...relates to a 24th century city dweller named Guy Montag. He takes pleasure burning illegally owned books and the homes of their owners while considering himself as a fireman. His story in Fahrenheit 451 thoroughly describes the different changes a person can experience through the variety of someone's actions. Throughout the text of Fahrenheit 451, Montag shows many different traits such as being oblivious, rebellious, and audacious. Throughout the hearth and the salamander, Montag is oblivious to his society’s problems. As stated in the text, “While the books went up in sparkling whirls and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning. Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame. He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man, burnt-corked,...
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...Finnigan 1 Abortion, More Harm Than Good Life, it is the most precious things on this planet. It starts from conception and goes on forever. Even though you may not physically be walking on this planet your life will always be remembered by someone as you leave this planet. Then there are those few babies that never get to make a difference in someone’s life or get to become the next president. Those few babies that never even get the chance to leave their mother’s womb or better yet, they don’t even get a chance to develop. Abortion, it causes more harm than good and should be illegal. It has been widely debated over when life truly begins whether it starts at conception or when a baby first sees the light of day as it comes into this world. In worldnetdaily.com staff writer Jon E. Dougherty’s article, Life begins at Conception, he states “Life begins at conception, not birth. Birth is simply one stage of ongoing human development…Life is as real and as tangible as death; consequently, we humans are "viable" the moment we are created in the womb. Barring death by natural causes, everyone has the potential to eventually become a senior citizen someday — as long as they aren't butchered before birth. In fact, some have said we begin to die the moment we are conceived because our lives always reach that inevitable conclusion. The "not viable life" excuse doesn't hold up because, if all life is not "viable" life, then what is the purpose of having an abortion? If these human...
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...1 Symbolic Interaction, Functional Analysis, and Conflict Theory of Elie Wiesels’s Night Introduction 2 Symbolic Interaction, Functional Analysis, and Conflict Theory of Elie Wiesels’s “Night” Elie Wiesel’s Night begins in Sighet, Transylvania, 1941 when he was a teenager. He begins talking about a life before his world, along with his family, was torn apart. His family was Jewish, and he wanted to study Cabbala. He was very much involved in his faith and wanted to further pursue it by studying Cabbala, but his father would not let him. “There are no Cabbalists in Sighet.” (pg 4). He was very close with his shtibl, Moishe the Beadle, who later was taken by Hungarian Police and expelled from Sighet because he was a foreign Jew. Once they were taken over by the Gestapo, the babies were used as target practice and the adults were shot. Moishe managed to escape because he was shot in his leg and was able to get back to Sighet to tell Elie what happened. He also tried to tell everyone in town what had happened to him and the rest of the foreign Jews, but no one believed him and he was branded insane. 1944 was when the town of Sighet was split into two ghettos, and no one could leave the town. Shortly after that, the Hungarian police told everyone in town to turn in their valuables (gold, jewelry, etc.) because they were going to the first concentration camp, Auschwitz. This is where Elie and his father were separated from his mother and sisters, and never heard from or...
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...In Keats's version of 'Decameron' he uses the original as a base to reflect his own style and writing techniques. He basically makes it his own and he does this in a number of ways. The most obvious of these adaptations is the fact that Keats has turned a novel style piece of writing into poetic verse. 'Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in loves eye!' This is the first two lines of Keats's Isabella, from the start Keats uses imaginative description, this again is another difference of the two. Boccaccio's writing is far more factual, this creates a good affect but Keats chooses the other option and lets his imagination and also the reader's imagination to tell the story. 'Know then that there were at Messina three young men, that were brothers and merchants, who were left very rich on the death of their father' As you can see by comparing the two beginnings of each piece, it is easy to see their differences already. In the beginning of Keats's version he immediately refers to the lovers, he bases his whole poem around the love of these two people, however Boccaccio's original is quite different, he starts off by talking of the brothers, and he instead of love his story revolves around murder and treachery. This major difference could be put down to the fact that the two pieces were written 4 centuries apart, Boccaccio's being written in the 14th and Keats's in the 18th. This I feel plays a huge part...
