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Literature Analysis: Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses", 1999.
A look at how Rushdie's book illustrates the evil of religious fanaticism by demonstrating the degradation of truth associated with religious fanaticism.
1,030 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 1 source, $ 36.95
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"Salman Rushdie?s The Satanic Verses recounts the saga of two Indians, Saladin Chamcha and Gibreel Farishta, after their airplane crashes above the English Channel. Employing the technique of magic realism, the novel unfolds through both the genuine experiences and dreams of the characters."
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Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children", 2002.
This paper explores to what extent Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children" can be defined as a magic realist novel.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper demonstrates that the novel "Midnight's Children" by author Salman Rushdie is an example of magical realism rather than the fantasy genre. The author uses examples through the use of politics, the post- colonial state of India, and the role of the character Saleem Sinai to prove this statement.
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Salman Rushdie, 2002.
A look at the contributions of this 20th century author to a changing society.
2,100 words (approx. 8.4 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 65.95
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This paper attempts to explore Salman Rushdie?s impact on society. It looks at the controversies he stirs up and the reasons for him having such a great affect on the world. His origins and life are looked at and some of his famous works are studied in the context of censorship and freedom of speech.
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"Critics as well as admirers often refer to Salam Rushdie as the most famous author in the world. For a man who originally wanted to become an actor he has come a long way in his second career choice. The fame is not always in a positive light however, and Rushdie has had a fair share of fame due to the controversy his works generate worldwide. His novel. The Ground Beneath Her Feet was published in 12 nations at the same time. This affirmation of his creativity pleased him."
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CNN's Satanic Verses, 2001.
An examination of methods and techniques in media bias against Islam.
2,500 words (approx. 10.0 pages), 14 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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A look at how the American media perpetuate stereotypical images of Islam and Muslims. This paper deals with the use of language, word associations, and coding within. It discusses the lack of authentic voices and asks how the media in a "free" society manages to perpetuate stereotypes. It looks at Western society's perception of Islam and how this is influenced by and influences the media's attitude.
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" ?Catholics convicted in terrorist attack.? ?Presbyterians take their faith in their false God more seriously than we take our faith in the true God.? ?We should invade their Jewish countries, kill their leaders, and convert them.? Surprised? Well, substitute ?Moslems? for ?Catholics? and ?Presbyterians,? and substitute ?Moslem? for ?Jewish,? and you have actual statements made in the mainstream American media. For all the supposed freedom, objectivity, and honesty that the press prides itself on, the American media is generally supportive of a double standard in its treatment of Islam, allowing things to be said about Moslems that would never be allowed about other groups. As a whole, mainstream media is a virtual cornucopia of negative connotations and condemnations of Islam and Moslems. From terrorists to third-world ?losers,? (as opposed to the ?winners,? us,) Moslems around the world are portrayed in many negative ways without clarification or context."
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"Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie, 2000.
An analysis of the novel's depiction of India at a time of independence.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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An analysis of the novel's depiction of India at a time of independence, in cultural, historical and literary (story-telling) contexts.
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"Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children received awards when it was published in 1981 and developed a fictional world that played off the political, social, and cultural history of India. The novel is structured around a religious procession through the subcontinent of India. The novel celebrates a key moment in Indian history, the moment of independence and the 1,001 children who were born just after midnight on the day of independence, August 15, 1947. These are the "midnight's children" of the title, and they are the hope of the new nation, the young people who will control the future and decide the destiny of the millions of people living in India. Rushdie's style mixes illusion and reality, myth and legend with everyday life, Indian history with a fictional tale, and does so through the eyes of the narrator, Saleem, who Scheherezade-like tells his..."
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"One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and " Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie, 1994.
A comparison of the magical realist novels of life in Latin America and India. Includes structure, narration, characters, cultures and politics.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 2 sources, $ 71.95
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" Magic realism is a literary genre originally developed in Latin America, and still associated particularly with Latin American literature. The genre has, however, spread beyond its region of origin; one of its leading contemporary practitioners, Salman Rushdie, has his roots half a world away from Latin America. Rushdie, however, has one important characteristic in common with Latin American writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez; he is a product of the modern Third World.
Magic realism, indeed, is a genre distinctly associated with the Third World. It has not, so far, taken root to any substantial degree among writers in the United States or other Western countries. The reason, we may suggest, is that magic realism is at least in part a fictional response to the political conditions of disruption and alienation that prevail in the Third..."
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"One Hundred Years of Solitude" ( Gabriel Garcia Marquez ) & "Midnight's Children" ( Salman Rushdie ), 1999.
