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- 571: Bram Stoker
- ... same time writing short stories. His first literary "success" came a year later when, in 1872, The London Society published his short story "The Crystal Cup." As early as 1875 Stoker's unique brand of fiction had come to the forefront. In a four part serial called the "Chain of Destiny," were themes that would become Stoker's trademark: horror mixed with romance, nightmares and curses. Stoker encountered Henry Irving again ...
- 572: The Archaeological Sites In the Aegean
- ... get anywhere else. The archaeological in Troy, Crete, and Mainland Greece Give us all our "real information". Homer’s Illiad, the oddysey also give us information, but we can’t say they’re fact or fiction. If we didn’t excavate these sites we wouldn’t have dicipher Liner B or know much on the Minoan and Mycenean civilizations. We wouldn’t have seen their architecture on there beautiful art and ...
- 573: Effects of the Great Depression on Canada
- ... but government and business appeared to ignore the signs. 2 Canadian revenues that came in from export sales were dependent largely upon the United States who had the money for growth; the commodities were grain, pulp and paper and metals. Then when the New York crashed on October 1929, stock prices fell dramatically. When the stock market crashed, the Canadian economy suffered after the United States invoked high tariffs to shut ...
- 574: Television Violence Related To Children
- ... proven to be one of them. Television plays a major role in shaping how children perceive the world. When a child is watching their favorite television program, he/she has a problem differentiating reality from fiction. The child sees his/her favorite TV character involved in dangerous situations without consequences, the child then concludes that their dangerous actions will result without negative effects. For instance, when viewing The Road Runner cartoon ...
- 575: Trapped Inside the TV
- ... and make it fit our society today. There are certain shows that I watch for enjoyment, and as long as society as a whole is able to tell the difference between the facts and the fiction, I do not feel as though a TV based culture will lead to cultural destruction. TV is a form of enjoyment, this we need to remember. I agree with Postman that if chlidren are taught ...
- 576: Mark Schaller's Study About Fame
- ... and writer for a popular band called Nirvana. Another person was Cole Porter. Porter was one of the most famous songwriters in the United States in the early twentieth century. The third person was the fiction writer, John Cheever. Cheever obtained the Pulitzer Prize in 1978. The reason Schaller chose these three people is that they all had self- destructive tendencies in the forms of drugs and alcohol and also had ...
- 577: The Morality Of Creating Life
- ... expectations placed on a cloned creature by society would be unbearable for the creature, and would lead to its psychological demise. In the nineteenth century, the idea of creating life was thought to be science fiction. A nineteenth century writing, Mary Shelly's novel Frankenstein, portrays Victor (the creator) as innocent and the creation as evil at the beginning of the novel. Later, it becomes evident that the monster was not ...
- 578: Impact of Television on Society
- ... not so great at the top. Even cartoon series such as the simpsons compare the attributes of the decent poor simpsons with the shows rich,evil Mr Burns. This message is not confined to TV fiction. Considerable air time is given to cover dramatic low points in the life of famous people . This was typified by the coverage of the O.J Simpson trial and murders . The television media is fascinated ...
- 579: Accusations By The Media
- ... of all his negative media attention. No one has been arrested, but John Benet Ramsey's parents seem to be the target of the media investigation. Throughout every story there seems to be truth and fiction; sensation and sensationalism. This is what I find so disturbing about the Littleton case. I know that school children don't usually kill each other before recess, and I can understand the want of the ...
- 580: Media Violence
- ... it." Justice Norman Fletcher wrote dissents to both rulings, saying, "Violence in movies is prejudicial and unnecessary in light of corroborating evidence. The movie thus served as a dramatic state witness who blurred fact and fiction but who wasn't subject to cross-examination" (Rakin np). In another trial, Justice Harris Hines wrote in a four to three decision upholding a Worth County murder conviction, "Evidence of a movie in a ...
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