...Theme of Fahrenheit 451 “Is it true, the world works hard to play ?” The theme of Fahrenheit 451 is that when people are forced to conform, they can’t show what they are capable of doing. Throughout the text, this theme can be showcased in many places. Starting off with the first quote, it can be found on page 82 saying, “We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black floam“. During this time, Faber was explaining to Montag on why he thinks books are so important, but also says what his take on books being burned was. So this quote talks about how people are living a caged, easy life of not breaking out to do what's different. They all basically have the same...
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...hide her religion and culture from the people in her life so that she can fit in. Then suddenly, she was attacked by some supposedly crazy man with a golf club on a subway train who is going on and on about angels and the end of the world. She manages to escape but not without being infected with the mass hysteria. I believe this is when Marisol begins to slip through a different reality. There is a theory of alternate realities which indicates that there is a thin fabric of reality similar to our own but each reality branches off and continues on another path based on decisions made in our life. Since there is a war between God and the angels then it is possible with the death of the angels that other realities can tear and bleed into each other. I believe this is what happened to Marisol on the subway. I believe she slipped into her own alternate reality where she actually died on the subway. Therefore, as more and more angels perish, the more alternate and surreal her reality becomes. The confusion that she experiences further indicates that this isn’t her world anymore. When she is confronted with the reality that God is old and doesn’t care about Earth as well as an angel uprising, she refuses to believe that she can take care of herself without aide from God. Her codependence on God and the belief that he will take care of her further cripples her ability to take care of herself like a child not ready to grow up. However, despite the confusion she experiences, Marisol manages...
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...to see the world, as it is right now. If that is the case, how can we ever know, if anyone is sane? The question of sanity becomes topical in the short story "Reconciliation" written by Polly Clark in 2006 and the word reconciliation has a very central meaning for the main character. The main character and narrator, Laura seems to see the world a little bit different from other people. The narrator of the short story is a first-person narrator, and therefore she is, by definition, subjective. The story she tells us is seen from her point of view, and it is always a problem, if only one point of view is used on actions. Especially if the narrator has problems seeing the world as it really is. The narrator's mind seems to be quite untidy. At first, she forgets to bring proper shoes to work, and then she decides to explain it with mountaineering. That is probably one of the worst possible excuses for forgetting anything. This tells us, that the narrator's sense of occasion and sense of order is not the best. Furthermore, she tells us, that she has dry washed her hair, probably without success. That also does not witness about the greatest sense of order. Perhaps the narrator is looking for order. It could be, that she continuously searches amongst others for the one thing she cannot produce herself. It seems that the narrator is in a drastic psychological development. She is married, but yet she wants to be divorced, and when she goes home after work, it is without her husband...
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...Theme To understand a story a person must first realize the theme behind the story. The theme can be defined as the overall purpose or reason. A theme describes a central idea, thought or point of discussion that the author wishes or intends to communicate to the audience. Such a point of discussion can be presented in a literary work, song or a movie. Therefore, the theme is the message that is presented as the moral lesson in a story. Many stories were written to convey a message to their readers whether it is for entertainment purposes or educational enlightenment. (dspsweb). Themes can be used to provide the main idea or motif of a piece of work. Kate Chopin's "The Storm", Ernest Hemingway's "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s "Harrison Bergeron" were all reviewed for the purpose of theme. Understanding the theme behind each of these pieces is important when analyzing the author's true purpose for their piece. Kate Chopin's “The Storm" was a piece designed to show how the events in life can have profuse effects on tomorrow but if all is well when "the storm" passes, then tomorrow may continue just as today did. “So the storm passed and everyone was happy”. (Kennedy and Gioia 100). The storms that Kate spoke of served both superficial and realistic natures. The storms faced by people each and every day can be viewed through Chopin’s perspective of troubled weather. The two characters continued to confess their suppressed desires for each other...
