YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Altered Cognition and the Reading of Fiction
Essays 271 - 300
"Atomic Theory" (Taaffe, 2002). The novel begins with the frank statement "Not everybody knows how I killed old Philip Mathers" (...
without ever becoming preachy. Tim OBrien wrote Things They Carried, and not so coincidentally, the texts narrator was also named...
Tituba is viewed as the first witch--black or white-- to actually confess (Anderson). This makes this black woman quite an interes...
(Garrison, 1988). Garrisons book chronicles his investigation into what was perhaps the most notable murder case in America. Gar...
the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...
narrates her story with forthright honesty. She explains that--while she is named after the Virgin Mary--she is far from saint-lik...
power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you cant...
conditioned to blindly follow the directives of Big Brother. For the people, double-speak was perfectly acceptable, and soon they...
when we get to Birmingham. The freedom ride is certainly a part of it, but not the whole thing. Birmingham is important right now...
country" (Wilczynski, 2004). In addition, we find that many times a government or a leader would actually employ the help of pi...
Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...
fall of the Tower of Anor and the end of the realm of Savron. He encourages the people to:...
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...
What often happens though is that there is evidence in some films that the authoritarianism is a positive influence. This is ofte...
criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...
solve this crime. The extent to which any ethics and morals exist at all reflects the primary aspect that separates each mans lev...
matters worse, just one month later still, in November 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II (October 1957, 2002). Alth...
conveniently Earth-like, with an oxygen atmosphere, abundant plant-life that is non-toxic for human consumption, and bi-pedal, rou...
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....
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...
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...
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...
time Travolta began doing the leaps and pirouettes on the flashing dance floor in Saturday Night Fever, he was already a veteran a...
time and place, the cultural and historical reality of the storys characters and the capability and comprehension of the person re...