...Imagine you coming home and then finding papers saying that you were going to be aborted. Just like mothers would abort children, except you are living when it happens. Abortion is a major controversial issue today. In the book Unwind by Neal Schusterman kids that don't get to live past teenage years are called unwinds. Unwinding is the process of which a kid a handed over to the government from their parents and their body parts are "unwound" from the body then distributed to people who would need them. They would not die but would be in a diverse state. Conner, Risa, and Lev all became unwinds but they ran away so they could not be unwounded. There are three major themes in the book, government control and survival. The book rarely...
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...Oral Roberts University SUPERIORITY AND BLURRED LINES: An observation of the themes communicated in major DC Comics storylines Joshua Gallego Philosophy of Science HONR 102 Dr. Ken Weed/Dr. Samuel Thorpe March 13, 2014 Introduction Superheroes are part of an American upbringing. Stories of persons with capabilities that far exceed that of the human race are popular and appealing to our youth and even to many adults. Entertainment in general pervades the American culture, and this specific type of entertainment dealing with superheroes is of considerable size and has been a constant for several decades. Images of Superman, Captain America and many others are immediately recognized when seen. The entertainment value of these fictitious tales has caused the companies that own them to expand into creating computer games and producing movies, which has made them even more visible. It is considered weird if a person does not even know the basic story of these costumed figures. The adventures, stories, and even lives of these fictions have become a part of the American Psyche. Throughout the course of this semester, discussion in the Philosophy of Science class has led to topics such as the paradigms and presuppositions that we approach our world from and the metaphors that we use to communicate ideas and concepts. Such discussion has led to the asking of questions concerning things that we encounter in everyday circumstances. Questions like “What are the presuppositions...
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...quote makes people wonder what is going on in the book.The book that I am using for my book talk is The Lost Hero. The author of this book is Rick Riordan. This is an adventure fantasy and the level of my book is 4.7. I chose this book because Rick Riordan is my favorite author. The setting of my book is at camp half-blood from day to night where demigods, centaurs, and satyrs can live and have no worries. But will Jason, Leo, and Piper be safe there? It all begins when Jason wakes up and is supposed to be dead. Jason is a son of Zeus the god of lightning. Jason has no idea where he is and who he is. He doesn’t even know who his girlfriend is. Piper is Jason's so-called girlfriend. She is kind hearted and beautiful she is the daughter of Aphrodite the goddess of love. Leo is this funny creative kid who loves inventing stuff. Leo is the son of Hephaestus the god of fire. Jason, Leo, and Piper have a big problem. Gaea is awakening and she had just been thrown in Tartarus. This is the conflict, the conflict is man vs. society because camp half-blood, Leo, Piper, and Jason has to stop Gaea from attacking Mount...
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...I have never heard of this author before nor have I read any other book. Genre: Fiction, Fantasy, children's Literature, and Speculative fiction. A Lot of Fantasy video game players who play games relative to the Skyrim series would enjoy this book. I do not read these kinds of books, I also have never read a book similar to this. Title: This book seemed very interesting to me just based off of the title. It fits with the book very well and plays along with the story. Pictures/Book Jacket/Cover/Printing: The Book cover itself has the author's name with the title and pictures of a wizard, Knights, and a Dragon. However in the book itself there are no pictures, but the cover still interested...
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...The ideas that the individual is more important than the group is a belief in the societies we live in today, as well in the book “Anthem” by Ayn Rand. Another belief in Anthem is that the individual is supposed to benefit nothing else but the society. There is two main roles in the book that express these themes; Equality 7-2521 and the society he lives in. In the beginning of the book Equality 7-2521 starts of by obeying the rules and not questioning society. Towards the middle of the book he finds a tunnel from the Unmentionable Times and starts to invent electricity. By Equality finding this tunnel and inventing electricity he starts to defy society and form his own idea of individuality instead of working for a group. Equality Started...
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...Enl 200 Oct. 16, 2014 Compare and contrast the theme of sexuality in three of the texts we’ve read so far. In several texts we have read in class so far there has been hidden meanings and in order to figure out these meanings we've had to analyze the context of the texts. One of the hidden themes we have found in several texts is that of sexuality. In the texts where it has been seen the most is that of the novel Dracula and in two Edgar Allen Poe poems, such as, "Annabel Lee" and "The Sleeper". These all have clear themes of sexuality in each though some parts are different, however, they all have similar traits. These three texts are alike not just because they have the theme of sexuality but they all deal with the death of a lady and how the main characters of these texts are attracted to their death which is preceived as uncanny. In the book Dracula by Bram Stoker Dracula is a vampire who finds a victim named Lucy who he sucks her blood until she dies when Lucy is dead she is still seen as beautiful by the characters and are all still in love with her although she is dead. In the poem "Annabel Lee" the character's love Annabel has died but he is still attracted to her and talks about her as if she is still alive and lays with her every night. The next poem "The Sleeper" is similiar to "Annabel Lee" because the main character has lost the love of his life a beautiful woman. The character like in "Annabel Lee" struggles to deal with the nature of life and death. The...
