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- 261: Internet The Advantages And Disadvantages
- ... line from Star Trek was a demonstration of the advanced technology of the future. Though it was a fictional story, Star Trek became the universal vision of the future. As always reality tends to mimic fiction. Though our society has not quite resulted to living in space, we have made life easier with technology. Economic survival has become more dependent upon information and communications bringing forth new technology of which was ... J. "FBI Survey reveals Growth of CyberCrime." San Jose Mercury News. http://www.datasync.com/~sotmesc/news/trends.txt (24 Feb. 1998) Sterling, Bruce "Short History of the Internet" The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. http://www.forthnet.gr/forthnet/isoc/short.history.of.internet (5 March 1998) "Why Use the Internet?" Http://www.webfeat.com/webfeat/whyweb.html (march 3 1998) "Why your company should be on the Internet ...
- 262: D.H. Lawrence
- ... teacher. His mother, the school teacher, was socially superior. She constantly tried to alienate her children from their father. The difference in social status between his parents was a recurrent motif in Lawrences fiction. David Herbert was ranked among the most influential and controversial literary figures of the Victorian Period. In his more than forty books, Lawrence celebrated his vision of the natural, whole human being, opposing the modern ... grew up. His most original poetry, published in Birds, Beasts, and Flowers, flowed from his own experience of nature in the southwestern U.S. and the Mediterranean region. Also, the most significant of his early fiction, Sons and Lovers, dealt with life in a mining town. Another wonderful example of the nature in D.H. Lawrences writing would come from The Shadow in the Rose Garden. In this book, the ...
- 263: Special Effects
- ... order to achieve a certain image or illusion. Cinematographers in the early fifties would use a black cloth backdrop with white paint splattered off of toothpicks to simulate a space scene in the many science-fiction movies made in that era. There is also stories of a common plate being thrown across a "space" backdrop to emulate a flying saucer in mid-flight. Although the special effects persons of old were ... make-up artist Rick Baker who shows what can be done with a steady hand and a lot of patience. Another popular trick used was strings to manipulate miniature objects. Often used in the science fiction era to show spacecraft or other objects in flight was thin strings attached to miniatures. Audiences did notice the obvious strings but it did not matter at the time because it was state of the ...
- 264: Constructive Criticism
- ... Internet newsgroups abound on the world wide web. Newsgroups, or Usenet forums, are servers designed for the sharing of ideas between thousands of individuals, with different perspectives, each day. Topics range from romance to science fiction and beyond, yet on any given topic there is never a universally accepted constant. Every individual's views on what is romantic or what is realistic in science fiction are different. Usenet groups are an excellent example of criticism in many forms, as they possess a huge amalgamation of opinions derived from perspectives from many different countries. Frequently, a person's tone is misunderstood ...
- 265: Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary: Comparisons
- ... remarkable only for an unusual defiance of natural feelings (Flaubert 152). People even say that the myth surrounding the figure of Emma Bovary is so powerful, that one has to remind oneself that she is fiction and not an actual person (De Man vii). By reading this book, and accurately analyzing the author's significant events, one can plainly conclude that Flaubert actually did tie in those events with the theme ... Gustave. Madame Bovary. New York, New York, 1964 Kunitz, Stanley J., Vineta Colby, eds. European Literature ( of European Literature. New York: The H.W. Wilson Co., 1967 Magill, Frank N., ed. Critical Survey of Long Fiction: Foreign Language Series. vol. 2; New Jersey: Salem Press Inc., 1984 Magill, Frank N., ed. Cyclopedia of World Jersey: Salem Press Inc., 1958 Thorlby, Anthony, ed. The Penguin Companion to European Literature. New York: McGraw ...
- 266: Ben-Hur
- ... one another will be discussed in this essay. From these two works, many parallels can be drawn with actual historic events. The object of this paper is to illustrate the successful joining of fact with fiction. Ben-Hur successfully told an intriguing story of a Jew falsely accused of a crime with the backdrop of the rise of Christ and the tyrannical ruling of the Roman empire in the first century ... the place he lived" (Gutjahr, 8) This acceptance by dignified members of the community only furthered Ben-Hur's exposure. It is a rare occasion when a religious group can embrace a popular work of fiction. Wallace's book did allowed for just that. It was known to be acceptable and even deemed good to read the story of Ben-Hur. Wallace's book made readers realize that maybe faith need ...
- 267: A Separate Peace And A Real Wa
- ... 318. Greiling, Fraziska Lynne. "The Theme of Freedom in A Separate Peace." English Journal (NCTE), vol. 56, no. 9, December 1967, pp. 1269-1272. Halio, Jay L. "John Knowles's Short Novels." Studies in Short Fiction (Newberry College), vol. 1, no. 2, Winter 1964, pp. 107-112. McDonald, James L. "The Novels of John Knowles." Arizona Quarterly, vol. 23, no. 4, Winter1967, pp. 335-342. Raven, Simon. "No Time for War." The Spectator, vol. 212, no. 6827, May 1, 1959. p. 630. Weber, Ronald. "Narrative Method in A Separate Peace." Studies in Short Fiction (Newberry College), vol. 3, no. 1, Fall 1965, pp. 63-72. Witherington, Paul. "A Separate Peace: A Study in Structural Ambiguity." English Journal (NCTE), vol. 54, no. 9, December 1965, pp. 795-800. Wolfe, Peter ...
- 268: Censorship
- ... is the distinction between isolated instances of obscenity and the products of vast commercial enterprise. There has been an increasing trend towards children's literature that reflects a more realistic approach to the life both fiction and non-fiction, with subjects that include sex, homosexuality, divorce, child abuse, drugs, violence, etc. And they are these realistic books that have people outraged. In school libraries, the most frequent complaints come from parents about the school ...
- 269: Great Gatsby 3
- ... remember how, as readers, we respond to the narrator's perspective, especially when that voice belongs to a character who, like Nick, is an active participant in the story. When we read any work of fiction, no matter how realistic or fabulous, as readers, we undergo a "suspension of disbelief". The fictional world creates a new set of boundaries, making possible or credible events and reactions that might not commonly occur ... in Nick because he is very much a fallible storyteller. When an author unsettles an accepted convention in the art of storytelling by creating a narrator like Nick, it draws attention to the story as fiction, as artifice. Ironically, in doing this, he has created in Nick a figure who more closely resembles an average human being and thus has heightened the realism of the novel. ************************* When F. Scott Fitzgerald turns ...
- 270: Dune
- ... average to me. They were evil and hated all that was good. The author should of added a bit more spice to their characters. This would of made the story more enjoyable. Otherwise, this science fiction novel is like it says on the cover, A world beyond your experience, beyond your imagination. The emperor sent the Atreides to Dune for one purpose only. Their destruction. He joined forces with the Harkonnens ... Paul in turn strikes back with brute force that many have not seen throughout their existence. The Harkonnens and the Emperor were annihilated and Paul's vengeance was paid. I must say that this science fiction book did create a sense of reality meaning that this situation could happen in the future. A boy or girl born in the future who is destined to be the almighty ruler. He/she will ...
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