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Literary Reality and Fiction

In five pages this paper discusses the representation of reality and fiction in literature in an examination of Chekhov's The Thre...

Power and Gender in Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure and Charles Dickens' David Copperfield

In twelve pages this paper examines the themes of gender and power as they are represented in these works of literary fiction. Te...

Smell Imagery in Surfacing by Margaret Atwood

preserve at least the signs of order" (Atwood 93). The narrators past contained so many painful memories that she created a fict...

Overview of Witness Protection Programs

are criminals, who have received reduced sentencing from the government because of deals (plea-bargaining) they have made. Unfort...

Virginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot and Literary Modernism

In 5 page this paper defines modernism and then critically applies the concept to T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land,' and 'Tradition an...

The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip

In five pages this science fiction novel is analyzed within the context of its fairytale setting. There are no other sources list...

Cultural Identity and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent by Julia Alvarez

level best to blend as quickly as possible into the melting pot of American culture. When this happens, it is very difficult for t...

Reason and Religion in Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke

In 5 pages this paper analyzes the science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke by examining the science and religion connection of t...

Wild Imagination Sometimes Spawns Phenomenal Scientific Breakthrough

This paper examines the value fiction has in formulating ideas that can actually evolved to real-world technology, real-world tech...

SITUATIONAL LEGAL ISSUES

Answers questions pertaining to legal issues. Under discussion are agent-principal relationships, organizational structures and tr...

The Time Machine and the Future

This 7 page paper gives an overview of the book The Time Maching by H.G. Wells. This paper includes explanations of how the book p...

Genetics, and the Future, Science Fiction

This research paper pertains to the topic of genetic manipulation and how advancements in this field were predicted by science fic...

Early Childhood Trauma and Recovered Memories

Psychologists are challenged when trying to separate fact from fiction as it respects the extent to which childhood abuse occurred...

CSI, the Detective Genre, and "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe

This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...

"Girl Who Was Plugged In" by James Tiptree

in "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" provides the author with the means to create a biting critique of contemporary societal values. T...

Evolution of Protagonist Kris Kelvin in Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

When the psychologists lofty expectations come crashing down around him, he tries to wash his anxieties away in a symbolic gesture...

Altered Cognition and the Reading of Fiction

Prior to the reading of the story, each student was asked to fill out the psychological tests, and various measurements of their p...

Comedy in Two Science Fiction Films

This essay describes how comedy was achieved in two science fiction films, "Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home" and "Galaxy Quest." Th...

Meaning and Literature

The stories being examined, by Chekhov and Mansfield, are clearly two stories that truly delve into the inner being of an individu...

Jurisdiction for Arbitration

the issue was a simple translation mistake, but this does open the door for there to be an appeal by the defendant and the German ...

Pulp Fiction and Citizen Kane, Use of Sound

of sound in film can be understood by watching a scene from a film without the sound track. With no sound, the images, no matter h...

I am Legend/Matheson

scientific research, as part of his effort to understand the vampires and he discovers the bacterial cause of the vampire plague. ...

Hearts of Darkness: Wolfe and Connell

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...

Privacy and Adolescence

characters are rather boisterous and entangled in relationships. At the same time, they are private in their own way. They need th...

Rampo's fiction and Ero-Guro-Nansensu

movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...

The Holocaust and Creative Writing

of ways, including its formal structure. Though the text is routinely considered to be historical in nature, it is not exactly an ...

Science-Fiction: Defining a Concept

the idea of life created not by God but by man and the repercussions produced by such an event. Science does play a key role in an...

The Centralist Political Philosophy of Barack Obama: "Useful Fictions"

This 4 page paper provides an overview of Barack Obama's political philosophy and its orientation in centralism. The primary thesi...

Fiction v. Reality of Law Enforcement

that the general public sees portrayed in television shows and in film are entertaining, often inspiring young viewers to investig...

Humanity's Future, Science Fiction Visions

This essay pertains to the novel "Dawn" by Octavia Butler and the films "District 9" and "The Omega Man," and argues that each of ...