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- 211: Cloning And Embryo Research
- Cloning and Embryo Research: The Science Fiction Reality The idea of cloning a life form seemed like something read from a science fiction novel just ten years ago. Now, the theories, ideas and facts of cloning embryos have made cloning one of the most talked about social issues of our time. The researchers of this scientific breakthrough have ...
- 212: Thomas Jefferson'S Life: Tell It The Way It Is!
- ... private tutors to teach their son. Later on he went to Williamsburg University and continued his education in the arts and in law. At this time there were not to many dreamers though. The first fiction novelist Daniel Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe only 37 years before he was born. Imaginative science fiction writers have not emerged yet to give a goal for the inventor. Therefore he turned to the pages of John Locke for the guidance to build a nation. Jefferson relied greatly on the writings of ...
- 213: The Life and Times of Peter Straub
- ... as fellow writer Stephen King. Straub feels no need to produce novels at the same rate as others in his field. “Anybody who writes all day long, has a life that is largely filled with fiction, and it’s fiction – if you spend that much time with it and take great care with it – that has the feel of the real world, that has the feeling of life. It feels that it’s growing, developing ...
- 214: Langston Hughes
- ... other parts of Europe. Hughes was an author, anthologist, librettist, songwriter, columnist, translator, founder of theaters, and a poetical innovator in jazz technology. Hughes liked to write in many genres such as prose, comedy, drama, fiction, biographies, autobiographies, and TV and radio scripts. Langston Hughes was the father of the Harlem Renaissance and made many contributions on the behalf of African- Americans which led to the end of discrimination and segregation ... many different fields of writing. His best drama, "Mulatto," a play, was performed on Broadway 373 times in 1935. In his best comedy, "Little Ham"(1935), again he uses themes from Harlem. Hughes's best fiction is in his "Simple" series. In his lifetime, Langston Hughes won several awards. In 1925 he won his first prize for poetry in the Opportunity contest and third prize for essay in the Crisis contest ...
- 215: Nathaniel Hawthorne Weaves Dreams into Reality in Much of His 19th Century Prose
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Weaves Dreams into Reality in Much of His 19th Century Prose Nathaniel Hawthorne, a master of American fiction, often utilizes dreams within the annals of his writings to penetrate, explore and express his perceptions of the complex moral and spiritual conflicts that plague mankind. His clever, yet crucial purpose for using dreams is ... was at the forefront of a pioneering effort to couple biblical laws with creatively written stories as an art form. It is historically known that Hawthorne is one of the first major American writers of fiction to focus on the interio! r lives of his characters and express his biblical views through what was considered the deeper psychology of art. His son, Julian, clearly recognizes this logic and specifically details the ...
- 216: Real Meaning Of LIfe
- ... an essential cultural adaptation to boot. Religious zealots cite the Bible or the Koran with fervor because they believe it to be the word of God- the rest of us know it's just human fiction (fantasy). But obviously, religious rules like the Ten Commandments, which help keep the masses in line, lack conviction- few will take them seriously- unless one really believes them to have divine origin. Bailey's essay ... perhaps, Islamic nations will face the same decline in religious belief as they modernize. (Or perhaps instead of religion, what we really need are new frontiers "to conquer"- like outer space? According to some science fiction writers, the 20th century with all of its technical marvels has also seen the end of exploration- the end of adventure and escape for the masses.) This essay has been written by a guy who ...
- 217: Metadrama In Shakespeare
- ... Brutus, Cassius and others as actors, self consciously fashioning Roman politics as competing theatrical performances the play enacts the representation of itself to ideology, and of ideology to subjectivity. Moreover if the subjects within the fiction of Julius Caesar are radically unstable by virtue of their representations then so is the theatre whose function is to stage this instability. This means that Julius Caesar fits within this essay s definitions of ... other but also differently from themselves over time. In a wonderful self-reflective, self parody in Twelfth Night Fabian says, If this were played upon a stage now, I could Condemn it as an improbable fiction. (Act III, scene iv, line 126) Shakespeare overtly foregrounds the artificiality of his play. This emphasises the humour and absurdity of the farcical nature of the torment of Malvolio. Shakespeare enjoys toying with conventional theatre ...
- 218: Ernest Hemingway - The Man And
- ... and A Farewell to Arms’ Catherine respectively. Hemingway’s women seem unreal and hollow to the reader but they are how the author perceives American females. Behind his portrayals of characters, his reports, and his fiction there is the beat of a suffering heart and the fight of a wounded soul -–the heart and soul of Hemingway himself. The hero of a Hemingway novel is Hemingway. His life unfolds to the ... New York: Random House Inc., 1966. Kraus, Michael. “World War I.” Colliers Encyclopedia. 1974 ed. Lania, Leo. Hemingway: A Pictorial Biography. New York: The Viking Press, 1961. Madden, David. A Pocketful of Prose, Vintage Short Fiction. Vol. 2. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace and Co., 1996. Tames, Richard. The 1920s. New York: Franklin Watts Inc., 1991. White, William. By-line: Ernest Hemingway; Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades. New York: Charles ...
- 219: John Updikess Pigeon Feather
- ... of his onomastic tendencies. They are most obvious in his verse ("Conceptually a blob,/ the knob/ is a smallish object which,/ hitched/ to a larger,/ acts as verger"), but they are present also in his fiction, a constant pleasure to anyone who enjoys watching an artist at work. Verbal brilliance of this kind, however, can be a danger for a writer of fiction. The young man who, under various names, is the hero of the stories in "Pigeon Feathers" says of one of his unknown rivals, "he would wear eyebrow- style glasses, be a griper, have some not ...
- 220: Worn Path
- ... sees old boarded up buildings, barbed - wire fences, and the worn path. Nancy K. Butterworth Phoenix s individuality, though, not preclude another, simultaneous, views of her symbolic representative view of her race.(Johnson 228) Wetly fiction occurs when Phoenix walks past cabin, silver with weather, with doors and windows boarded shut, all like old under a spell sitting there, and she says, I walking in their sleep, Nodding her head vigorously ... they never happen again. Works Cited Ruth M. Vande Kieft Eudora Welty Queens College (1962) W.Craig Turner, Lee Emling Harding Critical Essays Eudora Welty (1989) Carol Ann Johnson Eudora Welty A Study of Short Fiction (1997) The Critics Nancy K. Butterworth 225-234
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