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... Part I: Overview Magic Kingdom Park is located in Walt Disney World Resort, Orlando Florida and is part of The Walt Disney Company’s Parks and Resorts. The Walt Disney Company (Disney) does not report financial performance results specific to Magic Kingdom Park. However, according to Disney’s 2009 annual report, 2009 revenues for the Parks and Resorts affiliate were reported at $10.7 billion, which was down $800 million from 2008, but up slightly from 2007. Operating income on the $10.7 billion in revenue for 2009 was $1.4 billion. According to the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA), the Magic Kingdom drew an estimated 17.2 million visitors in 2009. And, Disney held nine of the top ten in attendance for theme parks worldwide. In terms of industry size, comparisons specific to WDW or Magic kingdom Park are difficult to grasp. Walt Disney World Florida, which encompasses 47 square miles, is the largest amusement park in the world. The International Association of Amusement parks and Attractions, for example, reports approximately 400 parks and attractions in the United States alone and in 2008, amusement parks in the United States entertained 300 million visitors who safely enjoyed more that 1.7 billion “rides.” In terms of industry size, The U.S. Census Bureau reported that estimated 2008 revenue for amusement and theme parks was $11.41 billion. Total estimated revenues for the same year for the arts, entertainment and recreation...
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...Ray Bradbury’s The Veldt: An Analysis of Theme With a whopping growth of 676.3% of Internet users from 2000 to 2014, the significant advancement in technology nowadays enables us to perform daily tasks easier than ever before (World Internet Users). However, too much of a good thing can be bad. With modern technology, people can shop, study, play, or pay bills online on the bed without needing to go out of the house to get it done. As a result, humans are no more aware of their surrounding and have less physical interaction with other people. Similar to today’s scenario, in the story The Veldt by Ray Bradbury, one of the main themes is technology is causing us become more inhuman despite making our life easier. This is emphasized by the author’s use of characters, conflict and style throughout the story. First of all, the characters in the story emphasize the theme because they show negative behavior. As evidence, Peter clearly shows his laziness in the story when he persuaded his father to not shut down the house because all the machines in the house helped him a lot in doing his daily routine. For example, Peter questioned, “Would I have to tie my own shoes instead of letting the shoe tier do it” (Bradbury) to his father when George wanted to turn off the all the automatic appliances in their smart home. This event shows that he has been too pampered and comfortable living along the technologies until he highly depend on it and will not move a muscle for himself. Another...
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...The Great Gatsby “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.” In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald presents his audience with a novel with intricate symbolism. Nick Carroway, the protagonist, has recently moved from the Midwest to get his career started in New York. He lives on the island of West Egg the poorer side of town, across from East Egg the wealthier side of town. In East Egg are where his pompous and snobbish friends Tom and Daisy live. They gossip and party a lot, all while Tom is cheating on Daisy with a lady named Myrtle Wilson. Everyone knows except for Daisy and Mr. Wilson. Meanwhile, Nick lives next door to a mysterious man named Gatsby, who throws extravagant parties, but yet no one knows anything about him. Throughout the book Nick learns about the mysterious Gatsby and what it is like to live around people who believe in a conceited world of indecency. Fitzgerald involves symbolism into the heart of the novel so strongly that it is necessary to read passages of the book more than once to full understand. The creative yet simplistic styling of this book is a major reason why The Great Gatsby is one of the classics of the 20th century. Throughout the book, three themes dominate the text of The Great Gatsby. These themes include the loss of time, appearance and characterization, and perspective. The word time appears many times in the novel either by itself or in a...
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...Galvez 1 Brian Galvez Professor Khan Sociology 15 The Shawshank Redemption An important theme in Frank Darabont’s film The Shawshank Redemption is hope. The film demonstrates that hope is a good thing and shows the consequences in having and lacking hope. It is important that Darabont’s film showed the theme of hope as it us also important in our lives today because having or lacking in hope affects people personally, nationally and worldwide. In our everyday lives we are presented with cases of people having hope through our own or someone we knows personal experiences and on the news. In most cases, hope is portrayed in a positive light as it helps people get through tough situations. The film makes its viewers think about how having or lacking hope can effect out lives in reality and makes them conclude that having hope is a good and important thing. In The Shawshank Redemption demonstrates how hope is an important thing to have. We are introduced to Andy du Frense, Red Redding and their fellow prison inmates. Throughout the film Andy has a peaceful and positive disposition and this is because he has hope. Whilst having a conversation with Red, Andy talks about his dreams of what he is going to do with his life when he gets out of prison. Red responds negatively, claiming that “hope can drive a man insane”. Andy replies saying “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best thing and no good thing ever Galvez 2 dies”. This demonstrates that Andy has hope. A consequence of Andy’s...
