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Jurisdiction for Arbitration

the issue was a simple translation mistake, but this does open the door for there to be an appeal by the defendant and the German ...

Evolution of Protagonist Kris Kelvin in Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

When the psychologists lofty expectations come crashing down around him, he tries to wash his anxieties away in a symbolic gesture...

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...

"Girl Who Was Plugged In" by James Tiptree

in "The Girl Who Was Plugged In" provides the author with the means to create a biting critique of contemporary societal values. 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...

Crocus sativus Saffron

Saffron has been used by mankind for centuries. It represents, in fact, one of the worlds most valuable substances. Consequently...

I am Legend/Matheson

scientific research, as part of his effort to understand the vampires and he discovers the bacterial cause of the vampire plague. ...

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...

The End of the Earth

as the End of Times. Many strong Believers believe we are already in the End of Times. It is during this time there are great Spir...

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...

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 ...

Science-Fiction: Defining a Concept

the idea of life created not by God but by man and the repercussions produced by such an event. Science does play a key role in an...

Social Work Then and Now

According to the National Association of Social Workers (NASW), the first social work class was offered at Columbia University...

How to Manage Time Effectively

Because the medium is free and uncontrolled, anyone can say anything. This is both its blessing and its curse: often factual infor...

Mid Twentieth Century Missile Gap Between the United States and the Soviet Union

matters worse, just one month later still, in November 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik II (October 1957, 2002). Alth...

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...

Novel Essays by George Lukacs and Virginia Woolf

criticism points toward a different orientation, as she accuses previous writers of materialism, and explains this accusation by ...

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...

Print Media and Its Coverage of Pedophilia and Catholicism

pedophile activity by priests, about keeping secrets in the hierarchy. Then the hierarchy made a mistake by trying to spin the ped...

Adolf Hitler, Thomas Jefferson, and Frankenstein on Achieving Justice Through the Legitimacy of Violence

fall of the Tower of Anor and the end of the realm of Savron. He encourages the people to:...

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...

Theology in an Exploration of Space and Time

Moltmann's ideas are used to incite discussion on time and space issues in this paper of fourteen pages with time defined and the ...

Early Modern Culture and Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

protagonist does not only not fight against sin, he embraces it, and categorically refuses all attempts at redemption. The followi...

Education and Historical Fiction Uses

time and place, the cultural and historical reality of the storys characters and the capability and comprehension of the person re...

Tombstone, Arizona Life and Wyatt Earp

for no good reason except he was afraid of them and what they might do to him. The truth is that the...

Buddhism's Impermanence Refutation

In five pages this paper refutes the notion of time's impermanence in Buddhism. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

A Comparison of Shelley's Frankenstein and Scott's Blade Runner

forever hovering overhead beckon to the fleeing people that their safety exists in the off-world colonies, demonstrating that eart...

Life and Morality

role in this respect. Plato held that the key agent in any sort of behavior but especially ethical or moral behavior (or lack of t...

Authority and Power Through Language in Quentin Tarantino's Movie Pulp Fiction

from his well-received form of art. "Normally, both of you would be dead as fucking fried chicken by now, but since Im in a trans...