Essays on Fantasy.

Modern roads were developed in the XX century at the time cars became affordable for the Americans. As the society develops and people invent more advanced technologies the life gets more and more convenient and safe. It concerns roads as well. A modern road should be safe and provide the traffic safety. The road engineers should think about how to reduce the possible harm on the highways from traffic collisions. The construction, design, and regulation of the roads should be well thought out. Highway design is always based on the landscape principles and engineering principles of grade cross-section, right-of-way, ...

Schizophrenia is a disease in which the patients get subjected to hallucinations of hypothetical characters and start feeling them to be part of that hypothetical world. There are films which have portrayed their characters suffering from this disease and explained the consequent underpinnings to the family peace and development of such patients. A Beautiful Mind (2001) is an Oscar winning film that has depicted the real life story of noble laureate, Sir John Nash. Although, the film has its own share of dramatic and cinematic inclusions to demystify the actual sufferings and issues regarding Schizophrenia, still the prolific screenplay ...

Cultural and religion competency is vital when it comes to nursing profession since nurses ought to have comprehensive knowledge concerning perspective of different religious groups when it comes to individual health care. It is important to acknowledge that various religious groups have their concepts and perceptions when it comes to person’s wellbeing in this life and after. As such, Christians and Buddhists have their views on human health care and how an individual must conduct themselves on a daily basis and the consequences of living a reckless life here on earth. Thus, this research not only looks at ...

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Social cognition is a branch of social psychology that defines how people perceive, respond and store information about their surrounding and other people in that environment. This phenomena of social cognition enables people to appropriately understand and decipher the signals of others and to respond accordingly. In a real world game players use and leverage their social cognitive skills to analyze their opponent’s body language and confidence level. Similarly their cognitive skills also assists in team building and better cooperation between the players. While this comes naturally in the real world environment, ...

“There is reason that all things are as they are” (Stoker). In the written works of Dracula and The Metamorphosis, the authors use two very different styles to portray horrifying fantasy. In Dracula, Bram Stoker uses realism in the form of journal entries, letters, ships’ logs, and newspaper articles to tell the story of the vampire Count Dracula. In The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka uses surrealism in the form of third person narrative, to tell the story of Gregor Samsa, who wakes one day to find he has been transformed overnight into a huge, disgusting bug. Although the authors employ different ...

The existing relationship between reality and imagination in children literature ported a characteristic inclination to the fears and joys of childhood experiences. The literary approach developed in children literature border on the storyline that indulges in beautiful fantasy to elicit imagination in the lives of children. Charlotte's Web by E.B. White builds on the blocks of creative and intellectual abilities to manifest the symbolic representation of reality and imagination. Charlotte's Web depicts the nature and processes of friendship, death, loyalty and valor within the constructs of reality as well as fantasy. The incorporation of characters form farm animals effectively ...

The case chosen for discussion in this paper is that of Jason (38), a factory worker. After reading the case, the first thing we would want to know is whether Jason is an addict. There are two symptoms that must be looked for before an individual is determined to be an addict. These symptoms are (i) out of control behavior, and (ii) a behavior that is self destructive. If a person’s behavior is under their control, then the person should not be considered an addict. It doesn’t matter at what frequency the subject engages in an addictive behavior. What really matters ...

This argumentative essay utilizes the mechanism of intertextuality to analyze three different English classics namely: Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1868-69); R. L. Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883) and Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902). Intertextuality establishes the relationships between different texts, here ‘The Tale of Peter Rabbit’, compared how the reader was influenced by the depiction of pictures as an additional methodology. Little Women and Treasure Island targeted specific genders and age groups. This essay seeks to establish connections or influence between these different books.

Intertextuality enables the establishment of relationships between texts. Such can ...

Embellishment, poise, elegance are some of the adjectives that can be used to describe the trend in art and architecture of 18th century. The age witnessed the most elegant and stylish way of fashion. It can also be called as a fashionable era. 18th Century era is generally known as the Age of Enlightenment. The beginning of this century experienced a significant change in culture, art and architecture. Fashion industry also was on its peak. The fashion centre in this era shifted from Versailles to Paris. The educated Aristocratic class was called bourgeoisie class. They settled down in Paris. The new ...

Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series has been one of the most popular, long-running and influential fantasy book series of the past 50 years. In addition to its intriguing stories of high fantasy, one of the most integral components to its longevity and popularity are the stylized, intriguing and fascinating cover art that has graced every edition of each of the numerous books in the series. Many artists have worked on the series' cover art for many years, and their varying styles throughout the decades show the differences in fantasy art styles and audience sensibilities in a very ...

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Late eighties was a decade of immense transformations. This chunk of the time was a period during which the roles and perception of women in the mainstream society went through sheer changes (Buckland 178). The same mainstream thought of the society is reflected in the role of the princess depicted in Walt Disney’s animated musical fantasy film, “The Little Mermaid”. The character of the princess in the aforesaid fantasy film was played by Ariel, who is a young sixteen years old mermaid. Dissatisfied with her life in the water, she became much curious ...

More and more of people’s everyday lives are occurring online. Unlike many previous generations, the current generations are growing up in an increasingly isolated world, with much of their contact with other people taking place through the Internet. Of course, not all human interaction will fall by the wayside as a result of this increasingly-cyber world, but now much of the human interaction that used to take place in the “real world” occurs over the Internet. Using the Internet as a tool to find a romantic partner, for instance, is one way that the Internet has changed the face of human ...

Many communities and societies exist today but the one that I am acquainted with most is my class. I am currently in college and the school is a grouping of people from all walks of life. My class exhibits a divergent assemblage of individuals from different ethnics, races, political, age, social and economic backgrounds. However, despite this diversity, life has perfectly been well and the differences have ultimately been neutralized. In “Arts of the Contact Zone” Mary Louis Pratt brings forth an argument about a “community” and a “contact zone”. The word community is quite a common phrase and according to Pratt, the ...

The phenomenon of alien abduction has insisted on the emergence of research procedures that would define the concept by which these assumptions could be proven wrong or not. Relatively, it could be realized that in the field of psychology, unlike in the field of mystified science, alien abduction is seen to have been rooted on the distinct course by which experts intend to see why the sensation happens, and why the assumption itself is developed. The exploration of the issue on alien abduction is completely identified with what is assumed as a consistent experience that a person needs to contend with ...

X-Men series of film is an institution in its amazing way. Bryan Singer pioneered this popular comic characters and brought them to the silver screen. It is a very gigantic task to convert the fictional fantasy of an existence of a superhuman into a realistic visual treat. However, highly creative mind of Bryan Singer is capable of this task. The history is the evidence (The Usual Suspects) of the mastery of Bryan Singer in direction and storytelling. The thesis statement of this paper is the powerful auteur of the directorial team of the movie to bring his vision into reality.

