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- 361: The Andromeda Strain: Summary
- The Andromeda Strain: Summary The book I read was Michael Crichton's Andromeda Strain. It is a science fiction story about an outbreak of a deadly airborne virus. The virus came from an experimental satellite named Scoop VII. The satellite landed in a small town in northwestern Arizona named Piedmont. There were only 2 ... the key just before he blacked out and the computer was at one second. Overall, I enjoyed the book and would recommend it to my classmates. It is amazingly suspenseful and full of realistic science fiction. It kept me tossing and turning all night as I thought of the Andromeda Strain invading our town.
- 362: The Old Gringo, By Carlos Fuen
- The Old Gringo, Carlos Fuentes The Old Gringo is a fiction novel written by one of Latin America s most renowned and eloquent authors, Carlos Fuentes. Filled with war, adventure, love and more, this novel takes you back to the Mexican revolution fought in 1912. This contemporary fiction is based on many themes found and experienced by the main characters in this novel. The relationship between Mexico and the United States, the drive to find one s true self and the different ways ...
- 363: Tyler's "Accidental Tourist" and "Searching For Caleb": Individualism and Belonging to the Family
- ... dealing with individualism, isolation, family, and conformity. Furthermore, two characters in Breathing Lessons are isolated and very different, but through these differences can save their marriage. Works Cited Kelly, Rebecca. "Anne Tyler." Beecham's Poular Fiction. Wahington, D.C.: Beecham Publishing, 1986: 1381-1386. Nesanovich, Stella A. "Anne Tyler." Critical Survey of Long Fiction. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Salem Press, 1991:3329-3345. Reisman, Rosemary M. Canfield. "Anne Tyler." Magill's Survey of American Literature. New York: Salem Press, 1991: 1972- 1982. Tyler, Anne. "The Accidental Tourist." A New ...
- 364: The Computer Underground
- ... take pride in their assumed names, and one of the greatest taboos is to use the handle of an- other or to use multiple handles. Handles are borrowed liberally from the anti-heros of science fiction, adventure fantasy, and heavy metal rock lyrics, particularly among younger users, and from word plays on technology, nihilism, and violence. The CU handle reflects a stylistic identity heavily influenced by meta- phors reflecting color (especially ... of Computer Crime." Contemporary Crisis. Milovanovic, Dragan, and Jim Thomas. 1989. "Overcoming the Absurd: Prisoner Litigation as Primitive Rebellion." Social Problems 36(February): 48-60. Newman, Charles. 1985. The Post-Modern Aura: The Act of Fiction in an age of Inflation. Evanston (Ill.): Northwestern University Press. Pfuhl, Erdwin H. 1987. "Computer Abuse: Problems of Instrumental Control." Deviant Behavior, 8(2): 113-130. Rosenbaum, Ron. 1971. "Secrets of the Little Blue Box ...
- 365: Critical Analysis Of Soldiers
- ... isn't the boy he was in high school -- or perhaps, the boy she thought he was. Works Cited: Hemingway, Ernest. "Soldier's Home", from Ernest Hemingway: The Short Stories. (New York, NY : Scribner Paperback Fiction Edition) 1995. Imamura, Tateo. " 'Soldier's Home:' Another Story of a Broken Heart." (1996). The Hemingway Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, Fall, pp. 102. Kansas City Star Online. "Ernest Hemingway and Kansas City: a Literary Tour." http://www.kcstar.com/aboutstar/hemingway/hem6.htm Kobler, J.F. " 'Soldier's Home' Revisited: A Hemingway Mea Culpa." (1993). Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 30, No. 3, Summer, pp. 377. Lamb, Robert Paul Lamb. "The Love Song of Harold Krebs." (1995). The Hemingway Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, Spring, pp. 18. Slaughter, Daniel. "Ernest Hemingway and Selected Works ...
- 366: The Effect of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- ... or start it down the road to cataclysmic conflict. One such catalytic work is Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). It is considered by many, one the most influential American works of fiction ever published. Uncle Tom's Cabin sold more copies than any other previous fiction title. It sold five thousand copies in its first two days, fifty thousand copies in eight weeks, three hundred thousand copies in a year and over a million copies in its first sixteen months. What ...
- 367: A Worn Path: Phoenix Jackson and Symbols
- ... sees old boarded up buildings, barbed - wire fences, and the worn path. Nancy K. Butterworth Phoenixs 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
- 368: Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World: A Comparison of Themes
- Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World: A Comparison of Themes For more than half a century science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life to be like at some future time. One ... man's best friend, the dog, against man, changes the role of public servants and changes the value of a person. Aldous Huxley also uses the concept of society out of control in his science fiction novel Brave New World. Written late in his career, Brave New World also deals with man in a changed society. Huxley asks his readers to look at the role of science and literature in the ...
- 369: Book Report On The Forbidden C
- The book The Forbidden City is written by William Bell and contains 299 pages. The theme in this serious, fiction adventure novel is about a seventeen-year old boy named Alex Jackson, his father, a CBC news cameraman, and their adventure in China and how they survived the worst of times during Chinas history ... can be. It shows people speaking up towards the government, trying to make China a better place to live. I recommend this novel for all who like books based on true stories mixed up with fiction. The theme of this story will make you think about life and how good we have it here in the US and that we take things like freedom and civil rights for granted. It showed ...
- 370: Edward Vii
- ... influential part in bringing Great Britain, France, and Russia together in 1907 into the Triple Entente. One of the most wittiest and inventive satirist s writers in England is a journalist most noted for his fiction pieces, known as Hector Hugh Munro. Saki is his pen name ( Comptons Online Encyclopedia). His typical stories are marked by amoral reversal revenge on the pretentious cruel practical jokes, and uncary supernatural incidents (Encyclopedia of ... same year, Saki enters World War I. Hector Hugh Munro, Saki, is killed by a sniper in the early hours of a winter day, on November 13, 1916 ( Langguth, 98). Saki is remembered for his fiction pieces distinguishing by dialogue and narrative ( Encyclopedia Americana, 26). He delightes readers with his political sketches, intensive writings. He is often compared with " O-Henry" ( www.spartcus.com). Edward VII and Saki's lives overlap ...
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