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...however it takes place far into the future, even beyond 2014. In this future society, television and radio essentially control the world, and literature is virtually becoming extinct. Firefighters's jobs are to start fires, not put them out. Their mission is to burn all books and the houses they're found in. Guy Montag is one of these firefighters, who is numb to the effects of book burning. He finds joy in the fires and goes about his duties every day, burning books, coming home to his wife, Mildred, who is addicted to her television "family" and sleeping pills. His world is loud and busy, but essentially empty. Eventually, Montag meets his neighbor Clarisse, who is unlike everyone else in that she notices the details in life and the nature all around her, and values the old way of life, including books. Once Montag starts talking to her, he starts to see the flaws in this modern society and wonders what books really contain. This curiosity is heightened even more when he witnesses an old woman die with her books in her house fire because she refused to leave them. Montag begins to collect and read books, which ultimately...
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...It was early 1991, and Michael Eisner, chairman and CEO of the Walt Disney Company, was sitting down with Frank Wells, president and chief operating officer, and Gary Wilson, executive vice president and chief financial officer, to discuss Disney's prospects for the new year. These men were still basking in the glow generated by another record revenue- and profit-breaking year in Disney's history. Disney's businesses were performing at an unprecedented level, and confidence was high. The problem facing the trio who had engineered Disney's turnaround was how to maintain Disney's explosive growth rate and its return-on-investment goal of increasing earnings per share by 20 percent over any five-year period to achieve a 20 percent annual return on equity. Paradoxically, the very success of their strategy, which had originated to protect an underperforming Disney from the rampages of corporate raiders and the threat of takeover, was causing the opposite problem: how to maintain the company's explosive growth in a business environment where attractive opportunities for expansion were becoming increasingly scarce. The men were reflecting on how to develop a five-year plan that would cement the strategy that had led to their present enviable situation and make the 1990s the "Disney Decade." This case is intended to be used as a basis for class discussion rather than as an illustration of either effective or ineffective handling of the situation. This case was...
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...are often shown in her work, as a sort of rebirth from destruction and decay. She uses many mementos from her past such as pieces of literature to further incorporate the past with the present in her work and to create emotional connections as well. Growing up with certain stories either from being a book designer or from her recently deceased mother, have been the inspiration in some of her most recent pieces. Her work has no strict criteria and you need no knowledge or experience in art to relate or understand the meaning behind some of her art. I’ve noticed in some of the pieces that nature can take human form and animals are seen as temples. Fry has created work as big as permanent pieces of national parks to small frames hanging on the wall, but in general they have a common theme to all of them. As I first walked into the exhibit I noticed that I was small, quiet, and dark. There was a girl behind a desk typing on her computer and I almost felt uncomfortable being watched so closely. As I started to relax, I took a glance at the first hanging piece by the entrance. It was a framed sculpture called Secret and at first glance I was confused. It looks as if there is a three door stand with a man’s head on top covering him mouth as if he couldn’t say something important. As I analyzed it further I began thinking that we all have types of “drawers” with secrets in which we will not tell for one reason or another. This piece was simple yet had meaning that everyone can relate...
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...novel. Mailer also interviewed everyone who was involved with Gary Gilmore. All his information was based on his interviews with the family and friends of both Gilmore and his victims. This is used to show detailed information and credibility toward Gilmore's life and his numerous crimes. Throughout the first section of The Executioner's Song, Mailer uses deductive reasoning to appeal Gilmore’s case to the audience. He added in the logical process of proving Gilmore to have a right in how he died and why he should be able to through multiple premises that are generally assumed to be true. He used an emotional connection with Gilmore and himself to add depth to the piece. Mailer once said, He "appealed to me because he embodied many of the themes I've been living with all my lifelong." The second section is focused Gilmore's...
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...Oscar Wilde. But, 200 years after her books were written, why do we still read them today? Possibly the most apparent reason is Austen’s ability to make us feel better about ourselves. Her books are awash with moral guidance as we see the main characters go on journeys and encounter obstacles in their quest for happiness, and we cannot help but put ourselves in their shoes and wonder “What would I do?”. Austen uses subtlety to guide us through moral difficulties, avoiding the preachy tone of “You SHOULD do this”, and instead incorporating the delicate air of “This is a possibility.” Our need for guidance and role models relates back to the inescapable human desire for valid instruction from an influential leader; In her time, when unmarried women were virtually invisible on the social scale, Austen was not a typical body for a role model, and so many of her readers would not have uncovered, or expected, the moral messages written into her storylines. Contemporary readers, however, can easily unpick the subtleties in Austen’s work and indentify the intricacy in her “comedy of manners”. Another perfectly valid reason we still read Austen today is simply because she is an eloquent and articulate writer. She writes with wit, flair, irony, and an unmatchable humour in her tone. Her novels, albeit not popular in her own lifetime, are now greatly appreciated for their hilarity and tinkling mockery of society. Her characters are entirely three dimensional, not cardboard; she uses...