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The Robber Bridegroom is a fairy tale written by Eudora Welty in 1942. Eudora’s story is based on the original The Robber Bridegroom by Grimm Brothers. The story is about the life of Rosamond, a beautiful woman who was raised by an evil step mother after the death of her mother. The novel opens with Mike Fink meeting the robber Jamie Lockhart, who later on kidnapped Rosamond. As it progresses, it follows another character, Clement Musgrove to his home where he stays with his second wife Salome and Daughter Rosamond. After Rosamond was kidnapped by the robber Jamie Lockhart, they ...

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Angels of Despair: A Researched Paper on Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings” In today's society it is often the case that we exclude the people and the things that do not make sense to us, or more often than not, do not fit in the rules and regulations of good "society." This is especially true in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings." The story takes place in early times, as a baby lies dying from an unknown disease. In a twist of events, a dirty angel falls from the sky ...

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (“Prufrock”) was first published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (“Poetry”). It was written by American-British poet T. S. Eliot (“Eliot”) (1888–1965). Eliot first started work on the poem in February, 1910. As the Overseas Editor of Poetry, Erza Pound (“Pound”) had instigated the whole business (n.a., n.d., “Bio,” 2014; and McCoy, 1992). Prufrock has been studied by many, many talented scholars. In fact, what makes it such an outstanding piece of poetry is the fact that people can read so many meanings into it. ...

Video games are very popular and have been that way for some time. Since the days of video arcades and home game consoles, players have been choosing this activity as a pastime and as a form of entertainment. With the introduction of the internet, video games and its appeal has reached new audiences and have become extremely popular and almost a way of life. Insafe website states that in recent years, online gaming has become big business and many games have a huge following (Insafe). With so many video game communities and many games to choose from, it is important to identify ...

The Seventh Seal is a Swedish drama fantasy movie that Ingmar Bergman wrote and directed, before its release in 1957. The title of the movie is an adaptation from the Book of Revelation which has the mentioning of the phrase, Seventh Seal. The seventh seal in the Book of Revelation is accompanied with God’s or heaven’s silence and this divine silence is a chief motif and theme in the film.

For one, the drama seems to portray human beings as very finite. Because of this quality, however hard man tries, he is outwitted by fate. The ultimate fate in ...

The Martian Chronicles, a science fiction short story collection is dated by 1950 year, was written by a famous fiction-writer, Ray Bradbury. This story collection tells about the colonization of Mars by humans, running from their troubled and devastated Earth; about the conflict between the aboriginal creatures of this planet and the newcomers, resulted in annihilation both Earth and Martian races. But, The Martian Chronicles isn’t only the science fiction story collection at all, but it can be a version of mythology, made by Ray Bradbury with involving a lot of sci-fi techniques as rocket ships and space travels. The author ...

How the ways celebrities acted and dressed in the light of the media changed and influenced the way teenagers live and experience their lives As generations come and go, teenagers have proved their desire to be associated with the famous in the society. The need to be appreciated and recognized makes most teenagers set standards basing on a celebrity they love. They will hence put in more effort to dress, talk and even live like a celebrity of their choice. Unfortunately, most of such celebrities are only virtual role models to the teenagers who judge them according to how they ...

The topic on homosexuality remains amongst the most debated across the globe. Whilst the act is prohibited in some states in a legal and morality perspective, it is legally acceptable in other states. The topic gains popularity and increased concern from regulations of human conduct that include religion, law, sociological needs, biological and scientific explanations, psychological needs, and other theoretical frameworks. This paper discusses the various provisions on homosexuality using human behavior disciplines. In explaining homosexuality and developing concepts that form theories of homosexuality a contradiction on what homosexuality is constantly arises. There lacks an agreement among scientists, communities, religious ...

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is a fictional novel by Junot Diaz. The book chronicles the lives of its main characters in two contexts, New Jersey in America and the Dominican Republican. The main character in the book is Oscar Wao, an obese boy growing up in New Jersey who is obsessed with fantasy and science fiction books as well as falling in love. Oscar is also obsessed with a curse has he believes has plagued his family for many years. The book also features a host of other characters with one of them being Yunior who is Oscar’s ...

The Martian Chronicles, a science fiction short story collection is dated by 1950 year, was written by a famous fiction-writer, Ray Bradbury. This story collection tells about the colonization of Mars by humans, running from their troubled and devastated Earth; about the conflict between the aboriginal creatures of this planet and the newcomers, resulted in annihilation both Earth and Martian races. But, The Martian Chronicles isn’t only the science fiction story collection at all, but it can be a version of mythology, made by Ray Bradbury with involving a lot of sci-fi techniques as rocket ships and space travels. The author ...

The website in question is io9.com, a media and genre-based website that is part of the Kinja network (along with other popular websites like Gawker and Jezebel). It is a curated blog-type website whose business model is to create content for their audience, which is mostly concerned with science fiction and fantasy media (such as books, movies, comic books, video games, music, television, etc.). The sender of the content is io9 itself as an entity, headed by editor-in-chief Annalee Newitz, as well as managing editor Charlie Jane Anders. The perceived receiver of the content includes an audience of tech-savvy, genre fiction ...

Nature, structure, types of products or service of your chosen organization, and two (2) key factors in the organization’s external environment that can affect its success. The National Football League is an American is a non-profit sports organization in the United States. It organizes a league of matches that are American football oriented which runs for a maximum of 17 weeks (Quinn, 2012). The nature of the organization is the promotion of sports in the United States. The organization has been there since the year 1920 and has improved a lot to become one of the unsurpassed sports associations in the ...

INTRODUCTION There are very few people in the United States who do not know what the quote “May the Force be with you” means, even if they are not fans of the Star Wars franchise. The same could be said for “beam me up,” “resistance is futile,” and “boldly go where no one has gone before.” Science fiction, its characters, phrases, and worlds presented, have become part of the social paradigm. Granted, science fiction is a genre that does not appeal to everyone, but to those who favor the genre they are often committed and loyal. Science fiction can ...

In a Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois is a conflicted character who lives in a fantasy world to avoid the ugliness of her life. When she declares “I don’t want realism, I want magic!”, she is being serious. She has rejected the real world in favor a place where her fantasies (magic) provide an escape from the ugly reality that is her own existence. At the beginning of the play, Blanche is unbalanced, lying and drunk. It is not until the end of the play, after being raped by Stanley, that Blanche goes completely insane, but it is obvious throughout the play ...

“The Ladies Man” is one of the most famous transgressive comedies produced by filmmaker Jerry Lewis in the year 1961. The movie proved to be a great success for Lewis in both technique and ambition. The Ladies Man is an episodic film, which involves script with a series of gags that include everything from crude comedy to a ballroom dance with George Raft. The greatest fame of the film rests not only in the script but in the inventive set, which occupied two soundstages in the Paramount studio . As a director, Lewis presents noteworthy patience as he exposes the magnificent construction to the ...