Compares novels' pessimistic portrayals of protagonists & their poor & oppressed communities.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 2 sources, $ 47.95
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"This study will examine Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, focusing on how the main characters' communities evolve, and how the impact of the outside world influences them. Neither author is optimistic with respect to the happiness, peace or prosperity of the communities they portray or the people in those communities. Rushdie's Saleem Sinai was born in Bombay but his community is in fact all of India. The community of Saleem in this national context is portrayed by Rushdie as having been a disastrous failure in its efforts to find freedom and justice in independence. As a part of a poverty-stricken country led by politicians portrayed by Rushdie as thoroughly corrupt, if not insane, Bombay or any other community is condemned to the same miserable fate as the nation as a whole. Similarly, Macondo in.."
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Historicity, 2007.
A discussion of misplaced and weakened historicity in two modernist postmodern Novels: Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man" and Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses."
2,413 words (approx. 9.7 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 73.95
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This paper describes historicity in post-modern fiction as yielding a sense of radical disjunction or of combinations of events that do not take place either chronologically or in terms of historical veracity. It discusses examples of historicity in two modernist postmodern novels - Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" and Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man".
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"In Farishta's hallucinations, as Rushdie implies, his dream-images of the Prophet Muhammad offer him, in the latter years of the 2oth century, no modern day comfort. Controversial portions of The Satanic Verses, including this one, examine, in fragmented post-modern fashion, the imagined (by this troubled fictional character) the roots of a belief system, Islam, that within this character's hallucinations are not what they are historically; theologically; and traditionally believed to be. Here, therefore, Rushdie playfully "rewrites" Islamic history, in the form(s) of far-fetched dreams of an unstable and unreliable character. Farishta hallucinates, among other things that the wives of the Prophet Muhammad, founder of Islam, moonlight as prostitutes, and that Muhammad himself is (in Farishta's strange dreams) but a "for profit" Prophet."
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Sociological Concepts in Literature, 2008.
Examines five literary sources to explore the sociological concepts of transculturation and hybridity, orientalism and cultural translation.
1,595 words (approx. 6.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 52.95
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This paper explains that postcolonial literature, such as Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children", deals with transculturation and the incredible and complicated processes, which lead to hybridity of the colonizing and the colonized cultures. The author points out that Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" and Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Books" both represent the deeply rooted differences between the cultures of the West and the East. The paper also looks at Brian Friel's "Translations", Tsitsi Dangarembga's "Nervous Conditions" and Achmat Dangor's "Bitter Fruit" to illustrate that cultural translation is a potent metaphor for the way in which one civilization may try to interpret another through its own terms.
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Transculturation and Hybridity: Salman Rushdie's "Midnight's Children"
Orientalism: Arundhati Roy's "The God of Small Things" and Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Books"
Cultural Translation
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"Not accidentally, in "Midnight's Children", Saleem revises his own ancestry along with the historical past. The stories of his grandfather Aziz, a young doctor who is educated in Britain and thus already a hybrid himself, are very relevant at this point. Thus, his love story with Naseem is very interesting because it tokens the conflicting cultural attitudes between the Indian and the British cultures. While the Western civilization requires and allows a thorough physical examination of the body before establishing a diagnosis in case of an illness, the Oriental culture denies the propriety of this direct contact between a young man and a young woman outside marriage."
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Nature verses Nurture, 2005.
This paper argues that the discovery of the gene does not change the traditional discussion of "nature verses nurture"
1,585 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper questions that, as evidenced by the ancient civilizations, how can it be assumed that genes are constant and uniform in all human beings and will determine what man will be like? The author stresses that the question of genes is their effect on the physical and behavioral traits of humans and does not change the view of society on what a well-nurtured human is. The paper concludes that society still expects the products of good nurturing such as people who are honest, sensitive to environment and non-violent and self-restraint; however, even in the Old Testament, there is the tale of Cane and Abel which demonstrates both nature and nurture.
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"In June 2000, President Clinton had organized a press conference to mark one of the most important milestones of the century and that was the cracking of the human genetic code. Two of the men most responsible for the two competing genetic projects were there - Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute and J. Craig Venter, president of Celera Genomics. They were also individuals involved in finding out the 3 billion 'letters' of the human genome, or the biochemical recipe encoded in our DNA that were the reasons for birth and operating a human being."
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Wood Verses Plastic Cutting Boards, 2000.
A scientific analysis of the different ways to sterilize wood versus plastic cutting boards and the different advantages.
1,854 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 6 sources, $ 59.95
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Written in the style of a scientific review article for a journal, this paper compares the sanitation of wood versus plastic cutting boards. One of the main points emphasized is the ability of each material to prevent disease and bacteria.
