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- 631: Western Films
- ... Even a conventional drama such as John Sturges' Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) used a classic Western setting and plot-line and updated them to modern-day circumstances. Hollywood would often mix fact with fiction and prejudicial bias in its westerns. Delmer Daves' Broken Arrow (1950), however, was considered the first Hollywood picture to take the side of the Indians (Native-Americans) and emphasize peaceful co-existence, with a sympathetic ...
- 632: Ophelia: The Forgotten Character
- ... Shakespeare. Yale University Press, 1986. Novy, Marianne. Love’s Argument; Gender Relations in Shakespeare. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984. Shakespeare, William. “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.” Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, an Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 7th ed. New York: Longman, 1999. 1523-1634. Webster, Margaret. Shakespeare Without Tears. Putam Books,1955.
- 633: The Curse on the Tomb of King Tutankhamen
- ... tomb had died early of unnatural causes. This included two of Carnarvon’s relatives, and Carter’s personal secretary. By 1935 they had credited 21 victim’s to King Tut’s curse..4 Fact or fiction? You decide
- 634: Existentialism in the Early 19th Century
- ... science. Furthermore, they have argued that even science is not as rational as is commonly supposed. Nietzsche, for instance, asserted that the scientific assumption of an orderly universe is for the most part a useful fiction. Choice and Commitment Perhaps the most prominent theme in existentialist writing is that of choice. Humanity's primary distinction, in the view of most existentialists, is the freedom to choose. Existentialists have held that human ...
- 635: Shamanism
- ... it. This overflow of information has however, given rise to a number of methodological problems (Flaherty, 1992,pp.208). Shamanism has become some what over-sensationalized that it has become hard to distinguish fact from fiction. There has also been little historical accountability. Most writers uncritically create their own profiles of the shaman from literature that was published long before their time (Flaherty, pp.212). They do so without having it ...
- 636: What Is Orientalism?
- ... orientalized. It is now a subjective notion. The orient became a western concept, orientalism a tool to control and manipulate. This relationship (western/orient) though works both ways: the west becomes as much of a fiction as orient is. We can also look at the west with oriental perspective. In this relation of differences a new western set of representation emerges. Both cultures now understand each other through a web of ...
- 637: Different Types of Explosives
- ... or an electric current. There are four main types of dynamite. They are: straight dynamite, ammonia dynamite, straight gelatin, and ammonia gelatin. Straight dynamite contains nitroglycerin and an absorbent, chemically reactive mixture, such as wood pulp and sodium nitrate. It is the oldest type and has been replaced by ammonia dynamite for most uses. Ammonia dynamite is more powerful, safer, and less expensive than straight dynamite. It contains ammonium nitrate and ...
- 638: The Extermination of Jews Documents
- ... Oceania under the rule of the Party was actually based on the regimes of Stalin and Hitler, and thus it is perfectly possible that it could happen in our world, not only a dystopian science fiction novel. Huxley shows how appealing to a people's sense of a stable situation even if they must surrender all that is individual about them to the state. The Controller attempts to relate that there ...
- 639: The Ecology of a Rain Forest
- ... s base and pull it off the tree. There are also small leaf- cutting ants in the jungle that cut a portion of a leaf, bring it to their home, and chew it to a pulp and inject a body fluid to create a wet mulch. On this mulch grows the only food of this particular ant -- a fungus that has only one species. The mysterious part about this is that ...
- 640: The Aviary, the Aquarium, and Eschatology
- ... their stories straight. One would expect at least consistency from advanced alien beings, heavenly angels or demons from hell -- whatever they may be. Novelist Whitley Strieber, whose abduction experiences are described vividly in his non-fiction books, "Communion" and "Transformation" recounted that when he asked the entities what they were up to, they responded "We recycle souls." He too was shown "lessons" concerning a catastrophe affecting the earth. Strieber, who has ...
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