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    screens in city centers‚ or commercials are broadcasted on slim screens in public such as subway or stores. Large sizes companies such as Google or Tesla has invested self-drive car and now self-drive cars are available on the market. If there were not fiction books or movies‚ the engineers in Google or Tesla may not have been inspired enough to create such as useful devices. Another example would be the movie called Terminator. In this movie robots that have artificial intelligence take control of ruling

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    The Seven Key Elements of Fiction: 1.  CHARACTER There are two meanings for the word character:  1) The person in a work of fiction.  2) The characteristics of a person. Persons in a work of fiction - Antagonist and Protagonist o        One character is clearly central to a story with all major events having some connection to this character; o        She/he is the PROTAGONIST.  o        The character in opposition to the main character is called the ANTAGONIST. The Characteristics of a

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    Movie Review Pulp Fiction “A soft‚ moist‚ shapeless mass of matter. 2. A magazine or book containing lurid subject matter and being characteristically printed on rough‚ unfinished paper.” That is what you first get a taste of in the 1994 movie‚ Pulp Fiction. This film was directed by Quentin Tarantino‚ this film is very unpredictable and very surprising. It makes thrill and action seekers get rid of all anything they thought they knew about this type of movie. In this film the director uses surprise

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    Global Warming: Fact or Fiction Lower Capstone – Unit 3 Independent Project Rozlynn Mundy American InterContinental University Online July 4‚ 2010 Title: Global Warming: Fact or Fiction Abstract Introduction I. Overview of Global Warming A. Signs of global warming a. Support b. Skepticism II. Effects of Global Warming A. Contributors to global a. Manmade b. Natural Summary Abstract The information found in this paper is designed to raise

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    Moving Image for Digital Media Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction and the Use of Popular Music in Film Introduction While the use of popular music has been a mainstay of film throughout its history‚ its contemporary use has often been to “play the hits”‚ i.e. mainstream chart-topping songs with great commercial appeal; obvious and overdone crowd-pleasers. Rather than creating or adding to the film score‚ the choice of these popular songs has been to “create a false sense of energy…or to create a sense

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    Trojan War: Fact or Fiction? The question many scholars still have today is whether or not the Trojan War was fact or fiction. Throughout the years evidence has been found in favor of the war happening and evidence that it did not happen. Hittite documents mention names such as: Wilusa/Wilusiya is perhaps Ilion‚ and Taruisa may be Troy. There is also an Alaksandus-Alexandros‚ ruler of Wilusa‚ a vassal of the Hittite king Muwatallis in the early thirteenth century. Some may think that Alaksandus

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    formation subgenres that include new subversions and transformations of the codes. These deviations later solidify into conventions which science fiction writers use to challenge our assumptions about what it means to be human. Within the variety of forms‚ Aldous Huxley’s 1931 dystopian novel Brave New World and Karel Capek’s early 20th century science fiction play Rossum’s Universal Robots or R.U.R both project contemporary trends into a dystopian future to warn their world and to promote controversy

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    Orwell that was published in the June of 1949. Although George Orwell himself called his novel a parody‚ not many consider it to be one. I believe that Orwell’s novel 1984 fits into the category of dystopian fiction and parody. Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal society while dystopian fiction is the creation of a terrible or tainted society that is generally headed to an irreparable oblivion (dystopia). Unlike a Utopian novel in which the writer intends to portray the perfect human society‚ a

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    Prose Fiction in the English Classroom In this module we will be looking closely at how to approach close reading of fiction with our Senior English students. We will: - think about text selection. - think holistically about what a fiction unit might cover. - understand some ’generic’ elements of prose fiction as a form and how they might be taught. - learn how to develop 3 level guides as prompts for "close reading". Let’s begin by discussing the novels we might use with a senior English

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    Quentin Tarantino United States Of America - 1994 John Travolta‚ Samel L. Jackson‚ Uma Thurman‚ Bruce Willis Quentin Tarantino’s American crime film “Pulp Fiction” is organized through three separate but interrelated storylines. There is one story that constructed by three distinct stories. At the beginning of the sequences‚ titles are shown on the black screen which provides a recognizable source for narration.The first story-Vincent Vega and Marsellus Wallace’s wife- is about Vincent Vega

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