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Bottled up Emotions
I walked down the shopping aisle, tips of my fingers softly touching the tightly sealed bottles as my eyes glanced, reading one by one of their labels. Happiness. The liquid inside was light yellow, twinkling, like stars beneath the dark, night sky. Anger. Red liquid was bottled up inside, flaring red like the fiery breath of a dragon, and as warm as the nice breeze blowing in summer. Sadness. It was dark blue, as
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Bound Feet and Western Dress
Traditions in Chinese culture are long-rooted and are taken very seriously from generation to generation. However, there must always be room for modern change in order for society to grow and strive across the globe. In Bound Feet and Western Dress the conflict between Chinese traditions and modern change arises. With this conflict it is important to discuss the different meanings of liberation for men and women and they way in which Chang Yu-I was
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Bowling Alone
Summary Robert Putnam’s basic thesis is that there is a decline in civic engagement in urban cities. He goes on to explore different probable factors that are causing the decline in civic engagement. First off, he dichotomizes civic engagement into two categories: machers and schmoozers. Machers and schmoozers are people who engage in formal kinds of civic engagement (following politics) and informal kinds of civic engagement (hanging out with friends) respectively. Civic engagement, overall, is
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Bowling for Columbine
1. I think media has a great impact on how people behave. The media is defined as listening to music, watching TV, movies, reading magazines, and searching the internet. I think when people here about certain things in songs, or see things in movies or on television it has an effect on them. If there is violence in a TV show or on the news kids can think that’s cool to do and do it.
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Boys and Girls by Alice Munro
“Boys and Girls” is a short story, by Alice Munro, which illustrates a tremendous growing period into womanhood, for a young girl living on a fox farm in Canada, post World War II. The young girl slowly comes to discover her ability to control her destiny and her influences on the world. The events that took place over the course of the story helped in many ways to shape her future. From these events one
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Bradford’s Voyage
The idea of being oneself in America had shifted from believing that God had complete autonomy over everything and that people as individuals were simply carrying out the will of God, to the idea of staying true to oneself and shaping their own life. When a rude and arrogant sailor on Bradford’s voyage to the New World was getting out of hand, God, “to smite this young man with a grievous disease, of which he
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Struggle to Maintain Victorian Upper and Middle Class
The Victorian men and women conveyed in Bram Stoker's Dracula are pure and virtuous members of the upper and middle class. However, hiding behind this composed and civilized conception of England lies a dark and turbulent underbelly. This underbelly is the lumpenproletariat, whom Karl Marx defined as "the lowest and most degraded section of the proletariat; the ‘down and outs’ who make no contribution to the workers cause". Victorian culture discriminated against these vagrants, who
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Branded by Alissa Quart
The book Branded, by Alissa Quart is an amazing book that talks about how much money, time, and energy is spent by our corporate culture to effectively change the lives and habits of teenagers. The book is written by, and she does a marvelous job of documenting the teenage-corporate-media relationship throughout American history. With degrees from Brown University and Columbia, her journalism and research skills are unparalleled. Every statement and point is backed up by
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Brandon Intro. to Athletic Training
Brandon Intro. To Athletic Training Kelley Becker 11/15/05 Shadowing Project For this project, the certified athletic trainer who I have shadowed for almost eight hours in just one day is Candace O’Bryan, currently the athletic trainer at Archbishop Hoban High School in Akron. Candace has worked at Hoban now entering her third year at the high school. She works alone as a trainer there but works along side one team doctor who is at every
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Branwell Bronte as the Byronic Hero in His Sisters’ Novels
Nathaniel Conant English 2100:Writing about Literature Joanna Eleftheriou December 14, 2014 Branwell Bronte as the Byronic Hero in His Sisters’ Novels Tragic events such as Charlotte and Emily Bronte’s mother dying before either child had reached the age of five, followed barely three years later by the passing of their two eldest siblings, Maria and Elizabeth, shaped both Bronte sisters’ lives drastically. Because of these tragic events, both canonical authors became known for their depictions
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Brave New World
Brave New World is a 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley. Set in London in A.D. 2540, the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, biological engineering, and sleep-learning that combine to change society. Huxley answers this book with a reassessment in an essay, Brave New World Revisited (1958), and with his final work, a novel titled Island (1962),The world the novel describes is a utopia, albeit an ironic one: humanity is carefree, healthy and technologically advanced.
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Brave New World
Imagine living in a world without mothers and fathers, a place full of faceless human clones. This is the society portrayed in Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel entitled Brave New World. Huxley describes a futuristic society that has an alarming effect of dehumanization. This occurs through the absence of spirituality and family, the obsession with physical pleasure, and the misuse of technology. In this world, each person is raised in a test tube rather than a
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Brave New World
(This is a rough draft, so there are many errors in the writing.) Life compared to Brave New World and the present world are slightly different, but they both have many similarities. For one thing, life is taken for granted in both societies. Marriage is wasted, in the Savage Reservation the husbands aren't loyal or faithful to their wives, at it happens many times today. The use of drugs became a normal daily routine. Self-indulgences,
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Brave New World
In Brave New World, by Alduous Huxley, a new and controversial society is presented to its audience. A world of artificial intelligence where humans are cultivated in test tubes and social class is predetermined by the chemical mix they receive in vitro leads John Savage into corruption. He is torn between a world in which people’s fates were placed upon themselves and a world in which Alphas and Betas ruled a society with n identity.
