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Controversial Film Director Quentin Tarantino

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

Rampo's fiction and Ero-Guro-Nansensu

movement in Japan, which became prominent in the 1920s focused on the "prewar, bourgeois cultural phenomenon that devoted itself t...

The Holocaust and Creative Writing

of ways, including its formal structure. Though the text is routinely considered to be historical in nature, it is not exactly an ...

Meaning and Literature

The stories being examined, by Chekhov and Mansfield, are clearly two stories that truly delve into the inner being of an individu...

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...

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...

Early Childhood Trauma and Recovered Memories

Psychologists are challenged when trying to separate fact from fiction as it respects the extent to which childhood abuse occurred...

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...

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...

Pirates and Are They Fact or Fiction?

country" (Wilczynski, 2004). In addition, we find that many times a government or a leader would actually employ the help of pi...

Civil War Letters

Alfonso Heep is an educated Kentucky farmboy who, in agreement with his state government, originally wanted nothing to do with the...

Postwar British Fiction and Decline Theme

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...

Characters in Literary Works Contrasts

success and leading a happy life. Willys attitude toward being liked and being popular do not change at all. This is evident when ...

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien as Fact or Fiction

without ever becoming preachy. Tim OBrien wrote Things They Carried, and not so coincidentally, the texts narrator was also named...

President Kennedy's Assassination According to Jim Garrison and Oliver Stone's 1991 Film JFK

(Garrison, 1988). Garrisons book chronicles his investigation into what was perhaps the most notable murder case in America. Gar...

Opinion Juxtaposition of Second Front Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War by John MacArthur and 1984 by George Orwell

conditioned to blindly follow the directives of Big Brother. For the people, double-speak was perfectly acceptable, and soon they...

What is Hypertext Fiction?

to culminate in a conclusion. The purpose here is to find that middle ground in complaints that hypertext allows writers to impar...

Race Issues in I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Tituba is viewed as the first witch--black or white-- to actually confess (Anderson). This makes this black woman quite an interes...

White Freedom Rider James Peck's Diary

when we get to Birmingham. The freedom ride is certainly a part of it, but not the whole thing. Birmingham is important right now...

Using Fiction to Depict the Vietnam War in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

he saw. He was there, they argue, he was in the rice paddies, he saw his friends killed in front of him, he went through it for re...

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown

in the Piazza della Minerva (Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 2006). Pope Alexander VII commissioned Bernini to design a support structure to...

Khaled Hosseini, Mark Twain, and Harper Lee on Childhood

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...

Analyzing Once Upon a Time in America and Its Use of Violence

in "Once Upon a Time in America", is known for his portrayal of violent characters. Noodles, the character De Niro portrays in "O...

Life of Tillie Olsen in Her Stories

may not have gotten married (there is apparently no certificate of marriage ever recorded) (Gelfant and Graver 424). Samuel Lerne...

Intellectual and the Comic in 'The Third Policeman' by Flann O'Brien

"Atomic Theory" (Taaffe, 2002). The novel begins with the frank statement "Not everybody knows how I killed old Philip Mathers" (...

Fiction That is Historical and Realistic

realistically presented (Tyson 155). For example, after reading Fly Away Home (E. Bunting, 1991), a story that concerns a homeless...

A Research Paper and Essay on 3 Independent Films

The Blair Witch Project The Blair Witch Project fits perfectly with the popular conception of what constitutes an independent fil...

Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Images of Darkness and Light

with the world of tradition, the world of civilization. Huddled within the womb-like interior of the Congo, he retreats ever furth...

Cinema and Time's Role

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...