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- 351: Jules Verne
- ... is to make myself useful…." He was very active in his life. 1863 marked the beginning of a new genre in literature. "Five Weeks in a Balloon" appeared in bookstores. It became the first science-fiction book published. The publisher, Jules Hetzel, and Verne had started a friendship that was to last for life when Hetzel accepted "Five Weeks in a Balloon". "Five Weeks in a Balloon" became an instant success ... family were all with him as he lived his last day of his life. 4 days later, he was buried at La Madeleine in Amiens. With the burial, the world lost the "Father of Science Fiction", a great writer and a prophet.
- 352: Real Meaning Of LIfe
- ... an essential cultural adaptation to boot. Religious zealots cite the Bible or the Koran with fervor because they believe it to be the word of God- the rest of us know it's just human fiction (fantasy). But obviously, religious rules like the Ten Commandments, which help keep the masses in line, lack conviction- few will take them seriously- unless one really believes them to have divine origin. Bailey's essay ... perhaps, Islamic nations will face the same decline in religious belief as they modernize. (Or perhaps instead of religion, what we really need are new frontiers "to conquer"- like outer space? According to some science fiction writers, the 20th century with all of its technical marvels has also seen the end of exploration- the end of adventure and escape for the masses.) This essay has been written by a guy who ...
- 353: Biography on Guy de Maupassant
- ... the between 1873 and 1880 he also served as a literary apprentice under Flaubert. At this time, Maupassant realized his weakness as a poet and concentrated on developing his skills as a writer of prose fiction. Maupassant wrote a collection of short stories that were published with a writers such as Bola, and Huysmans. Maupassant work outshone all the others by far. This is Maupassant became recognized as a writer. He became one of the most famous and well paid French authors of his time. In the years 1984 through 1985 he produced a great number of high caliber fiction. Most of these stories dealt with his experiences as a child in Normandy. During 1886-1887 Maupassant began to show signs of mental illness, probably the results of venereal disease. A sea voyage to improve ...
- 354: Escapism and Virtual Reality
- ... applications are notoriously difficult to cast with any accuracy, since the technology which is driving the developments changes so rapidly. Interestingly, much of what has been developed so far has its conceptual roots in science fiction stories of the late 1950's. Pocket televisions, lightning fast calculating machines and weapons of pin-point accuracy were all first considered in fanciful fiction. Whilst such a source of fruitful ideas has yet to be fully mined out, and indeed, Virtual Reality (see below) has been used extensively Neuromancer and others, many more concepts that are now appearing that ...
- 355: Critical Analysis Of Soldiers
- ... isn't the boy he was in high school -- or perhaps, the boy she thought he was. Works Cited: Hemingway, Ernest. "Soldier's Home", from Ernest Hemingway: The Short Stories. (New York, NY : Scribner Paperback Fiction Edition) 1995. Imamura, Tateo. " 'Soldier's Home:' Another Story of a Broken Heart." (1996). The Hemingway Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, Fall, pp. 102. Kansas City Star Online. "Ernest Hemingway and Kansas City: a Literary Tour." http://www.kcstar.com/aboutstar/hemingway/hem6.htm Kobler, J.F. " 'Soldier's Home' Revisited: A Hemingway Mea Culpa." (1993). Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 30, No. 3, Summer, pp. 377. Lamb, Robert Paul Lamb. "The Love Song of Harold Krebs." (1995). The Hemingway Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, Spring, pp. 18. Slaughter, Daniel. "Ernest Hemingway and Selected Works ...
- 356: Book Report On The Forbidden C
- The book The Forbidden City is written by William Bell and contains 299 pages. The theme in this serious, fiction adventure novel is about a seventeen-year old boy named Alex Jackson, his father, a CBC news cameraman, and their adventure in China and how they survived the worst of times during China’s history ... can be. It shows people speaking up towards the government, trying to make China a better place to live. I recommend this novel for all who like books based on true stories mixed up with fiction. The theme of this story will make you think about life and how good we have it here in the US and that we take things like freedom and civil rights for granted. It showed ...
- 357: Thomas Jefferson'S Life: Tell It The Way It Is!
- ... private tutors to teach their son. Later on he went to Williamsburg University and continued his education in the arts and in law. At this time there were not to many dreamers though. The first fiction novelist Daniel Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe only 37 years before he was born. Imaginative science fiction writers have not emerged yet to give a goal for the inventor. Therefore he turned to the pages of John Locke for the guidance to build a nation. Jefferson relied greatly on the writings of ...
- 358: A Deeper Look into Sexuality of Steinbeck's "The Chrysanthemums" and its Literary Criticisms
- ... Marylin L. “'Steinbeck's Strong Women': Feminine Identity in the Short Stories,“ Southwest Review, Vol. 61, No. 3, Summer, 1976, pp. 304- 15. McMahah, Elizabeth E. “'The Chrysanthemums': Study of a Woman's Sexuality,” Modern Fiction Studies, Vol. XIV, No 4. Winter, 1968-69, pp. 453-58. Hughes, R. S. John Steinbeck: A Study of the Short Fiction. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1989.
- 359: The Life and Work of Chaim Potok
- ... 1975. Then he wrote The Book of Lights in 1981. In 1985 he wrote Davita's Harp. In 1990 he wrote The Gift of Asher Lev which won him The National Jewish Book Award for Fiction. Which brings us to his most recent novel I Am the Clay from 1992. Chaim Potok also wrote a couple of children's books The Tree of Here and The Sky of Now in 1993 and 1995 respectively. Chaim only published one Non-Fiction book called Wanderings in 1978 about the history of the Jewish people. He wrote three plays one of them, Out of the Depths, is a two act play that premiered in 1990. The other two ...
- 360: Hee
- ... an imagination, let it run free.” - Steven King, 1963 The King of Terror Stephen Edwin King is one of today’s most popular and best selling writers. King combines the elements of psychological thrillers, science fiction, the paranormal, and detective themes into his stories. In addition to these themes, King sticks to using great and vivid detail that is set in a realistic everyday place. Stephen King who is mainly known ... the discovery of the author H. P. Lovecraft. King would later write of Lovecraft, “He struck with the most force, and I still think, for all his shortcomings, he is the best writer of horror fiction that America has yet produced”(Beaham 22). In many of Lovecraft’s writings he always used his present surroundings as the back drop of his stories. King has followed in his footsteps with the fictional ...
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