The book, the glass menagerie, is an interesting read that encompasses and represents the lives of human beings who are torn between the world of reality and of fantasy. Therefore, it becomes imperative to discuss the storyline of the book and its connection to psychological theories. The book is filled with puzzling events that are more symbolic than real happenings. Just like the title describes it, the glass menagerie is a fanciful and fragile world in which the book’s characters live in. the book centers around three characters, namely, Tom, Jim, Amanda and Laura. Each of these characters is ...

The antihero is a long-established literary convention, in which a main character does not have the normal trappings of heroism that you might normally find in traditional heroes. Antiheroes are not idealistic, they are pragmatic; self-centered instead of selfless; amoral instead of moral, and so on. These anti-heroes are not meant to be role models, but are often avatars for the desires and ideals of whomever is writing them, as well; in the case of Stephen King’s horror novel Misery and Ian Fleming’s James Bond novel Moonraker, the characters of James Bond and Paul Sheldon both carry many similar ...

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A concept perpetuated by many different motivational experts and self help experts states that if a person wishes to achieve success there are simple steps that can be taken to effect such a goal. A common one is positive visualization. A series of four experiments were conducted to test the hypothesis that positive visualization could increase the likelihood of desired outcomes in different endeavors. The results of these experiments showed the opposite effect. Positive visualization actually drew ambition away from the very activities that were required to ...

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a. What are your personal reactions to this movie? Be descriptive. “The Princess Bride” is a charming, funny Gothic film filled with colorful characters. The most captivating part of the movie is the sense of sincerity with which Director Reiner tells the story. The princess’ enchanted appearance also adds more interesting features to the film. “Princess Bride” is a postmodern fairy tale movie that affirms and challenges the principles of a genre that may be devoid of flexibility to provide support to the movie. The character of Patinkin is a joy to witness in this film because of his longhaired ...

Character Analysis Essay The character of Emily Grierson is the most obvious element of fantasy in the story, with the combination of the element of compassion. The character itself appears as a mysterious personality, which evolves from the figure of a jolly & energetic young girl and develop into the sketch of a reserve & conservative old women’s personality. This particular transition of evolution could be regarded as the core essence of the story. Hence, undermined with the character depiction of Emily Grierson. At one point, the personality of the lady is marked as the object of fascination because of her gleaming ...

What are the definitions of mass murder, spree murder, and serial murder? How are they different? How can you identify the difference? Please discuss the differences and give examples.

In a mass murder, a murderer kills his victims of four or more at a time, in a place with a single crime scene. The locations of the murder could be inside a home or building, on the open street, or at offices or schools. For example, on March 26, 2006, Aaron Kyle Huff, twenty-eight years old: Aaron walked in on a certain house party with three guns of more than three hundred rounds of ammunition, a black ...

C. S. Lewis’ “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”

C. S. Lewis’ “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” follows the adventures of the Pevensie children – Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. During World War II, their parents sent them to live in the country with a certain Professor Kirke to keep their children safe. On a rainy day, the Pevensie children play a game and explore Professor Kirke’s house. Lucy, the youngest among the four children, discovers a wardrobe in one of the rooms. Entranced by the wardrobe, Lucy opens it and steps inside only to discover another world. Lucy ventures ...

Abstract The paper outlines a few connections between pornography, erotica, and obscene material, in relation to sex crimes committed against adults and children. It is commonly known among the public that sex offenders view this material, and that they are often influenced by it. The paper also discusses how offenders my use the material to avoid acting on their desires, as well as how the material may awaken stronger desires within certain individuals. Rehabilitation is possible for those with desires that centralized around pornography and obscene material as the primary trigger. The best results for rehabilitation were seen in ...

Very many communities and societies exist today but the one that I am familiar with most is my class. I am currently in college and the school is an assemblage of people from all walks of life. My class, which is to large part composed of my course mates, also exhibits a divergent assemblage of individuals from different cultural backgrounds. In “Arts of the Contact Zone” Mary Louis Pratt brings forth an argument about a “community” and a “contact” zone. The word community is quite a common phrase and according to Pratt, the society’s idea of community is ”strongly utopian, embodying ...

Death of a Salesman is the Pulitzer Prize winning play by Arthur Miller, it was published in 1949. The play is an American tragedy that details the life and death of Willy Loman, a traveling salesman. Note that Arthur Miller named this character “Loman” a name that literally derives from Low Man. Willy Loman lives in Brooklyn New York, where Arthur Miller was born and lived his professional life. Loman’s home life revolves around his nagging wife Linda, deadbeat son Biff, and younger son Happy. Loman fantasizes about being younger and having a young, joyful family with productive happy sons and a supportive ...

1) Expressionist film in Germany is a part of the Expressionism movement in the country of 1920ies. This was a period of the silent movies and their main feature was the theatrical look in the films. The actors used painted, dramatic scenery and exaggerated make-up, which is commonly used in the theater. The changes in the German art were reflected in the sets, which had high contrast between white and black, different geometric shapes were used, all of which created exaggerated light and shadow. Although this movement did not last for long, it had significant impact on film makers from different ...

- Sexuality as Main Agency of Change Higher Ground, the film and the memoir, both depict sexuality as the main agency of change in the story. The developments and the conflicts are centered on this subject, with the protagonist heavily influenced by her sexual experiences in majority of her life decisions. In the film, the reason for Corrine’s marriage are a hasty solution to her unexpected pregnancy. The pregnancy arose from her sexual curiosity, which reflects her usual curiosity towards all aspects of her life. The marriage and incidences that follow are the main reason that Corrine ...

[Author’s Name] In general terms, mass media can be described as the channels of communication through which the wider audience gets the messages in a simultaneous manner. It is a crucial fact that the children in the contemporary era are greatly affected by the mass media. Television — video games, and social media are playing a distinctive role to shape the identity and culture of people today, children in particula —. In addition, mass media is also having a great effect on the interaction and communication of children with their parents, family members, friends, classmates and society (Livingstone & Bovill, 2001). A majority ...

Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amelie was a breakthrough in exposing international audiences to French film – the film remains the highest-grossing French film to date in America (Box Office Mojo, 2014). There are many factors inherent to the film that contribute to its success, not the least of which is the film’s stylistic appeal – Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s unique, slightly grotesque yet endlessly quirky style made it a very entertaining and unconventional film compared to many domestic and international releases. Jeunet’s use of unconventional coloring and cinematography (making heavy use of CG) modernized the French film in ways previously unheard of. The ...

M. Butterfly is a play that captures the story of Gallimard, a French diplomat and his affair with Chinese woman, Liling Song. The “woman” later turns out to be man and a spy. The main themes in the play are Eastern duplicity and Western imperialism. The climax of the play happens when Gallimard is seduced by Song. The play places a lot of focus on racism, imperialism and sexism and the prejudicial feelings of the West and East (1:3). The play by Henry captures the interconnectedness between sexism and imperialism. Drawing from postmodern aesthetics, the usage of dramatic shape, stage, pictures and ...

