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- 891: The Rape Of The Lock
- ... idiosyncrasies, and makes fun of her vanity. Today's woman has come a long way since then, and may be proof that what a woman thought a man wanted in the past, is really complete fiction. The woman began as a companion to man. They would be counterparts, whereas what he lacked in mentally, she would fulfill, and what she lacked physically, he would fulfill. Since the time of Adam and ...
- 892: 3rd World Essay
- ... become Egypt's Director of Public Health in 1958 (Speace 1). Since she began to write over twenty-five years ago, her books have concentrated on women (Hafez 450-451). In 1972, her first non-fiction book, Woman and Sex, evoked the antagonism of highly placed political and theological authorities. She was dismissed from the Ministry of Health and her position as editor of Health magazine due to the opposition (Speace ...
- 893: Society 2
- ... the wisdom of humanity and the possibility of progress in human society. His longing for an idealized past as a haven from an increasingly hostile present is evident in most of his major works of fiction (World Literature 3713). As a result, Clemens work offers a compelling vision of the American frontier. In the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, for example, the Mississippi River exemplifies the frontier. Allowing Huck to escape the ...
- 894: Shiga Naoya - At Kinosaki
- ... which describes writers attempting to take scientific methods of observation and turn it into literature. Shiga Naoya is reported to have said that he never attempted to draw a line between story novels and non-fiction essays. He described his main function as a writer was to select, set and arrange materials into a story. If we look at the first sentence of the novel "I had been hit by a ...
- 895: Sadomasochism
- An inside look at s&m These ritualized behaviors; the strange and blatant acts, some which seem to be cut right from a horror-fiction film; the rigid symbolism in dress, and manner - none of these behaviors should be taken lightly, or ever treated as a mere 'game'. For those who do possess, in the depths of their being, the ...
- 896: Prime-time Animation
- ... Airport and a chain of silicon convenience stores called the Implant Hut (Duffy, )." Futurama, however, takes place well into the future. This is owing to Matt Groening's aspirations to create a farce of science fiction in a distinctively warped animated series (Groening, ). The Simpsons, and the genre of prime-time animations it started, contain many stereotypes on Western and pop culture. Family Guy falls into this genre. "There's dad ...
- 897: Origin Of Totalitarianism
- ... of the Mind."91 Hubbard's initial approach in writing about Dianetics was that of an engineer seeking practical, scientific solutions to the mysteries of the human mind. Gone was Hubbard's previously racy science fiction prose; it was replaced by a sober and logical textbook style.92 The new scientific thesis rested upon a system of axioms and mechanisms, giving Hubbard the appearance of a respectable scientist laboring away for ...
- 898: Michel Foucault And The Cultiv
- ... his determined unity is called into question. Foucault never denied that the subject exists, although he sometimes fictionalized the self in his writings. This self is not metaphysically free, but neither is it actually a fiction. The inevitable prohibition in the practice of power enables its own potential undoing because it creates the possibility of a new infraction. As a result, Foucault sees power as productive, and the subject it produces ...
- 899: Interpretation 2
- ... Quixotes. Humans have been blessed with the incredible ability of imagination. It would be a waste to abolish books simply due to the fear of what we can interpret from them. The fantasies in science fiction books of only half a century ago, has become reality today. Without books giving us more knowledge to feed on, where would the ideas for future innovations come from? The future is coming fast. I ...
- 900: Mythology
- ... and of society were explained by MYTHOLOGY. The dictionary defines mythology as the myths dealing with the gods, demigods, and legendary heroes of a particular people. The word myth is often mistakenly understood to mean fiction-something that never happened, a made-up story or fanciful tale. Myth is really a way of thinking out the past. Myths do not correctly explain what literally happen but suggest that behind the explanation ...
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