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Brave New World
Brave New Motto Every community strives for stability and civilized behavior from their citizens. Stability and community both play a very big roll in a civilized society. In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the state motto: “Community, Identity, Stability” encompasses not only the state goal, but also the techniques needed to reach these goals. Community is the first part of the Brave New World’s state motto. Community is also the first technique used to
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Brave New World
Summary: Chapter 1 The novel opens in the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre. The year is a.f. 632 (632 years “after Ford”). The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning is giving a group of students a tour of a factory that produces human beings and conditions them for their predestined roles in the World State. He explains to the boys that human beings no longer produce living offspring. Instead, surgically removed ovaries produce ova that
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Brave New World
Pardon the hyperbole, but I wonder if we can't trace a goodly portion of the decline of Western culture in just the drop-off from Walt Disney's Pinocchio to Steven Spielberg's A. I.: Artificial Intelligence. Despite the surface similarities between these tales of a wooden boy on the one hand and a robot boy on the other, both of whom hope to become real, and despite Mr. Spielberg's quite conscious attempt to implicate Pinocchio in his
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World was written to portray an imminent vision of society. It reflects a time when the world is governed by the elite few who use domination and tyranny to control the masses. Many would argue that the novel was based upon mere science fiction and others would contest that there was a more profound meaning on the level of a Greek or Shakespearean tragedy. I would propose that Brave New
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Brave New World
Aldous Huxley's Brave New World presents a portrait of a society which is apparently a perfect world. At first inspection, it seems perfect in many ways: it is care free, problem free and depression free. All aspects of the population are controlled: both as to number, social class, and mental ability. Even history is controlled and re-written to meet the needs of the party. Solidity must be maintained at all costs. In the new world
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Brave New World
Brave New World The novel Brave New World is like no other in fantasy and satire. It predicts a future overpowered by technology where the people have no religion. Has Huxley written about a degrading way of life or has he discovered the key to a perfect world that should be called Utopia? This essay will show that upon close analysis the way of life in the novel is justifiable and all the precautions
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Brave New World
The novel Brave New World is like no other in fantasy and satire. It predicts a future overpowered by technology where the people have no religion. Has Huxley written about a degrading way of life or has he discovered the key to a perfect world that should be called Utopia? This essay will show that upon close analysis the way of life in the novel is justifiable and all the precautions that are taken
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Brave New World - a Defence of Paradise-Engineering
BRAVE NEW WORLD ? A Defence Of Paradise-Engineering Brave New World (1932) is one of the most bewitching and insidious works of literature ever written. An exaggeration? Tragically, no. Brave New World has come to serve as the false symbol for any regime of universal happiness. For sure, Huxley was writing a satirical piece of fiction, not scientific prophecy. Hence to treat his masterpiece as ill-conceived futurology rather than a work of great literature might
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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Zachary Keever English 10H 7/5/06 Change in a Brave New World The novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is a very interesting story about a man named Bernard. He finds out his boss is planning to fire him. Bernard fights back by showing his boss that he has a son and a partner who he has long forgotten about. The son is a very interesting young man named John. He changes drastically throughout the
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Brave New World Vs. the Collector
Imagine living in a world without mothers and fathers, without the love given to friends and received from family, a place full of nameless, faceless human clones. This is the society depicted in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. In this futuristic novel, Huxley describes several reasons behind the dehumanization of the human race. For example, the absence of spirituality and family, the infatuation with physical pleasure and the strong influence of technology are the main
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Braving the Fire
Braving the Fire I read the book Braving the Fire. It takes place in the year 1863. The book is about a 15 year old boy from Maryland named Jem Bridwell. He lives on a farm with his father, grandfather, and their slaves. Because Maryland was a “border state” during the civil war, it was not considered part of the Confederacy, although most of the people living in Maryland at the time were for the
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Brazil
Located in Eastern South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean with the total area at 8,511,965 sq km, is Brazil. Throughout time it has had a rich history that has not only effected but influenced its cultural dress. This Paper will cover Brazil’s has a hot climate, diverse culture dew to slavery, and interestingly unique dress. As a result of its location, its climate is a tropical one, with flat rolling low lands, plains, and some
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Bread and Roses
Bread and Roses Essay The book Bread and Roses gives us a vivid look into the world of the labor union in the early 1900’s. It takes us through the times of the strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts portraying the struggles and hardships of those involved. This strike of the mill workers shows a dramatic and changing time in America’s history and it is something that we should take a closer look at. In the novel,
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Bread Givers and Family Limitation
In the great story of a young girls triumph over poverty, rejection and innumerable failures as a child, she will unfortunately never truly prosper as an adult in the world in which she lives. Our protagonist, Sara Smolinsky who is the youngest of the four Smolinsky girls, has the most motivation in life to be independent, and fend for herself. However to achieve this goal she would need to break loose of the family chain
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Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions Have you ever read a book and enjoyed it, but once you were finished you wondered what it was really about? You wondered if the book had a deep meaning that you had to sit and think about or if the book was just for entertainment purposes only and had no meaning whatsoever. For me, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. was this type of book. Breakfast of Champions is a
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Breaking Clean
Breaking Clean By Judy Blunt Growing up in rural Montana in the 1950’s and 1960’s was a life a large majority of Americans cannot fully comprehend, appreciate, nor would even want to live. It was a hard life for men who worked farms, and was especially hard for the women who shared this life as well. Breaking Clean is a simple, honest memoir written by Judy Blunt who grew up as the third child out
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