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"This study will compare and contrast two books to discover their social, political and historical significance and relevance. The two works are novels, George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. Both books reflect some historical truth, but at the same time they are biased by the personal views of their authors. This is not necessarily a criticism, for a novel without a personal bias will not be a book worth reading. Even a novel which exaggerates and distorts the truth (such as Fraser's) can be effective social commentary if the society's prejudices and injustices are recognizable.

Achebe's novel reflects historical fact as it fictionally portrays traditional African life in a Nigerian village before and after the coming of the white man. It does not try to portray..."

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This paper examines George MacDonald's "The Portent Thesis", the story of two brothers long dead and the woman they loved. It looks at how, through the gift of second sight and the eternal nature of the soul, the story expresses more than simple love and how throughout the novel, Macdonald illustrates the nature of eternal love.

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"The eerie distant sound of a galloping horse and clanking shoe causes Duncan to seek the story of its origin. The legend, told by Margaret, of two brothers long dead and the woman they loved is the background for The Portent. Alice and Duncan are the souls of those murdered lovers in Margaret's tale, returned to earth generations later to be reunited. The similarities in their births go beyond coincidence. Alice and Duncan were born under strange conditions on the very same night (90). No one can remember the day exactly, but each nurse recalls that there was a bright star under the new moon. Both their mothers died one week later, Duncan's after fighting a dark demon to save his life (22)."

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The paper discusses how novels from the nineteenth century can be seen as a kind of moral and social map that reveal the path to success to female readers while reinforcing the dominant views of "traditional" gender relations, sexuality, marriage and family. The paper closely examines two popular texts of the nineteenth century - Frances Hodgson Burnett's "The Secret Garden" and George MacDonald's "The Princess and the Goblin". The paper compares and contrasts both protagonists' path to womanhood and illustrates how these works both represent the novel's role in shaping the social scripts of young women.

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"Both girls are, in other words, orphans both literally (Mary's parents die from cholera) and metaphorically (Irene's mother is described as "not very strong"), which leads to them being re-placed geographically to isolated country estates where they are more or less free to live "naturally" without the preconscribed scripts that mothers and traditional family homes might bring to them. Sent to be "brought up by country people in a large house, half castle, half farmhouse" (1), Irene finds herself freed into a potentially vital liminal space - half politic, half nature - that itself is positioned "on the side of another mountain, about half-way between is base and its peak" (1). For a young girl in the flux of change, and willing to embrace transgression as a natural right, it is a setting almost staged for challenge and trial."

Tags:girlhood, womanhood, society, gender, relations, sexuality, marriage, family

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The paper examines George MacDonald's "Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women" and Salman Rushdie's "Haroun and the Sea of Stories" and illustrates how both authors use magical lands as allegorical settings for the transcendence of their characters. The paper analyzes the differences between both works but highlights how even with their differences, there is a power of magic in the settings of both books.

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"Salman Rushdie's Sea of Stories begins when the boy Haroun shouts at his father "What's the use of stories when they aren't even true?". His storyteller father Rashid, whose wife has deserted him with the upstairs neighbor Mr. Sengupta because of his obsession with his work, beckons his son to travel to the source of his father's stories. Haroun travels to this magic land, the Ocean of the Streams of Story on the Moon Kahani, where the language-loving people of Gup City are at war with the silent buy deadly Chupwalls. Eventually, in Rushdie's linear narrative, with the assistance of its magical creatures, the power of storytelling restores the balance of the two countries as well as his father's career."

Tags:magic, imagination, settings, plot, characters, morals

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This paper discusses how George Lucas played a major role in the filming industry. The paper discusses how he affected the business by influencing a new approach to large-scale motion picture making, which involved a great deal of foresight and brilliant business dealings. The paper discusses his personal successes, as well as the general ones to the industry.

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"Film Studies: Understanding the Cause and Effect of the Success of Film Director: George Lucas This film study will examine the role of George Lucas within the business and filming causal factors that brought about his enormous success in the filming industry. In creating his classic Star Wars, Lucas had the financial and copyright incentives to allow him to "bank roll" his own films. In this manner, Lucas was able to pioneer a new way of viewing the financial background of filmmaking, but more importantly, was able to create Industrial Light and Magic and his own merchandising approach to filmmaking history. By actively using a business and biographical analysis of director George Lucas, one can realize the depth and importance of his work in modern American film history. Gorge Lucas was born in 1944 in Modesto, California."

