...Kate instantly recognized the voice which echoed through the thin philadelphia air.She swung her head to the size darting her eyes in the direction which the voice came from.She saw Mr.Jacks standing with his bulldog on his leash tied to his neck neck as the bulldog pants.Then all of a sudden a large bang ruptured and the force field completely vanished.People were running and fleeing,on their knees crying of joy All of a sudden in a flash creatures never seen by the human eye appeared and were kidnapping as many civilians as they possibly could.Mr.Jacks and Kate...
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...The men took her birth to a secluded place a place you've never seen before suddenly they stopped " wait why are we stopping where are we where are we going " " be patient you'll know where we're going soon " the men stopped at the middle of a forest with a big tree right in front they went behind it and to Herbert surprise there was a big shiny door that didn't quite look like a door but more like a portal but Herbert had no time to stare in awe at the sparkly door as he was being Sudley push through with no warning Herbert tripped as he went through the portal but as soon as he got back up on his feet he was in a totally different place it almost looked the same but things were different it was cold and the air was dry there was snow...
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...Fiction and Non-Fiction Documentary Films Name Institutional Affiliation Introduction Non-fiction documentaries often face tight budgets that force them to rely on actors to produce the plot that was intended. Fiction and nonfiction documentaries are anything but just academic and sensational arguments of the differences, for instance filming of a pack of lion over a year is obviously non-fictional as the main characters are unable to act. However, there are events such as for the movie mentioned below that involves that actually took place, but must be reacted to given a storyline of the actual events that took place. Nonetheless, it is always important to know that the fiction and nonfiction documentaries can be understood in relative terms, and that both the two categories of documentaries always aspire to tell a truth about the real world, but fiction is not constrained by the real world. Fiction develops a world for its story to take, and yet a documentary finds its story in the world we live in, and yet a fictional documentary becomes a marriage of these two concepts in films. The Naook of the North is the typical documentary that was built around the nonfictional story line with acting set in into the film. The story is a documentary about Eskimos, and it was the first documentary in the period, a first feature-length documentary and it was preserved by U.S. Library of Congress as a culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant” movies in a National Film...
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...Joanna Russ argues that science fiction is didactic and that it focuses on the collective rather than the individual hero while, Samuel R. Delany argues that science fiction is a distortion of the present. However, they both argue that science fiction must be learned, interpreted, and critiqued differently than other literary texts because it has its own unique conventions. Joanna Russ’s argument that science fiction in didactic and that it focuses on the collective rather than the hero is in a plethora of works from Delany to H.G Wells. When specifically focusing on the idea that science fiction is didactic we can look at Einstein Intersection which, like most of Delany’s works, teaches us about racial/ethnic differences but, within this novel...
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...Begin with a Attention Getter/Hook: Begin with a hook/lead that answers the prompt and is based on your thesis Schools are now changing their opinion on fiction books and now forcing fiction books to be taken out of all schools. Evaluate Appeal and how hook connects with prompt/topic: This can cause a big deal in the prompt topic becuse it is about social isloation wich makes reading big for those that isolate them selves just like the child in the book “Highly Illogical Behavior”. Setting Context: Include the title of your main work, author’s name, and relevant general information. Include the significance of the essay.Provide background information and/or plot summary) “Highly Illogical behavior” by John Corey Whaley is...
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...Title – Fiction vs. Informational Texts Which Will Kindergartners Choose? Author – Marlene Ponte Correia This article discusses what informational text is and how it supports children’s overall literacy development. Informational text or non-fiction includes but is not limited to textbooks, magazines, directions, etc. Informational text is written and read to answer questions and to learn something new. Informational text can be intimidating to adults let alone small children so it is understandable that some teachers may be intimidated introducing non-fiction to their early learners. There is an assumption that children will understand and make sense of a story that is fiction before they will be able to comprehend text that is a nont-fiction text (Bortnem). Some teachers may feel the text is too complicated, the vocabulary is too topic specific, there is not enough age appropriate material and many may such as storybooks, fairytales, etc. The author like many teachers was convinced that kindergartners preferred fiction, even though much of the research cited children's preferences for the content of informational books over narrative text. The author decides to investigate the children's book preferences through a study to determine if her perception that they preferred fiction was accurate. The core of the article centers on her study that was done among a class of kindergarteners. The study was done to determine whether kindergarten students would choose fiction or informational...
