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narrates her story with forthright honesty. She explains that--while she is named after the Virgin Mary--she is far from saint-lik...
(Garrison, 1988). Garrisons book chronicles his investigation into what was perhaps the most notable murder case in America. Gar...
Tituba is viewed as the first witch--black or white-- to actually confess (Anderson). This makes this black woman quite an interes...
conditioned to blindly follow the directives of Big Brother. For the people, double-speak was perfectly acceptable, and soon they...
human being he is. This comes as a shock to Oliverio who is as bad as the rest in assuming that prostitutes have no brains. Actu...
in the form of mere "intelligence." Their bodies were physically dead, but they were supposedly alive in cyberspace. This brings u...
perspective it is not always easy to analyse Munros work, since the layering of different narrative threads draws the reader into ...
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...
and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...
feat of time travel, for example, through the wonders of modern science. After years of meticulous work he has managed to create ...
troubles of Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira who have been living on a desolate planet. A rescue team finally arrives lead by ...
In five pages this futuristic fiction and the Utopian society it features are considered in this overview of societal issues. Thr...
in mankinds history, the machine will far exceed that most refined and sophisticated of all machines: the human brain? The movie ...
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 ...
possibilities that we have lying in store for us in the future as a diagnosis of the present. Bell concludes that:...
success and leading a happy life. Willys attitude toward being liked and being popular do not change at all. This is evident when ...
reality of the war, of its physical wounds were to be seen. This had to have had a psychological impact on the people of the count...
and destiny (Aubrey). While Darwin pictures humanity as consistently evolving toward more intelligence and reason, Huxleys take on...
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...
The Blair Witch Project The Blair Witch Project fits perfectly with the popular conception of what constitutes an independent fil...
may not have gotten married (there is apparently no certificate of marriage ever recorded) (Gelfant and Graver 424). Samuel Lerne...
realistically presented (Tyson 155). For example, after reading Fly Away Home (E. Bunting, 1991), a story that concerns a homeless...
without ever becoming preachy. Tim OBrien wrote Things They Carried, and not so coincidentally, the texts narrator was also named...
"Atomic Theory" (Taaffe, 2002). The novel begins with the frank statement "Not everybody knows how I killed old Philip Mathers" (...
the standard framework for a mystery detective novel, each of these works share similar themes that are indicative of current Amer...
form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us, the possible consequences, and the possible...
has its own set of rules, mostly that there are no rules. So perhaps a better paradigm to explore is whether or not, within a giv...