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Impact of Mom-Only Families

The literature is finally taking into consideration family structure and family dynamics when comparing the outcomes of children l...

Fact and Fiction of Drug Legislation

America, and the finicky laws that change over time, it is hard to know fact from fiction. For example, was cocaine ever legal? Wa...

The Application of Censorship Principles Banning the Work of Homosexual Writers of Children's Literature

5 pages and 6 sources. This paper provides an overview of arguments in favor of the censoring of literature written by homosexual...

Literary Departure in Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In eight pages this paper examines the literary departure of James Joyce in this 1916 example of modernist fiction....

Love in a Small Town by Wang Anyi

sees the cultural upheavals which have befallen the mainland in its over forty years under socialism as a backdrop, not a major pl...

Children's Literature History

In ten pages the Middle Ages origins of children's literature to contemporary children's writings are chronicled in this historica...

Children's Literature and the Use of Comedy

Comedy is almost universal in children's literature. This paper examines how a number of children's books make use of this storyte...

Gore Vidal: “Creation”

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

Ethnographic Research

Observations help the researcher to formulate initial descriptions and explanations of the phenomenon being explored; they may als...

Arna W. Bontemps' 'A Summer Tragedy'

In five pages a biography of this predominantly children's author is provided as well as an examination of his adult fiction work....

Educational Equity And Diversity: Technology And The Digital Divide

for this special group with the intervention of technological advancement in the school setting. Current generations of exception...

Television and Book Fantasy

smart enough to know that their world is not the same as the story worlds to which they are introduced at an early age. Bruno Bet...

Massie Affair & Detective Fiction

PBS, tells the story of this despicable episode in the history of American jurisprudence. The saga of the Massie Affair begins in ...

Thematic Comparison of Short Stories ‘Newton’s Gift’ by Paul J. Nahin, ‘Absolutely Inflexible’ by Robert Silverberg, and ‘Meddler’ by Philip K. Dick

decided to travel back in time and mercifully ease Newtons burdens with a state-of-the art nuclear powered calculator that will ef...

Le Guin/Left Hand of Darkness

eyes," but finds this awkward as he "self-consciously" sees a Gethenian "first as a man, then as a woman, forcing him into those c...

Overview of Postmodern Science Fiction

mind. For example, the "flowers" of Edo is a term that refers to the citys tendency to have many fires. Within this reality frame...

Robert Louis Stevenson's Autobiographical Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

legal perspective provides an "imaginary frame that seems/seeks to establish narrative truth on the side of verisimilitude" (Cohen...

Novel Analysis of Ender's Game

power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you cant...

Anthony J. Bell's 'Levels and Loops: the Future of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience'

possibilities that we have lying in store for us in the future as a diagnosis of the present. Bell concludes that:...

The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

and destiny (Aubrey). While Darwin pictures humanity as consistently evolving toward more intelligence and reason, Huxleys take on...

Science Fiction Defined

form of literature that consistently considers the nature of the changes that face us, the possible consequences, and the possible...

Concept of Human Nature

idea of self is more genuine and original, unique in its conception. Also, at the very foundation of this philosophy is that there...

Science Fiction Writing and Ray Bradbury

realms that were considered science fiction. For example, one looks at his work "The Martian Chronicles" and immediately assumes...

Comedy in Two Science Fiction Films

This essay describes how comedy was achieved in two science fiction films, "Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home" and "Galaxy Quest." Th...

The Time Machine and the Future

This 7 page paper gives an overview of the book The Time Maching by H.G. Wells. This paper includes explanations of how the book p...

Genetics, and the Future, Science Fiction

This research paper pertains to the topic of genetic manipulation and how advancements in this field were predicted by science fic...

An Artificial Intelligence Overview

in the form of mere "intelligence." Their bodies were physically dead, but they were supposedly alive in cyberspace. This brings u...

Predicting the Future Through Science Fiction

in mankinds history, the machine will far exceed that most refined and sophisticated of all machines: the human brain? The movie ...

'Dark City Tech Noir Science Fiction' of Alex Proyas' Dark City and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner

and evil (technology). Blade Runner considers the city of Los Angeles in the year 2019 as "a fragmented Third World metropolis, m...

H.G. Wells' 'Time Machine' and Adolf Hitler's Thoughts

feat of time travel, for example, through the wonders of modern science. After years of meticulous work he has managed to create ...