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- 31: The Overexaggeration Of Fiction In Movies
- The Overexaggeration Of Fiction In Movies The overexaggeration of fiction is a massive issue these days. For example: when the X-Files were created, the sightings of UFO's have been up forty-seven percent. Also, since Deep Blue Sea, Jaws, and Lake PLacid were ...
- 32: Arthur Clarke
- ... was his first plane ride. He went on a Avro 504 biplane with his mother in 1927, this ride remained in his mind forever, and as he progressed as a writer it fueled his science fiction from jet-planes to space travel. Soon thereafter in 1928 Arthur read his first science fiction magazine. At the young age of twelve he began to develop his almost fanatic obsession with Science Fiction. This forever curved his path towards writing Science Fiction. Also in early 1930 Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men was published, this beautifully written piece of science fiction was to have a profound ...
- 33: Arthur C. Clarke
- ... was his first plane ride. He went on a Avro 504 biplane with his mother in 1927, this ride remained in his mind forever, and as he progressed as a writer it fueled his science fiction from jet-planes to space travel. Soon thereafter in 1928 Arthur read his first science fiction magazine. At the young age of twelve he began to develop his almost fanatic obsession with Science Fiction. This forever curved his path towards writing Science Fiction. Also in early 1930 Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men was published, this beautifully written piece of science fiction was to have a profound ...
- 34: A Time of Prosperous Change
- ... make a living as she pleases. Even we don't think of Weldon every time someone mentions a popular contemporary author we know she deserves to be mentioned. Both in the Critical Survey of Long Fiction and in Love and Marriage in the Novels of Anita Brookner and Fay Weldon Weldon is mentioned with great honor and respect. Anna Ericson uses more past situations in Fay Weldon's own life while contrasting her to Anita Brookner while in contrast the Critical Survey of Long Fiction criticizes the works without much comparison to others. Both the Magill and Anna Ericson have strong points on a women's individualism but Anna Ericson proves Weldon's choice of personality for the main character ... Ruth is a character who is well developed who one can feel one with because of the fact that the author creates great depth to her as a character. In the Critical Survey of Long Fiction the author states that "In her fiction, Fay Weldon explores women's lives with wit and humor. She is caustic in her implicit condemnation of injustice but avoids preaching by characters say and what ...
- 35: What Is Art ?
- ... circumstance we are unable to experience in real life and thus raise moral or social concerns. From Swift's satirical "Gulliver's Travels" which poked fun at the social mores of his time, to the fiction of Dickens whose plea for reform did not go unheard and pushed a program for reformation into action. Yet literature with its power to move masses can also go bad, for instance, the misinterpretation of ... classes. In congruence with Murdoch, Nussbaum believes that art, with respect to literature gives the reader or audience an objectivity with which to deliberate the ethics of a character's actions. Nussbaum describes life as "fiction-making" and that literature is only a heightened extension of that. She says "Our experience is, without fiction, too confined and too parochial"; thus, literature is a way that we can experience situations that we may not experience in real life. Ethical deliberations in literature is aptly summed in Hamlet's "To ...
- 36: Year 2000: Fiction, Fantasy, and Fact
- Year 2000: Fiction, Fantasy, and Fact "The Mad Scramble for the Elusive Silver Bullet . . . and the Clock Ticks Away." The year 2000 is practically around the corner, promising a new era of greatness and wonder . . . as long as ...
- 37: Fiction Analysis Question # 1: Love and Acceptance
- Essay #1: Fiction Analysis Question # 1: Love and Acceptance Tillie Olsen's I Stand Here Ironing, and Alice Walker's Everyday Use, both address the issue of a mother's guilt over how her children turn out. Both ...
- 38: Report On Historical Fiction B
- Bantam Books published the book, Beyond the Sea of Ice, by William Sarabande, in December of 1987. This novel of historical fiction is 370 pages of a compelling story of a small band of humans surviving during the Ice Age over 20,000 years ago. I believe the author purposed to teach how the people of this ...
- 39: Year 2000 Fiction, Fantasy, and Fact
- Year 2000 Fiction, Fantasy, and Fact "The Mad Scramble for the Elusive Silver Bullet . . . and the Clock Ticks Away." The year 2000 is practically around the corner, promising a new era of greatness and wonder . . . as long as ...
- 40: Deliverances Fact Or Fiction
- Deliverance: Fact or Fiction Many things in this world are unexplainable. One concept that is hard for many people to grasp is the concept of a deliverance. Since ridding one's souls from demons is talked about in the ...
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