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Systems in White Noise by Don DeLillo

the book choose to use the information with which they are being bombarded. Each system takes on, in effect, its own miniature mu...

Concept of Postmodern and Dance

In twelve pages postmodernism is defined with the emphasis being upon postmodern dance and the contributions of Merce Cunningham, ...

Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, and Postmodernism

In three pages this report analyzes the postmodern characteristics of these 1992 and 1994 films by director Quentin Tarantino. Th...

That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis and Reality

In five pages this paper discusses the reality of this literary combination of fantasy and myth. Two sources are listed in the bi...

Humanist v. Postmodern Views on Sexuality and Gender

humanism refers to the personal worth of an individual and that individuals right to his own particular values, and freedom from p...

Popular Culture and Postmodernism

the nineteenth century, or so, the art world seemed to go into a slump. Quite like writers block, this slump saw a lull in the art...

Fantasy in James Thurber's 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' and Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie

memory of past events. He explains that he will not be a narrator, "I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion t...

Tim O'Brien and the Vietnam Experience

who and what one was (Lee, 1995). In that, he wasnt unique. Thousands of Vietnam veterans experienced it, and dozens of writers ha...

Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips

vessel. The children are Nash, Martha and Travis, and their stories form the basis for the three major divisions in the text. The ...

The Number Devil by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

to the idea of "triangular" numbers. There is an "Alice through the Looking Glass" feeling to the book as almost anything can be a...

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Postmodernism

symbolic, it can be said to the juxtaposition of Martha to George(Clurman 12). Martha is high energy and ambitious, whereas George...

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 ...

Art, Art Criticism, and Postmodern Culture

all embodied become the casualties of another direction, only to be broken apart and redeveloped by way of postmodernistic composi...

Modern and Postmodern Sociology Issues

expressed in a direct cause and effect relationship. Also, the function need not be positive or nurturing. Certainly, Durkheim w...

Juan Rulfo's 'Pedro Paramo'

of Mexico and its people, as well as the fantasy that has been presented. For example, one with a passionate culture truly imagine...

Postmodern Deconstructionist Architecture

Russian constructivist forms and by Derridean deconstruction" (Ganim 364). Basically, the philosophy behind the concept of decons...

Around the World in Eighty Days by Verne

detail as his protagonist, Phileas Fogg. Phileas Fogg is the central character, without whom there would be no novel, and yet o...

A Hero in Print and Throughout Time

the path to order by bringing structure to the process of understanding. The classical hero was one who was brave, honest, pious ...

Jules Winnfield's Transformation in Pulp Fiction Film

truths binding on everyone. Postmodernism is most often characterized by power struggles and a lack of objective reality, boundari...

Aesthetics and Marxism

understood. He goes on to call it a queer thing that abounds in metaphysical subtleties as well as theological niceties (1887). A...

'Magical Realism' Creative Writing Sample

at the on-site school for the city orphanage, Jessie stood out in my history classroom as if a spotlight were on her. Naturally, s...

Parallel Reality in The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bar...

Dracula by Bram Stoker

emphasized. Harker is clearly in foreign territory. This point is even emphasized by the Count who tells Harker, "We are in Trans...

Literary Analysis of The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

length on the hard bricks"(Baum). This line from Baums book indicates that Baum has some particular point to make when he chooses...

Ritalin, Pro & Con

vision problems or learning disabilities or "whether a childs behavior is simply immature or exuberant" ("Attention" 77). Accurate...

"Risk Factors For Cardiovascular Disease In Children With Type 1 Diabetes" - Brief Analysis

to occur in someone who has had diabetes for many years" (Federal Citizen Information Center, 2006). Type 1 diabetics walk ...

Coping Techniques For Parents With Special Needs Children

with such aspects as homework (Patten, 1994; Bryan et al, 2004; Cooper et al, 1994). Reaching the special needs student req...

Negative Impact Television Programs Have Upon Children's Behavior

a social ill that grows worse with each passing generation as children are exposed to cleverly marketed television commercials foc...

Personal Definition Of Video Games

methods of book reading; given the multitude of students who have at least some level or type of learning and/or attention disorde...

Criminal Justice Issues

effect of showing mercy to the Manson murderers when they exhibited no mercy towards their innocent victims. According to Charlo...