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...Mary Prince Paper: A COMPARISON AND CONTRASTING BETWEEN SLAVE SOCIETY AND SOCIETY WITH SLAVES By Viamonte Lee A Case Study Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for the Course Humanities in the World since 1300 at The University of Akron. March 5, 2015 Introduction This is an analysis of slavery based on two stories: The History of Mary Prince and Semsigul. In addition, there is comparison and contrast of the two stories along with supporting or dissenting arguments offered in the Overfield readings with regards to slavery in the Spanish colonies. The perspective of this analysis looks at the following aspects of coerced labor: 1. The relationship between the master and the slave 2. The struggle of the slaves against the slavery system 3. The impacts of the slavery system on the health of the slaves The Mary Prince account is autobiographical hence, although in her own voice, there may be some liberties given to the facts and conflicts of interest when delivering details of her story objectively. In addition, there may be some instances where she would have a limited perspective. By contrast, Semsigul’s story is her testimony within a police report –just facts and answers to questions. Alonso Zorita speaks on behalf of the indigenous in his account of Indian forced labor in the Spanish colonies. His accounts will be used to further compare and contrast the two main perspectives. ...
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...Eyes of Pain I chose to analyze a photo taken in 1936, by photographer Dorothea Lange (Barnet and Bedau 165). The original title was “Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California.” The photo is also well known as “Migrant Mother” (PPOC). The photo captured me emotionally and this is why I chose it for my analysis. The photo is a portrait of a mother and three of her young children clinging to her as she stares pondering into the distance. Her mouth is slightly turned down in a frown, her children's faces are buried in her shoulders, and a baby laying in her lap. The look in her eyes is as if she does not even recognize her children are with her as she considers what will come of them. Her brow is heavily wrinkled with concern. Their clothes are torn, dirty, and tattered. The baby's face is covered in dirt as its eyes are closed. When looking closer at the baby one may ask, “Is it sleeping?” or “Has it passed away?” With the children's faces hidden one is only left to imagine if they are crying. Are they mourning the baby? Perhaps they are scared, like their mother, of what their fates will be. The photo was taken during the Great Depression. This was a time when many people in our country were homeless, hungry, and looking for work. I believe Lange was trying to capture the urgency of the situation. We see in her photo these tired, poor, and hungry people starving as they sit waiting for opportunity...
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...and some comments of his experiences in the novel “Wanamurraganya”, an analysis of “Mary’s Song Cycle”, and finally I will talk about the movie “Rabbit Proof Fence” First, I will like to start talking about who and what the Aboriginals are, they were the original residentes of Australia and they have been there since around 45.000 years ago, however the Aboriginals claim they trace their creation back to the “Dreamtime”, an era where the earth were created. Before the first settlers came to Australia in 1788, the Aboriginal people lived throughout Australia, although the most of the population lived along the coast. Today more than half of all Aboriginals live in cities, often in cruel conditions with bad educations, and some with the habit of drug, alcohol and smoking addictions. The novel starts with that Jack McPhee is born in 1905, and that he is an illegitimate son of an Aboriginal woman and white station owner. Mary’s Song Cycle is made Ruby Langford Ginibi, she is born Jan 26 1934 and she died Oct 1 2011, she a Bundjalung author, historian and lecturer on Aboriginal history, culture and politics. The poem is narrative, because it a tells a story, the story is about the “stolen generation” and how the Australian government treated the Aboriginals, the poem ask the reader where it’s people, children, traditions and warriors are, but right in the middle of the poem, the poem says that they were torn and split apart, by the Whiteman’s world of greed, power and gain, but...