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This paper describes the life and philosophy of 18th century Irish philosopher, George Berkeley and discusses his theory of idealism. The paper considers whether Berkeley's idealism represents most people's commonsense view of the world and concludes that, though intriguing and well argued, Berkeley's analysis is not commonsensical.

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"Does George Berkeley's idealism represent most people's commonsense view of the world? Though intriguing and well argued, Berkeley's analysis is not commonsensical. George Berkeley lived from 1685 until 1753. He was born in Ireland, educated in Dublin, and even spent some time in Bermuda trying to convert the local population to Christianity. In 1734 he was made Bishop of Cloyne (Frost 277-278). Berkeley was an idealist and expanded upon the work of John Locke. He asked, if the basis of knowledge is sensations and our reflections upon those sensations, how can we know a distinct world exists? In other words, we only have our minds to go on. Perception is the rule by which the universe is measured. As such, perception is tantamount to existence."

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The following paper examines George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant". In particular, the paper examines the absurdity of seeking to maintain power through the use of force. Among other things, the paper examines how Orwell's brief tale is also a tale about British imperialism in the early twentieth century and a wry examination of how the "white man's" power in the East stole from him much of his own freedom by forcing him to assume a particular role for the entertainment of the natives.

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"Among twentieth century novelists and political commentators, George Orwell enjoys a high station. Among his many political works, the short essay, "Shooting an Elephant", is considered to be one of his most trenchant and provocative. With that in mind, the following paper will examine Orwell's 1936 essay and assess its relationship to the historical period within which it was crafted; the paper will also examine how historical change is revealed in the text. Ultimately, what should emerge is that this brief essay is a sociological examination of the final death throes of a once-mighty British Empire; it is also an examination into European colonialism more generally. Without further ado then, it is to George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" that this paper now turns. As noted previously, Orwell's 1936 essay (or column, if you will) was released at a time when the British Empire was in decline."

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This paper analyzes the various theories of George Marcus in the study of anthropology and concludes with various 'experimental' solutions to the problems Marcus addresses in his article "Contemporary Problems of Ethnography in the Modern World System".

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"George Marcus s article, Contemporary Problems of Ethnography in the Modern World System, is a call for anthropologists to take into account change, history, and political economy in their writings.(1986) According to Marcus, Change and the larger frameworks of local politics have usually been treated in separate theoretical or conceptual discourse with some ethnographic detail added in for illustration. (1986: 166) This partition has resulted in a the world of larger systems seen as externally impinging on and bounding little worlds, but not integral to them. (166) This paper will explore the methods, and their implications, that Marcus puts forth as a means of integrating historical and political perspectives with the ethnographic."

Tags:anthropology, george, marcus, contemporary, ethnography, history, politics

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The writer examines the works of George Braque and shows how he was the lesser known of the two founders of Cubism, always in the shadow of Pablo Picasso. This essay examines the artistic foundations behind one of the earliest Cubist works of Braque, "The Portuguese," and explains the unique importance of this painting in its day and even now.

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"An examination of Georges Braque's The Portuguese, painted in 1911, and the Cubist movement created by Braque and Picasso, helps show how technology was first widely used both instinctively and deliberately by artists. The Portuguese is an oil on canvas work approximately four feet by three feet in size; the colors are monochromatic in tone, thus emphasizing structure over the gently shaded colors. The subject matter of the painting is not the external world or nature; the painting exists within a reality and world of its own. This alone was revolutionary. Like most Cubist art, it has a restricted setting and manmade objects predominate over natural ones (Hughes 16). In this phase of what was known as analytical cubism objects were taken apart (dissected) and reshaped with the use of flat intersecting planes; perspective is two-dimensional and depth is limited. Four hundred years of Renaissance traditions (form, color, and space) were thrown out by The Portuguese and other Cubist works. Instead of a single vantage point at a single moment in time, the viewer sees the painting from many angles and at many different moments; the fixed point of view is gone. The painting also includes stenciled letters and numbers. Braque wrote, "...as part of a desire to to come as close as possible to a certain kind of reality, in 1911 I introduced letters into my paintings." In summary then, the elements above make The Portuguese one of the first examples of a painting as a unique object set in a revolutionary form. The degree of abstraction in Cubist art was also revolutionary. This new perception of the world came at a time of great transformation in society, and this work of Braque, seen within the larger context of Cubism, borrows much from the elements of the new world. "

Tags:art, braque, cubism, george, modern, picasso, painting

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This paper discusses the life of George Eliot, novelist, who in her writings had great profound feelings and portrayals of simple lives especially women.

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