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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...

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...

"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...

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...

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...

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...

Popular Fiction and Classical Literature

This paper analyzes what defines popular fiction and a classic literary work in an assessment of Charlotte Temple by Susanna Rosen...

An Overview of Roots by Alex Haley

In a book report that contains five pages Haley's 'autobiographical fiction' is discussed. There are no other sources listed in t...

Espionage and Game Theory

In ten pages this paper considers espionage through an application of game theory and as it has evolved from the fiction of James ...

Mary McCarthy's Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

the reader. McCarthys life was in and of itself heartbreaking. She was an orphan by the age of six and reared by grandparents. Th...

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

Chinese had been killed. Between 20,000 and 80,000 Chinese women were raped--and many soldiers went beyond rape to disembowel wome...

Overview of Postmodern Cinema

In twelve pages this paper analyzes postmodern cinema's characteristic elements in a consideration of such films as Pulp Fiction, ...

Controversial Film Director Quentin Tarantino

This paper consists of five pages and examines the controversies surrounding this film director, producer, writer, and actors uses...

Cinematic Violence

The ongoing debate onf movie violence is examined from both sides in five pages with Pulp Fiction and Natural Born Killers among t...

An Analysis of Heroism and the Journey in Star Wars

An eight page research paper considering the literary concept of the hero's journey in this classic science fiction film by direct...

Television, Movies, and Differences in Class, Race, and Gender

In ten pages the imagery featured in TV and films regarding the differences of class, race, and gender are the focus of this resea...

Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and Existentialism

In ten pages existentialism is examined in a consideration of the philosophies of Nietzsche, Camus, and Sartre and then applies th...

Terminator Science Fiction Film Review

In three pages this essay presents a review and analysis of the science fiction film Terminator. There is no bibliography include...

Middle Eastern Crime Fiction from 1916 to 1980s

In six pages this paper presents a textual overview of The Middle East in Crime Fiction by Reeva Simon. Four sources are cited in...

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature for Children

In nine pages this research essay discusses the importance of horror, fable, and myth genres in terms of intellectual development ...

Detective Fictuon and 'Silence of the Lambs' vs. 'Oedipus the King'

In a research paper consisting of 6 pages, the two works of good and evil are considered within the context of detective fiction. ...

Crime Detection in the Works of John Dickson Carr, Edmund Crispin, and Agatha Christie

In five pages this paper examines detective crime fiction and how the readers are engaged in the detection of the crime in Carr's ...

Analysis of Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott

In five pages this early 19th century historical fiction novel is analyzed in terms of the freedom struggles of the Covenanters ...

Paper Life of Ernest Hemingway

In seven pages the ways in which Hemingway's real life mirrored his characters and fiction are examined within the context of vari...

Edith Wharton's Life, Writings, and Men

to ask her to marry him, but he remained her closest and most enduring friend throughout his life. Strangely, however, it was not...

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett III

In six pages the ways in which Hammett's novel rejuvenated what had become by that time a tired detective fiction genre are explor...

Book Review of Distress by Greg Egan

In five pages this paper discusses the science fiction text in terms of present and future technological and scientific parallels....

Is The Unredeemed Captive by John Demos Nonfiction or Historical Fiction?

In five pages this paper argues that despite some fictitious elements this work by John Demos represents a text of historical fict...

Social Issues in Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein

In five pages social issues as they are represented in this science fiction classic novel are examined in a discussion that also i...