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...Company is the world’s largest amusement park operator. It was founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Taking on its current name Disney in 1986. Chapter 1: Case – Disney Theme Park Contents I. Case Background 1 II. Statement of the Problem 3 III. Alternatives 3 IV. Recommended Solution 3 V. Answers to the case questions 4 Question No. 1: 4 Question No. 2: 4 Question No. 3: 5 Question No. 4: 5 VI. Leanings 5 I. Case Background The Walt Disney Company is the world’s largest amusement park operator. It was founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Taking on its current name Disney in 1986. And Disney has 5 theme parks outside the USA; there are Tokyo Disneyland (1983), Tokyo DisneySea (2001), Disneyland Paris (1992), Hong Kong Disneyland (2005) and Walt Disney Studios (2002). Disney is motivated to set up parks throughout the world to expand its sales of merchandise goods as well as attendance to their theme parks. After lunched Hong Kong Disneyland in 2005, Disney has signed a letter of intent to build another park in Shanghai China in 2008; The Park will attract different potential visitors in Shanghai. Overview Disney Theme Park - Points of Interest (Michael Sandberg's Data Visualization Blog) Getting people excited about their data one visual at a time * Walt Disney had infinite confidence in his new park and unapologetically included...
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...Soma in Brave New World The drug soma in Brave New World is a symbol of the use of instant gratification to control the World State's society. "Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant" is how Mustapha Mond describes soma. It's possibly the best tool the government has for controlling its population. It sedates, calms, and mainly distracts the citizen from the horrific state of enslavement that they live in. There's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you with one another, or to make you patient and forgiving. Everyone is trapped by happiness, which is a tough entrapment to break away from. Through the government's use of soma to control the population, Linda's excessive abuse of the drug, and John's attempt at stopping the drug, Huxley attempts to reveal how we allow the individual within us to be overcome by anything that will guarantee us pleasant feelings. Therefore, we sense a superficial happiness. The novel also compares religion with soma. It argues that Christianity functions the same way as soma, allowing the citizens to be controlled. Mustapha claims that soma is "Christianity without the tears." It offers its followers comfort, but at the expense of individuality. Soma clouds reality, replacing it with happy hallucinations. Soma is what the society uses to keep themselves balanced. Religion functions similarly because people use it as a source to give their life meaning. They refer to it to maintain order and function through life's obstacles. It acts...
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...write The Declaration of Independence he had no idea the far reaching influence this document would have on the world. The United States, since its founding, has had only one government, as many other countries in the world have had many forms of government. Thomas Jefferson used the Bible as a guide for drafting The Declaration of Independence. The founding fathers based the United States Constitution on the same principles that Jefferson used. Jefferson clarified the importance of the separation of church and state in his letter to the Danbury Baptists. Each document clearly states that there should be a clear separation between church and state. The theme of The Declaration of Independence is a declaration of facts about the unfair treatment of the colonies. The Constitution in comparison is the solution to the unfair Facts listed in The Declaration of Independence. I believe Jefferson based the theme of the Declaration on Matthew 22:21, “They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's.” and Romans 13:1 "Let every person be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God and those which exist are established by God." When Madison and the other founding fathers were drafting the Constitution they continued Jefferson’s theme by posing solutions to the Facts Jefferson listed in the Declaration of Independence. One could say that Jefferson...
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...Lobel’s beloved characters Frog and Toad. Although this book was first published in 1970, the universal themes within are still relevant for children today. Frog and Toad are inseparable friends created by the author Arnold Lobel. He wrote four books about the lovable twosome, Frog and Toad are Friends, Frog and Toad Together, Frog and Toad All Year, and Days with Frog and Toad. These two amphibians have unique characteristics. The adventures of these two amphibians make for some of the simplest and most enjoyable chapter books for developing readers. Toad and Frog are, indeed, friends, and their respect for each other comes through on every page. Arnold Lobel's writing is engaging without being cloying, and the vocabulary is basic without being babyish. The story is illustrated with swamp-toned sketches of the friends and their surroundings. While we are never too old to read tales of compassion, caring, and unequivocal friendship, Lobel's Frog and Toad tales primarily speak to children in primary grades. The language is basic, the sentences are short, and the chapters in the books are just the right length. Even though the characters are fictional, the feelings they share are very real, and the care they show for each other and the world around them stands as a good example of behavior. This book is a perfect example of taking a theme and creating stories surrounding that theme in a variety of ways that will appeal to younger children just learning to read. Children seem to relate...
