Debby Shum 9B (12) Book report-Fiction Pre-reading task: Title: Flour Babies Author: Anne Fine Publisher: The Penguin Group Year of Publication: 1992 Post-reading Task: My comments: My favorite character is Simon Martin because he was willing to solve problems and found the final answer. He was mature and self-disciplined‚ always helping others‚ considerate and thoughtful to others. We should learn from him. The most interesting and memorable scene in the book is Simon hurdled
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The Evolution of Science Fiction Worlds: From Frankenstein to Babel-17 One of the earliest successful science fiction stories was Frankenstein‚ written by Mary Shelley. Since the publishing of that novel‚ the world and imagery in science fiction novels that would follow would grow to encompass more expansive ideas‚ images‚ including other worlds‚ other dimensions‚ and vivid alien-like creatures to help tell these richly bizarre‚ yet human stories. In this paper‚ Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein‚ H.G
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FACTS AND FICTION IN PSYCHOLOGY Dr.Krishna Prasad Sreedhar Psychologists can read the minds of others. This is a popular myth that prevailed from the beginning. No honest Psychologist would claim so. However‚ as Psychologists are trained in observing the verbal and non verbal behavior of people‚ they may be able to guess the intentions of others more accurately than lay people. Psychology is an occult science. This is absolutely untrue. On the other hand know that Psychology is the scientific study
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Aston took another gulp of the lukewarm water as the pickup truck rumbled down the road. He would’ve loved for it to have been ice cold‚ but to a parched throat‚ it didn’t matter much. It took no time for them to load the bed of the truck. Even less time for him to bust the ignition of the aged‚ though well maintained‚ GMC extended cab. He hated that Allison couldn’t speak without her voice mimicking an amplified shout within a deep cavern. But what was he to do? Allison’s face seemed permanently
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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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Backward vertical integration Literature review Oliver Williamson has made important contribution to the field of economics of organizations. He developed a modern transaction cost economics and his research has been striving to explain why different types of relationships between firms occur. His early work described inefficiencies that arise in bilateral relationships‚ for example bargaining under asymmetric information (Williamson 1979). Later on he studied relationship-specific assets and hold-up
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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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SEVEN ELEMENTS OF FICTION 1) PLOT - Action which occurs -- 5 ingredients plotted as a witch’s hat 1) Exposition (introduction) - background information 2) Rising Action / Complications - conflicts are presented 3) Climax - high point of the action 4) Falling Action - lessens the intensity 5) Denouement (conclusion) - pulls the story together ["They lived happily every after"] NOTE: NOT ALL STORIES CONTAIN ALL 5 INGREDIENTS 2) SETTING - Time‚ Place‚ Customs
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