...is a civil rights advocate and an associate professor at the Moritz College of Law is the author of this article. The purpose of this argument is that racism is not dead and it has shapeshifted into new forms and methods. The article touches on mass incarnation and the soaring imprisonment rates. Alexander then goes on to say that the war on drugs in the United States is having a major impact on African American communities. It is causing our society to just go back in a circle. Michelle ends her argument with a powerful message and hope for our country. Monstrous Beginnings Monsters became so easy to believe in because a lot of the world was not explored in this time period. The advancements in technology with the...
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...Hailey 2.9.15 Comparison-Contrast Essay Block 2 Cowardice can be shown in many ways. Torturing others and putting fear into the hearts of innocent people is one of them. In Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s “A Precocious Autobiography” and Burton Raffel’s translation of Beowulf, Red, a Russian bully who rules the streets of his neighborhood, and Grendel, a terrifying monster who can never be loved by God, are two bullies who, though they are worlds apart, share many of the same characteristics. Like red, Grendel enjoys petrifying his victims with his intimidating presence. Red has an advantage over the other boys because he is much bigger than them. “Red could stop any boy and say impressively the one word “money”(490). He appears to be unbreakable with his strong build, but the reader should know that just like any other bully, red is a coward deep down. Grendel’s appearance would send chills through pretty much anyone’s spine since he is the Devil’s child. Grendel is described as a “powerful monster, living down in the darkness” (ii 1-2). Even though he is a demon, he’s still capable of being a coward. He insists on feeding on the lives of innocent people who stand no chance against him. If that isn’t pure cowardice, I don’t know what is. However, Grendel works alone while Red works with his “lieutenants.” Red needs the assistance of other boys so that he may look much tougher than he actually is. “Two or three lieutenants, in peaked caps back to front like Red’s, trotted at his...
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...At this moment of the story it explains a duel action for both the sea monster and McDunn to face loneliness head on and shows the feedback on how the both acknowledge it. The narrator informs us the moment of McDunn’s action, “The ensuing minute of silence was so intense that we could hear our hearts pounding in the glassed area of the tower, could hear the slow greased turn of the light.” (Bradbury, p.4) to his experiment can be argued in two different ways for an example when silencing the fog horn he was trying to aid the sea monster by force feeding the monster the truth that it is alone and it should give in on the dream of another one of its kind, or McDunn wants the monster accept his loneliness in the world and with that you can compare it to the acceptance of McDunn’s loneliness in the light...
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...characters are involved in a confrontation with the human kind. Finally, we will ponder on the way the characters and their conflicts mirror the confrontation between nature and science. First of all, by reading Mary Shelley's novel, we can see that Frankenstein and the creature are struggling with each other until the end of the book. Actually, we have on one hand the Frankenstein monster who is dependent on his creator because he is the only man with enough knowledge to create another of his kind. On the other hand, we have Frankenstein who is dependent on his creation, because it is physically stronger than he and able to murder his family and friends. For these reasons, each of these two characters is able to blackmail the other, and so they PAGE 2 do : the story is nothing but a pursuit between them, as they are both craving for revenge, each of them believing the other is responsible for his own failure. Each of them is feeding the other's rage and wish for revenge : «When I reflected on his...
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...self-preservation. In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Victor decides to go beyond all boundaries of life and create something from the dead. He becomes all too obsessed with alchemy and human anatomy, that he takes his dark and twisted desires and creates a creature of whom he begins to refer to as a wretch and monster. Victor does all this with no intention of getting to know who the true person behind the ugly yellow skin is. By looking at Victor’s cruel actions and careless thoughts, it is evident that he resembles the true monster, thus revealing that mankind is inherently selfish. Victor has a thirst for knowledge as he becomes obsessed with alchemy and the human anatomy....
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...articles discussing the debate for feeding the hungry. The two articles summarized are Jan Narveson’s article “Feeding the Hungry” and Peter Singer’s article “Singer Solution to The World.” This paper will also discuss utilitarianism and virtue ethics and how individually each article ties into both ethical theories. In the article Singer Solution to World Poverty, Peter Singer offers a solution to world poverty. Singers solution is clear-cut and precise. Singer claims that to successfully end world poverty, whatever money not spent on necessities and devoted to luxuries, should be given away to those less fortunate. To pull at the reader's emotions, throughout the text Singer uses hypothetical pathos scenarios to deliver an overall theme of sacrifice. Singer opens up the text...
