YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Altered Cognition and the Reading of Fiction
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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...
for no good reason except he was afraid of them and what they might do to him. The truth is that the...
This paper addresses the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from both the perspectives of science-fiction and reality. The au...
from his well-received form of art. "Normally, both of you would be dead as fucking fried chicken by now, but since Im in a trans...
if he should have a son. Therefore, Laius took steps to prevent conceiving a son by Jocasta. However, Jocasta wanted a child and c...
forever hovering overhead beckon to the fleeing people that their safety exists in the off-world colonies, demonstrating that eart...
the constraints which the box-office places upon both screenwriters and directors is a major influence on American film, whereas t...
role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...
inflexible educational system is accurate in his attempt to reveal his own educational experience and also does well in his attemp...
it to be banned for more than three decades. Riefenstahl, who was commissioned by Hitler to cover the events, captured such power...
in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...
Austen and Cesaire present two very diverse approaches to the notion of time, in that ones perspective takes the form of British v...
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...
(Rombes). Rafferty (1997) explains that the postmodern film is built on the film noir genre, but that a feature of postmodernism ...
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...
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...
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...
perspective it is not always easy to analyse Munros work, since the layering of different narrative threads draws the reader into ...
feat of time travel, for example, through the wonders of modern science. After years of meticulous work he has managed to create ...