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- 171: Airplane Warfare In WWI
- ... experience for the United States occurred in 1862, during the Civil War. General McClellan went into battle against the South with a balloon corps floated by hydrogen and pulled by four horses. (Saga-51) Literary fiction started to breed ideas about the use of planes in warfare. The most famous writer to explore the idea was H.G. Wells. He wrote The War In The Air, a book about the future in which battle is conducted with planes. (Wohl-70). In Germany, literary fiction preceded the actual development of warfare in the air. Rudolph Martin was a writer who predicted that the German's future was not on the sea, but in the air. He also believed that further ... kill the importance of distance and help to lead toward the German unification of the world. (Wohl-81) Martin's novel helped to prepare the Germans for their use of planes in the war. The fiction soon became scientific fact. (Wohl-71) The United States, ultimately was slower than France and Germany to develop an air force. On March 3, 1911, Congress appropriated $125,000 to start an air force, ...
- 172: Fahrenheit 451: Books - A Part of Our Past
- ... to learn about something we rent a movie about it or watch a show on it. No one reads books anymore just for the fun of it, or so they can read the paranormal, science fiction, horror, classics, fiction or non-fiction novel that surround our world. If we want to see stuff like that we will watch The X-Files or rent a Stephan King movie. Actually when you read books there is much more ...
- 173: "Planet of the Apes"
- "Planet of the Apes" James Burroughs is a critic. In his article, "The Fiction of Science Fiction," he expresses his opinion that the movie, "Planet of the Apes," has no value or real meaning for society today. He says it is like other similar science fiction movies made in the 1960s because it is so out-of-date. He seems to feel the only people that would enjoy "Planet of the Apes" are people who have nothing better to do. ...
- 174: Skeptical Views On Noahs Ark
- ... be treated as an ancient legend to which mythical material was added later. However, without contemporary artifacts, it is not possible to prove how much of the original legend was true and how much was fiction based on a real flood. In the Noah's Ark book, the original legend is reconstructed by piecing together fragments from the various surviving editions of the flood myth, like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle ... hills not mountains. Additional creationist arguments are answered in chapter 13 of the Noah's Ark book Frequently Asked Questions Questions are in bold face. Answers are in regular type. Was Noah's flood story fiction or fact? Much of the flood story was fiction, but there was a real river flood on which the original flood legend was based. Ziusudra, the Sumerian Noah was listed in the Sumerian King List and therefore may have been a real person, ...
- 175: Summary of Clancy's Rainbow Six
- ... this book. Thomas L. Clancy, Jr. was born on the 12th of April 1947, he is married and lives in Maryland, USA. Clancy's novels can be classified as Military- Techno-Thrillers. He has written fiction and non-fiction books, Rainbow Six is a fiction book. As for other titles, well there are just to many to list, in total 23. Some books that he has written are The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, ...
- 176: The Study Of Violence In Ernes
- ... the way they sailed very carefully at first in case I ever wanted to use them in a story. That s funny now. (Hemingway, 3) Ernest Hemingway constantly used real people and situations in his fiction. He also liked to write personal books about bullfighting in Spain and hunting in Africa. As he liked to write about wars he had seen and made pronouncements about other writers. He was always a ... death. He did feel that killing himself was more heroic than patiently waiting for the next injection or wasting away in a foul-smelling bed. Ernest Hemingway constantly used real people and situations in his fiction. He also liked to read personal books about bullfighting in Spain and hunting in Africa, as he liked to write about wars he had seen and pronouncements about other writers. He was a legend, and ... created a Hemingway who is not only incredible nut obnoxious. He is certainly his own worse-invented character BIBLIOGRAPHY (1) Hemingway, Ernest.(1995). The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories. New York, NY: Scribner Paperback Fiction. (2) Castillo- puche Luis Jose . (1974). Hemingway in Spain. Garden City, NY: Double Days & Company. (3) Information Network on the Net. (No date). [Online]. Available (4) Microsoft ฎ Encarta ฎ 98 encyclopedia ฉ. (1993-1997). Microsoft Corporation. ...
- 177: Tom Clancy: Rainbow Six
- ... this book. Thomas L. Clancy, Jr. was born on the 12th of April 1947, he is married and lives in Maryland, USA. Clancy's novels can be classified as Military-Techno-Thrillers. He has written fiction and non-fiction books, Rainbow Six is a fiction book. As for other titles, well there are just to many to list, in total 23. Some books that he has written are The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, Clear and Present Danger, ...
- 178: The Handmaids Tale
- Many readers are surprised to hear Atwood's novel labeled science fiction, but it belongs squarely in the long tradition of near-future dystopias which has made up a large part of SF since the early50s. SF need not involve technological innovation: it has been a long ... picture affects Offred? Explain. Chapter 32 "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs" is a paraphrase of Napoleon justifying the carnage he caused in attempting to build his empire. When a character in fiction uses it, it almost always indicates the speaker's ruthlessness. Chapter 34 Arranged marriages seem hopelessly exotic to many Americans, but in Western civilization they were the rule rather than the exception until a couple ... but Atwood is trying to avoid fatalism and sensationalism at thesame time. She is also parodying the ponderous, self-conscious attempts of scholars to be humorous. There is a long tradition of "nowhere" namesin utopian fiction. "Utopia" means "nowhere" and SamuelButler called his utopia "Erewhon." The Chair comes from theUniversity of "deny" which is in the country of "none ofit." But gturner@Selkirk.bc.ca of Selkirk College comments further ...
- 179: Beauty And The Beast
- ... They both involve two characters that are thrusted into lifestyles that they are not used to. The beast and E.T were both unique creatures, had close relationships with humans, and were great works of fiction. In both stories, "Beauty and the Beast" and "E.T.", the main characters are unique creatures are forced into a human society, which does not always accept them for who they are. Society, in general ... than those two humans, nobody else attempts to understand where either creature comes from, and as a result, no one befriends them. In addition, both E.T. and the Beast come from great works of fiction, having no fact behind their stories but both being created for no purpose other than pure entertainment. "E.T." was created out of the mind of the great filmmaker Steven Spielberg, and was based on ... life with no one else of their kind around. Both the Beast and E.T. found one human who understood and accepted them for who they were. Both characters were also from great works of fiction coming from the either the mind of a famous filmmaker or from a fairy tale that has existed for hundreds of years. The films "Beauty and the Beast" and "E.T." have many similar ...
- 180: Discussing Literary Genre
- ... genre may not resemble the modern literary works in that genre. The works of Edgar Allan Poe, considered to be the father of the modern short story, show the contrast between the classification of short fiction in the 19th century and today. Poe s short story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue , provides suspense and mystery; however, the story does not include the main character s moment of consciousness, the key ingredient in classifying modern short stories. Although The Murders in the Rue Morgue does not entail a moment of revelation, the story was regarded as short fiction in 1841. The contrast between early short fiction and the modern short story demonstrates the varying qualities of the genre between its preliminary stages and the present, and shows the substantial transformation which occurred within the genre. The types of genres not ...
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