Fictional universe Essays

  • Star Wars Argumentative Essay

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    Star Wars Is Out In Digital HD — How To Make The Right Choice On Where To Buy April 10, 2015 by Danny Sullivan Disney Movies Anywhere Finally, you can buy the Star Wars films in digital format — digital streaming, that is. Technically, we’ve had Star Wars in digital format via DVD and Blu-ray for ages. But if you wanted to stream Star Wars digitally from the cloud, you couldn’t until today. There seems to be no lack of providers offering bundles of the six films in the series for $90 or $100.

  • Documentaries: More Realistic than Other Types of Films

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    “pseudorealism of a deception aimed at fooling the eye,” according to Bazin. With this, Bazin means that fictional films are made to represent reality through artistic components, given that film is a form of art. Hence, fiction films are less real than documentaries. Last but not least, because occurrences in fictional films are acted and never had an authentic existence in this universe, fiction films are less real than documentaries. However, Armadillo is a documentary that may be considered

  • Autobiographical Nature in the Writings of Five Well Known Poets

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    that Robert Frost puts what has fulfilled his life in his writing. Like these other authors, Robinson Jeffers also involves his life in his poetry. Throughout his life Jeffers religious intent shows him to be a pantheist whose God is the evolving universe. In his poem “Credo” he talks about how nothing is real except but what we make it. The idea that God is in our minds, and he creates the images that makes things real. The religious background of his life affected him to write the poems of the permanence

  • Narcissism in My Last Duchess

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    Robert Browning’s poem “My last Duchess'; is spoken from the perspective of the Duke and conveys the Dukes personality through the literary form of a dramatic monologue. It involves a fictional account of the Duke addressing an envoy from the Count to talk of details for the hopeful marriage to the Count’s daughter. The subtitle of this monologue is “Ferrara,'; which suggests an historical reference to Alfonso II, the fifth Duke of Ferrara in Italy in the mid-sixteenth century. The objective of the

  • Spam: Junk Email

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    Spam: Junk Email The fictional story “The Case of the Spam Stalker” was based on my research and interest in the topic of junk email or spam. I was able to think of this topic because of the unbelievable amount of junk email that I was receiving at my America Online email account. In fact, I received so much junk mail that I decided to switch to another account with Lycos. Because I was having so much of a problem with unwanted mail, I figured that there were many more people with this problem

  • Divine Comedy - Autobiographical Journey in Dante’s Inferno

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    Dante’s Inferno - Autobiographical Journey The Inferno is more than just a fictional story about someone traveling through the universe. It is actually more like an autobiographical journey of life through its author, Dante Alighieri’s eyes. Written in the early 1300s by a disgruntled Dante living in exile, he literally describes a man who has been trapped, and must find a way to escape. Allegorically, he’s telling us about the terrible moment of crisis that occurs in each one of our lives “when

  • Is Hypertext the Future for Reading?

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    a story, reading whatever strikes their fancy. Readers are no longer forced to start at page one and finish with the last page. With hypertext there is no definite end to a story by any means. I experienced this first hand with the hypertext fictional story “Dissapearing Rain” by Deena Larsen. I read “Rain”, a hypertext on the web, and found the story very confusing. I found myself confused as to where to click and what I needed to know to understand the story. With every click came a multitude

  • Quest for The Dream in Black Girl Lost and Makes Me Wanna Holler

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    are two works written by male authors who have first hand knowledge about the African American experience. A difference between the two works is that McCalls story is an autobiography of his life growing up in the streets/ghetto and Goines is a fictional story about growing up in the streets/ghetto, but from a young black female perspective. Although Goines Black Girl Lost is not an autobiography, he and McCall share similar struggles and hardships in their backgrounds that give them the motivation

  • Mr. Potter, by Jamaica Kincaid

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    “And it was the middle of the night when there was no wind and there had been no rain for a long time…” (Kincaid 4.61) Mr. Potter’s life begins in stark contrast to the opening of the book. When demonstrating Mr. Potter’s routine life, Jamaica Kincaid portrays “the sun…in its usual place, up above and in the middle of the sky…” (Kincaid 1.3) but she chose a very different setting for Mr. Potter’s birth. Instead of being born into a sun so bright it made “even the shadows pale” (Kincaid 1.3), Mr.

