The image of woman in fiction has undergone a radical change in the 21st century. The Indian woman writers have moved away from portraying a traditional self-sacrificing woman toward a self-expressive individual woman. The chaste‚ patient‚ self-denying‚ dependant woman is no longer a female lead. Instead‚ the female characters are projected to be successful in their quest for identity and individuality. A number of women writers have made their debut in 1990s‚ generating novels which revealed the
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Macbeth: Fact vs. Fiction Simply the name itself has become famous throughout literary history; Macbeth. This tragedy of five acts worth‚ written by William Shakespeare was first performed in 1606. From then on‚ speculations and questions arose. Who was this astounding character that surprised people with his pride and ambition? Many may have been surprised to find out how very little resemblance the play character bore to the actual historical figure. The real Mac Bethad mac Findláich‚ or Macbeth
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Representations of Adolescence through Fiction According to Kate Legge‚ an Australian journalist‚ young adult novels are too dark and pessimistic‚ as she states in the following quote: Father bashes mother‚ mother abandons children… Violence‚ drugs‚ suicides. The novels of some top writes of young people’s fiction have never been bleaker or more explicit… (Kate Legge; The Australian Magazine; 1998) ‘Tomorrow‚ When the War Began’ by John Marsden and ‘Ugly’ by Constance Briscoe both involve issues
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Final Project January 19‚ 2010 By Robert Reightler For Undergraduate Program Kaplan University Instructor: “HU345-01: R. Dean Davenport‚ Ph.D.‚ J.D.” Global Warming Global Warming: Fact or Fiction? 2 Global Warming is the hottest topic of the global environmental movement in the last decade. While warming trends have affected weather patterns causing drought conditions‚ polar icecap meltdown‚ and severe storm cycles like those that spawned hurricane Katrina in 2005‚ scientists
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Pulp Fiction is an American crime film directed by Quentin Tarantino‚ who cowrote its screenplay with Roger Avary. The film is known for its rich‚ eclectic dialogue‚ ironic mix of humor and violence‚ nonlinear storyline‚ and host of cinematic allusions and pop culture references. The film was nominated for seven Oscars‚ including Best Picture; Tarantino and Avary won for Best Original Screenplay. It was also awarded the Palme d’Or at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. A major critical and commercial
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This is a Fan-Fiction for Hunger Games written by Elsie Egilip. Life has been hard in District 12 over the past couple of years. The government has stopped its partnership with few of the districts because of its unforgivable protest that cause major destruction and riot due to the districts’ disapproval on the new government. Katniss Everdeen was an intelligent hunter living amongst the people who stayed in District 12. During her whole life‚ she had been living in poverty. So has the rest
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Professional success and personal failure of James M. Barrie In researching the many odd and bizarre happenings of our unique culture‚ it is certain that truth is often stranger than fiction. The first paragraph of James Barrie’s classic story "Peter Pan" introduced its central theme: "All children except one‚ grow up. They soon know that they will grow up"¦this is the beginning of the end." It sounds innocent enough‚ but a look at Barrie’s life gives it a more sinister twist. Although J.M.Barrie
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the time to analyze or interpret a film‚ and I think that I have missed the opportunity to notice that everything we see and hear on screen is put there on purpose‚ and everything adds to the overall meaning. The film I will be analyzing is Pulp Fiction. I will discuss the production elements (acting‚ lighting‚ camera angles‚ etc.) plus the story elements (character‚ plot‚ theme‚ etc.) that put together the story. Detail plays a major part on how we feel during a certain sequence; we will look at
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Ramin Zandi Mrs. McFarlin English III March 28 2013 Racial Equality for All: Fact or Fiction According to a “2008 Hate Crime Statistics‚” an estimated 7‚183 hate crimes occur in the United States per year. Now these crimes can range from merely calling someone a racist name‚ or in more severe cases‚ lighting a man on fire‚ but nonetheless‚ this is a quite a small number considering how many people live in the United States. However‚ this is the amount of crimes actually reported to the FBI.
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The Godfather and Pulp Fiction The form of Classical Hollywood films is‚ first and foremost‚ invisible. In a Classical Hollywood film‚ the narrative is foremost‚ and style serves the narrative. Camera angles‚ lighting and editing patterns such as the shot/reverse-shot pattern aim to give us the best possible perspective on the unfolding events(1). These events are arranged in a strongly causality-oriented linear narrative‚ with one event causing the next. This narrative is arranged around a central
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