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...Elvis Dizdarevic Interpretation of Lit 11/17/2011 Frankenstein: The Pursuit of Dangerous Knowledge By: Elvis Dizdarevic Aristotle once said, “All men by nature desire knowledge” and I tend to agree with him. Every human being strives to be more knowledgeable. It is something we all want. In society, it puts people above one another and gives a certain power to the ones who are intelligent. It is revered to be only a good thing to have and to seek but in some situations pursuing more knowledge is, in fact, dangerous. In Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein, two main characters have this obsessive pursuit of knowledge; Robert Walton and Victor Frankenstein. Walton, an Englishman, is on a quest to be the first to reach the North Pole. His story is the frame for Frankenstein and the monster’s stories. He is a determined man who wants to possess a knowledge that no one else has. Walton desires to explore uncharted lands and to discover new particulars unbeknownst to the average man. Victor Frankenstein parallels Walton in his obsessive pursuit of knowledge. Most would say Frankenstein is even more obsessive. Frankenstein is a man who is purely driven to learn more. While attending the University of Ingolstadt, Frankenstein learns all that his professors have to teach him. After mastering the sciences he becomes fascinated with life and its creation. So much that he neglects his family and stays in his apartment for months at a time to research. He believes that there is...
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...weak to work, and Auschwitz III–Monowitz another labor camp, which held prisoners who worked at a German chemical factory, IG Farben. The killing methods ranged from being lined up at a wall and shot to being put into ‘showers’ that realized a toxic gas. Once the prisoners were dead, they were then burned in the crematoriums at the camp. Essentially the prisoners of the labor and death camps were treated as objects and not as the humans that they were. Many might even go as far as refer to the Germans as heartless for doing the things that they did to the innocent Jews and other monitories. Art Spiegelman’s Maus shows the effects of the German’s dehumanizing treatment of the Jews during the Holocaust and proves that the Germans were monsters toward everyone being victimized in the Holocaust. Art Spiegelman is an American cartoonist who wrote Maus in the early 1900s. Maus is a cartoon depicting the Holocaust. It depicts Spiegelman interviewing his father as a Polish Jew that survived the Holocaust....
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...of terror, it was time to add the fifth season: American Horror Story Hotel. Season five began airing this fall, and just after the first few episodes people around the country were hooked. This season would keep people eager to watch every Wednesday night just to see what was going to happen next. This show provides all the right materials to fit a horror genre: scary scenes, violent and bloody scenes, scary atmosphere, a good story, unseen events, values at stake, a monster, and a hero. While watching an episode of AHS, viewers are warned about the scary and violent content of the show. This warning should not be taken lightly. From the very beginning of the season, every episode has had its own twist of horror and gore. The setting of AHS:Hotel is the Hotel Cortez located in Los Angeles. In the opening scene of episode one it features two swedish girls that find a creature hiding in the bed of their hotel room.This scene could make anyone want to stay up all night just to make sure there was not a monster underneath his or her covers. During...
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...Once, when the world was new it was a bright and sunny day. The sand which was golden brown was smothered with crabs. The sea was full of fish some were spacious some were small. In the village lived a young poor and beautiful girl named Larissa. She goes to the market everyday just to sell juicy fruit and vegetables. Larissa loved going up the hills and visiting all the animals while feeding them their favourite snack every night and day. Her biggest dream is just to save a person’s life! The next morning Larissa woke up, she went to the kitchen and saw her parents making breakfast for her they told her that Maricus the half horse half bull had been released again. Maricus had already been killing a lot of people that lived in her village. The queen was the one who had sent the beast. Larissa had remembered the last time Maricus had ruined her village. Maricus has head like a bull with an elongated body of a cute horse. His tail is stronger than a horse. He is much more likely to kill a human than destroying buildings and injuring an animal. That is why all living things stay way away from him. That day Larissa felt unsecure she stepped outside and saw her peaceful village in a wreck she just couldn’t stand there and just sees her whole village in a mess. So she stepped back in her home and told her parents to seal all the doors and windows. Larissa saw someone she recognised the lady said ‘Hello Larissa’ and walked off. She dropped something Larissa tried...
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...The Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck's most famous work, chronicles the exodus of the Joad family, led by the matriarch Ma Joad, from the Dust Bowl to the supposed Eden of California. Steinbeck alternates the Joads's story with intercalary chapters illustrating the conditions faced by the migrant group during their forced flight. Noted for his descriptions of the search for the American dream and sympathy for the plight of the working class, Steinbeck's works typically describe ordinary men and women who come close to achieving greatness only when faced with a trial that requires them to join with others for the greater good. Steinbeck's brand of literature, mixed with social commentary, was influenced by his teleological view of people as parts of a larger whole who must work in concert to improve the lot of humanity. As the novel unfolds, the short, descriptive chapters emerge like a series of thesis statements on the conditions of life in the Dust Bowl. The chapters recounting the story of the Joad clan can be seen as illustrations of or evidence for the claims made in the shorter chapters. In Chapter 5, Steinbeck sets forth an argument strongly supportive of tenant farmers. The landowners and the banks, unable to make high profits from tenant farming, evict the farmers from the land. Some of the property owners are cruel, some are kind, but they all deliver the same news: the farmers must leave. The farmers protest, complaining that they have nowhere to go. The owners suggest...
