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- 61: Contact---fiction Story
- In 2001the work began on the biggest dam project in history of the human kind. The place chosen was the Great Canyon in Colorado. After six months of heavy digging, workers had found something strange. John, who was ...
- 62: Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
- ... Short Stories Raymond Carver, poet, essayist, and short story writer, was very different from some other writers in that he clipped his writing until only the essential remained. " Carver not only acknowledged the effect that fiction could have on readers, he proclaimed that it should affect readers."( Bonetti 58) Thus, when Carver writes about intimate relationships, the reader perceives the stories as more than entertainment or skillful language; the reader relates ... lack thereof leaves something missing in the story. A more influential meaning is gained when a connection of some sort is maid between characters. As Carver said in a interview later in his life," In fiction that matters the signifigance of the action inside the story translates to the lives of the people out side the story" ( Davis 658) Carver's life, or biography, bares a little insight into his phases ... treatments. In early June, the cancer reappeared. On August 2, 1988 Raymond Carver died in his new house in Port Angeles, Washington. In an interview with critic William Stull, he explains about a connection between fiction and reality. I'm interested in the personal intimate relationships in life so why not deal with these relationships in literature?…little experiences are important underpinnings in our daily lives…They are, after all, ...
- 63: Disjunction vs. Communion in Raymond Carver's Short Stories
- ... Short Stories Raymond Carver, poet, essayist, and short story writer, was very different from some other writers in that he clipped his writing until only the essential remained. " Carver not only acknowledged the effect that fiction could have on readers, he proclaimed that it should affect readers."( Bonetti 58) Thus, when Carver writes about intimate relationships, the reader perceives the stories as more than entertainment or skillful language; the reader relates ... lack thereof leaves something missing in the story. A more influential meaning is gained when a connection of some sort is maid between characters. As Carver said in a interview later in his life," In fiction that matters the signifigance of the action inside the story translates to the lives of the people out side the story" ( Davis 658) Carver's life, or biography, bares a little insight into his phases ... treatments. In early June, the cancer reappeared. On August 2, 1988 Raymond Carver died in his new house in Port Angeles, Washington. In an interview with critic William Stull, he explains about a connection between fiction and reality. I'm interested in the personal intimate relationships in life so why not deal with these relationships in literature?…little experiences are important underpinnings in our daily lives…They are, after all, ...
- 64: ... is not even a correct spelling of this mans name, Some of the spellings include Shakspere, Shakespeare, And Shaxpere. Shakespeare, Is it the man, Or is it another? (Hayes 1D) Shakespeare is both fact and fiction, he was no concern until nearly two hundred years after he perished, and there is still no definite or probably will there ever be a conclusion to this mystery. (Sobran 44) There is another man ...
- 65: Essay Comparing James Joyce To
- ... fact that Ellison had some experience with eating yams that enabled him to paint a perfect portrait of tasting a delicious yam. Although if everybody were to write about their experiences, then that would eliminate fiction, and what would literature be without fiction? If fiction were to be non-existent, then there would have never been Odysseus, Frankenstein, and even Star Wars. What would the movies be like without fiction? That would mean no ET, Independence Day, and Indiana ...
- 66: Isaac Asimov
- ... Brooklyn, New York where they opened a candy store (Erlanger 9). When he was nine years of age, after school he worked in his parent's candy store. It was then that began reading science fiction magazines. He had to struggle to read these magazines because his father would not permit him to read "such junk"(Erlanger 9). " Isaac you should be reading books with more value," his father told him ... 1935, he applied to Columbia University and took on Chemistry as a major (Erlanger 18). This prompted his father to buy him a used typewriter. Although Isaac showed a great deal of interest in science fiction, he only considered it a hobby. His real goal was to become a doctor. However, he started to show more interest in his science fiction. On May twenty-ninth, 1937, Isaac sat down at the typewriter and started to work on his on science fiction short story (Wilsonweb). When this story was finished, he sent it in to his ...
- 67: “Smoke” The Prohibition!
- ... heroin users receive an unexpected potent dose, they may kill themselves when the same amount of a regulated dose would have given the desired effect. This is what happened to the Mia Wallace character in Pulp Fiction when she snorted cocaine that was so potent that it nearly killed her. Another outcome of prohibition on the individual could also be considered a concern of society since the spread of AIDS affects both ... edu/warstop/hr135.html. Miller, Richard Lawrence. The Case for Legalizing Drugs. New York: Praeger Publisher, 1991. "‘Myths' of ‘The Myths of Drug Legalization'." Online. http://www.goldrush.com/~tyedye/drugs.html. July 6, 1997. Pulp Fiction. Dir. Quentin Tarantino. With John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, and Uma Thurman. Buena Vista Films. 1994. Spiegel, Steven L. World Politics in a New Era. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers. 1995. Trebach, ...
- 68: Drugs
- ... or "sophistcated" as movie stars. Many young people are using heroin because they see their idols use it. Second, pop culture makes heroin seem glamorous which adds to its use among young people. Movies like Pulp Fiction and Trainspotting make using heroin look appealing. The main character in Pulp Fiction was a hitman played by John Travolta who did heroin at various times throughout the movie. Writer,Quentin Terantino, did not make heroin addictive or harmful but instead he made it look like ...
- 69: The Life and Times of Edgar ALlan Poe
- ... who also had published a play based on Edgar's broken off engagement with Elmira Royster, Edgar was very occupied with his writing during this period of his life, and he had now turned to fiction, probably hoping to make some more money than he did on poetry. His first published tale appeared in the Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post on August 13, 1831 and was entitled "The Dream". In the narrator ... stories he published in the Messenger was "Berenice - a tale", "Morella", "Lionizing - a tale", and "Hans Phaal - A tale". In creating "Berenice", "Morella", and similar stories Poe drew on a widely popular tradition of Gothic fiction. In "Metzengerstein" Edgar had been influenced by British, American, and continental writing from nearly half a century back. He was particularly influenced by the so-called `German Tales' featured in Blackwood's and other English magazines of the period. These tales originated among German romantic writers who gave English Gothicism their own twists and, disregarding probability, greatly exaggerated elements of the horrible and the supernatural. Gothic fiction aimed at creating the presence of something that suspends and calls into doubt the laws of the universe. Poe's influences from Gothic literature can be seen in his use of premature burials, animated ...
- 70: Capitalism Theory
- ... the proletariat, but only if art is equal to language; if that is not the case, Habermas's model of the cultural paradigm of consensus is one of "subtextual destructuralism", and hence fundamentally a legal fiction. Tilton[1] implies that we have to choose between postcapitalist socialism and capitalist dialectic theory. The subject is interpolated into a cultural paradigm of consensus that includes consciousness as a reality. Therefore, the main theme ... theory to attack patriarchialist ideology. If the postcultural paradigm of narrative holds, we have to choose between the subconstructivist paradigm of narrative and the cultural paradigm of consensus. "Sexual identity is elitist," says Adorno. In Pulp Fiction, Tarantino deconstructs the subconstructivist paradigm of narrative; in Clerks, however, Tarantino analyses dialectic feminism. In a sense, the main theme of du Garbandier's[5] model of capitalist dialectic theory is the role of ...
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