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...perfect, but I would be lying. So I have decided to rate this assessment a 7. Allocation, time management and support were all key factors in achieving this level. Johnny worked on the Prezi, which he did fantastically, there is praise from all of us Minna wrote “how cool is that” while Alicia, Tamara and myself have all stated “how amazing” Johnny’s work on the Prezi was. Minna and Alicia’s dedication meant as a team member I felt supported, they offered praise and worked hard. They both were ready to fix things up such as referencing and my over the top word count. Each team member was allocated a theme and subtopics; however we did seem to have a misunderstanding on how to allocate these subtopics; as one person wrote about each theme instead of just one theme. Our theme was conflict resolution. Johnny, Minna, Alicia and I wrote about conflict in sport, workplace, home and amongst children our subtopics were conflict types, causes, management strategies and consequences. Instead of allocating a new theme to Tamara, Tamara wrote maintaining a conflict free environment for all themes. Our group wiki does show this misunderstanding and a comment from our eLa stating the error but we could leave it that way. This was a big relief to us. One thing that I found challenging was holding virtual meetings, we couldn’t all meet at the same time due to our lifestyles, so a question at times had a delayed response. For example questions posted in the morning may not receive response until...
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...“WALK CIRCUMSPECTLY” A BIBLE EXPOSITION ON LETTER TO THE EPHESIANS 5:15 BY REVD CANON ADEBOLA OJOFEITIMI “WALK CIRCUMSPECTLY” A Bible Exposition on Epistle to the Ephesians Chapter 5:15 “See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise...” KJV Our Theme Our theme “Walk circumspectly” coined from Ephesians 5:15 is a part of a long instructive writing of Apostle Paul to believers at Ephesus who Paul describes “...saints in Ephesus, the faithful in Christ Jesus” (Ephes. 1:1b). It is therefore an appropriate theme for a gathering like this. We are faithful in Christ Jesus and saints of God in the Diocese of Lagos. The two central words making up our theme are “walk” and “circumspect”, these words taking literally seem ordinary and convey little or no deep meaning but in strictest sense are loaded with cryptic message that must be unveiled. And that is my assignment in this segment of our retreat. I have absolute faith in the Holy Spirit whose brain child is the Holy Scripture that He will illuminate our hearts as we unfold the mystery of His word. Introduction Letter to the Ephesians is one of the 4 prison letters of Apostle Paul. It was written to encourage the personal faith of believers in Ephesus. It became necessary for Paul to do so because of the problems facing the church at that time. As gathered from records, Ephesus was a city on the western shore of now modern day Turkey. Like Lagos, it was famous for its trade, art and science...
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...Kannon Manis English Comp II Tues/Thurs 11:00 May 9, 2012 Research Paper Imagine A World without Imagination Thesis: In the poem “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World”, Richard Wilbur illustrates the fact that life is nearly unbearable without the use of imagination. Essay Map: The bleak and depressive theme of this poem exposes the poet’s struggles with finding meaning in his own life, reflects the stability of an objective view of reality rather than a subjective view, and provides an excellent example of the tricks that the right brain is capable of playing on the mind as a whole. I. Wilbur’s Search for Meaning in Life Is Reflected by His Writings A. The poem is written in a style that is quite unusual compared to Wilbur’s other literary works. B. The only positive outlook on life is found while the speaker is still asleep. C. He uses such harsh words as “rape” and “gallows” to make a point about the brutality of everyday life. D. His mixed feelings about life itself are exposed by absurd juxtapositions like “bitter/love” and “thieves/nuns”. E. He is able to find meaning by embracing his imagination as a part of life, and living according to that reality. II. Achieving an Objective View of Reality is a Healthy Practice A. Objective reality, or objectivity, is defined by the World English Dictionary as a worldview existing independently of perception or an individual’s conceptions. B. An objective view of reality is...
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