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Is Google Too Powerful? The Internet is a relatively new concept, created for the American military and for post-secondary institutions to be able to share information with each other easier and faster. The Internet however began to catch on in the public but was far too complicated and cluttered for most average civilians to use it effectively. It was with that thought that Google was born. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, two students at Stanford University in California, developed Google. Page…

Kinderstart (www.kinderstart.com) is a searchable website that provide information about parenting and child care. It is similar to Google (www.google.com), a big search engine. According to market research published by comScore in November 2009, Google Search is the dominant search engine in the United States market. Google indexes billions of web pages, so that users can search for the information they desire through the use of keywords and operators. But, Kinderstart is specifically focused…

Leroy Jethro Gibbs is a character from the television series N.C.I.S. played by actor Mark Harmon. Gibbs is a former marine sniper turned Special Investigator for the Naval Criminal Investigation Service (N.C.I.S.). Having never gotten over the murder of his daughter and wife by a Mexican drug cartel, he is reserved with his feelings and guards against getting too attached to those around him. His closest relationships are with his father Jackson, and reluctantly, with his team of four…

Cain’s Double Indemnity, both the authors use hard-boiled fictions to highlight the effect of corruption within Los Angeles to the characters’ actions and attitudes. Chandler and Cain use their protagonist’s detailed narration to show us their viewpoint of their society. Through their narration, we hear their side of the story and we tend to sympathize their actions despite their immoral conduct. The protagonists are…

In my essay I will first sate the traits of an ideal knight and then discuss the characteristics of an ideal knight as represented in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight while comparing and contrasting them to the characteristics of ideal knights in traditional texts. Quoting examples from the text, I will then discuss, analyze and come to a conclusion if Sir Gawain has been represented as an ideal knight in the 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. During the Middle Ages and in many…

Americans were still suffering from the bad economy and the issue of money became very important one that the author wanted to convey, “Chandler mentions money throughout the novel as an ideal, a goal for the seedy crime ring that lives within the novel. Many of the characters kill and bribe for money” (Sparknotes, Themes, Motifs, and Symbols). This is a sobering reminder to post-War Americans…

Raymond Chandler’s The Long Goodbye is much more than the average detective fiction of it’s time. Chandler uses the novel for a social commentary on the depravity that surrounds money using the protagonist Philip Marlowe, a callous, but still likeable, private investigator who’s moral compass is unwavering, to emphasize his points by contrasting him with the variety of other characters including the wealthy and the police. Throughout the novel we see Marlowe constantly and consistently making…

A detective – the one who solves the mystery of a crime, clever, wise, and knowledgeable. Yet detectives are not always the obvious type, as is exemplified by a both a novel and a series of short stories. In G. K. Chesterton’s Favorite Father Brown Stories, the wise detective is not a usual detective. As implied by his name, Father Brown was an English village priest in the 19th or 20th century, who ended up being the one to solve or lead another to solving a crime or finding the criminal.…

On November 20th, my sister and I attended an astonishing play called The Pillowman at the Newnan Theatre Company in Coweta. The Pillowman was originally written in 2003 by Irish playwright Martin McDonagh. The play takes place in an interrogation room in an unnamed totalitarian state. A middle aged writer named Katurian (played by Arden Avery) is being questioned by two detectives Tulposki (played by P. David miller) and Ariel (played by Robert Stowe) while his older brother Michal (played by…

When asked of what a man is supposed to be, most people would reply strong, tough, blunt, and essentially a badass. In literature, we would define these type of people as “hard boiled”, meaning that they are tough both on the outside and on the inside. In The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade, a rugged San Francisco detective shows many resembling traits of a hard boiled detective, but also has the ability to show some compassion when necessary. Part of what defines a detective as, “hard boiled”, is…