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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In the article‚ This Week in Fiction: Kamel Daoud‚ the interviewer‚ Deborah Treisman‚ asks the author (Kamel Daoud) a few questions about his novel—The Meursault Investigation. In the opening of this article‚ Treisman asks Daoud if his novel was written to give the exact accounts of what really happened to his brother Musa and Meursault. Daoud explains that he wanted to find his‚ “own path through Camas‚” that he merely wanted to examine Albert Camus’ work a bit more‚ which could help him figure
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In short fiction‚ as in creative writing generally‚ the point of view or narrative technique has been seen as particularly important in how readers might engage with a story. Why might an author use a particular narrative technique? Select three stories from the Reader that demonstrate a particular narrative technique‚ or that demonstrate several different narrative techniques‚ and discuss and compare the effect of this in these stories. Narrative technique and point of view play an important part
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Emily‚" written by William Faulkner‚ is a short fiction about the life and death of Miss Emily Grierson under the background of Southern United States’s decay in 19th century. “ Miss Brill” is Katherine Mansfield’ short story about a woman’s Sunday outing to the park‚ revealing her thought about others as she watches a crowd from a park bench. Seemingly very different in the imagery and language‚ portray of the main characters and plot‚ the two fictions all show out two elderly women who live lonely
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An Analysis of Race as Biology Is Fiction‚ Racism as a Social Problem Is Real For centuries‚ the concept of race has been a major social issue in the United States and its definition has changed over time. Today‚ the concept of race is defined as "a category of humankind that shares certain distinctive physical traits" (e.g.‚ "Race‚" n.d.‚ para.1). The article "Race as Biology Is Fiction‚ Racism as a Social Problem Is Real: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives on the Social Construction of
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Fact or fiction? Have you ever wondered what was said on the news was fact or fiction? Well during the time of the tragic occurrence of the Sandy Hook massacre many theories have taken place‚ whether this was an actual event or a conspiracy. If you never heard of this horrible event took it place on December 14th‚ when armed gunman Adam Lanza allegedly shot and killed twenty-six people ‚ twenty of which were innocent children kindergarten to first grade and six teachers. Police also say that
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is left to gape at her surroundings. The room she found herself in reminded her of one of those giant scale model exhibits at the local museum. Everything was in contemporary touch‚ though. She always assumed giants were not only a work of pure fiction. But‚ were also primitive cave dwellers. Noting the stack of textbooks on a shelf‚ being stuck with a primal being wasn’t the case. From the corner of her eye‚ she spots her Burgundy backpack near the mess of pencils. She inches up to her backpack
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