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- 1211: Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Grim P
- ... in their minds the possibility of the prophecy becoming a reality. In a critique of his own work, Orwell called Nineteen Eighty-Four "A work of a future terrible [sic] because it rests on a fiction and can not be substantiated by reality or truth. " But perhaps this future is realizing itself more than Orwell thought it would. Orwell, more than likely, would have made note of, but wouldn't be ...
- 1212: Brave New World 4
- BRAVE NEW WORLD BRAVE New World was published in 1932. It is a remarkable piece of science fiction for both its time and our own. It seems to withstand the intervening 65 years, primarily because of its depiction of a tightly controlled, rigidly stratified homogenous society. Issues of social control are as relevant ...
- 1213: Bouchards View Of Canadian His
- ... the natural resources and the large seaport of the St. Lawrence. Unfortunately this envisioned Mecca came under control of an English business man, William Price. From the middle of the nineteenth century, Price developed a pulp and paper monopoly that ruled the region with the consent of the government. The French found themselves without the help of government services and programs. Politicians were associated only with helping Price or favouring the ...
- 1214: Beloved 2
- ... best read with a compassionate eye. Michiko Kakutani of the NY Times wrote "there is a contemporaneous quality to time past and time present as well as a sense that the lines between reality and fiction, truth and memory have become inextricably blurred". She goes onto say "This is a dazzling novel." Margaret Atwood said "If there were any doubts about her stature as a pre-eminent American novelist, of her ...
- 1215: A Good Man Is Hard To Find 2
- ... and ultimately sealing the entire family's death. O'Connor makes the trite seem sweet, the humdrum seem tragic, and the ridiculous seem righteous. The reader can no longer use their textbook ways of interpreting fiction and human behavior because O'Connor is constantly throwing our assumptions back at us. Through out "A good man is hard to find" O'Connor reinforces the horror of self-love through her images. She ...
- 1216: Emerging Trends - Body Wearable Computers
- ... collective sense, two or more individuals may share in their collective consciousness, so that one may have a recall of information that one need not have experienced personally. Much in the same way the Science Fiction series of Star-Trek and the Borg Collective. Connected collective humanistic intelligence, again a Borg Collective idea (Try looking this highlight up on the internet; Why do most of the sites require a password?). In ...
- 1217: New Trend For Horror Films
- ... find out what happened to these people did the ghost of the witch kill them or did they simply get lost in the woods. Even though this film turned out to be a work of fiction it has enough merit to stand on it's own as a great horror flick.
- 1218: Romanticism
- ... Here the outlook of reality versus illusion took its course! Romanticism is the belief in religion, beauty, pursuit in individualism and striving for personal freedom. It is also, considered to be a particular kind of fiction that demonstrates allegory(more than one meaning in stories or poems that ends with ambiguous notions). Overall, Romanticism states imagination above all else. A period with good perspective for the future and roots based on ...
- 1219: The Great Depression
- ... place to work to support themselves and their family (Drewry and O'connor 560-561). John Steinbeck, born in 1902, grew up during the Depression near the fertile Salinas Valley and wrote many books of fiction based on his background and experiences during that time and area of the country. One of his great works would be the Grapes of Wrath In this book, Steinbeck describes the farmers plight during the ...
- 1220: Early America
- ... it did get out to the public the puritans said that none of it had ever happened. They did not write to entertain the public they wrote for themselves, and for God. They wrote no fiction, and they didn't even want to read it. They didn't even write poems because they thought didn't like to violate the theater. Everything they wrote avoided Ornate Style, which is a complicated ...
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