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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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

“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...

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,...

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 ...

49ers Press Release and Supporting Information

for Breast Cancer in June 2008 with the target of raising $300,000 and work with the Bill Wilson House in August 2008 where free T...

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...

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...

Jonathan Swift/Gulliver's Voyage to Lilliput

is ale to jump "the highest," succeeding to high office (Swift). As this suggests, Swift was lampooning the machinations require...

Conformity and Individuality in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451

No, Montag, admits, because books are illegal, but her question unnerves him to the point that he tells her, "You think too many t...

Book Report on Arthur C. Clarke’s 2061: Odyssey Three

the Great Wall. There, Heywood Floyds monolith is happily reunited with astronaut and scientist David Bowman and the supercompute...

Charles Dickens and His Life

societys pressure. "It is impossible to read Great Expectations without sensing Dickenss presence in the book, without being awar...

Slavery Theme in Dawn by Octavia Butler

power structures and organization are often present in her writing. In fact, it would be more accurate to describe her writing as ...

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...

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...

Early Childhood Trauma and Recovered Memories

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

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 ...

Four Works of Gary Paulsen Compared

They fought and screamed and never should have been married. I can remember hiding under the kitchen table one day and just wishin...

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...

Naturalism and Realism in the Literature of the Nineteenth Century

is often an important feature. The individuals portrayed are not depicted as standing outside of their own historical background a...

Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and Denial

As mentioned before, the first edition of The Martian Chronicles was written in 1950, a time during which the Cold War was startin...

Actor John Travolta

time Travolta began doing the leaps and pirouettes on the flashing dance floor in Saturday Night Fever, he was already a veteran a...

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...