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- 691: History of The Internet
- ... people who would send their messages via e-mail to a group address, and also receive messages. This could be done twenty-four hours a day. Interestingly, the first group's topic was called Science Fiction Lovers. As ARPANET became larger, a more sophisticated and standard protocol was needed. The protocol would have to link users from other small networks to ARPANET, the main network. The standard protocol invented in 1977 ...
- 692: Romanticism’ in Jude the Obscure
- ... often branded a "pessimist") and his criticism of society, especially in its treatment of women, always drew criticism, and after the reception of Jude (which, by the way, is a bleak novel!), he stopped writing fiction and turned entirely to poetry, with his first volume published in 1898. Hardy lived a long life (1840-1928), so he practically had two careers: one as a novelist, another as a poet. Hardy's ...
- 693: The Catcher In The Rye
- The Catcher In The Rye The catcher in the rye is a work of fiction and a tragic comedy. In the book, the main character, Holden Caultfield, tells us a story about what happened during his Christmas vacation. Holden is a sixteen-year-old boy who has flunked out of ...
- 694: A Heritage Denied
- ... her heritage conveys one message: Dee trivializes the importance of her family heritage and consequently fails to appreciate anything it may have to offer her. Work Cited Walker, Alice. “Everyday Use.” Literature: An introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Eds. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 7th ed. New York: Longman, 1999. 71-78.
- 695: Slaughter House Five: Time Travel
- ... to visit it. He uses Billy Pilgrim to express his views of time, and it is up to the reader to figure out what this is. He deals with real situations as well as science fiction or fantasy. A real situation is such that of a plane crash and a fantasy would be a visit to another planet, known as Tralfamadore in the novel. His writing is very unique, you can ...
- 696: Aspects of the Narrator in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat”
- ... of memory, and deaf superstition. These three unreliable qualities of the narrator grant him real human personification, which solidifies this already frightening tale. Bibliography Poe, Edgar Allan. “The Black Cat.” The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction. 2nd ed. Stott et. al., Eds. Toronto: Harcourt Brace, 1998. 893-899. Womack, Martha and Christoffer Nilsson. Edgar Allan Poe. http://poedecoder.com http://www.nadn.navy.mil/EnglishDept/poeperplex/blcat.htm
- 697: The Cask of Amontillado: Irony and Foreshadowing
- ... this knowledge. The reader is pulled into the dark, quiet recesses of the tomb, and this setting gives the murder an eerie, creepy mood. As with the examples in “ The Cask of Amontillado,” foreshadowing gives fiction mystery, and suspense; it keeps the reader moving towards the next moment to look forward to.
- 698: Jane Eyre: The Preserverance of the Personality
- ... action are still on the surface - the novel only as a whole offers a real presentation of a complex, singular character. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Penguin Popular Classics, 1994 John Kucich, Repression in Victorian Fiction, University of California Press, 1987 John Maynard, Charlotte Brontë and sexuality, Cambridge University Press, 1984 Earl A. Knies, The Art of Charlotte Brontë, Ohio University Press, 1969 Q. D. Leavis, Introduction to Charlotte Brontë's ...
- 699: “Masque of the Red Death”vs.“Fall of the House of Usher”: A Glimpse Into The Life of Poe
- ... on his writings, and the literary elements he used in these writings. His life reflected on these works greatly. Many of Poe’s writings seemed to have hidden meanings and appeared autobiographical. “In his Gothic fiction, Poe handles the morbid and frightening subjects with which his reputation is so closely associated – death, madness, disease, the dissolution of personality, the wasting away of fragile heroines. Sometimes the incidents recounted are realistic: …‘The ...
- 700: Fahrenheit 451: How Montag is Convinced to Change His Mind about Books
- ... 1960. Mogen, David. Ray Bradbury. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1986 Zipes, Jack. "Mass Degradation of Humanity and Massive Contradictions in Bradbury's Vision of America in Fahrenheit 451." No Place Else: Explorations in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction. Ed. Eric S. Rabkin, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983.
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