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    DRAMA For many decades‚ drama has been in our world. It gives us feelings‚ emotions‚ morality and sometimes quotes. What is drama exactly? Is it a play? An action? Or just an entertainment? Hamilton Carole in his article “the study of drama” defined Drama to be a representational art‚ a visible and audible narrative presenting virtual‚ fictional characters within a virtual‚ fictional universe. Also he stated “Dramatic realizations may pretend to approximate reality or else stubbornly defy‚ distort

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    artworks and the paradox of fiction. Throughout his study‚ he discovered three elements of paradoxical fiction; individual’s “experience genuine emotions directed at fictional character and situations” ‚fictional emotions condition‚ “in order to experience emotions towards X‚ one must believe X exists”‚ belief requirement‚ and “we do not believe that fictional characters and situations exist‚ disbelief condition (McNiff‚ Source K). Without those three elements‚ the paradox of fiction and the other components

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    While popular and widely watched the movie Pocahontas is an innaccurate portrail of a signifigant historical event. The Disney Corporation is not known for it’s accurate portrails of historical events and when producing the animated film Pocahontas‚ Disney did not fail in it’s nonchalant attitude concerning historic fact. Cartoonists at disney must have been watching adult films when they first penciled out the figures of Pocahontas and John Smith. The young Indian princess was only twelve

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    Lesbian Pulp Fictions

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    the war in Women’s Barracks‚ led to the rise of lesbian pulp fiction popularity across America. These novels could be found in drug stores or news stands‚ and were read by a variety of people including men‚ women‚ homosexuals and heterosexuals. Due to a diverse amount of people reading lesbian pulp fictions‚ the word and idea of lesbian was brought into the world creating a class of people that to most‚ did not exist. Lesbian pulp fictions gave insight to individuals about different sexual identities

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    Julie Fallows 6423747 Sean Moreland November 27‚ 2012 Ambiguity of American Gothic Anxieties Since the 19h century‚ American Gothic fiction started to exist independently from the British type. In fact‚ the latter was marked by its use of fantastic‚ externalized and metaphysical elements as opposed to the boundaries of American Gothic fiction in which were expressed by historical‚ internalized‚ racial and psychological characteristics. (Edwards‚ XVII) In Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven‚ Fall

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    Morality In Pulp Fiction

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    In the movie Pulp Fiction‚ the overarching theme of the movie goes to say that without a higher framework or power one doesn’t see their actions to have any consequences‚ morally speaking. Morality controls the initial reasoning behind deciding whether to commit a crime or not. In this context‚ the concept of not having any morals is based on not having meaning in one’s life or seeing one’s life at the same worth as anyone else’s. This doesn’t allow for one to make any criteria in which to conduct

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    Harris Crime Fiction

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    The novel of Harris stands as a signpost of current horror fiction in the development of the serial killer as an antihero. With the creation of arguably the best fictional criminals ever‚ Harris makes reference to his habit of making use of real-life serial murderers and forensics to establish a practical subgenre of the crime thriller. The tones of the chapters vary here‚ which resulted in a diverse and uneven read. The conversation of Lecter discloses his penchant for psychology and the coaching

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    Fiction: O'Connor's Quotes

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    Fiction Essay; O’Connor Quotes O’Connor’s quotes/theories: “It is the extreme situation that best reveals who we are essentially” and “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it” as it relates to the writing‚ “A good Man is Hard to Find” in which the main character‚ Grandmother‚ who lives with her only son and his family and who is domineering at best‚ but believes that she is a good‚ graceful‚ well-reared‚ and a devout Christian. While on a family trip during which the

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    Thought by many to be science fiction‚ but cryopreservation is becoming a reality more and more every day. Are you afraid of death? Do you long for a day with no disease‚ no aging‚ but the problem is those realities are a long ways away from becoming realities? Death may no longer be a problem‚ disease‚ and aging may no longer play an important role in our day to day lives. How? Through the amazing science of Cryonics. To cryopreserve a patient one must wait until the patient is legally dead‚ when

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    Unana‚ Dina B. AB Political Science In Praise of Reading and Fiction I learned to read at the age of five‚ in Brother Justiniano’s class at the De la Salle Academy in Cochabamba‚ Bolivia. It is the most important thing that has ever happened to me. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life‚ breaking the barriers of time and space and allowing me to travel with Captain Nemo twenty thousand leagues under the sea

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