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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...

Models, Miniatures, and the Battle for Hoth in The Empire Strikes Back

Many of his early Star Wars films feature several shots of models and miniatures that convey realism as impressively and in less t...

“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...

SITUATIONAL LEGAL ISSUES

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

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...

Wild Imagination Sometimes Spawns Phenomenal Scientific Breakthrough

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Personal Limitations and the Illusion of Control Sustained by Leaders

is certainly one of the qualities that people look for in a leader, so a good leader will present an illusion of confidence even i...

“Pulp Fiction” and Its Literary Constructions

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

Grisham Indicts the Criminal Justice System

cannot find the murderer; five years later, an author starts to question the police methods in another case (Cornell, 2006). Stung...

Jack Rabbit Slim’s Dance Contest

works for her husband, and hes supposed to show her a good time and do what she wants, so shut up and dance because she wants that...

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...

Science Fiction Defined

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

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...

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...

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...

Albuquerque by Rudolfo Anaya and an Historical Introduction Sample

One of the foremost scholars on the Southwest, Charles Wilkinson, has written a book entitled, The Crossing of the Meridian. The v...

Literary Depiction of Cultures

but complications arise. Not one, but two suitors join them on their trip. During the trip both men vie for her affections. In the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...