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- 1491: Phyllis Wheatley
- ... Bradstreet’s burnt house and Wheatley’s treatment as a slave, they turn to the Christian faith that at times seems as empty as the faith that can be commercialized and sold by dramatists on television. In analyzing “Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of Our House” and “On Being Brought from Africa to America,” I will consider Christian faith as means of coping with nothingness, rather than a pious ...
- 1492: Player Piano
- ... All his life is beaten, he has nothing, and his university degree is taken from him so that now he has no qualification. The government leads a trial against him that is broadcast by the television, and they turn all the facts upside down and inside out so that Paul looks like the worst and meanest. So that any revolution looks like a complete nonsense, and so that the present system ...
- 1493: Net Censorship
- ... more then just porn. Anything they wished could be controlled such as private conversations to each other. Porn, sex, smut isn’t only found on the Internet, it can be found in books, magazines, films, television, music video, newspapers and many other places. People can walk into a corner video store and walk out with a pornographic video at only $4 a night. A team at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh ...
- 1494: Just A Pot Of Basil
- ... trip to the Carnegie Museum of Pittsburgh. I had never seen such elaborate displays of marvelous full-scale dinosaurs, since I was accustomed to seeing them no larger than the height of a book or television screen. I recall roaming through the many displays pretending that I was one of them. Usually, I pretended to be the Troodon, a species that is thought to have the largest brain in proportion to ...
- 1495: Five Ripe Pears And On Moralit
- ... allows her to see issues of morality as a certain mindset. The idea she provides says, as human beings, we cannot distinguish what is good and what is evil . Morality has been so distorted by television and press that the definition within the human conscience is lost. This being the case, the only way to distinguish between good or bad is: all actions are sound as long as they do not ...
- 1496: Fahrenheit 451 Symbolism
- ... anxiety. Schools no longer teach core subjects, only sports and fun things. Bradbury s society hasn t the time, nor the desire, to actually learn or better themselves. Society is perverted. Today, the computer games, television programs, and other such entertainment possesses more attention than family members, creating a void where once lay family value, and important family time. Therefore, more often than not, that void is filled with harmful, unmoral ...
- 1497: Explication On Fire And Ice
- ... arm is completely undetectable. You do not feel a thing. If people are exposed to the same thing for an extended period of time, a slight increase in intensity goes virtually unnoticed. Take language on television for example, or even in the movies. When they first came out, many things were thought to be unacceptable. If they were to air the cartoon South Park back in 1960, the station would probably ...
- 1498: Magic
- Doing this research paper didn’t really help me find anything extraordinary about the word magic. I pretty much knew what the word magic meant, from the comic books I read and the television I watch. It did however, make me view the word in more depth. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not implying in any way that the word magic, is dull, because it is just ...
- 1499: Equus
- ... god. It s almost like Alan was drawn to anything his father did not like because he did not want to be like his father. Allen is driven to all his father hates, such as television and religion. When Alan sees his father coming out of the porno movie theater, he is devastated because he is caught acting like his father. The relationship between Alan and Dysart is one of mutual ...
- 1500: Do Androids Dream Of Electric
- ... gets an in-depth view of the time and situation. Another solid aspect to the story is its use of what defines the story as a science fiction, the realistic material such as the, animals, television and the use of San Francisco, an actual city. The other fictional items used are extremely believable, such as hover cars, androids, lazer guns, the idea of the Voigt-Kampff test and more. One of ...
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