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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:...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Native Experience: Literature and Film

different elements together to speak of ancient Aboriginal beliefs as well as a modern world. In As Long as the Rivers Flo...

How Writers Create Tone in the Context of Fiction

detail to demonstrate the point that war is negative. The fact that the mother is crying is aligned with the tonality in relation ...

Murder on Board

dirty clothes and reeking garbage make the atmosphere unbearable fairly quickly, and nobody wants to live in a toilet for the endl...

Poe: The Masque of the Red Death, an Analysis

the night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...

“The Thirteenth Floor”

Angeles finds out hes not real, he sets the rest of the film in motion. The questions are: what makes contemporary LA different f...

A Boy, a Girl and the Loch Ness Monster

was coming, and that was the main thing. For Robbie MacDonald, it was the only thing. Robbie and Sheila had grown up together, an...

EVE Online/Authority in an Online Community

travel through a universe made up of over five thousand solar systems. The developers of the game look to the player community for...

Sci-Fi Films: Radiation Monsters and Homestick Aliens

(Bacchus, 2007). The atomic age is the real villain here, because its radiation from the atomic testing in New Mexico that causes ...

Borges: "The Garden of the Forking Paths"

Tsun says no one can know his "innumerable contrition and weariness" (Borges). What does Borges mean when he claims the world is ...

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...

The Relationship of Men in Gangster Films

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...

Christ A Crisis in the Life of God by Jack Miles

by the Nazis to advance their agenda (and died insane) and Paveses died by his own hand. Miles posits that Gods intention in i...

Kurt Vonnegut and William Gibson's Science Fiction

cyberworld just ahead of the concern which began to take place in the real world. Unlike many of his predecessors who liked to pre...

An Analysis of Neil Frude's The Intimate Machine

This paper addresses the history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) from both the perspectives of science-fiction and reality. The au...

Myths and Legends Surrounding Vampires

The term "myth", on the other hand, is reserved by anthropologists and folklorists for those stories which deal with the creation ...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy

In five pages this futuristic fiction and the Utopian society it features are considered in this overview of societal issues. Thr...

Fantasy and Science Fiction Mythology Uses

troubles of Dr. Morbius and his daughter Altaira who have been living on a desolate planet. A rescue team finally arrives lead by ...

Historical Accuracy of Hard Times by Charles Dickens

inflexible educational system is accurate in his attempt to reveal his own educational experience and also does well in his attemp...

Myths and Reality of the U.S. Reconstruction Period

in the end, a worse war swept into the South, full of empty promises for social reforms, which never materialized. For a good whil...

Comparing and Contrasting 'Anne Frank Remembered' and 'Triumph Of The Will'

it to be banned for more than three decades. Riefenstahl, who was commissioned by Hitler to cover the events, captured such power...