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Fiction of Eudora Welty

a new life, and emphasizes how people, when tested by circumstances can overcome adversity along their path toward self-respect. ...

Comparison of Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Richard III and The Tragedy of King Lear

realistic representations of his daughters love for him. Eldest daughter Goneril begins this love fest, pledging, "Sir, I love y...

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander

of the Long Island environment. II. TV REPLACES HUMAN IMAGES Like its computer counterpart, Mander (1978) indicates that televis...

Spatiality and Immanuel Kant

understanding. For example, Kants The Critique of Pure Reason (1781) begins with the words: "There can be no doubt that all our kn...

Virtual Reality Value, Functionality, and Aesthetics

for expression and communication. Virtual reality is a means to create, experience, and share a computer-generated world as realis...

The Genuineness of 'Everyday Use' by Alice Walker

dress so loud it hurt my eyes...yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun" (Everyday...Walker). As this sugge...

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the Reality v. Illusion Concept

truly know the characters from the book and as if their life and times are intertwined with your own. It is truly a miraculous ad...

A Comparative Analysis of the Film Hester Street and the Texts Mary Antin's The Promised Land and Anzia Yezierska's Breadgivers

Promised Land," which was a national best seller in 1912, looks at key issues in the immigrant experience. As the student reads t...

Parallel Reality in The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bar...

Media and Race in Canada

2002), is a tremendously dangerous concept when large entities, such as the media, possess and routinely abuse the "power to enfor...

Life Changes, Expectations and Reality

scene was purely majestic as it continued to display more grassy pastures, an abundance of flora, free-running creeks and the open...

Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, Antigone, Hubris, and Ethics

modern cultures to view the character of Antigone as a perfect example of heroic resistance to tyranny, the play is not a politica...

An Analysis of Media Texts

it is presented to the audience in the form of symbolic representations which they can understand....

Improved Rugby Athletic Performance and Sports Psychology

In six pages this paper discusses the mental and physical characteristics of an ideal rugby player and then compare them with fict...

Hyperbolic Doubt of Rene Descartes

logically be at a variance. So, for the person uttering the statement about the validity of the solidness of the chair, it may ver...

1984 by George Orwell

look like grim prophecy. In 1984, Goldstein describes a world in which Russia has absorbed all of Europe to make Eurasia. The...

Predictions and Reality in 1984 by George Orwell

have been a jewess was sitting up in the bow with a little boy of about three in her arms? (Orwell, 1949, p. 10); the little life ...

History as a Science

In five pages this paper discusses the science of history in a consideration of how reality is occasionally altered in an examinat...

Icefields by Thomas Wharton, Time and Memory

In six pages this paper examines how the lyrical novel manipulates both time and memory as it alters reality perceptions. Five so...

Dark Future in the Science Fiction Novel Neuromancer by William Gibson

In nine pages this paper examines how technology can lead society into a dark dystopia in an analysis of William Gibson's Neuroman...

The Forbidden Zone by Whitley Strieber

A book report on this text consists of five pages and includes the continuum between time and spaces, reality constant's instabili...

Communication Lacking in the Fiction of Eudora Welty

son, but upon closer examination he realizes the woman is not as old as he first thought, and Sonny is her husband. In fact, the w...

Escapism and The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard

In five pages this paper discusses how reality and illusion are blurred in this escapist play by Tom Stoppard. There is 1 source ...

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen and Rasselas by Samuel Johnson

In eight pages this paper compares and contrasts Brandon and Marianne in Sense and Sensibility and the servant and Princess in Ra...

Ancient Society and Women's Role

In five pages this paper discusses how Apuleius portrays women's role in ancient society in The Golden Ass in comparison to the so...

Myth and Reality of Outlaw Jesse James

In five pages this research paper examines the Old West outlaw in terms of how yellow journalism and the political landscape of th...

An Overview of Affirmative Action

In five pages this paper considers how the issues pertaining to Affirmative Action are depicted conservatively by Thomas Sowell in...

Slave Live Stereotypes and Actual Realities

In five pages this paper considers the misconceptions associated with slavery as opposed to the actual slave life reality. Five s...

2 Poems by Langston Hughes

In five pages 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and 'Dream Deferred' poems of Langston Hughes are compared in a discussion of brutal re...

Poetic Reality in the Works of Gwendolyn Brooks and Langston Hughes

In seven pages this paper discusses the poems 'We Real Cool, The Pool Players. Seven at the Golden Shovel' by Gwendolyn Brooks and...