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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...

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...

Babylon 5 vs. Star Trek

characters who came after them. Star Trek is also known for its progressive point of view. Roddenberry often presented a sort of ...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

Humanity and Science in The Two Cultures by C.P. Snow

was Frank Raymond Leavis, one of Snows contemporaries. Leavis viewed Snows suggestions as crassly materialistic. He suggested in...

Future of Humanity

will always be the case that one partner will dominate(otherwise there is no harmony) the personality coming out on top may tend t...

Turkle's "Can You Hear Me Now?" - Summary/Response

his species - has long been a determinant of how advanced human beings have become throughout the ages. Fire established man as a...

Price of Change/Global Warming

automobile since its invention. However, not only is gasoline a non-renewable resource, but it now appears that it has a potential...

Evaluating NASA's Current Problems and Possible Solutions

budget and had to deal with cost cuts, continued to have prolific ideas. It went ahead and implemented plans, but it did so on a l...

Teaching Elementary Science/Epistemological Framework

text addressing geology encompasses chapters explaining minerals, rocks, plate tectonics, geologic processes and geologic time. Ea...

Futuristic Visions in the Films Metropolis and Blade Runner

against his father. Meanwhile, Fredersen orders the scientist Rotwang to create a robot that looks like Maria; he plans to use th...

Power, Surveillance and the Totalitarian State

can be trusted; it is the ultimate in paranoid societies. By keeping its citizens fearful and mistrustful of each other, the gover...

P.D. James Vision of the Future

either. Theo and Julian: Their relationship is very different in the film than it is in the book, so it depends on which one is u...

A Comparison of Two Books on Non-Profit Leadership

that is aligned with management theory and practice. Obviously, the focus here is on the nonprofit organization, but it is also tr...

The History of Wal-Mart

branched out from its Arkansan roots (Wal-Mart (a)). The corporation opened its home office and first distribution center in the n...

Analysis of Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

at Christminster in much the same manner as a knight with the Holy Grail. Hardy comments that Jude did not see that "mediaevalism...

Post Cold War Future World Visions

well as the permanent deployment of many American troops bases and garrisons abroad were involved (1996). The U.S. military leade...

Graham E. Fuller's Article on Nation State Weaknesses

as he feels this will cause "endless subdivision of states," possibly doubling, or even tripling the membership of the UN (1997, p...

Common Vision Shared by the United Kingdom and Japan

the economy develops in the way most economic forecasters expect this will rise to between 250,000 and 380,000 by 2003. However, ...

Disney and Directional Changes

bargaining power of buyers. Clearly, competitors in those industries with greater rivalry will need to keep closer tabs on ...

Realism and Liberalism in International Relations

International Relations is a topic which comes under the broader heading of political science, but is the subject really a science...

Its Application in Private Practice: APTA's Vision

This essay offers an overview of the vision statement of the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), and then discusses its ...

Rexall Sundown Management and Marketing

In eight pages this paper considers current and future growth outlooks for Rexall Sundown as management must ensure vision and exp...

Mike Davis vs. Brady Westwater in the Battle for LA

how probable his apocalyptic vision is for Los Angeles. Unfortunately for Daviss argument, all of these modern pestilences ...

Is Govermental Power Too Great or Insufficient?

entities take liberties and make rules that do not abide by the clear-cut convictions of a democratic system of administration. ...