comments at face value, or use them as somewhat of a springboard for further thought or discussion...
power structures and organization are often present in her writing. In fact, it would be more accurate to describe her writing as ...
They fought and screamed and never should have been married. I can remember hiding under the kitchen table one day and just wishin...
This paper addresses the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from both the perspectives of science-fiction and reality. The au...
The term "myth", on the other hand, is reserved by anthropologists and folklorists for those stories which deal with the creation ...
is often an important feature. The individuals portrayed are not depicted as standing outside of their own historical background a...
As mentioned before, the first edition of The Martian Chronicles was written in 1950, a time during which the Cold War was startin...
by the Nazis to advance their agenda (and died insane) and Paveses died by his own hand. Miles posits that Gods intention in i...
cyberworld just ahead of the concern which began to take place in the real world. Unlike many of his predecessors who liked to pre...
in mankinds history, the machine will far exceed that most refined and sophisticated of all machines: the human brain? The movie ...
and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...
is involved in a scandal where a young girl is drowned and while John Jr. had done well for himself, he and his young wife are kil...
idea of self is more genuine and original, unique in its conception. Also, at the very foundation of this philosophy is that there...
In five pages this futuristic fiction and the Utopian society it features are considered in this overview of societal issues. Thr...
troubles of Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira who have been living on a desolate planet. A rescue team finally arrives lead by ...
thing as targeting other ethnic groups" (Ebert PG). Ebert goes on the draw comparisons as to the treatment given to Arab-America...
fall of the Tower of Anor and the end of the realm of Savron. He encourages the people to:...
What often happens though is that there is evidence in some films that the authoritarianism is a positive influence. This is ofte...
inflexible educational system is accurate in his attempt to reveal his own educational experience and also does well in his attemp...
in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...
it to be banned for more than three decades. Riefenstahl, who was commissioned by Hitler to cover the events, captured such power...
Austen and Cesaire present two very diverse approaches to the notion of time, in that ones perspective takes the form of British v...
to make it irrelevant whether or not the details are portrayed correctly. The distinction between narrative and fiction is that n...
In five pages this paper examines the Bible's collection of moral fiction, folktales, fables, and myths. Four sources are cited i...
in "All for Love" presented a much more traditional Cleopatra, that is, someone who is more of an addictive substance then a ruler...
The science fiction novel is analyzed. A summary is included. The conclusion of the book is carefully evaluated. This six page pa...
UFOs are the focus of this paper consisting of seven pages in which an effort is made to separate fiction from fact. Five sources...