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...out of a time in society when there was a deep sense of despair following the Great Depression and World War II. Society's spirit of optimism was destroyed and this helped to move term of existentialism. Existentialism impacts on many aspects. One of them is human free will. Existentialism affects people by raising an important question about creation of people and their position in life .Human searches for adequate decisions and creates his own views to find a path through his personal life. Human's personal responsibility and discipline is crucial. Existentialism impacts humans free will proving that it influences on their way of thinking, making descision and understanding who are they. Firstly, one of the most important themes being raised - a theme of existence. Especially, in the play Waiting for Godot readers spectate scenes that repeats with the same point. Estragon and Vladimir are waiting for someone who's name is 'Godot', but he never shows up. "ESTRAGON:(He turns to Vladimir.) Let's go. VLADIMIR: Wecan't. ESTRAGON: Why not? VLADIMIR: We're waiting for Godot. ESTRAGON(despairingly). Ah! (Pause.) You're sure it was here? VLADIMIR: What?ESTRAGON: That we were to wait. VLADIMIR: He said by the tree."(Waiting for Godot, p 19). This conversation show that they do not know why are they here, but they believe that Godot was here once and should come back again. Characters thinks that Godot is...
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...Disorders, 15, 184-192 The article is connected to chapter 16 in the book which is Psychological Disorders. I chose this chapter for more than one reason. First, the articles speak on three groups of children who depressed, attention-deficit/ hyperactivity, and control. Three different groups with three psychological disorders. Second, was the fact that it talks about schizophrenia symptoms which is mentioned in the book as well. I found a lot of related subjects in the book that helped me understand the article a little more. The Article’s themes are: Teacher-parent agreement on the scales was consistent with the results from past studies, Teacher ratings distinguished among the groups almost identically to parent ratings; in particular, the Affective Problems scales significantly differentiated the Depressed group from the other two groups, and General teachers checklists should not be used as primary source for screening suicidal behavior or depressive disorders in youth but should always be taken inconsiderate. Theme #1: Teacher-parent agreement on the scales was consistent with the results from past studies. Based on DSM-III-R diagnoses generated from interviews—using the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School Age Children, Epidemiological Version (K-SADS-E)—of parents and children ages 6 to 18 years old (N = 153), the authors formed three groups of children: Depressed, Attention-Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder, and Control...
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...Objective Summary The book Unwind, by Neal Shusterman, follows three main characters. The story is centered on the concept of “unwinding” children between 13 and 18 years old. Unwinding is the medical process of taking every part of someone to be used later. Connor and Risa are both scheduled to be unwound, but escape by working together. Lev is a tithe, someone who is born to be unwound. Connor, Risa, and Lev have the goal of reaching a mysterious location, called the Graveyard, which is said to hold hundreds of unwinds. They have to avoid the police and other malevolent entities, such as an aggressive kid named Roland. All three are driven by their aversion to being unwound. Theme Statement Human life has significance. Text Evidence...
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...Sixteen years after a sixteen-year-old wrote this book, Francis Ford Coppola turned this novel into a movie. The book is a coming-of-age novel, but the movie focuses on the characters' loss of innocence. The movie follows the story line very closely. The reader is only told that this story takes place in the southwest, but the movie places it in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the year 1966. It also changes the conflict from the East Side versus the West side to the northside versus the southside. This minor directional change was probably made due to the relative time proximity to the musical West Side Story, which won the best picture Academy Award in l961. However, as with all movies, character insight that is critical to understanding the story is lost when the format goes from the written word to the screen. Ponyboy is telling us the story, the same as in the book, but the 91-minute film only glosses over many character relationships. <a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/CNSite/;navArea=CLIFFSNOTES2_LITERATURE;type=Lit_Note;kword=SE_Hinton;kword=The_Outsiders;contentItemId=139;tile=3;sz=300x250;ord=123456789?" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/CNSite/;navArea=CLIFFSNOTES2_LITERATURE;type=Lit_Note;kword=SE_Hinton;kword=The_Outsiders;contentItemId=139;tile=3;sz=300x250;ord=123456789?" width="300" height="250" border="0" alt="" /></a> With the exception of Ponyboy, the viewer misses out on knowing most of the novel's characters. Darry and Soda...
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