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- 581: The Laser
- ... are used to price items. Lasers also are used to protect businesses by placing laser sensors in security systems. Military: Lasers play a very important role in the military. Unlike what is seen in science fiction movies where a laser gun could be used as a hand weapon, using today's technology lasers that powerful would have to be as big as the great pyramids in Egypt. Instead, we use them ...
- 582: Sharks
- ... 1" Any one whos seen the famous movie series "Jaws" may look at the Great White Shark in a similar manner. Perhaps its the way that Hollywood uses a mix of fact and fiction in the series. This may have frightened many people into hating the Great White for its ferocity. It might have also been the size of the shark in the movie thats kept thousands ...
- 583: The Holy Bible and Its History
- ... full meaning. Another book being claimed as a companion to the Bible is the "Book of Mormon". This book is not a Bible, and should be considered by the Christian as no more than a fiction novel. Sources Eerdmans' Handbook to the History of Christianity. The Complete Guide to Bible Versions. Many reports gathered from around the Internet. Personal research. The King James Bible (KJV) The New International Version (NIV) The ...
- 584: Marking Time Versus Enduring in Gwendolyn Brook's "The Bean Eater's"
- ... beads and receipts and dolls and cloths, tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes" (11). What these people have is not much, but it is something. Works Cited Brooks, Gwendolyn. "The Bean Eaters," Literatur: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed, X.J. Kennedy and Dana Goia. 6th ed. New york: harper, 1995, 655. Kent, George E. A Life of Gwendolyn Brooks. Lexington:UP of Kentucky, 1990. Melhem, D. H. Gwendolyn Brooks ...
- 585: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
- ... Related Information Poe Perplex on the Black Cat Do Black Cats cause bad luck? Comment on Poe's "The Black Cat" "I am Safe" - David Grantz Works Cited Levine, Stuart and Susan, editors. The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1990. Quinn, Arthur Hobson. Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1941. Silverman, Kenneth. Edgar A. Poe: Mournful ...
- 586: Nature Imagery in Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-One Love Poems"
- ... points out the marred and disturbing character of the human culture dominant in Manhattan. Her stroll in the metropolis with her lover compels her to take into account that "screens flicker / with pornography, with science-fiction vampires, / victimized hirelings bending to the lash." These fierce images foresee later remarks in the "Twenty-One Love Poems" on the violence intrinsic in a culture built by men, and including "pornography" and "vampires" on ...
- 587: The Point of View in "Porphyria's Lover"
- ... can keep her, though, is by killing her. Robert Browning's poem depicts the separation of social classes and describes the "triumph" of one man over an unjust society. As is often the case in fiction, the speaker of "Porphyria's Lover" does not give accurate information in the story. The speaker is a deranged man who will stop at nothing to keep his dear Porphyria. Although the introduction refers to ...
- 588: The Personification and Criticism of Death in John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud."
- ... Donne uses these traits to portray death as a formidable foe. "With an impudence that is characteristically Donne's, he deflates Death in the opening salvo. He discounts the power of death as a mere fiction" (Dr. Gerald McDaniel, lecture). Now that the image of his foe, death, has been created, Donne denounces the power and fear associated with death, "for thou art not so. / For those whom thou think'st ...
- 589: John Rzeznik's Iris
- ... give up forever to touch you, And all I can taste is this moment, and And I dont want the world to see me. However, in the last verse the link between reality and fiction begins to form. There is a sense of searching for reality to find what is the truth. In the third and final verse the writer addresses her, And you bleed just to know youre ...
- 590: The Tupac Conspiracy
- ... 2 Find" on the album All Eyes On Me, he says "I heard rumors I died, murdered in cold blood, tramatized pictures of me in my final states, you know momma cryed, but that was fiction, some coward got the story twisted." It seems as if Tupac foretold the future. Scarface's song "Smile", which is a duet with Tupac, was supposedly recorded in September of '96, before Tupac was "shot ...
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