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- 221: Brazil 2
- ... involved. But interest, more than percentages, was a key to the escalating crisis. The burden of debt quickly attained unsustainable levels. Yet because of the global crisis of liquidity and the risks it posed, the fiction that all was well in Brazil needed to be sustained, and it was-at least until the global system could be inoculated against the potential impact of a Brazilian crash and President Cardoso was safely ... Certainly the U.S. edition of Time contained not a word of reporting from most of the world south and east of Manhattan, where that message of deliverance might have seemed hollow at best. The Fiction Is Over What are the risks now that the fiction is over? The segment of the population that is most threatened by a return of inflation and recession are the 19 million people who during the mid-1990s, gaining from the stability brought about ...
- 222: Donald Barthelme
- ... the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters for his book The Dead Father. His book Sixty Stories was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner award for Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize all in 1982. Barthelme also had the privilege of being widely regarded as one of the ablest and most versatile American stylists (Robert et al, 919). Donald Barthelme ... two-dimensional parodies of themselves, rather than fully developed individuals." To get a feel for what the way Donald Barthelme writes I read a few of his short stories. Barthelme is a "writer of experimental fiction who creates funny and disturbing stories by putting different parts of stories that are seemingly unimportant to one another together"(Marowski and Matuz, 34). Anatole Broyard says", Barthelme is so funny that most readers will ... of these people that Barthelme is funny. I do agree thought that he does seem to be a very serious writer. Thomas Leitch says about Barthelme: "Perhaps the most striking feature of Donald Barthelmes fiction is the number of things it get along without. In Barthelmes fictive world, there appear to be no governing or shaping beliefs, no transcendent ideals or intimations, no very significant physical experience, no ...
- 223: Allegory In Young Goodman Brown
- ... was gloom." Works Cited Capps, Jack L. "Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown", Explicator, Washington D.C., 1982 Spring, 40:3, 25. Easterly, Joan Elizabeth. "Lachrymal Imagery in Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown", Studies in Short Fiction, Newberry, S.C., 1991 Summer, 28:3, 339-43. Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Young Goodmam Brown", The Story and Its Writer, 4th ed. Ed. Ann Charters. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995, 595-604. Shear, Walter. "Cultural Fate and Social Freedom in Three American Short Stories", Studies in Short Fiction, Newberry, S.C., 1992 Fall, 29:4, 543-549. Tritt, Michael. "Young Goodman Brown and the Psychology of Projection", Studies in Short Fiction, Newberry, S.C., 1986 Winter, 23:1, 113-117.
- 224: Visitors From Oz
- Visitors From Oz The book Visitors From Oz, written by Martin Gardner is a very interesting fiction about Dorothy Gale, Scarecrow, and The Tin Woods Man, they have been invited to New York City by a movie producer by the name of Samuel Gold. The story begins by the three of them ... fairy tale, good conquers over evil and they get back to Oz safely. Samuel Gold is a man with a great imagination, he believes that anything can happen and what most people believe to be fiction probably is real. For instance when he was a young boy his mother read to him the Oz books, and it was from the Oz books that he learned to read. Not only did he learn to read he learned about a whole new and different place called Oz. Even though Samuels mother insisted that the books were fiction, he never gave up believing that they were as real as you and me. Even when he started to grow old, even then he still believed. One day after Samuel had grown and had ...
- 225: Tom Clancy: 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, ...
- 226: Ray Bradbury's Dandelion Wine
- ... vignettes about one summer in the life of 12-year old Douglas Spaulding, is a powerful mirror into childhood, growing up, and life in general. Bradbury, generally considered one of the Grand Masters of science fiction, did not in fact write science fiction. While his books and stories had some of the overtones of science fiction, their themes went much deeper than simple space opera or shoot-'em-up action. His books were often quite surrealistic and were very emotional. (Wolfheim 42) Critiquing Bradbury is difficult as it dulls the ...
- 227: Crying of Lot 49
- ... allows the reader to see more of his world than any of his other characters can. Pynchon wants to lure the reader into the character's search for meaning. Furthermore, the alternations of fact with fiction, such as the description of the historical basis of the Peter Pinguid Society8, confuse the reader to such an extent that he is forced to rely upon Oedipa to decipher reality from illusion. Pynchon even denies the reader and Oedipa time to sort out the information by moving rapidly to the next event. The blending of authenticity with fiction introduces an epistemological aspect to Pynchon's work. Much of The Crying of Lot 49 tackles the historical evidence for the Trystero. Scholars have found that the actual history of the Trystero, a Renaissance postal ... were buried underneath a lake after W.W.II. Why is it not possible that their bones were used for cigarette filter? Pynchon wants the reader to recognize and plunge into the shaded area between fiction and reality. Pierce and Pynchon tell Oedipa and the reader, respectively, that we don't know much for certain. In Pynchon's comical world, our senses deceive us, ruling out an Empirical solution to ...
- 228: Ants, Little But Mighty
- ... across and six feet or more in to the ground, with sixty thousand to ninety thousand ants living inside. Harvester ants collect and store seeds in their nest. They chew the kernels into a soft pulp and feed it to the growing larvae. The adult ant will not eat the pulp unless there is a drought, and no other food sources are available. During rainy times, the ants will not allow the seed to get damp. If they did they would sprout or get moldy. When ... The chambers of the nest can be as big as a bushel basket. The leaf cutter ants nest is very large. The leaves they bring back are not eaten they are chewed into a thick pulp like material, which soon sprouts fungus. The fungus is what the ants eat for food. The ants tend to their gardens very carefully. If the leaves are dry, the ants place them outside at ...
- 229: Canadian Manufacturing
- ... the mineral wealth beneath the Canadian Shield began to be realized, stimulating great interest in Canada's growth potential. WWI stimulated industrial development and diversification, especially in such industries as steel, shipbuilding, nonferrous metals and pulp and paper. By 1920 manufacturing directly employed 600,000 workers, about 17% of the total labour force at that time. The worldwide depression of the 1930s reduced economic activity and stifled industrial progress in Canada ... and leather products, clothing, FURNITURE AND FIXTURES, transportation equipment, electrical products, and scientific and leisure goods (see SPORTING-GOODS INDUSTRY). Resource-based manufacturing industries are spread more evenly across the country, eg, wood industries, newsprint, pulp and paper, steel and primary metals, nonmetallic minerals, petroleum refineries and chemicals. As resource development continues in the 1980s, resource-based manufacturing will grow in the western and Atlantic provinces. The western provinces now account ...
- 230: The Island Of Dr. Moreau
- ... can clone things and it is more of a reality than it was in 1896. This change has been so dramatic that Barnes and Noble would have had to take the book off the science-fiction shelves and onto the non-fiction shelves. It has created a whole new atmosphere in which to read this book one in such Wells predicted by writing this book. Wells would be disappointed at our disregard of his warning. Another important ...
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