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    The Time Machine Classic

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    piece of literature has a brilliant story that is completely unique. (What Are Classic Novels?) The Time Machine was one of the first science fiction novels that really went in depth about the science of time travel. The novel also pioneer the idea of the time machine in order to facilitate travel through time. (Temple) In T.S. Elliot’s essay presented to the Virgil Society in 1947, Elliot describes how a classic needs to be mature in language, mind, and manner. (What Is a Classic?) The Time…

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    Understanding Morality in Anthem The city of Anthem is unlike anything seen in the modern world. Ayn Rand’s strange, futuristic society is seen by many as a place from the past. Though Anthem may begin out sounding like this, readers later find out that that this odd city is from the mysterious future. It is believed by the people of Anthem that in order to create a perfect world there can be no sort of ego. These people always use the word “we” instead of “I”. Citizens do not have distinct…

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    Octavia Butler’s novel, Kindred is a novel full of love, hate, power, violence, slavery, and racism. Throughout the book the protagonist Dana time travels back into the 1800’s during the time of slavery. She lands on a plantation in Maryland owned by the Weylins. Dana must travel back in time when her ancestor Rufus is in great danger or it can jeopardize her being born almost a century later. Butler’s novel includes themes on Violence, Race, Power, and the symbolism of the whip. Octavia…

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    Satire In Rip Van Winkle

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    Satire is a genre in literature while sometimes could be graphic and performing arts. Usually, satire is a comical piece of writing which authors would use humor, irony, exaggeration or ridicule makes fun of an individual or a society to expose its stupidity and shortcomings in an indirect way. And its essential purpose is to put out constructive social criticism which uses wit as a weapon to draw attention to both particular and wider issues in society. Moreover, writers expect that whom he…

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    Ahjussi (아저씨), also known by it’s English title The Man from Nowhere, is an action packed, thriller film starring Won Bin as the movie’s protagonist, Cha Tae Sik. The movie was released on August 4, 2010 and was directed by Lee Jeong Bum. The story begin with Cha Tae Sik, the owner of a pawnshop, who lives by himself and leads a quiet life. He is a quiet man and does not have any friends except for a little girl, Somi, who lives next door with her mom. Somi frequents the pawn shop, often selling…

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    “Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.” Words mentioned by the writer Jonathan Swift in his book called Gulliver’s Travels. However, this is going to be focused on his other popular handiwork called A Modest Proposal, in which we can observe how he is able to see the unseen and critiques the wealthy through it. Swift was born in Ireland in 1667, and thanks to his job as private secretary to Sir William Temple, a retired Whig diplomat, at Moor Park in southern England he…

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    Present "Time Travel? Unfortunately, this isn 't another episode of Doctor who." "Wait, wait, wait dear, to understand it, you must tell it from the beginning. And no, you 're not time traveling." Flashback It was the summer of 1972. Mother and father had finally gotten their divorce, however, mother claimed me, she said I never needed to know my father. Sure, it was a bit harder financially, but she 's happy, and that 's all that matters. On my way home from school, I noticed a strange…

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    Time Travel In The Future

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    little bit of technological help? Think if time travel existed would our lives be completely different and change the fate of humanity. The future is so unpredictable, but every step taken or move made that made is shaping the future. Time travel would make or break the future, you have planned or started to achieve for society. Science Fiction is shown through multiple outlets of media such as, books, movies, and tv shows especially time travel. Time travel many not currently exist in our…

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    In 1888 Wells graduated from London University and became a science teacher but was also facing a period of ill health and financial issues. Wells devoted most of his time to becoming a writer and during college, he wrote a short story about time travel called “The Chronic Argonauts” which ignited the beginning of his literary success. The first book that Wells published was a Textbook of Biology (1893). He became an overnight sensation…

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    How does John Steinbeck present the theme of power within the novel ‘Of Mice and Men’? Within John Steinbeck’s novel, ‘Of Mice and Men’, he expresses the theme of power in a variety of ways. Many theorists argue that Steinbeck created these fictional characters to put forward the unfairness of the society; one that banishes the weak and rewards the wealthy. We discover the story of characters that we can relate to, which portray Steinbeck’s growing exasperation towards 20th Century America. As…

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