In the novel, “The Bluest Eye,” Toni Morrison exposes and attacks racial self-loathing in the black community through her main character, Pecola. Pecola is depicted as a black girl. However, she is white at her heart. Pecola has self-loathing that gets worsen as the novel goes on. When the clerk of a store completely ignores her, for the first time, she gets the knowledge of her blackness. She tries to wash it away as ...

In the story, The Things They Carried the author Tim O’Brien tells the story of soldiers of Alpha Company, led by First Lieutenant Jimmy cross. Most of the men are low-ranking soldiers. The platoon is there to fight in the Vietnam War. The narrator, Obrien, is one of the soldiers. This story is all about what objects those soldiers were carrying with them, and their memories or emotions associated with those objects. How all those soldiers are confronting the tension between fantasy and reality. The Dreamer of that Company is lieutenant Cross. He comes to his senses when ...

"Araby" can be said to be a complex short story written by Joyce as a reflection of the life of a young boy growing up in Dublin city. The narrator, a boy, is not named, and Joyce, the author, uses him as the first person; though the narrator appears to be more mature than the boy referred in the short story. Araby, focuses on fantasy and escape; revolving around despair, darkness as well as enlightenment. The story is retrospective of Joyce's life and looks back of his past life as well as his constant struggles (Smith 10). This story, Araby, involves a couple ...

Everything once written is read at least once. World literature heritage counts great many of works that were written in different styles with the use of the vast variety of methods and techniques, which assist writer in revealing his original idea and delivering it to the reader. Brad Carrington, American is a fantasy short fiction story. The author gets the reader into a real world, but creates an unreal story in it. Along with human characters, there is also a speaking and thinking puppet dog character, who is an ultimate participant of all the events. Fantastic transformations of the yard and ...

The books Harry Potter and The magicians are fictional novels that take us through the world of wizardly in the lives of two young people. A lot has been told about the ability of magicians to transform and change things using mystical powers. Magic as narrated in the books is all about imagining something and bringing it into reality using some powers. The stories are very similar just that one is told in the perspective of an eleven-year boy who out of curiosity decided to venture into the world of magic. To fulfil his ambition, he enrols to a magic ...

The Secret life by Walter Mitty is a humor short story by James Thurber concerning the people`s state of mind and the social reality facing them in life. By using an American context, Thurber shows how ordinary citizen`s especially during the Great Depression escaped realities by turning to Hollywood movies, and inflated imagination to escape the harsh realities that the world had to offer during these hard times. These period was characterized by a not-so-easy life where poverty, high prices of commodities and standards of living pushed the average middle-class Americans to the edge of their lives (Kaufman, p93). ...

It is always the desire of each person living to have a fulfilled life where they will live free of worries and anxieties. The steps towards such accomplishments are followed by various actions including working hard in life and even being nice to people. Everybody is usually looking for a secret towards success and once it is unveiled, everything will be done to ensure they get there. However, the definition of success defers from one person to the other and the level of hard work and commitment is not always the same. In an effort to achieve what somebody else has ...

The High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia is replete with a number of highly prized artistic works that vary from classical art as well as modern works which also have the capacity to thrill. The permanent collection is full of wonderful art works from a wide variety of established artists which really merit inspection. A typical exhibit is ‘The Nativity’ by Francesco Giorgio who hailed from Siena. This work is beautiful and colourful as well as being rather striking in its matter of fact description.

There is also an exhibition on Albert Bierstadt, a typical plein air artist from California ...

When you play the game of comparison and contrast, one is always better than the other. The HBO fantasy drama series Game of Thrones, based on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, tends to leave die-hard aficionados of the epic fantasy novel series divided over the changes the second season has made to the novels. David Benioff’s and D.B. Weiss’s Game of Thrones has not been loyal to George R.R. Martin’s novel series, and to prove this the second season of the TV series must be compared to the A Clash of Kings, ...

Sight is a very prevalent theme in a great variety of fiction; it can often be a symbol for understanding, comprehension, and enlightenment. Hindsight and foresight are often rewarded as virtues, or at least play heavily into the plot of a story. A blind person is often thought to ‘see’, or comprehend, more than the normal person, and sometimes people are not aware of a shocking truth, despite it looking them straight in the face. These scenarios are found in August Wilson's play Fences, as Troy, the patriarch of the family, is completely undone by his pride and lack of awareness of his situation. ...

In August Wilson’s Fences, we follow Troy Maxon, a disillusioned, bitter middle-aged man who used to play baseball in his prime – however, since he played before the color barrier was broken in major league baseball, there was no chance for him to shine. This has left him a broken shell of a man who clings to what mild successes he had in the past and participates in an extramarital affair which tears his family apart. Troy’s journey is the most transparently indicative of the American Dream – his dream occupation was baseball, a quintessentially American sport. However, due to the times in ...

A song can be generally defined as being a voice composition which is performed by the act of singing, the song words tend to have a rhythm or are poetic in nature. The two songs that I have chosen are; ‘Your Racist Friend’ by the group known as They Must Be Giants and ‘When Fredric Was A Little Lad’ by Gilbert and Sullivan. The song genre of the song ‘your racist friend’ can be classified as modern rock while the song ‘when Fredric was a little lad’ can be classified as a comic opera which typically is a comic play which usually incorporates songs ...

The film “Big Fish” is a movie based on the novel by Daniel Wallace. It is a drama, fantasy and comedy rolled into one by Director Tim Burton. It stars Billy Crudup as William Bloom, the son and Albert Finney as Edward Bloom, the father. The story is about a son who visits his dying father for the last time. It is about a son’s search for the truth about his father’s life. Although the film mirrors a real world relationship of a father and a son, it is engulfed with several interesting exaggerations and astonishing happenings. Examples of these are stories about ...

Social networking websites have become a tool of communication in recent times. Social networks have allowed people from all corners of the world to engage in the activity of identity creation and relationship development. This has been done in a positive and negative way. Positive because these profiles help market a person and even hook them up with friends and family who have not been in touch for a very long time, and negative because they have been the cause of multiple lies and fake identities. Ongoing dialogues have been created among people who know each other and those who don’t therefore ...

Introduction Fantasy as well as science fiction answers this question –What if? Science fiction often takes our understanding when it comes to how our universe works and even imagines technologies and ideas that people have not witnessed yet, but could still fit within our understanding. The fiction, which expands on what people know about science, is working on known principles. There are many roots of science fiction and fantasy as a genre that can be explained through the course of this study. In this research, we also argue that there are major creators of science fiction and fantasy ...

J.M. Coetzee is the author of the book “Disgrace”. Coetzee develops the book through developing the personality of his main character David Lurie. However, close reading of the last pages of the book shows that although the main character, Lurie, goes a complete metamorphosis in terms of falling from grace to grass, his personality remains intact. There are some interesting developments especially with regard to the Lurie’s interaction with some people whom he had problems with during the course of the narrative. For instance, Lurie’s relationship with his daughter Lucy is considerably repaired. He is somewhat depicted ...