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...As children, we all feared something. It may have been an irrational fear, like the boogeyman hiding in the closet or monsters under the bed, or something more rational like getting separated from our parents in a store or getting stuck someplace, but there were things in this world that terrified us. However, fewer and fewer of these types of things make us afraid as we grow older, but there is a part of our mind that retains those fears and thoughts society deems to be negative and unacceptable. Instead, we take in various types of violent and horrific media that feature unrealistic and unnatural fears to scare us, but why? Well, let’s take the iconic psychological horror film The Shining by Stanley Kubrick as an example of the horror genre. The movie weaves a story of a man named Jack, his wife, and their child spending the winter looking after a remotely located resort. Everything goes well for a while*, but eventually Jack goes crazy with cabin fever and goes on a rampage, trying to kill both his wife and son. After a nail-biting chase through the snow covered hedge maze both the wife and son get away safely while Jack, fully...
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...occurred after the unforgettable night at the Clutter house. He places the information that he gathered from the research in the book in a very interesting sequence that leaves the reader in a state of confusion. The way he jumps from the investigation to the killers within the book adds a sense of dramatic irony but never gives away why or how these cruel men murdered the family. What confuses the reader even more is that Capote leaves us feeling sorry for one of these vicious men, Perry. How Capote utilizes form makes the reader build an emotional attachment towards the killers. The reader begins to develop sympathy for Perry because, as you see in the movie Capote, Capote favors Perry and does not want the world to see him as some malicious monster, yet as a human being. The way Capote opens this novel is by introducing the family and the killers. This gives the reader a feel of each character, but only to a certain extent. This allows you to know what kind of family the Clutters were and strive to figure out why someone would kill them, or possibly rob them and it somehow turn into a mass murder. But as you read this fascinating story, you are left with no type of possible reasoning behind the killings. Why would someone kill a family that appears faultless? This is what the whole grieving town of Holcomb was contemplating impatiently waiting for the detectives to catch the horrendous men that murdered the perfect family. After introducing the family and the killers, Capote fast-forwards...
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...Feeding on Fantasy The article “Feeding on Fantasy”- by Lev Grossman, is about the peoples passion for fantasy, which, in his head, is taking over the world of science fiction. The way he’s writing is neither critical nor real passionate. I wouldn’t say Mr Grossman is a real fantasy lover he knows his stuff and is using a lot of facts, but I’m more sure that he doesn’t like science fiction and in that way fantasy isn’t that bad to him. He’s not really into the whole Blizzard1 world, but he still somehow finds it exciting in a mysterious way. He says, “The business of fantasy has become a multibillion-dollar reality, and science fiction is starting to feel, well, a little 20th century.” The “well” in the sentence is clearly a sarcastic way of harassing science fiction, which also clears my statement that he has nothing left for the “so last year” –fashioned genre. This text is referring to that people in these years are tired of the sci-fi (the feature) world, so we are starting to go back and living this vision we have about the past, and we add these incredible creatures to it, that doesn’t exist, so that we can dream about these wonderful landscapes where the sun is always shinning, this passion about this everlasting love between the marvellous man winning his dream girls heart after a rough, very long and extremely dangerous trip crossing the country to defeat the monster who’s keeping them from being together, and this huge gap between being rich and poor and how God always...
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...As one of the largest corporations in America, Walmart has a huge influence on the lifestyle and economics of many Americans. It caters to consumers looking to save money, and those effected by the recent economic decline. It is also the largest private sector employer in the nation. (Peled) Yet, behind those yellow smiles, is the face of corporate greed. In an effort to be more fiscally responsible, middle class shoppers, and especially the poor are compelled to shop at Walmart. Over the last decade, as the economy has worsened, and more people are looking to make ends meet and spend less, Walmart has enjoyed record profits. In fact, in 2013 they made a 17 billion dollar profit. (Gandel) However, its employees, many of whom earn a minimum wage are forced to apply for government funded public assistance. In April of 2014, the Americans for Tax Fairness, a coalition of 400 progressive groups, estimated that Walmart costs taxpayers 6.2 billion in Public Assistance. Essentially, taxpayers are supplementing the salaries of these often minimum-wage, hard working employees. Because these workers earn so little, they can only afford to shop at Walmart. In effect, Walmart is double dipping; not only are they profiting by paying their employees so little, but when their workers pay with government funds, they make a profit on that too. The only way those workers can survive on wages so little is by creating a dependency by working and shopping at Walmart. They might look like...
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