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- 361: Julius Caesar
- ... says that the conspirators were already right next to Caesar but the fictionary account says that the conspirators needed an excuse, Metellus, to creep up to Caesar. History records that Caesar was stabbed 23 times, fiction says that Caesar was stabbed "thirty and three" times or 33 times. The differences during Caesar’s death show the different purposes of the author but the similarities show the reader the facts of the ... another petition when it was really a scroll that could have saved his life. "If thou read this, O Caesar, thou mayest live; if not, the Fates with traitors do contrive" (Shakespeare 711). History and Fiction also agree that Caesar fell dead at the base of a statue of Pompey, the one whom Caesar had conquered and killed. The time after Caesar’s death was a dramatic time in Roman history ...
- 362: The Computer Underground
- ... take pride in their assumed names, and one of the greatest taboos is to use the handle of an- other or to use multiple handles. Handles are borrowed liberally from the anti-heros of science fiction, adventure fantasy, and heavy metal rock lyrics, particularly among younger users, and from word plays on technology, nihilism, and violence. The CU handle reflects a stylistic identity heavily influenced by meta- phors reflecting color (especially ... of Computer Crime." Contemporary Crisis. Milovanovic, Dragan, and Jim Thomas. 1989. "Overcoming the Absurd: Prisoner Litigation as Primitive Rebellion." Social Problems 36(February): 48-60. Newman, Charles. 1985. The Post-Modern Aura: The Act of Fiction in an age of Inflation. Evanston (Ill.): Northwestern University Press. Pfuhl, Erdwin H. 1987. "Computer Abuse: Problems of Instrumental Control." Deviant Behavior, 8(2): 113-130. Rosenbaum, Ron. 1971. "Secrets of the Little Blue Box ...
- 363: Lack Of Knowledge Thesis Examination
- ... that gains an education of sorts. He does this by reacting to his environment and life; his basic needs for shelter, food, warmth and companionship.(46)[6] In the book, Mary Shelly: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters, Anne Mellor argues that the creature is Mary Shelly’s allusion to Rousseau’s “noble savage” or “a creature no different from the animals, responding unconsciously to the needs of his flesh and ... Levine, George. The Endurance of Frankenstein: essays on Mary Shelly’s novel/ edited by George levine and U. C. Knoepflmacher: Berkeley: University of Califonia Press, 1979. 4.)Mellor, Anne K. Mary Shelly: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters: New York; London: Routledge, 1989. 5.)Shelly, Mary. Frankenstein: New York, NY: Maxwell Macmillen international, 1993 6.)Shelly, Mary. Frankenstein: the 1818 text, contexts, nineteenth century responses, modern criticism/ Mary Shelly; edited by ...
- 364: 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 parent s was a recurrent motif in Lawrence s 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. Lawrence s writing would come from The Shadow in the Rose Garden. In this book, the ...
- 365: Auschwitz
- ... millions of Jews, gypsies, Jehovah’s witnesses, homosexuals, and other innocents. Since I was young, World War II, and the stories surrounding it have fascinated me. I have read innumerable books on the subject, including fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Although, throughout all my research and broad understanding I have gained from this reading, I am still interested to know more about Auschwitz and the people that were imprisoned there. For example, what ...
- 366: Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New Wor
- By: Anonymous Fahrenheit 451 & Brave New World (Analysis of Man and Society) For more than half a century science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life to be like at some future time. One ... man's best friend, the dog, against man, changes the role of public servants and changes the value of a person. Aldous Huxley also uses the concept of society out of control in his science fiction novel Brave New World. Written late in his career, Brave New World also deals with man in a changed society. Huxley asks his readers to look at the role of science and literature in the ...
- 367: All Quiet On The Western Front
- ... example, two friends of different nationalities may become bitter enemies only because their respective countries are at war. I think the novel All Quiet on the Western Front is a well told story, mixing both fiction and non-fiction into a powerful novel which forces people to think deeply about war and all of its possible repercussions. The book makes me think of all the lost talent that was lost during the war. Even ...
- 368: Hemingway's Portrayal of Nick's Consolation
- ... setting as: Like a queen bee or despotic invalid, Mrs. Adams sends forth her pronouncements from a darkened room. With the blinds drawn against the harsh light of reality (a familiar image in Contemporary American Fiction)… (8). Hemingway also gives the reader a sense of feeling, the same feeling Dr. Adams was feeling when his wife was second guessing him in the story. Benson shows Mrs. Adams' attitude and the aggravation ... Nick's appeal at the end of "The Doctor and Doctor's Wife" to go with his father is a plaintive cry for masculine assertion which is echoed down through the Corridors of Hemingway's fiction (9). These acts are symbolic of Nick's attempt throughout the stories to avoid his mother and embrace his father. Hemingway's stories have a great deal of "hidden" or deep meaning. "The Doctor and ...
- 369: A Worn Path: Phoenix Jackson and Symbols
- ... sees old boarded up buildings, barbed - wire fences, and the worn path. Nancy K. Butterworth Phoenix’s individuality, though, not preclude another, simultaneous, views of her symbolic representative view of her race.(Johnson 228) Wetly fiction occurs when Phoenix walks “past cabin, silver with weather, with doors and windows boarded shut, all like old under a spell sitting there,” and she says, “ I walking in their sleep,” Nodding her head vigorously ... they never happen again. Works Cited Ruth M. Vande Kieft Eudora Welty Queens College (1962) W.Craig Turner, Lee Emling Harding Critical Essays Eudora Welty (1989) Carol Ann Johnson “Eudora Welty A Study of Short Fiction” (1997) “The Critics” Nancy K. Butterworth 225-234
- 370: Comparison Between Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451
- Comparison Between Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451 For more than half a century science fiction writers have thrilled and challenged readers with visions of the future and future worlds. These authors offered an insight into what they expected man, society, and life to be like at some future time. One ... man's best friend, the dog, against man, changes the role of public servants and changes the value of a person. Aldous Huxley also uses the concept of society out of control in his science fiction novel Brave New World. Written late in his career, Brave New World also deals with man in a changed society. Huxley asks his readers to look at the role of science and literature in the ...
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