The Screwtape Letters is a fictional work written by Christian apologist C. S. Lews. The book consists of an ongoing correspondence between two demons. One of the demons, Screwtape, is trying to teach the younger demon, his nephew Wormwood about his understanding of God. Obviously, a demon’s understanding of going to be distorted. Screwtape uses convincing arguments to teach his nephew Wormwood that God loves for people only for his own sake. But through his distorted views comes Lewis’s real views that he is trying to convey through Screwtapes distortion. The first time love in mentioned is Screwtape, ...

Marquez does not embrace the clear-cut way of narration. There is a rough sketch of happenings between the time of founding the town, time of collapse; the Buendia’s clan genesis and its destructions. Marquez keeps on moving forth and backward and does not come clear on time. He thus creates a sense of informality and mythic feeling of a history. Though in the very first episode he talks of the Macondo gypsies who bore the technological innovations that were miraculous to the people of this isolated village, it is still had to believe it for in the first statement he puts ...

Cybercrime must be considered on two levels within the virtual platform of the Internet. Firstly from a legal perspective cybercrime has historically been referred to as an action online that causes harm to someone offline. Secondly as the popularity of online multiplayer games has increased the stakes have risen above the goal of fun and entertainment. The possibility of monetary gain has given some players and/or criminals a motivation to cheat and intimidate others for personal gain. (Gřivna, 2008, 98) Online crime that causes harm offline is covered under criminal law whereas the legal precedents for crimes with virtual games ...

The Pulitzer and Nation Book Critics Circle Award winning book, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao is not an easy read. Although a fictional novel, it is based upon history and set in New Jersey where the author, Junot Diaz grew up. It is not just the story of Oscar de Leon, referred to as Oscan Wao, a “Getto Nerd” in search of his personal Grail for a “pure and unadulterated love;” it spans three generations and two cultures. It calls up Dominican-American history in a way that can be stark, brutal, lush, tragic and comedic. It refers back to the “fuku ...

Compare the attempt to escape the miseries of the world in Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" and Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium."

The different faces through which a person goes through makes them have a number of experiences. This is largely caused by internal and external expectations which could be contrary to what a person can deliver. It reaches a time when an individual feels lonely despite the numerous people they could be around them. After being in a world of their own and realizing that nobody seems to understand to understand their plight, people tend to find ways through which they can escape from ...

Throughout the course of this essay I will attempt to construct a picture of modern techno cultures in respect of the laws and norms of the world they inhabit but don’t necessarily fit into. I will try to display to the reader that these techno cultures live within our world but outside our laws, they themselves construct their own laws as they live in their own worlds, they live in our world but in another world of their choosing. I will in a sense try to find reality in these virtual worlds and try to discover what is real ...

What makes an individual? Is it a construct of one’s identity or is it the perception formed by others. Well, these are some of the questions deep thinkers have been asking themselves over the years, and there are no signs that the debate will come to an end any time soon. Despite the side of the debate we might choose to support, one thing is for sure: describing the essence of human beings is largely a complex affair. Confounded by this dilemma, several classical writers have tried to explain their opinions on the subject, and put the matter to rest ...

“There and Back Again” or “The Hobbit” is actually a fantasy novel by J.R.R Tolkien who is an English Author. It is also a children’s book that can be described as a classic hero pursuit story. This novel is an adventure, which is filled with action, wonder, vividly memorable characters, and magic. These are remarkable accomplishments for any piece of writing. Originally, “There and Back Again” was anticipated to be a children’s tale. The novel was initially published in 1937 in Great Britain by Unwin and George Allen. Therefore, it was published prior to WWII outbreak. In addition, it acts as ...

Wide Sargasso Sea was written in 1966 novel by Dominica born renowned writer Jean Rhys. This post-colonial parallel novel has put the author in the limelight being her most successful novel. This novel is a premonition of charlottes Bronte’s novel of Jane Eyre 1847 novel. This is a revelation of a relationship that casts a patriarchal society in which she is neither a black nor a white European with her European white boyfriend. This is a sour and unhappy marriage, which makes her appear demonic or devilish woman. The novel shortly tries to analyze the main themes of racial inequality and harshness of displacement and ...

The seagull was first published in March 1986.The seagull is the best play that was written by Chekov. He was inspired by a real life incident of a death of a seagull. This is a poignant love story. The characters are seen suffering in their own realistic ways as they move across the country. The characters are the ones that are analyzed in the play not the plot. The author allows his character reveal the act of devastating dreams. The death of the seagull has been used to symbolize the absence of defeat and that life has a lot of beauty in it.The characters ...

Karen Brennan’s short story “Floating” is from a collection of short stories entitled “Wild Desire” (1991), which collectively could be defined as stories about independently-minded women, including the main character in “Floating” who escapes from her tedious, ordinary, but unhappy everyday existence into a world of fantasy. This story is narrated by a woman who we find has had a miscarriage, which has so deeply affected her mental state that she fantasizes, not only about still having the baby she has lost, but believing she is able to levitate, thus symbolically escaping from the constraints of her currently unhappy reality. By using ...

Heroes are people who dedicate their lives to other things that are bigger than them. Heroes are people who are distinguished because of their courage and capability, and people admire them because they have noble qualities and superior deeds. Heroes also perform heroic acts that are praised by others. In the book, the Woman Worrier there are certain heroic characters that have been analyzed by the author. The author presents different women such as mothers, aunts and women worriers in different qualities and style and he also brings out their weaknesses clearly. The discussion below is a detailed argument about ...

Arguably, the exotic Art Deco was an exceptional style that dates back to the 1920’s a time when fashion had hit the predominant art industry. Commonly referred to as the boom of the roaring, Art Deco affected many forms of art in decorative arts, design, fashion, transport and product design, film and fine arts. Similarly, the exotic art was the new trend that hit the art industry influencing numerous forms of art. It largely touched almost all parts of contemporary life such as dancing with girls, tropical birds and animals, lotus flowers and even crossed borders to change native ...

All I know is essentially a lie. The truths I believe to be essential can not be so in face of the uncertainty of the reality. This fire that burns and warms up the room is false. There may not even be a room around me. This warmth I feel is a fallacy bestowed upon my senses by me and only me. I conjure it myself. It is all in my own mind; if that is real at all. I know I am here. At this present moment I can assure that because I am conscious of this experience. I have a ...

Benstock, Bernard. Critical Essays on James Joyce's Ulysses. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1989. 

Benstock speaks extensively about the romantic fantasy in Ulysses. He portrays the idea that Bloom is a victim of his own musings and circumstances with most of his thoughts focusing on the self and thus hampering his moving forward. Bloom’s musings and inner sexual thoughts are important parts of the whole narrative especially in Chapter 13 and Benstock also focuses on the links between one episode and another which should be read in continuity if we are to truly appreciate them. The interaction between Leopold ...