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"Every home, restaurant, and commercial food processing area needs a cutting and chopping surface. The materials these surfaces are made of have been under scrutiny as possible sources of foodborne illness. Most cutting board safety issues relate to cross-contamination, which results from processing ready-to-eat, non-cooked items (such as a salad) on a board previously used to cut animal products (1,6). The residue from the animal product inoculates the non-cooked food with pathogenic microflora. This residue, called biofilm, can be made of any number of food products, but the most common sources of pathogenic bacteria result from a biofilm deposit of chicken or beef extract (?juice?)."
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World Food Supply Verses World Population, 2002.
A look at the growing population and what this means for world food supply.
2,010 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 3 sources, $ 63.95
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This paper analyzes the food supply available in the world and compares it to the rapidly growing world population. The author examines world food distribution and how it effects world hunger arguing that distribution is unequal. Includes arguments by various critics.
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"The increase in food production over the past 200 years has been greater than the increase in population. So we ask, Why do nearly twelve million children per year die of hunger? That number is more than the number of people who died each year in World War II, and these are children, not soldiers, we are talking about. (Lappe 2). It has been proven that there is enough food in the world for everybody to be sufficiently healthy. The problem is that this food has not been distributed equally among countries. With the world?s population expected to grow fifty percent by the year 2050 to 9.37 billion, What are the odds we can feed everybody then when we can?t even do it now? This is a question that has been studied, pondered, and written about extensively for years. Many people have different thoughts and opinions about it. Something definitely will have to be done in the future. The question is what."
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The Korean War Verses Other Wars in American History, 2000.
Compares the Korean War, which was fought for ideological reasons, to other wars in American history.
2,275 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 5 sources, $ 70.95
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"The Korean War is a war that many people will never forget. All wars in American history fought before the Korean War was based on either national survival or the gain of territory. A strong conflict was created between the Soviet Union and the United States. The conflict was so strong that wars were fought in the midst of this cold war. The Korean War was the first American war that was not fought for national survival, for territory, for manifest destiny or for hegemony. ?Korea was the first ideological war.?"
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The Play Midsummer Nights Dream" Verses the Film Version, 2000.
A comparison between Shakespeare's play "Midsummer Night's Dream" and Elijah Moshinsky's film adaptation.
750 words (approx. 3.0 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper discusses "Midsummer Night's Dream" as the author believes Shakespeare intended the play to be - as a delightful, fun frolic, and contrasts it to Moshinsky's film version which emphasizes the darker elements of the script and loses much of the comic elements of the story.
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"This sentence would be a perfect introduction to Elijah Moshinsky?s film adaptation of Shakespeare?s ?Midsummer Night?s Dream?, since it is not delightful, but instead stresses the tragic elements of the play. Shakespeare?s language, rich of colourful images, creates a flower-scent and magical atmosphere. ?The descriptions breathe a sweetness like odours thrown from beds of flowers.? Though Moshinsky adapts Shakespeare?s original text, the language loses nevertheless a part of its imaginative power. He focuses rather on the tragic elements of the play and renders it thus more serious and less bland."
"?We do not come, as minding to content you, our true intent is. All for your delight, we are not here. That you should here repent you, the actors are at hand; and, by their show you shall know all, that you are like to know (p.57).?
This sentence would be a perfect introduction to Elijah Moshinsky?s film adaptation of Shakespeare?s ?Midsummer Night?s Dream?, since it is not delightful, but instead stresses the tragic elements of the play.
Shakespeare?s language, rich of colourful images, creates a flower-scent and magical atmosphere. ?The descriptions breathe a sweetness like odours thrown from beds of flowers.? Though Moshinsky adapts Shakespeare?s original text, the language loses nevertheless a part of its imaginative power. He focuses rather on the tragic elements of the play and renders it thus more serious and less bland."
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Qualitative Research Verses Quantitative Research, 2001.
A definition of qualitative research as contrasted with quantitative research, and the types of knowledge they both elicit.
1,658 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 53.95
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This paper describes qualitative research and contrasts it with quantitative research. It discusses the characteristics of phenomenological inquiry or naturalistic research.
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"Qualitative research, broadly defined, means "any kind of research that produces findings not arrived at by means of statistical procedures or other means of quantification" (Strauss & Corbin, 1990, p. 17). Where quantitative researchers seek causal determination, prediction, and generalization of findings, qualitative researchers seek, instead, illumination, understanding, and extrapolation to similar situations. Qualitative analysis results in a different type of knowledge than does quantitative inquiry. Eisner, (1991) points out that all knowledge, including that gained through quantitative research, is referenced in qualities, and that there are many ways to represent our understanding of the world."
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