B.K. Olivia
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The Not-Yet Child: Weaponisation of Motherhood in the movie Arrival
Examining the representation of gender and motherhood by discussing the portrayal and function of female bodies in Arrival and ‘Story of Your Life’; the essay ultimately argues that—contrary…
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Landscape and the Connection to Possible Selves
When a character is connected to the concept of the possible self, it provides context for the past and incentives for the future, creating a complex emotional map…
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Self-Adjusting and Self-Correcting: Narrative Structure in ‘The Last Question’
‘The last question’ is a short story by Isaac Asimov (1974) that explores humanity throughout time and space as they advance a technology called Multivac, a “self-adjusting and…
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Murder, Madness and Horror: Poe’s ‘The tell-tale heart’
Poe’s ‘The tell-tale heart’ cleverly uses tone and language to indicate at the speaker’s desire—to convince the reader of his sanity—and his decline into madness as his actions…
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Twenty-Two in Tokyo
I’d been struggling with one thing—my identity between who I thought I was, who I wanted to be, and who I was forced to be at home.
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