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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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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" (...

to each other only by code names ("Mr. Pink," "Mr. White", etc.). They relate to each other mainly by wisecracks ("Do I have to be...

the standard framework for a mystery detective novel, each of these works share similar themes that are indicative of current Amer...

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...

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

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

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...

through Nicks eyes Nick provides the voice by which the other characters are heard. As such, he serves as a "translator of the dr...

This paper examines the value fiction has in formulating ideas that can actually evolved to real-world technology, real-world tech...

Answers questions pertaining to legal issues. Under discussion are agent-principal relationships, organizational structures and tr...

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...

This paper examines how crime scene investigations and the detective fiction genre (particularly Sherlock Holmes) are attributed t...

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

Prior to the reading of the story, each student was asked to fill out the psychological tests, and various measurements of their p...

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

the inherent flexibility of a non-sequential narrative, because things get too confusing. Tarantino apparently decided to let it b...