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...of the past. You cannot hold on to the past, while living in the moment. This is the essential problem for the main character Andrea in the short story, Janus by Ann Beatie, she carries her past on her shoulders like it was the weight of the world. But how does past ruin the present? The main character Andrea is a divided individual, who is torn between a love from the past and her husband. First of all, Andrea is a divided self in the way that she is indecisive towards her husband and lover. Her lover made an ultimatum, which is seen in page 47 lines 38-43: “Her lover had said that she was always too slow to know what she really loved… When she would not decide in his favour, would not change her life and come to him, he asked what made her think she could have it both ways.” This clearly shows how Andrea cannot decide whether to leave her husband or not. Moreover, the quote shows how well the lover knows her compared to how little her husband knows her, take the following example: “When her husband first noticed the bowl, he had peered into it and smiled briefly… Her husband had pronounced the bowl “pretty,” and he had turned away without picking it up to examine it. He had no more interest in the bowl than she had in his new Leica” (P. 25 ll. 16-23). Comparing the two examples the reader gets the feeling that their marriage is loveless and uncaring, wherein Andrea’s relationship with the lover is the complete opposite. Andrea’s relationship is therefore more passionate...
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...(though sometimes uses flashbacks) * A sequential presentation of the events that add up to a story. Example: Jesus and his disciples went to a farm nearby the Nazareth. Native people came to see him. Hearing the miraculous things that he has done, they believe He can also show things they never saw before. Jesus healed the people who was sick and tormented by the devil. He casted away the devil but it went to a pig near the farm. The people panic and got scared that they heave Jesus away. Description * Description is not what you saw, but what readers need to see in order to imagine the scene, person, object, etc. * This type of paragraph causes us to think in more detail about a person, place, event, or situation. * A definition paragraph works in both fiction and academic pieces. * When writing a definition paragraph, use specific examples and be thorough. Example: Zombies are flesh-eating fictional characters. Like human but with rotting skin. They can infect other kind of species by biting them or scratching them. In movies we can always see them with torn shirts and bloody mouth. They can be killed by shooting them in the head by the use of guns or any object that can hit them real hard to the head. Compare and Contrast * A...
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...Analyzing the Impact of the Web Lutricia Hunter Capella University ABSTRACT The development of the web has dramatically changed the way society acquires and publishes information. This has had both positive and negative impacts on education. As the information available on the web expands, the number of industries that it will impact will also increase. Traditional brick and mortar school buildings as we know them today will gradually become a thing of the past as society transcends into the age of convenience. In the presented assignment I will be analyzing “Will the Web Kill Colleges?” This assignment will describe the key points of the author’s argument, analyze the aspects of the author’s argument that I agree with, analyze the gaps or challenges that I see in the author’s argument, implications for education, and potential ethical questions raised by the author’s vision of the future. The development of the web has dramatically changed the way society acquires and publishes information. This has had both positive and negative impacts on education. As the information available on the web expands, the number of industries that it will impact will also increase. Traditional brick and mortar school buildings as we know them today will gradually become a thing of the past as society transcends into the age of convenience. In the present assignment I will be analyzing “Will the Web Kill Colleges?” This assignment will describe the key points of the author’s argument...
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...easy one which can be seen in the Poem Annabel Lee. In the poem, Poe uses visual imagery to describe many different scenes in the poem. One for example is when he describes the death of Annabel Lee, “ that the wind came out of the cloud by the night, chilling and killing my Annabel Lee”. (25) This quote shows how Poe wanted his readers to get a visual of a tragic cold night that resulted in the death of a woman. The poem is written in a musical way, one can imagine the cold night. The reader could feel it chilling themselves and could feel the heart break of the young lover’s death. Another example of imagery is when Poe writes, “So that her highborn kinsman came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulcher In this kingdom by the sea” (17-20) the image given is her family taking her away from her lover to lock her up in a vault by the sea where she cannot be seen. One could also visualize a castle by the sea, and imagine the poor Annabel Lee locked up. The quotation “And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes”, shows imagery as the stars won’t rise, but he still sees Annabel Lee’s bright eyes. The young lover does not have meaning to his life anymore. She is all that consumes his mind and broken heart. Poe uses symbolism such...