  • A Comparison of Vistor Frankenstein and Henry Jekyll

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    A Comparison of Vistor Frankenstein and Henry Jekyll Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are two horrific tales of science gone terribly wrong. Shelley?s novel eloquently tells the story of a scientist, Victor Frankenstein, who creates a living monster out of decomposed body parts, while Stevenson?s novel describes the account of one, Henry Jekyll, who creates a potion to bring out the pure evil side to himself. Although the two scientists differ

  • Childhood Stories: Versions of Fairy Tales

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    Childhood was a very interesting time of life for me. Through everything that I had gone through growing up, still I always remembered the story tales that had been read to me over the years. Although The Three Little Bears and The Three Little Pigs were different stories, they both contained few similarities as well as many differences. The similarities in these two stories would be the significance of the number three and two characters invading the privacy and territories of unexpected families

  • The Wells Bequest: The Grimm Legacy

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    parallel universes, futuristic technologies, etc. The element of time travel is specifically stressed throughout the novel. The plot is fiction set in a world different from ours where technologies and sciences are heavily involved. In the book, a boy named Leo finds himself propelled into a new crazy world where objects from various fictions are in fact

  • A Comparison of The Harvest Gypsies and Of Mice and Men

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    Steinbeck does not portray migrant farm worker life accurately in Of Mice and Men. Housing, daily wages, and social interaction were very different in reality. This paper will demonstrate those differences by comparing the fictional work of Steinbeck to his non-fictional account of the time, The Harvest Gypsies. The first area that will be compared is housing. In Of Mice and Men the housing is described by the following passage: "The bunk house was a long, rectangular building. Inside,

  • Expanding Perception in Alan Lightman’s Einstein's Dreams

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    dilemma. If you have not yet had the opportunity to experience this wonderful novel by Alan Lightman, I guarantee that after you read it you will expand your perception of the nature of time and of human activity. The novel is enchanting. It is a fictional account of what one of the greatest scientific minds dreams as he begins to uncover his theory of relativity. Whenever I suggest the novel to the uninitiated, they often say that they are not interested in the sciences. This novel is more like

  • Robert Wrhinghim in James Hogg's Novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

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    Robert Wrhinghim in James Hogg's Novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Works Cited Not Included James Hogg's classic novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, portrays the fictional story of Robert Wringhim, a strong Calvinist who justifies murder by quickening the inevitable. Robert commits infamous acts of evil, believing that these murderous actions glorify God by annihilating sinners not chosen to be saved. I believe that a combination of

  • Characters In Frankenstein's Monster, Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde

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    Monsters are creatures that don’t fit in society. Some don’t try to hide themselves, but some on the other hand do. Since society doesn’t except them, they try to find a way to fit in societies image. Even when monsters try to hide their true identity, society makes them who they actually are by pushing them back to their monstrous state. Several monsters that go through this are Frankenstein’s Monster, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Edward Cullen. In the story Frankenstein, Frankenstein creates a

  • Exploring the Big Bang Theory: Affirmations and Disproofs

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    origin of all space, time, matter, and energy approximately 13.7 billion years ago from the violent expansion of a singular point of extremely high density and temperature. Basically, this means that the big bang theory is based on the fact that the universe originated from a big explosion billions of years ago, but its origin can be credited to Edwin Hubble. The theory of the big bang grew out of Einstein’s equations of general relativity. There are so many theories and ideas involved in the creation

  • Albert Camus' The Outsider

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    Albert Camus’s novel The Outsider is a fictional narrative that presents strong philosophical themes such as the irrationality of the universe and meaningless of human life. Throughout the novel it is clear that the narrator and protagonist – a young man named Meursault – is the only character that is able to understand and appreciate these ideas or philosophical truths. It is for this reason that he is an outsider. Accordingly, other social groups, including women, are represented as shallow as

  • Galileo's Influence On Religion

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    to speak with torture and death, but he still remained faithful to what he knew was right. In the early Renaissance, the Church controlled many aspects of society, including science. At the time, they believed that the Earth was the center of the universe with the Sun revolving around the Earth (Ptolemaic/geocentric view). The geocentric view was key to Christian influence, as evidence of this can be found in the bible and in church doctrine. Galileo’s views and scientific discoveries

  • Compare And Contrast Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

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    The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy book by Douglas Adams and the movie with the same title describes a fictional and rather comedic account of an adventure of four traveler’s space travel and surviving the various planets and their different inhabits within the galaxy, following the demolition of the main protagonist Arthur Dent’s home planet Earth. Both the book and the movie begin with Arthur’s home in the countryside preparing to be demolished to make way for a new bypass. As Arthur is protesting