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...The Remarkable Tale of Mary Anning: An Analysis of Remarkable Creatures and its Merit as Historical Fiction Novels can do more that simply tell stories. Novels can enhance or emphasize thoughts and ideas. They can excite a wide variety of emotions. They can be the product of imagination, or they can be influenced by historical fact. Whether or not the events in a novel are true is left entirely up to the author, but it is truly an incredible feat to take a piece of history and turn it into a work of fiction that is plausible and logical. For our Senior Seminar, we have studied the aspects of fiction that have a basis in historical fact. They do so by applying certain literary devices that are necessary to the historical fiction genre. The novel I chose to research and present on is entitled Remarkable Creatures, by Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Last Runaway. This work of historical fiction tells the story of Mary Anning, one of the first recognized female paleontologists whose discoveries changed many views on the world and how it began. Remarkable Creatures is a biographical novel, as it concentrates on the experiences that Mary Anning had during her lifetime, the people she meets, and the incidents that occur in her life. This essay will evaluate Chevalier’s work on the basis of its merit as historical fiction. Remarkable Creatures belongs in this category because it Chevalier implements the critical terms of the genre in numerous and intricate...
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...situations. Especially in society today when hindsight plays such a large role in the world. The Science Fiction genre gives society an outlet to see how some large issues affecting society and the world today could unfold in the future. Isaac Amisov wrote about how robots or robotic like being could exist in the future. For example what if robots could replace people in the real world. Jonathan Mostow addressed this in his film Surrogate, where people live their lives through an idealized android version of themselves, an android that is customizable and completely replaces all human interaction in society. While robots becoming common existence in the world are one topic ablaze through conversation in the world, there are numerous more topics just as popular. Many others will be touched upon in this paper because science fiction is a channel in which people can speculate about the future and how people will impact it. Science fiction is a form of time travel where the mind and imagination can travel into the future and catch a glimpse of what life might me be in the near or far future. While the far future speculations are often romanticized with amazing technology and alien life, the near future is often peppered with a crumbling dystopian society. A future in which the world suffered through a cataclysmic event and society is held together by barely a thread. Judge Dred is one such example of a world that was mostly destroyed by nuclear fallout with only walled in megacities still...
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...here I. Introduction Fan fiction also known as, fanfiction, fanfic, FF, or fic is a defined term for fan labor about stories of characters or simply fictional characters and settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creator. Works of fan fiction are rarely commissioned or approved by the original work's owner, creator, or publisher; also, they are almost never professionally published. Because of this, many fanfics written often contain a disclaimer stating that the creator of the fanfic owns none of the characters. Fan fiction, therefore, is defined by being both related to its subject's canonical fictional universe and simultaneously existing outside the canon of that universe. Most fan fiction writers assume that their work is read primarily by other fans, and therefore tend to presume that their readers have knowledge of the canon universe (created by a professional writer) in which their works are based. Fan fiction, as the name suggests are works of fiction created by fans. Ranging from books to movies, eager aficionados re-create scenes and plots to fit their own fancy. While seemingly trite to some critics, the fan fiction community is a large and supportive arena which offers feedback and help for these persons who are yet unable to fly free. The cushion of already established characters and settings offers a sense of bravery as the groundwork for each story has already been started. Fan fiction can be classified as a novel and...
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...movies, novels, music and literature of similar style in the same category. Genre acts as a navigation tool to guide the audience and readers to select literature according to their preference. Science fiction is the most relevant genre of the 21st century because it contains a message regarding the advances society is making in the fields of science and technology. It is a genre that has its roots in the 19th century where new inventions made the audience curious about the future and new technology. The elements of the science fiction genre are an alternate setting, alienated characters and scientific technology. An excellent example of this prominent genre, science fiction, is the Hugo and Nebula award winning novel, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K....
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...It [science fiction] is untrustworthy as a source of "facts," since these may be wrong, or at least out of date. There is nothing wrong, however, with science fiction as a way of arousing interest in science...it doesn't matter whether the scientific background of a science fiction story is accidentally wrong through ignorance, deliberately wrong through the exigencies of the plot, or simply out-of-date through the progress of science. If the story is interesting, it can be used...that's the educational value of science fiction; that is what makes it a learning device. It stimulates curiosity and the desire to know. "Learning Device," IASFM, August 1979 Asimov on Science Fiction, pg.37 It is change, continuing change inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the word as it will be - and naturally this means that there must be an accurate perception of the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our Everyman, must take on a science fictional way of thinking, whether he likes it or not or even whether he knows it or not. Only so can the deadly problems of today be solved. "My Own View," The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Holdstock, ed., 1978 Asimov on Science Fiction, pg 5. What's importance about science fiction, even crucial, is the very thing that gave it birth-the perception of change through...
