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- 191: Beauty And The Beast
- ... They both involve two characters that are thrusted into lifestyles that they are not used to. The beast and E.T were both unique creatures, had close relationships with humans, and were great works of fiction. In both stories, "Beauty and the Beast" and "E.T.", the main characters are unique creatures are forced into a human society, which does not always accept them for who they are. Society, in general ... than those two humans, nobody else attempts to understand where either creature comes from, and as a result, no one befriends them. In addition, both E.T. and the Beast come from great works of fiction, having no fact behind their stories but both being created for no purpose other than pure entertainment. "E.T." was created out of the mind of the great filmmaker Steven Spielberg, and was based on ... life with no one else of their kind around. Both the Beast and E.T. found one human who understood and accepted them for who they were. Both characters were also from great works of fiction coming from the either the mind of a famous filmmaker or from a fairy tale that has existed for hundreds of years. The films "Beauty and the Beast" and "E.T." have many similar ...
- 192: Summary of Clancy's Rainbow Six
- ... this book. Thomas L. Clancy, Jr. was born on the 12th of April 1947, he is married and lives in Maryland, USA. Clancy's novels can be classified as Military- Techno-Thrillers. He has written fiction and non-fiction books, Rainbow Six is a fiction book. As for other titles, well there are just to many to list, in total 23. Some books that he has written are The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, ...
- 193: A Clockwork Orange
- ... director also uses a close-up shot when Alex is talking or thinking. I believe this is done so you can get a feel for what he is saying. This film is definitely a science-fiction film for a few reasons. The setting is in the future. You can tell this because they say they are driving a classic '99 Durango, 1999 is done with and for something to be a classic it has to withstand some time. The doctor uses a special drug to fix Alex's mind and mind control is always part of science-fiction. The way things are done and look also give it a science fiction look and feel. This film screams humanities. The whole movie is about society and culture. It was originally rated NC-17 because people thought it would be too much for society. It was also ...
- 194: Narrative Structure On ABSALOM
- ... history involves the economy and local Indians in Mississippi. Faulkner's land, in north Mississippi, had been home to the Chickasaw Indians in the early 19th century, and they appear frequently throughout much of his fiction and even turn up briefly in Absalom, Absalom!. The Chickasaw's only roles in this novel, however, are to surrender their land and silently disappear. It was because of the federal and state governments that ... the novel. As the storytelling begins, it depends more upon the character's actually telling the story to each other, which suggests a commentary on the art of storytelling itself. This is called metafiction, or fiction about fiction. Absalom, Absalom! is considered the greatest work of America's greatest novelist, one of that handful of American writers who challenged readers the most pleasurably and provocatively (Parker 11). Its capacity to challenge does ...
- 195: Fahrenheit 451: Books - A Part of Our Past
- ... to learn about something we rent a movie about it or watch a show on it. No one reads books anymore just for the fun of it, or so they can read the paranormal, science fiction, horror, classics, fiction or non-fiction novel that surround our world. If we want to see stuff like that we will watch The X-Files or rent a Stephan King movie. Actually when you read books there is much more ...
- 196: Disneys Influence On American
- ... G-rated fare. When Disney targets adult tastes, it s careful to leave Walt s name off the credits. The same folks who brought you 101 Dalmatians, a movie about adorable puppies, also brought you Pulp Fiction, a movie featuring junkies, hit men, and bondage freaks. The same folks who produce Home Improvement, a program about a wisecracking TV handyman, are also responsible for Ellen, a program about a wisecracking lesbian. (11 ...
- 197: "Planet of the Apes"
- "Planet of the Apes" James Burroughs is a critic. In his article, "The Fiction of Science Fiction," he expresses his opinion that the movie, "Planet of the Apes," has no value or real meaning for society today. He says it is like other similar science fiction movies made in the 1960s because it is so out-of-date. He seems to feel the only people that would enjoy "Planet of the Apes" are people who have nothing better to do. ...
- 198: Contemporary Chicano Literatur
- ... by some of the world's finest authors: Mark Twain, William Shakespeare, Anne Rice, Stephen King, Hunter S. Thompson, Upton Sinclair, Alex Haley, etc. I suddenly realized that I have never read a work of fiction, or a play by a Chicano or a Chicana. The only two plays I have ever read in Spanish were not written by a Chicanos: Boda de Sangre by Federico Garcia Lorca (in which I ... of playing the part of Alonzo). I put away the Whitman poem and became lost in my own critical thought. Was there not a single Chicano or Chicana that had ever written a work of fiction? I went to the library's computerized card catalogue system to investigate this matter. Of course I found Chicano fictional writers; however, not as many as I wish I would've found. And so I ... Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, which was originally printed in 1991 and was the recipient of such awards: PEN center USA Was Literary Award (1991), Lannen Literary Award (1991), QPB New Voices Award in Fiction (1992), and the Anisfield Wolf Award (1992). Cisneros also wrote My Wicked Ways in 1980 and The House on Mango Street in 1984, which in 1985 was a recipient of a Before Columbus Foundation ...
- 199: The Atomic Bomb and its Effects on Post-World War II
- ... 1946. The work Hiroshima, by Jon Hersey, from which the opening quote is taken, first appeared as a long article in the New Yorker, then shortly after in book form. The book is a non-fiction account of the bombing of Hiroshima and the immediate aftermath. It is told from the point-of-view of six hibakusha, or "survivors" of the atomic blast. In four chapters Hersey traces how the these ... after the war, not much information was available to general public concerning what kind of destruction the atomic bombs had actually caused in Japan. But starting with Hersey's book and continuing with other non-fiction works, such as David Bradley's No Place To Hide, which concerned the Bikini Island nuclear tests, Americans really began to get a picture of the awesome power and destructiveness of nuclear weapons. They saw ... I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb , this movie was Kubrick's viewpoint on how mad the entire Cold War and arms race had become. Based a little known book by English science fiction writer Peter George, Red Alert, the movie is about how one maverick Air Force general, who is obviously suffering a severe mental illness, concocts a plan to save the world from the Gioielli 8Communists. ...
- 200: Do Androids Dream Of Electric
- ... of great creativity, then fall into times when he wouldn't write at all. With all of Philip K. Dick's ups and downs, he continues to be highly acclaimed in the realm of science fiction, as one of the greatest writers of his style. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, is a science fiction novel, based in the year 2021. The story revolves around a bounty hunter named, Rick Deckard. In these times, the world is covered with debrie from a nuclear fall out. In turn, other colonies were ... the life of a bounty hunter, the reader gets an in-depth view of the time and situation. Another solid aspect to the story is its use of what defines the story as a science fiction, the realistic material such as the, animals, television and the use of San Francisco, an actual city. The other fictional items used are extremely believable, such as hover cars, androids, lazer guns, the idea ...
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