Essays Tagged: "fact and fiction"

"Enlightenment of the Buddha" Critical Analysis

ion through subsequent retelling and embellishment. Although it is difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction, a story that has survived for over 2500 years must contain some portion of fact. B ... ceived the title of the 13th patriarch. He disappears from history about AD 150.In deciding what is fact and what is fiction, we must look at the author himself. Ashvaghosha was an extremely accomplis ...

(4 pages) 101 0 4.6 Nov/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

A film review of blockbuster Pearl Harbor and its social consequences.

Pearl Harbor (the film) : Compromise Between Fact and FictionWith its heartdrenching romance interweaved in its heartpounding action, movie criti ...

(3 pages) 115 0 4.7 Dec/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

The magical world of Garcia Marquez.

By MANOJ KUMARIn his world the demarcation between fact and fiction, reality and fantasy, dreams and consciousness disappear. Everyday characters and i ...

(5 pages) 137 0 4.5 Apr/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies

Pat Barker.

onal plot surrounding the Great War, Barker was able to produce a novel from an intriguing blend of fact and fiction, one that conveys several aspects of history and pieces them together with first ha ... disintegration of the ego. This would then bring about a feeling of helplessness, a usual causative factor, which Doctor William H.R. Rivers so often discovered. Pat Barker's husband, David Barker, in ...

(5 pages) 51 1 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors

Right Brain, Left Brain.

right brain, Left Brain."The article in which I chose to examine is called Right Brain, Left Brain: Fact and Fiction, written by Jerre Levy. In the past fifteen years or so there has been a lot of tal ...

(3 pages) 148 2 4.6 Sep/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

What issues seem to be of central importance to Truman Capote in his novel "In Cold Blood?"

cross well in his views and forwards this onto us through reading 'In Cold Blood'.Capote introduces faction in this novel. Faction is made up of both fact and fiction. Capote didn't just use faction b ... ith each other, and then they are suddenly murdered in their own home. If we didn't have the use of faction in order to build up the scenes of the family interacting with other members of the communit ...

(9 pages) 104 1 3.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

"The Crucible", Fact or Fiction?

udies they thought that they might have suffered from encephalitis lethargica, though this is not a fact. The symptoms from the medical condition describe the same symptoms that one can get from eatin ... rye wheat bread, which was what the scientists in 1970 concluded. In this paper I will show you the fact and fiction of The Crucible, written by the famed playwright Authur Miller, and directed by Nic ...

(6 pages) 33 0 3.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The manipulation of photographic images discussed in "The Tradition: Fact and Fiction" by Robert Coles

In his essay "The Tradition: Fact and Fiction" Robert Coles discussed the works of two photographers, Jane Lange and Walker Evans ...

(4 pages) 38 0 2.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Reliability of Testimonies of the Holocaust Survivors: Elie Wiesel's Night and Binjamin Wilkomirski's 'Fragments'

This essay will explore the relationship between fact and fiction in the representation of the holocaust. I will explore Elie Wiesel's Night and Benj ... ony. The two texts I will look at challenge the notions of truth and reality. They both claim to be factual accounts of an actual moment in time, yet there is strong evidence to suggest that both are ... c, highlighting the aesthetics present in all visual representation. Even a text which claims to be factual will have the aesthetic qualities of a fictional narrative.The most important aspect of a te ...

(13 pages) 117 2 4.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History > German History

"The Tradition: Fact and Fiction" Robert Coles Summary

In his essay "The Tradition: Fact and Fiction" Robert Coles talks about the works of two photographers, Jane Lange and Walker Eva ...

(2 pages) 29 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The history of Buddha

ion through subsequent retelling and embellishment. Although it is difficult to distinguish between fact and fiction, a story that has survived for over 2500 years must contain some portion of fact. B ... ceived the title of the 13th patriarch. He disappears from history about AD 150.In deciding what is fact and what is fiction, we must look at the author himself. Ashvaghosha was an extremely accomplis ...

(4 pages) 58 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Buddhism

This essay tells what is true and what is false in the movie Braveheart. So it tells the historical accuracy of the film

Very rarely in a historically based film is every action fact but rather there is a mix of fact and fiction in the film. Braveheart follows this mold since i ... d at Stirling Bridge. The most glaring and important piece of fiction pertaining to Wallace was the fact that he was a landed commoner with a good education, and in peaceful times he might have been a ...

(2 pages) 79 1 4.4 Apr/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Television and our Children

ovide a temporary escape from reality. However while adults are usually able to distinguish between fact and fiction the greater number of young children is not.With the slackening of censorship, pare ... ng one's childhood years glued to the set are obvious. Eye muscles become significantly weaker. The fact that more and more young children wear glasses these days perhaps bears testimony to the 'telev ...

(7 pages) 72 0 4.7 Sep/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

War

War reports--both fact and fiction--have fascinated people since the first warriors and bards that sat around campfire ... oshima describes the effect of the A-bomb, and combines the literary techniques of fiction with the factual style of journalism. The Vietnam era produced several notable works of fiction, including Ro ...

(1 pages) 25 0 2.3 Apr/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

What claims have been made about the differences in psychological functions performed by the left versus right hemispheres of the brain? .

Right Brain, Left Brain. The article in which I chose to examine is called Right Brain, Left Brain: Fact and Fiction, written by Jerre Levy. In the past fifteen years or so there has been a lot of tal ...

(3 pages) 50 0 1.0 May/2005

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Shakespeare - Man or Myth?

akespeare, And Shaxpere. Shakespeare, Is it the man, Oris it another? (Hayes 1D)Shakespeare is both fact and fiction, he was no concern untilnearly two hundred years after he perished, and there is st ... fit into Shakespears life, On the other handthey fit into DeVere's life well. (Sobran 45)There are facts that lean both ways in this age old mystery ofauthorship, Though the Strafordian man does not ...

(2 pages) 19 0 5.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

"Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown

by the noted sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.Just as with Brown's other novels, there is a mixture of fact and fiction that some readers find entertaining, but others find inaccurate and misleading, to ...

(1 pages) 32 1 2.3 Jun/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Glass Menagerie

The Glass Menagerie: The Fine Line between Fact and Fiction in the Life of Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie is a play written by Tennesse ... ield is a young man trapped in a world created by his mother Amanda. He is forced to work in a shoe factory for sixty-five dollars a month to support his family because his father had left years ago. ... onth to support his family because his father had left years ago. Williams himself worked in a shoe factory for the same amount of pay as Tom after his father informed him they could no longer afford ...

(7 pages) 19 0 0.0 Feb/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

What Is Literature?

He enumerates various definitions of it.First he defines literature by making a distinction between fact and fiction. All works which are fiction, or also called "imaginative writing"�, can be ... f a work is literary or not by its content. This explanation does not satisfy Eagleton because much factual writing would not be included. Also some fictional works should not be called literary.The n ...

(2 pages) 26 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Tradition: Fact And Fiction

rt Coles offers a penetrating look into the nature of documentary work in his essay "The Tradition: Fact and Fiction". According to Robert Coles documentaries written by people are almost always fil ... The latter may not include this point in his documentary while the other will. Interest is another factor that shows differences amongst documentaries. Two people writing a documentary on the same th ...

(7 pages) 10 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers