I Never Promised You a Rose Garden is an autobiographical novel by Joanne Greenberg, written under the pen name of Hannah Green. It was made into a film in 1977 and a play in 2004. (Neither the novel nor the film or play should be confused ...

I Never Sang for My Father by Robert Anderson Born in New York in 1917, Robert Woodruff Anderson graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University before serving in the U.S. Navy. He afterward wrote radio and television scripts,...

Isaac Asimov thrills the reader with his story-telling ability in "I, Robot".  Of course, many of Asimov's ideas provide a ploy to add suspense to the story.  However, when the plot completely disagree with the laws which he himse...

Poetry Analysis I saw a man pursuing the horizon (underlined=end of section) I saw a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round they sped. ------------------------------------- I was disturbed at this; I accosted the m...

The popular NBC network program, I Spy ran for three years from 1965 to 1968. Arriving in the wake of the James Bond phenomenon in the mid-1960s, it was one of several American television series of the period whose fantastic plots revolved...

"I Stand here Ironing" In this story the mother is reflecting back on her life. She believes that she has made mistakes in the past that hindered her daughters' childhood. She feels that if she had only been around more Emily would ...

What do Betty from "Pleasantville," June from "Leave it to Beaver," and Donna Reed from "The Donna Reed Show" all have in common? They all represent the image of the perfect housewife in the 1950s. They represent women who gladly cooked, cl...

I, The Jury (1947) is Mickey Spillane's first novel featuring private investigator Mike Hammer....

I Was a Teenage Werewolf is generally considered the first of a genre of horror films targeting teenage audiences. The birth of this genre can be attributed to television, drive-in theaters, and the rise of suburbia. Because adults in the ...

Devoted to both the profound necessity and the sublime silliness of gratuitous social interchange, Ohayo is a rather subtler and grander work than might appear at first. Commonly referred to as a remake of Ozu's silent masterpiece I Was Bor...

"It was a path of suffering, of disappointment, and of frantic searching for something," Sata Ineko writes of her life. "When I look back at the path I have walked, all I can say is that I gave it my very best. I suppose, with life being s...

Chinese-American architect, I. M. Pei (born 1917), directed for nearly 40 years one of the most successful architectural practices in the United States. Known for his dramatic use of concrete and glass, Pei counted among his most famous bu...

The Jewish poet, novelist, and playwright Isaac Loeb Peretz (1851-1915) was the leader of Yiddishism, a cultural movement dedicated to making Yiddish the national language of Jewish people throughout the world. Isaac Peretz was born in Zam...

Discuss and comment on Iago's plans so far is he a good strategician or a desperate opportunist? Like with many evil personalities in history and literature the question is always asked did he really plan to make this happen or was it just ...

Iain Banks's fiction captures the complexities of subjectivity and locale. At its best his writing offers insights into the tensions of masculine identity in a competitive consumerist culture. His prose can be vibrant, flexible, and stylis...

fl. c. 320 Syrian philosopher whose work emphasized the mystical aspects of Pythagorean number theory. According to Iamblichus, Pythagoras (c. 580-c. 500 B.C.) himself had discovered "amicable" numbers, pairs in which each is...

Ian Bremmer (born November 12 , 1969 ) is a political scientist specializing in US foreign policy, states in transition, and global political risk. He is president of Eurasia Group, a global political risk consultancy. Sourced The develope...

Ian Kevin Curtis (15 July 1956 – 18 May 1980) was the vocalist and lyricist of the band Joy Division, which he joined in 1976. Ian Curtis quotes "I used to work in a factory, and I was really happy because I could daydream all day."...

lan Fleming was the creator of James Bond, the most popular hero of espionage fiction in the late 1950s and the 1960s. Bond, whose name still suggests a certain type of spy-hero—sophisticated, sexy, glamorously dangerous—is par...