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...and Filipinos is one reason why they do not think alike. They differ in the way they use the depths of their imagination in creating movies. America-based films are more insightful, clever, and charismatic to the audience, for it is being distributed across the world. The universal motion-picture industry of America is called Hollywood (Wikipedia.org). And having been able to reach a wide array of audiences, it has an immense power to influence them. There are a lot of film categories that are being specialized by Hollywood. One of the most popular is fiction. According to Wikipedia.org, “Fiction is a form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but rather imaginary”. People have embraced fiction films maybe because it seems like a new taste to the tongues of the audiences from different parts of the world. As time went by, Hollywood film makers tried incorporating fiction with science, and have clearly succeeded. Today, Science-Fiction films have become a massive hit to cinemagoers. Commonly known as “Sci-Fi”, this type of movie genre deals with depictions of phenomena that are not really accepted as truths, such as sorcery, alien worlds and extraterrestrial forms of life, extrasensory perception, and time travel. It also features spacecrafts, space travels, robots, and other forms of technology with a more futuristic element. One...
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...Death Be Not Proud: Collected Short Fiction on War Around the world and across centuries, wars have, perhaps to their sole credit, given rise to a pantheon of soul-shaking literature unique to a specific kind of emotion: hopelessness. The underlying theme of this anthology will strive to lay bare this emotion through the short fiction of some of the finest writers in the world, and some lesser known ones. While some of the works in this proposed anthology will show an insider’s point of view, some others will tear open similar wounds from the pens of civilians. These selected stories of war and warriors will include Stephen Crane’s uncanny analytical vision and his depiction of the ‘beauty of war’ and Emile Zola’s brutal obsession with the essence of battles – courage, carnage, and carcass. It will include Tolstoy’s photographic portrayal of war as he saw it, revealing in its undertones, his subsequent pacifism. It hopes to include HH Munro, whose voluntary enlistment to serve the army in World War I led to many poignant prose-poetry extravaganzas in his body of fiction. Along with other unforgettable war writers like John Galsworthy, Willa Cather, and Rudyard Kipling, this anthology will strive to showcase a blend of writers and writing styles that bring out the hopelessness of manmade strife. Fiction Is Stranger: An Anthology of Mystery Stories Weird or logical, supernatural or thrilling, few things get the adrenalin going like a good mystery. Having developed over the...
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...Family Adventures: Jimmy’s Super Watch Sharma Family: Stop That Dog! Young Robin Hood: Marian to the Rescue When Animals Attack Sharma Family: Best Birthday Ever! Purple B Purple – All Levels Gold A Young Robin Hood: The Great Escape Pirates: Life at Sea Superman Family Adventures: Lex Luthor Gets a Job Tales of Taliesin: The Powerful Potion Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Flint the Inventor The Truth About Fish and Chips Tales of Taliesin: The Magic Storm Gold B Gold – All Levels Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Weird Weather George Stephenson: The Train Man Superman Family Adventures: The Purple Superman Title Fiction Fiction Genre Non-Fiction Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction Comic Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction Comic Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction Comic Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction Fiction Fiction Non-Fiction Comic New Bug Club titles for Key Stage 2 Book Band Level Flash the Dog Bounces In! Brown A Mountain Tales of Norway The Pirates in an Adventure with Scientists: Quest for Treasure How Do They Make Costumes? Flash the Dog Dives In! Brown B Big Giant, Little Bear The Pirates in an Adventure with Scientists: A Daring Rescue In Their Shoes: My Life as a Roman Slave Robbie Ravenbeak Brown – All Levels Wicked Baba Yaga Step Inside a Story Pet Finders: Underground Grey A The...
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...Facts, fiction and coding When we turn on the TV, we immediately decode what sort of program we are watching. If we watch “Paradise Hotel”, we expect a reality show and everything we associate with the genre. We expect drama, fighting, sex, betrayal and so forth. If we turn on the News, we expect to be fed with factual information about the happenings in the world. If we see a film, we also have certain expectations. When we see a romance film, we expect love. When we see an action film, we expect a fast pace and violence. When we see a horror film, we expect to be scared and so forth. We call these genre expectations. Within the world of media/literature, we deal with two major categories, facts and fiction. Facts tell us something about events and situations, which have already happened; facts therefor have an obligation to reality. Facts involve factual information, which can be subsequently checked for accuracy. However, fiction is made up where neither the people nor the events have root in the real world. Fiction therefore has no obligation to be factually correct and we cannot subsequently check for accuracy. When we watch films, TV programs or read texts, a sort of contract of understanding occurs. The contract is defined as agreements where the sender, in accordance with the receiver, agree on whether the film/text is fact or fiction. To make sure the receiver and sender are in accord, we use fact and fiction coding to decipher/ sort out fact from fiction and vice...
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