The turn of the century saw the popularization in Latin American literature a prominent style of narration now known as magical realism. Authors Gabriel García Márquez, Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel have become household names in this genre. The style however owes its beginnings in Germany’s visual arts back in the 1920s. It was only introduced in the Americas 20 years after and by 1950s, Latin American fiction writing has characterized the use of fantasy in realistic mode (“History”). German art historian and critic Franz Roh (1890-1965) first referred as “magischer realismus” the images of life behind ...

The literature written during the 1920s brought to life America's fixation of rising to the top within social ranks. The themes and ideals presented in novels and poetry during the 1920s were a depiction of the fantasy that was the American dream. The fantasy, often associated with leaving rural life and joining the ranks of the modern city, was one that most people can still relate to today. Literature in the 1920s highlighted this and offered it as an antidote to rural life. In the twentieth century some American modernist’s decided to blend the concept of pastoral tradition with ...

Public Figures (their expertise and their assigned speech topic:How in one sentence would: (Oprah Winfrey's credibility as Talk Shows: Their Role in Society) be initially affected if she spoke on assigned speech topic of: The Comedy of Politics?�" plus one sentence on how to make her credible on the given speech topic Oprah Winfrey is a magnificent talk show host yet her grasp of politics is somewhat limited and she would probably stutter and veer off subject if given such a topic to talk about. Her credibility would be affected since she is an avowed Democratic Party supporter so it ...

The 2006 film Stranger Than Fiction, directed by Marc Forster and starring Will Ferrell, tells the tale of a humdrum IRS agent (Will Ferrell) who finds himself learning that he is actually a fictional construct, a character in a story being written by Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson). As he deals with the constant meddling of an authorial force in his life, and making sure he is not insane with the help of a professor (Dustin Hoffman), he soon learns that Eiffel plans to kill him off in her own story, in order to make her writing interesting and cure her writer's block. The film ...

Ted Bundy was born in a house for unwed mothers to an absent father. So to cover up the shame of this he was raised believing his mother was his older sister and his grandparents were actually his parents. He was a shy reserved child. When he was four his mother posing as his sister took him to live a new life with a new husband it was only until in his adolescent years he eventually found out his sister was actually his mother. This is believed to be what affected his ability to form attachments, he didn’t know who ...

Introduction Cinema is a medium used to entertain people. It portrays many issues about the society, science and various myths. It depicts different psychiatric disorders such as suicide and drug abuse to schizophrenia and personality disorders. Gone are the days when films were used to negatively portray psychiatric conditions. Nowadays films are used for educational purposes as well as to change the negative attitude towards people with psychiatric conditions. Film portrays that even psychiatric people are geniuses and that they can solve complex problems. Mental conditions are portrayed in different ways in the film industry. Film is used to ...

The California Dream Act enables illegal immigrants who have graduated from high school a Cal-grant aid. They are also entitled to a permit of residence for 6 years. The Carl-grant is divided into two, A and B. Section A considers the grade point average (GPA) and financial necessity. B depends on GPA, the highest level of education of the applicant’s parents and marital status. Legal citizens have difficulty times applying and getting financial help. Allowing illegal immigrants to the aid on simple requirement is amnesty of the highest level. It heightens unfairness compared to applicants who are U.S citizens. It ...

MKG1200: Marketing

Part1: The World of Marketing Worksheet4 Mission Statement..4Objectives4SWOT Analysis..6External Environment7Economic:7Legislative:..8Social Trends:8Political:..9Ethics9Part 2: Analyzing Marketing Opportunities Worksheet9Target Market Segment..10Product Positioning..12Marketing Research.12Part 3: Product Decisions Worksheet13 Product Issues..15Brand15Packaging Issues..16Product Life Cycle Issues16Service Quality Issues..16Part 4: Distribution Decisions Worksheet16 Method..17Distribution Facilities..17Web Site Strategies..18Part 5: Promotion Decisions Worksheet18Objectives..18Media.19Public Relations Activities20Sales Promotion Tools.21Sales21Part 6: Pricing Decisions Worksheet21Strategy.21Price Comparison21Implementation22

Business Description Masaeco is an art and craft shop along with a coffee shop all offering a unique taste of Filipino culture and delicacies. The cornerstone of the company’s business is high quality products that create a unique customer experience. We source arts and crafts ...

Throughout the course of this essay I will attempt to construct a picture of modern techno cultures in respect of the laws and norms of the world they inhabit but don’t necessarily fit into. I will try to display to the reader that these techno cultures live within our world but outside our laws, they themselves construct their own laws as they live in their own worlds, they live in our world but in another world of their choosing. I will in a sense try to find reality in these virtual worlds and try to discover what is real ...

The movie industry can be characterized by so many trends. A movie, for example can be classified based on its gender. A movie, based on this type of classification could be romantic, comedy, horror, mystery, action, drama. There are also movies that are hybrid. Meaning, they can be a combination of two, three, or even more genres. As the movie industry evolved, we could see many movies of this type emerge. This paper will focus more on horror movies or films, particularly on the two films, The Call of Cthulhu and 28 Days Later. The former, according to the Internet ...

“Don Quixote” by Miguel de Cervantes has remained an instrumental piece of literature since its publication in 1605. The success of “Don Quixote” may be in part to its underdog hero and his quest to achieve his dreams despite ridicule from his peers. Some critics have gone as far as saying that “Don Quixote” was “the best literary work ever written”. To understand the importance of “Don Quixote” one must break down the novel and examine the theme of chivalry and heroics to see why “Don Quixote” is truly a literary work that transcends time and entertains and inspires many ...

Violence has been a problem in our society since the beginning of time. However, this problem is growing even more in our present time, especially with new technologies and advancements paving the way for newer and more sophisticated weapons and firearms. What exacerbates this problem is that such firearms are now made even more accessible such that they often fall into the wrong hands and used for the wrong purposes. In light of recent events where young people have been involved in shootouts, it can’t be denied that violence is an increasing problem even among the youth. Although ...

1) Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde's many poems, plays and novels poke subtle fun at the Victorian mainstream, addressing the faults and the problems inherent within that society. Many of his works deal with the decadence and beauty of the Victorian upper class, as well as how empty and duplicitous that society is. By painting detailed portraits of flawed and overly vain characters, he shows the Victorian aristocrat as someone nearly inhuman, and far from sympathetic. In many ways, it transcends the nature of the Victorian mainstream by holding a mirror up to it and pointing out its flaws, whether ...

America was built on the values of what we call “freedom.” But we are finding on deeper and deeper levels that “freedom” in regard to citizenship in a country is a concept of deep relativity. And that is a vast platform of relativity. The collective mind of America loves freedom and the concept of it. But many times that “freedom” is confused with a right-to-rule concept. Right-to-rule is the idea that each individual citizen gets the opportunity to push society in the direction that he or she chooses by casting a free vote in a free election. The idea is that “freedom” should be ...

