American Fiction Today

The Power of Fiction: How Literature Educated and Reformed American Society

This paper focuses on a number of American stories which helped educate people and bring about legal or social change. There are many stories which caused major or minor legal and political change, particularly, in the United States. Some of them are written by Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Upton Sinclair and Sidney Kingsley. After the publication of White Jacket by Melville the novel...

Temporal and Spatial Transitions in American Fiction Films

L . 702 Studies in Fiction : Rethinking the American Masterpiece

The American Joint Replacement Registry and Arthroplasty Today

Joint replacement registries have been in place in Europe and Australia for decades. This registry data have given researchers robust information to evaluate joint replacement volume, utilization patterns, and outcomes. In many instances, registries can also serve as a mechanism for implant surveillance and an early warning system for underperforming implants. As the US health care system evolv...

The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction Chapter I: Nuclear Fission Energy Today

Nuclear fission energy is considered to be somewhere between the holy grail, required to solve all energy worries of the human industrialized civilization, and a fast path directly to hell. Discussions about future energy sources and the possible contribution from nuclear energy are often dominated by variations of fundamentalists and often irrational approaches. As a result, very little is kno...