YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Looking for God in Science Fiction
Essays 481 - 510
I tried for a second or two to brace up and out with it, but I warnt man enough--hadnt the spunk of a rabbit. I see I was weakeni...
in "Once Upon a Time in America", is known for his portrayal of violent characters. Noodles, the character De Niro portrays in "O...
Answers questions pertaining to legal issues. Under discussion are agent-principal relationships, organizational structures and tr...
This paper examines the value fiction has in formulating ideas that can actually evolved to real-world technology, real-world tech...
country" (Wilczynski, 2004). In addition, we find that many times a government or a leader would actually employ the help of pi...
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...
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 ...
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...
"Atomic Theory" (Taaffe, 2002). The novel begins with the frank statement "Not everybody knows how I killed old Philip Mathers" (...
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...
to culminate in a conclusion. The purpose here is to find that middle ground in complaints that hypertext allows writers to impar...
American history. Bell provides an interesting outline of the regional history of Pittsburgh but through "Out of This Furnace" he...
Tituba is viewed as the first witch--black or white-- to actually confess (Anderson). This makes this black woman quite an interes...
(Garrison, 1988). Garrisons book chronicles his investigation into what was perhaps the most notable murder case in America. Gar...
conditioned to blindly follow the directives of Big Brother. For the people, double-speak was perfectly acceptable, and soon they...
when we get to Birmingham. The freedom ride is certainly a part of it, but not the whole thing. Birmingham is important right now...
In six pages this report examines the thematic subtleties of the supernatural in these two great works of American fiction. Five ...
entitled Gates of Fire, as well as others, one can get a sense of how the Persians lived at the time. In the novel, Pressfield foc...
power structures and organization are often present in her writing. In fact, it would be more accurate to describe her writing as ...
They fought and screamed and never should have been married. I can remember hiding under the kitchen table one day and just wishin...
In five pages an analysis of this principle that requires Australian journalism publications to clearly differentiate between fact...
In eleven pages this paper examines how author Tim O'Brien intentionally obscures the fine line between real life and fiction in h...
conflict rages within, there are conflicts aplenty without. The passage of time also brings with it change, often initiated throu...
of Homers great work are a slew of characters. One of those is Odysseus, an unlikely hero. Odysseus is in some ways an antihero...