YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Looking for God in Science Fiction
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"Atomic Theory" (Taaffe, 2002). The novel begins with the frank statement "Not everybody knows how I killed old Philip Mathers" (...
with the world of tradition, the world of civilization. Huddled within the womb-like interior of the Congo, he retreats ever furth...
realistically presented (Tyson 155). For example, after reading Fly Away Home (E. Bunting, 1991), a story that concerns a homeless...
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...
without ever becoming preachy. Tim OBrien wrote Things They Carried, and not so coincidentally, the texts narrator was also named...
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...
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...
success and leading a happy life. Willys attitude toward being liked and being popular do not change at all. This is evident when ...
gender. In fact, according to what Ms. Jacobs writes, women were discriminated against by white and black men alike. Here, though...
the city may appear attractive and it certainly attracted Nick, it is hollow. He expresses this by returning home to the midwest. ...
narrates her story with forthright honesty. She explains that--while she is named after the Virgin Mary--she is far from saint-lik...
but complications arise. Not one, but two suitors join them on their trip. During the trip both men vie for her affections. In the...
to culminate in a conclusion. The purpose here is to find that middle ground in complaints that hypertext allows writers to impar...
Tituba is viewed as the first witch--black or white-- to actually confess (Anderson). This makes this black woman quite an interes...
American history. Bell provides an interesting outline of the regional history of Pittsburgh but through "Out of This Furnace" he...
conditioned to blindly follow the directives of Big Brother. For the people, double-speak was perfectly acceptable, and soon they...
(Garrison, 1988). Garrisons book chronicles his investigation into what was perhaps the most notable murder case in America. Gar...
when we get to Birmingham. The freedom ride is certainly a part of it, but not the whole thing. Birmingham is important right now...
this tension and anxiety. As Fried (1995) illustrates "Pulp Fiction is not simply a sensational stylistic exercise without content...
In ten pages this paper discusses the fact and fiction connected with Rosa Parks' bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama that resulted...
In seven pages this paper examines how Henry James's real life was reflected in his works of fiction. Six sources are cited in the...
In eleven pages this paper examines how author Tim O'Brien intentionally obscures the fine line between real life and fiction in h...
In five pages an analysis of this principle that requires Australian journalism publications to clearly differentiate between fact...
In eight pages this paper examines novels featuring Latino characters written by Latin and non Latin author and concludes that in...
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...
One of the foremost scholars on the Southwest, Charles Wilkinson, has written a book entitled, The Crossing of the Meridian. The v...
in the shadow of Irelands Iron Mountains, a few locals have populated a bog and settled into their ways" (Freeman, 2002). The enti...
style presented in this story, a style that clearly speaks of a dark and foreboding reality, we present some of the opening paragr...