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Apocalyptic Representation Supporting Authoritarianism in Science Fiction Movies

What often happens though is that there is evidence in some films that the authoritarianism is a positive influence. This is ofte...

Real Estate Deeds and Legal Descriptions

Of course, some of the sections in a deed are no brainers. They do not require a lot of thought. For example, the State,...

Treaty of Versailles and Propaganda

during the first war. This brief government was doomed to failure from the beginning, it can be said in hindsight. Consider that...

Distress by Greg Egan and Human Values

ordinary life, one can take the comments at face value, or use them as somewhat of a springboard for further thought or discussion...

'Kubla Khan' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

that in the summer of 1797, he retired in "ill health" to a "lonely farmhouse between Porlock and Linton" (231). Because of a "sli...

An Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity Overview

or what is referred to as tauba in Islam, is able to save a man (Salvation and the Afterlife, 2002). Therefore, Islam invites man...

Science Fiction Writing and Ray Bradbury

realms that were considered science fiction. For example, one looks at his work "The Martian Chronicles" and immediately assumes...

Analysis of Alan Lightman's “The Diagnosis”

has a serious neurological breakdown of his own. Bill has a sudden and disturbing memory loss - he is unable to remember the name...

Evaluation of Sudden Fiction Edited by Robert Shapard and James Thomas

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....

Crime Fiction and Alienation

solve this crime. The extent to which any ethics and morals exist at all reflects the primary aspect that separates each mans lev...

The Praise of Folly and Folly's Role

Folly as a being worthy of respect. Second, most of Erasmus paragraphs drip with irony as Folly speaks - while she casts...

Gender Criticism and Hand To Mouth A Chronicle of Early Failure by Paul Auster

that same world. It could be maddening to watch him in action--a man who never seemed to care what others thought of him--but it ...

The Sparrow by Mary D. Russell

conveniently Earth-like, with an oxygen atmosphere, abundant plant-life that is non-toxic for human consumption, and bi-pedal, rou...

Article Interpretation

understand what this perspective means. Realism may be seen as a conservative ideology (Newman, 1998). In a realism perspective we...

Art Interpretation: Guernica by Picasso

abstracts pain and fear from history" (Berger 169). He also discusses what Picasso was doing, and not doing and in that respect th...

Gilgamesh/An Ancient Man for All Seasons

Mitchells translation, Mark Jarman argues that Gilgamesh enlightens the modern reader as to what the ancient Mesopotamians valued ...

Evangelism

(Grossman, 2005). David Bebbington said that evangelical Christians exhibit four specific characteristics (reprinted exactly as i...

The Relationship of Men in Gangster Films

to each other only by code names ("Mr. Pink," "Mr. White", etc.). They relate to each other mainly by wisecracks ("Do I have to be...

Are They Wrong? Or Did They Just Answer A Different Question?

but to a different question than the teacher had in mind; the boy was counting the surface area rather than the cubes. The questio...

Film Analysis

In order to offer thorough analysis, Boggs and Petrie (2004) recommend seeing a movie at least twice. The first viewing can be dev...

A Look at Aristotle's View on the Educated Mind

weight, how to raise children properly and so forth. The majority of people are not much interested in deeper issues. One may rel...

Thematic Comparison of Short Stories ‘Newton’s Gift’ by Paul J. Nahin, ‘Absolutely Inflexible’ by Robert Silverberg, and ‘Meddler’ by Philip K. Dick

decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...

Acts 15: The Biblical Circumcision Decision

(Acts of the Apostles, Ch 15) is a decisive moment for the young Church as she breaks from Judaism to embrace Gentile culture" (53...

Key Elements of Communication

different forms of communication that support the same overall message reinforcing that message. One way and two way communicati...

Proof Of God's Existence

broke the argument down in a much easier argument (Palmer, 2002). Descartes began with the premise that God is the only being who ...

911 from Democratic and Communist Ideological Perspectives

Karl Marx would ever approve of such a horrendous act, but one can take the ideology of communism and see how another might interp...

“I Alone” by Live

stanza, which pictures the listener, the person offering lifes big questions, emotionally stranded. The narrative voice states, "I...

The Use And Interpretation Of Bible In The Church

Jesus was and what He did (citation). Many documents were written during the first couple hundred years after Christs death. The ...

Furniture/Desk and Chair

For instance, in January of 1976, Herman Miller, Inc. began marketing the first "fully integrated ergonomic chair, The Ergon Chair...

The Consumption of the Da Vinci Code

that many books before it has looked at blurred the line between fiction and reality. The research has been undertaken and...