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- 401: The Islamic Faith
- ... than the woman. There are many beliefs and traditions throughout this millennium, and probably more will be produced in time to come. One can only hope that we can filter through the fact and the fiction. Islamic beliefs in the sixteenth century were based on word of mouth, not scientific fact. Now, in the twentieth century, people read these books, or manuals, and chuckle at some of the absurdities. One can not claim this is all fiction. For instance, eating acidic foods does change the chemical balance in a man's semen, but does not debilitate it. One can not begin to realize how the scholars of the sixteenth century introduces such ...
- 402: A Mythical Analysis of A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
- ... Juan Mateus, but I will refer to him as don Juan. Don Juan, a Yaqui "brujo" or shaman, decides to teach Carlos the "Yaqui way of knowledge." It is not known if these stories are fiction or non- fiction and many critics still debate over his writings. I interpret his books as modern mythological stories for several reasons. The "Heroic Journey Archetype" and shamanistic ideologies, and also the general moral, explainative, and philosophical content ...
- 403: Virginia Woolf
- Virginia Woolf Virginia Woolf was a very powerful and imaginative writer. In a "Room of Ones Own" she takes her motivational views about women and fiction and weaves them into a story. Her story is set in a imaginary place where here audience can feel comfortable and open their minds to what she is saying. In this imaginary setting with imaginary ... can be broken, and to encourage more women to write. An example of this is in the very first line when Woolf writes, "But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fictionwhat has that got to do with a room of ones own(719)?" Why did Woolf start her story of like that? Maybe it was to show how different women really were from men ...
- 404: Catcher In The Rye
- ... throughout the novel. It is this mixture of qualities that makes Holden one of the most fascinating and popular characters in modern literature. Previts 5 Bibliography Works Cited Carpenter, Frederic I. "The Adolescent in American Fiction" English Journal, 46, No.6 (September 1957): 315-6. Rpt. in Holden Caulfield ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1990. 24. Gwynn, Frederick L., Joseph L. Blotner. "The Catcher in the Rye" The Fiction of J.D. Salinger (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1958): 28-31. Rpt. in Holden Caulfield. ed. Harold Bloom New York: Chelsea House, 1990. 13-14 Jones, Ernest "Case History of all of Us." Nation ...
- 405: The Search for Black Holes: Both As A Concept And An Understanding
- ... be tracked down in our more technologically advanced future. Gaining an understanding of a black hole allows for a greater understanding of the concept of spacetime and maybe give us a grasp of both science fiction and science fact. Hopefully, all the clarification will come by the close of this essay. A black hole is probably one of the most misunderstood ideas among people outside of the astronomical and physical communities ... found a black hole known as Cygnus X1. This supposed black hole has a huge star orbiting around it, therefore we assume there must be a black hole that it is in orbit with. Science Fiction has used the black hole to come up with several movies and fantastical events related to the massive beast. Tales of time travel and of parallel universes lie beyond the hole. Passing the event horizon ...
- 406: Stephen King
- Stephen King 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 ...
- 407: Marijuana And Hemp, The Untold
- ... cigarette papers, now is manufacturing these papers from American hemp grown in Minnesota. A new factory in Illinois is producing bond paper from hemp. The natural materials in hemp make it an economical source of pulp for any grade of paper manufactured, and the high percentage of alpha cellulose promises an unlimited supply of raw material for the thousands of cellulose products our chemists have developed. It is generally believed that ... that, 80 percent is imported. But hemp will produce every grade of paper and government figures estimate that 10,000 acres devoted to hemp will produce as much paper as 40,000 acres of average pulp land. One obstacle in the onward march of hemp is the reluctance of farmers to try new crops. The problem is complicated by the need for proper equipment a reasonable distance from the farm. The ...
- 408: Stephen King, Bio
- 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 Edwin King was born in ... 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 ...
- 409: Metadrama In Shakespeare
- ... Brutus, Cassius and others as actors, self consciously fashioning Roman politics as competing theatrical performances the play enacts the representation of itself to ideology, and of ideology to subjectivity. Moreover if the subjects within the fiction of Julius Caesar are radically unstable by virtue of their representations then so is the theatre whose function is to stage this instability. This means that Julius Caesar fits within this essay s definitions of ... other but also differently from themselves over time. In a wonderful self-reflective, self parody in Twelfth Night Fabian says, If this were played upon a stage now, I could Condemn it as an improbable fiction. (Act III, scene iv, line 126) Shakespeare overtly foregrounds the artificiality of his play. This emphasises the humour and absurdity of the farcical nature of the torment of Malvolio. Shakespeare enjoys toying with conventional theatre ...
- 410: Imagination 2
- ... backyard and imagining everything coming to life.^2 He thought about all the what if possibilities. But this method of storytelling can be used in much more subtle and/or sophisticated ways than in science fiction or fantasy novels. Through such works as the short story Dreams and the novel Headhunter by Timothy Findley, the film the Matrix , and the short story the Telltale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, one can ... reality. The borders between reality and imagination have been totally reversed in the Wachowski brothers film the Matrix . The film display the same type of what if writing, but applied to the genre of science fiction and explores both the limits of the human mind and the frightening possibilities of what machines may be capable of. The basis for the whole story is that of what if what is thought of ...
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