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...on Marxist Criticism and the researchable topic is sexual abuse. TLC is an American girl group who is originated of three girls: Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas. Marxist literary criticism is a loose term describing literary criticism based on socialist and dialectic theories. It relates to Marxist criticism because one partner is dominating the other partner in any sexual activities. “His Story” is a song by TLC on an album called “Ooooooohhh… On the TLC Tip”, which was released on February 25, 1992. This is also the debut studio album of the group. Marxist Criticism best explains the lyrics to the song because it has one partner dominating over the other. Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis, originating from the mid-to-late 19th-century works of German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, that analyzes class relations and societal conflict using a materialist interpretation of historical development and a dialectical view of social transformation. Sexual abuse is an abuse of any sexual activity such as molestation. Child sexual abuse is a form of child abuse that includes sexual activity with a minor. A child cannot consent to any form of sexual activity. When a perpetrator engages with a child this way, they are committing a crime that can have lasting effects on the victim for years. “Yo, this is a story of a male female threat to society You know being misjudged and not respected for what we are But I...
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...Art as a means for change There are many things art is good for. Expressing one’s emotions, to let a loved one know how much they mean to a person. To visually represent what one has seen and experienced. To save a moment in time for others to enjoy the beauty of it all. Above all else, art is there to convey a message. To put the idea of the artist into the head of another. This is why art has been used time and time again to express political, social and humanitarian injustices throughout history. Art, drawing to be exact, was the first way to express the day to day life of another human being. To save the ideas and memories of early man all the way to modern man. Every period of human history since this point has been filled with the carvings, drawings, paintings, writings and musings of humans who have felt betrayed by the government or community that was suppose to be there for them. Every person has a side of the story that they would like to share, art is one of the easiest ways to get a lasting point across. Princess Hijab uses art in this context to express a distaste for modern day ideologies regarding what is beauty when it comes to the human body. “...her dressing up of billboards is a symbolic act of resistance meant to reassert a “physical and mental integrity” against what she calls the “visual terrorism” of advertising.” (Aburawa 30) Blurring the lines between what is acceptable public art, with advertising, and graffiti, with her movement...
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...Trenton Day Mrs. Barber English 11-5 21 March 2013 Critical Analysis The Occurrence “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” has been read by any and every story critic in the nation. This short story by Ambrose Bierce has been read for over one hundred and twenty years. Bitter Bierce creates a very unsatisfying ending through the story for the reader through a unique plot structure, an intriguing setting, a common point of view, and a terrible sense of irony. The plot structure is a very weird way to tell a story. The story begins with a man ready to be hung for treason. One immediately sees that the conflict is going to be a man vs. man plot. He also learns what the scene looks like. A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into the swift water twenty feet below. The man's hands were behind his back, the wrists bound with a cord. A rope closely encircled his neck. It was attached to a stout cross-timber above his head and the slack fell to the level of his knees. Some loose boards laid upon the ties supporting the rails of the railway supplied a footing for him and his executioners—two private soldiers of the Federal army, directed by a sergeant who in civil life may have been a deputy sheriff. At a short remove upon the same temporary platform was an officer in the uniform of his rank, armed. He was a captain. A sentinel at each end of the bridge stood with his rifle in the position known as "support," that is to say, vertical in front of...
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...period grew under Napoleon III’s rule. French artists such as Gustave Courbet and Jean-Francois Millet used their paintings as political statements. As the French society looked for democratic reform, the artists of the time depicted working class people doing their everyday jobs. Not only were Courbet’s portraits criticized for their simple and crude style, but also for the scale of the portraits that depicted the often mundane and impoverished lower class. Their goal was to depart from the former Romantic era and portray people and events truthfully and often, “in gritty detail” (Finocchio, 2004, p.1). The artist’s subjects were not posed, smiling out at the world but rather caught in the act of living. Often the subject’s clothes were torn and dirty, their faces tired and worn. Although Realism is often associated with France, it also influenced artists in Russia, England, Germany and the United States. A2. Later Historical Art Period The Impressionism Art Movement was launched in Paris, France in 1874. At this time Paris was newly renovated under the Emperor Napoleon III. Old buildings and those destroyed during the Franco-Prussian War were rebuilt. Consequently, Paris was a cleaner, safer city (Samu, 2004, p. 20). At this time, a group of artists organized an independent exhibit showcasing their work. They called themselves the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors,...
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