... 2008. Directed by Andrew Stanton, the story follows a robot named Wall-E, who is designed to clean up an abandoned, waste-covered Earth seven-hundred years into the future. WALL-E presents a cautionary tale by representing a potential future where we face the global impacts of overconsumption, corporate control, total lifestyle automation and cultural conformity. This urges the viewer to stop and look around at ... ...

• Word Count: 1222
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... 2008. Directed by Andrew Stanton, the story follows a robot named Wall-E, who is designed to clean up an abandoned, waste-covered Earth seven-hundred years into the future. WALL-E presents a cautionary tale by representing a potential future where we face the global impacts of overconsumption, corporate control, total lifestyle automation and cultural conformity. This urges the viewer to stop and look around at ... ...

• Word Count: 1222
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... by using the Perseus-Medusa myth as the "context of analysis" (pp. 50) in terms of the "academic and cultural demonstrations of the simultaneous claim/failure of dialogue and as a cautionary tale for feminists, our particular interrogation can remind us all of the oppressive discursive practices involved in gender politics" (pp. 50). This type of consideration of the myth in terms of ... ...

• Word Count: 1572
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... social circumstances of the time to present a satiric voice in the novel. He depicts Bramble's negative feelings towards humanity both as a comic view of the society, and as a type of cautionary tale regarding the dangers of condemnation on superficial judgments. Byron Gassman asserts that it is obvious his character "has assumed for himself the role of moralist and social critic among the ... ...

• Word Count: 3172
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate