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- 1231: Ray Bradburys Outlook Of The F
- ... watch him rise, then fall, then meet with outsiders like himself. We watch, how fugitives are tracked down using a mechanical dog, and how people love to watch the chase on their off the wall television sets. Could this be how Bradbury thinks our society is going to turn into? Maybe not as drastic, but maybe the censorship could happen, couldn t it? Ray Bradbury is compared to Arthur C. Clarke ...
- 1232: Life On The Farm
- ... Orwell narrates, He could turn black into white (Orwell 13). Many critics correlate Squealer with the Pravda, the Russian newspaper of the 1930s. Propaganda was a key to many publications, and since there was no television or radio, the newspaper was the primary source of media information. So Stalin and his new Bolshevik regime seized the monopoly of the Pravda. In Animal Farm, Squealer, like the newspaper, is the link between ...
- 1233: Lord Of The Flies Reflection
- ... present at the time such as helicopters. Also in the movie the boys started off on the island as boys who are going to military school and were partially desensitized to violence, possibly from the television and media of the 80's and 90's which is a great leap from the 40's. This quite possibly might have made a difference in how the children reacted to Jack and all ...
- 1234: Im The King Of The Castle
- ... take some food out of the kitchen. Mrs.Alice Boland wouldn't mis him as usual. He had almost seven pounds, he moved everything he needed under his bed while Edmund watched "Gunlaw" on the television. At four o'clock he woke up and at twenty to five he walked away. He walked via Hang Wood, it was very silent and there was guite thick mist. When he walked he noticed ...
- 1235: House Of The Seven Gables
- ... Truth is stranger than fiction they say. Queen Elizabeth and her life have been written about so many times. Shakespeare must have gotten many of his ideas of history. During his time there was no television, no internet, but there was history and it offered him a treasury of stories and tales and subjects to write about. An example of a play that was written to entertain but had historical roots ...
- 1236: Brave New World Vs. Modern Soc
- ... by having his characters repeatedly quote "hypnopaedic phrases," After all, every one works for everyone else. We can t do without any one. Even Epsilons... (91). Similar to subliminal messages used by psychologists, advertisements, and television in today s world, hypnopaedia was designed as a method of mass indoctrination including playing a tape to a group over and over, instead of individualized learning. Utopia s children are only taught the quantity ...
- 1237: An Essay On Ben Mikaelsens Cou
- ... was taken to the landing site where Space Shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to arrive at. Then the moment everyone had waited for, the shuttle has just landed in Senegal, Africa without any damage. Now as television reporters and radio announcers were going about with their business the shuttle crew disembarked from the shuttle and Vincent was given clearance to meet Elliott near the shuttle. Everyone stood silent and the crowd of ...
- 1238: Crime Of Passion By Barbara Hu
- ... him die. The public and the hospital then scolded her. She was labeled a murderer. The authors use of description was very detailed and very real. Reading this essay was like watching it on television. Every sentence was described with so much depth; there was no need to imagine the scenery or the excitement of the hospital. The healthy police officer was described as a young, witty macho cop with ...
- 1239: Chaucer
- ... is the same as a witch doctor now, with their appearances different, but their intentions and thoughts the same. Stereotypes are seen only in the imagination. And it is in the imagination from which a television evangelist is characteristically similar to Geoffrey Chaucers Summoner. The evangelist is a deceiver to many. He quotes scripture of Biblical content, to put forth an act or display that he might appear unto others ...
- 1240: Candide By Voltaire
- ... or four word descriptions of what happens in the canto. Many chapters in Candide end with some sort of lead-in to the next chapter, giving the book a certain feel similar to today's television serials. This method is used in Don Quixote (chapter 8), but in a much more dramatic fashion. Just as Don Quixote is about to go into battle with the Biscayan, the action is abruptly halted ...
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