Dune
.... prophets told of. The Reverend Mother came
to Dune and tested Paul to see if this was so. Paul underwent great pain and
suffering but passed the tests with the highest reverence. Duke Leto, Paul's
father now came into the picture. He was the leader of the Atreides Family. He
seemed very established and perceptive. The Atreides family represented good
and honesty while their enemies, the Harkonnen's, were ruthless killers.
The Harkonnen home planet, Gedi Prime was very desolate and dark. It
represe .....
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Jarassic Park: The Dinosaurs Were Not To Blame For The Destruction Of Jurassic Park
.... really means something else,
then so too does chaos theory.
The basic plot of Jurassic Park is fairly simple. A Palo Alto
corporation called International Genetics Technologies, Inc. (InGen) has become
able -- through an entrepreneurial combination of audacity, technology, human
ingenuity, and fantastic outlays of capital (mostly funded by Japanese investors,
who are the only ones willing to wait years for uncertain results) -- to clone
dinosaurs from the bits of their DNA recovered from dinosaur bloo .....
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Matilda
.... house, Easy Cooking. While her
mother was playing bridge all day and her used car salesman father was at work,
Matilda walked to the public library and read books all afternoon. Matilda's
parents were both so warmless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives
that they failed to notice anything unusual about Matilda. Afterward, Mr.
Wormwood decided to take Matilda to school; in school Matilda found lots of
friends and two special teachers, Miss Honey the gentle teacher and Miss
Trunchbull the .....
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Tales Of The City
.... life of a small number of San Francisco residents. With each new
chapter there is a personal development for the characters within. It is this
sense of development that is most important for the continuity of Tales of the
City. The development neatly meshes the character's lives with one another,
till ultimately the product is a mass evolution.
It is interesting to note that the writing style Mr. Maupin uses to guide
the story forward is consistent throughout the book. Chapters inevitably
commen .....
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Frankenstein: Technology
.... electricity could be a catalyst of life. in her
introduction she recalls the talk about Erasmus Darwin, who had preserved a
piece of vermicelli in a glass case, till by some extraordinary means it began
to move with voluntary motion," (Joseph vii). The extraordinary means forms the
basis for Frankenstein. Many people also believe that a nightmare that Mary
Shelley had could also be partly responsible for the creation of the novel.
At the time the novel was written, England was on the brink of leadin .....
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Critique Of The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
.... exploiting a fear common to us all. Prone and
sleeping the woman is uttlerly helpless. She is carried off into the
expressionist labyrinth that Wiene used to symbolize the darkest torments of the
human mind and soul. A beautiful woman is carried off by evil, a play on the
Beauty and the Beast themes that would become so popular in horror films.
Used expressionism, films that explored dream, nightmare and psyche and
that found their narrative shape determined less by action than emotion. Used
a .....
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The Great Gatsby
.... to
the in depth creation of characters the author portrayed.
The most in depth character of all is Mr. Jay Gatsby in this novel. He
is left a very obscure individual and much is not known about him until he
reveals it to Nick. One thing Tom Buchanan finds out about Gatsby is the he is
a swindler and that is how he has amassed his fortune. The main character is
Nick Carraway a man who objectively stays the same through out the whole book,
keeping his friendship with Gatsby to the very end. This book w .....
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The Canterbury Tales: A Character Sketch Of Chaucer's Knight
.... he has not even paused before beginning it to change his clothes.
The knight has had a very busy life as his fighting career has taken
him to a great many places. He has seen military service in Egypt, Lithuania,
Prussia, Russia, Spain, North Africa, and Asia Minor where he "was of [great]
value in all eyes (l. 63). Even though he has had a very successful and busy
career, he is extremely humble: Chaucer maintains that he is "modest as a maid"
(l. 65). Moreover, he has never said .....
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The Queen Of Air And Darkness
.... might have killed his younger brother. Gawaine even kills a
women when worked up to a rage. These rages are a product of the unhealthy
childhood he endured.
The next child, Agravaine, is probably the least well adjusted of the
four. He tends to be sadistic and self-centered. The children were told the
tale of the King of Ireland by St. Toirdealbhach; the tale where the king gets a
head wound and can not be excited, but then he dies while trying to defend his
savior. Agravaine does not see any poi .....
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Black Elk Speaks
.... the name
Black Elk. The youngest Black Elk soon experienced a vision as a young boy, a
vision of the wisdom inherent in the earth that would direct him toward his true
calling of being a wichasha wakon or holy man like his predecessors. Black
Elk's childhood vision stayed with him throughout his life, and it offered him
aid and wisdom whenever he sought it. It is from the strength of this vision,
and the wisdom in his heart that Black Elk eventually realized his place as a
leader and wise man in the Oga .....
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Fahrenheit 451: The Hope Of The Phoenix
.... Montag
had uncertainly about his marriage, because marriage was suppose to be bonded
with love, but with his marriage love was extinct and nowhere to be seen. His
life had died, when his wife Mildred pulled the alarm and had told the firemen
that Montag had books. To Montag, the books was like a sweet piece of candy.
He did not know why he liked them, but he always wanted more. But when Captain
Beatty forced Montag to burn his own house, Montag's soul had died, but then
resurrected. His life w .....
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David Burn's Feeling Good: Depression
.... brings up a valid issue in addressing the
pertinence of depression as it pertains to peoples tendencies of committing a
suicide; other academics have agreed with the same findings. However these
academics have not specifically stated that depression is the only risk factor
of committing a suicide. They did not even suggest that depression is the
heighest weighted risk factor in committing a suicide. The impression the
reader gets after reading the introductory paragraph of the Feeling Good book is
t .....
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Biological Determinism
.... These
changes can not be considered as historical because the age of democracy is just
two hundred years , and the time when inequality between classes and between
people was a natural situation is almost as long as the history of the world .
The author insists that there is no connection between environmental
differences and genetics. In support of his idea the author state that any
Canadian student can perform better in mathematics than some ancient professors
of mathematics. The author comes to the c .....
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Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead"
.... component of society, there must be a more formidable source of
pervailance over the mystical realm of power. There fore, this form of guidance
can only exist from the mind, and as product of thought, thus the ideas within
a philosophy.
The Ideals warp between the covers of, The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand's
philosophical revolution of Individualistic power, is her solution to society's
request for a cure. She believe that the highest order of power stands above
all alternatives as the power belon .....
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Hands: Paranoia
.... or had sat
talking until dusk upon the school steps lost in a dream."(p. 884) "In a way
the voice and hands, the stroking of shoulders and the touching of hair were a
part of the school Master's effort to carry a dream into the young minds."(p.
884) This is a man that was run out of a town for something that was not a bad
thing. Nor was this something intended the wrong way. Mr. Myers did touch only
to pass on something great, a dream. Mr. Myers was run from a town. "They
intended to hang the sch .....
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