In much of modern publishing history, particularly as it pertains to children's literature, there has been a significant movement toward marketing childrens' books for particular, gendered audiences. There are "boys' books" and "girls' books", each with their own emphases and particular genres. Boys' books tend to be adventures complete with violence, while girls' books are more fully centered on romance. However, despite these distinctions, I do not feel quantifying these books as being appropriate for a particular gender over another is wise or appropriate; children's literature on the whole has a great capacity for being palatable and enjoyable for both sexes, as ...

Throughout the history, there have been noteworthy literacy movements, many of which have been over and done. Two of the most important literacy movements throughout the time have been transcendentalism and romanticism.

Transcendentalism was a literacy form in the 19th century. Under this literacy form, many writers have contributed in its movement. Among the major pioneers in this literacy form include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Bronson Alcott Theodore Parker. Based on the works of these great transcendentalists I will elucidate the differences that exist between Romanticism and Transcendentalism.

Romanticism draws outs strong feelings and demonstrates significant actions. It is about a ...

Strongly influenced by Freud’s theories about the structure and the workings of the human psyche, the surrealist movement dived deeply into the exploration of the unconscious – hoping to find the essence of the human mind and spirit in an alternative reality. Salvador Dali is one of the main representatives of this movement – his works constantly defied the boundaries of reality and imagination. He was a prolific artist, always in search of new ways of creative expression. Due to his personal background, he was always attracted to the world of fantasy, which made him very suitable for the surrealist movement. ...

The First World War was a traumatizing event that caused people and artists to question the veracity of traditional values. Having experienced tremendous distress, people were thrown into a state of anxiety, which was marked by their struggle to find meaning in life. Society itself seemed to have succumbed into a state of cosmic insecurity, fueled by the bitterness and the disillusionment of the war. Individual and national psyches were marked by important, even radical changes, which the artists at the time, including the surrealist painters, successfully incorporated into their artworks. They embraced everything that was new, experimental and to some extent, ...

Fostering a child with food, water and security is one thing, nurturing with affection, encouragement and values is other. It is the balance between the two which leads to the wholesome development of a child. But, childrearing is incomplete unless parents delve deep into the mind of a child to analyze his/her contemporary contemplations and age-appropriate behavior. This essay pertains to the very age appropriate behavior in children (5-13 years old) and how parents act in response to it. The study is based on a comprehensive observation of the interaction between various parents and their children in a playground.

In the playground, for an ...

The two texts used for our comparative analysis are “Piggybook” by Anthony Browne and “Guinea Pigs”. Both texts are extremely different in terms of their genre, language, content and grammar. Piggybook is a fictional text whereas Guinea Pigs is an information report and purely non-fictional.

Piggybook is a short fictional story about a family, their daily mundane routine and behaviour. There are four everyday human characters in it, a setting, a problem and a resolution. It has all the elements which are present in any fictional story.

The author Anthony Browne has used very simple descriptive language to describe the characters and events that are ...

1. Aladdin and the Magic Lamp

Alladin is a Middle Eastern folk tale that is popular in the Arabic Culture. The story Aladdin and the Magic Lamp is one of the tales in the story collection The Book of One Thousand and One Nights also called Arabian Nights. The story of Aladdin is one of the stories of magic and religion. It is common among the Arabic culture because it emphasizes the concept of simplicity and virtues of goodness. Aladdin is a rich young lad from a small Chinese town. The cunning magician pretends that he is the uncle to the young ...

1. In Fritz Leiber's "The Winter Files," Heinie uses his imagination to picture himself in outer space, flying a rocketship. At the beginning of the story, we see Heinie, in his homemade wooden box and bowl-like helmet, making that very much real. However, as soon as Heinie says he's "going to take a trip" in his spaceship, the Man in the Black Flannel Suit enters, clearly a figure of the imagination due to his movements, and the fact that he does not have a name. He is Gott's fantasy, while flying in space is Heinie's. The fact that all the imaginative characters ...

The coming of age story and the fantasy adventure have the potential to combine in very interesting ways. Often, in these types of stories, the hero's journey is also an inward quest to address the protagonists' own insecurities. The price for the responsibility taken by one young person in science fiction and fantasy epics can be high; it can cost them their innocence, or even their lives. Paul Atreides, the main character of Frank Herbert's Dune, and Aerin, the heroine of The Hero and the Crown, are forced to grow up far sooner than they have to, and some ...

The necklace is one of the literature works by Guy de Maupassant that focus on the life of a girl who had an illusion of the kind of life that she desired to live. True to her illusions, a chance came for her and she found herself with the high-ranking people in the society. Despite what it coasted her poor husband, her dream came to pass however short lived it was. The consequences that followed the moment transformed her completely (Korba & Maupassant, 9). She was not only made to pay the price for her fantasy but also changed her view towards ...

This essay deals with William Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily,” in which the author utilized numerous symbols to buttress his main themes, which are tradition clashing with the need for change and the power of death. The symbols used by the author and explained in the following chapters are Emily Grierson’s house, the bridal chamber, dust, the strand of hair, pocket watch, the stationary and the rose. The author’s intention in creating this story was to give homage to Emily, a fallen Southern belle, and to all others who are unable to develop themselves in ...

Oppositional readings are a strategy being adopted by individuals who feel the media sometimes provides them with what they do not require. This is usually revealed through criticism of some authors and even movies ‘fans take found footage from television texts and edit them to construct their own videos which comment sometimes with irony’ (Jenkins, 1989, pg 550). Authors and directors who form part of oppositional analysts go a head to write books and even shoot movies to discourage the audience against such literature. A clear example is the movie titled I hate vampires. The movie is a production of people who ...

Child development psychologist Bruno Bettelheim once wrote that the true significance of folktales for children lies in their underlying, or “hidden,” meaning. Fairy tales pose “existential dilemmas,” and communicate either a solution or punishment that emphasizes some moral point, the reasoning out of which not only facilitates the expansion of imagination but helps develop rational and critical thinking skills (Zipes, p. 182). As such, “the fairy tale liberates the child’s subconscious so that he or she can work through conflicts and experiences which would otherwise be repressed” (Ibid). Simply put, they provide a means through which a child may begin to ...

Time is the greatest gift human being has been ever given. It gives us an opportunity to evolve, to appreciate the moment of our existence and to separate past, present and future. It gives love and sexuality an opportunity to develop into something new and strong – new life – continuation of humanity. On the other hand, time is the greatest foe of human race, because it characterizes the process of dying, decay, destruction and final ending of human existence. Time also steals youth, strength, love and beauty. It slowly deprives us of ourselves. The aim of the present essay is to ...

Taiwan has a magnificent movie industry. The movie industry in Taiwan is filled with talented actors, singers, dancers, and even personalities who excel in all of these three fields. The movies that will be reviewed for this paper are the movies “Invitation Only” and “Comedy Makes You Cry”. Both movies were filmed in Taiwan and the actors and actresses who filled the roles of the movie characters were either Taiwanese or of Taiwanese origins.

This movie was one of the blockbuster hits about 3 years ago. “Invitation Only” was considered to be a movie under three genres: crime, ...

In this paper, I will discuss how cartoon violence affects behavioral patterns in childhood. Several researchers have confirmed that visual media can affect the behavioral development in children because they learn social norms by following examples from social agents. Cartoons are a part of the visual media industry, and that is one of the major social agents that shape perspectives, rules, and norms in society. However, data analysis indicates that cartoons for children are frequently disguised as fantasy stories, but they promote more violence than programs focused on older audiences. Chronic exposure to violence through cartoons implicates normal psychological development ...

Using two advertisements from contemporary visual culture, discuss the exchange value associated with the commodity signs featured in them. How do these advertisements attract the "desiring gaze" of the consumer to encourage their normalisation? 1. "Glow" by JLO Print Ad

In this print advertisement, a perfume from recording artist Jennifer Lopez is marketed and endorsed using several unique commodity signs. For one, the typical comparison of the perfume bottle as a female body is made clear when placed side-by-side with the implicitly naked figure of Jennifer Lopez next to it. By directly alluding to the curves of the female body ...

This essay offers an expository interpretation of Joyce Carol Oates’ short story, entitled “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” It portrays the female protagonist’s urge to be accepted, admired, and thought of as beautiful, while she continues to put on a personal display of maturity and sexual attraction. Once the opportunity for her to be treated as a truly mature person presents itself, it becomes all too clear that she is far less mature than she originally presented herself to be.

Joyce Carol Oates’ short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” raises numerous unsettling issues ...

Site replication topology

How DNS integrates with Active Directory If you install Active Directory on any server, you encourage the server to the task of a domain monitor for a respective domain. When finishing this process, you are reminded to make specific a DNS domain identity for the domain of Active Directory for which you are entering and encouraging the server. If in the cause of this process, an authoritative DNS server for the domain that you made specific either cannot be traced on the network or is not compatible with the DNS dynamic update policy, you are reminded with the ...

VPN has a high potential to provide quality communication services. It also provides savings for company costs. The savings range from 30% to 80% depending on the type of line that was leased. Since Fantasy Games network has offices in many places, it can save vast amount of expenses that would be used on communication by the introduction of a VPN. VPN also offer good security for the sensitive information that is being shared and stored in Fantasy Games network. This information need to be stored in a safe and only shared in a private. The security of applications and the systems ...

There are various equipment and DTEs which are found in the Fantasy Games network. With the advent of the internet and computer networks, there is the need to have a network in the organization so that resources are shared and communication will be effected. With the growing nodes that are seen to be growing by the day, there will be need to have monitoring of the network.

The network has a lot of equipment and computing devices. These devices will need to be monitored so that their management is well taken care of. There are servers, routers, firewalls and end user ...

Never judge culture by one man and never judge a man by popular culture.

- Anonymous

In “The Death of the Author,” structuralist thinker Roland Barthes suggested the notion of the author as a distinct identity in the creation and interpretation of a text was a thing of the past. Instead, he preferred the use of the word “scriptor” to refer to the person writing or typing a work for the first time. The ideas in the scriptor's mind would have to travel through his or her semiotic filters to make it to the paper – those filters take the ideas and shape them – for ...

For centuries, the fairy tale has been the cornerstone of imaginative children's fiction - the genre provides a canvas by which amazing tales can be told. The fantastic becomes possible in fairy tales, and for many, childlike wonder can be recaptured by the simple act of reading one. However, in many children's books, there is a pervading theme of maturation, and "growing up"; in these stories, the fairy tale land the characters inhabit is shown to be fleeting and transient. Two such fairy tales - Ursula Dubosarsky's The Red Shoe and Neil Gaiman's Stardust - frame the fantastic story they tell ...

In the present paper, the issue of child development is discussed from the perspective of media influence on each stage of child’s growth. The main aim of this paper is to explore how modern technology of media influences human development, particularly on the early stages. In this context, the central thesis is an exploration of how media influences children development in each stage and how it contributes to the children’s socialization and their place in society. Subsequently, the main attention is paid to the psychological processes that take place in the early childhood and how they are ...

Program Music

Program music refers to a kind of music that is creative in nature (Cooper, 2008). Music describes a situation in a narrative way. Liszt introduced this term by describing a program as an added description to the music to draw the attention of the listener to a poetic idea. It adds value to music because listeners receive it in the form of program notes, which brings a mutual relationship with the music. Program music continues to bring an effect on film music in cases where this draws the latest techniques of romantic music.

Claude-Achille Debussy was a music composer from French. He lived between ...

Hosoda Mamoru’s film, Summer Wars is a relevant piece in entertaining and providing information regarding the culture of the people from which it is derived. This animated film addresses various factors such as the power of westernization, the cultural perspectives, problems facing the young people in the Japanese society, and the manner in which trickery can inhibit one’s power. Coupling animation and reality, the movie clearly tackles technological evolution and scenes of extreme disaster with ease. This essay will discuss the social conditions that affect the Japanese people, characterization, and the manner in which solution is sort within ...

Ancient Mayan calendars prophesize great disaster deaths of political figures and that which is ‘awesome’. Though the Mayan grasping of the awesome concept was limited, they were able to construct 2 large stone tablets that were recently translated from Not English into English. While this does not imply that the tablets were originally in Gaelic it does imply that they are that awesome. The writings on the tablets are translated into the “10 Steps to Being Awesome.” It was believed that these steps were known as commandments because of intelligence revealed from the Infinite Improbability Drive which seemed to ...

Part of the enjoyment of poetry is the acceptance that some poems or parts of poems cannot be pinned down to a single meaning. Explore this view of poetry, and the ways in which poets use of language and from invites different readings.

In this essay I will be exploring ‘Blackberry-Picking’ by Seamus Heaney, ‘Two Scavengers in a Truck’ by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ by Maya Angelou. In different ways they show that poems cannot be pinned down to a single meaning.

The structure of ‘Blackberry-Picking’ is essentially that of two, not-quite-equal halves. The first 16 ...

1. The climactic scene between Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire is inevitable, the tragic but logical conclusion to a story in which an unscrupulous brute comes to utterly dominate an unbalanced woman. Stanley’s rape of Blanche is unjustifiable, a brutal act perpetrated on a deluded and already-defeated soul. Stanley’s cruelty is clever, conniving. By contrast, Blanche may be guilty of bigotry in her treatment of Stanley but it is defensive behavior motivated by fear and confusion, not deliberate cruelty.

Stanley is the raw immigrant type, whose animalistic behavior is untempered by the cultured refinement that ...

‘Angels in America’ a play that has become a success story in the mainstream drama in America acts. The play’s setting is both political and religious in nature as it was down played in the backdrop of politics in 1980s that was characterized by religious believes that defined the American culture. Gay – a disparate group were made to lead the plays (Kushner, 1992). This group of people is however a serious threat of contracting Aids forcing them to straight- face the specter through teaching themselves on better ways to support themselves. The play is divided into two part with ‘Millennium Approaches’ being ...