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Dystopia - Utopia Gone WrongWhat is dystopia? Dystopia is a utopia gone wrong to create a society that rather than making people happy, makes people unhappy and completely miserable. Our own world that we live in is a dystopia. There is no such perfect things around us. In fact, the bible stated itself that as long as we people live in this world there will be always be trials and suffering. Humans are greedy. Humans are rebellious. This is why we people are not meant to live in a perfect society or a perfect world. Humans are rebellious. In Ross's film The Hunger Games, the beginning of the movie introduced a game thatwas made only for the people who lives in the Districts of Panem. It is a game which citizens are chosen as tributes to fight to the death. They called this "The Hunger Games". This game served as a punishment and as a reminder to all the citizens of the consequences for rebelling against the government. If only people of Panem were governable and not rebellious back then, the Capitol wo |
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Overview of Film GenresFor film studies, the book defines genre as a category or classification of a group of movies in which the individual films share similar subject matter and similar ways of organizing the subject through narrative and stylistic patterns. Additionally it can also function as cultural rituals in which rituals are both formal and ideological practices that can become a beneficial means of responding a variety of situations. Genres have been used to classify various art forms well before the creation of films. For literature, Tragedy was considered the most important in Aristotle's Poetics, Musical genres were composed of classical sonatas and symphonies, and genre painting depicting domestic life and daily social encounters began to surface in the 17th century and were then followed by genre painting that came to suggest an image of a "slice of life. Ultimately these genres were linked to the stage, and the most popular genre of the 19th century melodrama was formed. Through the creation of these different forms, three function began to tae shape: to p |
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Unequal SocietiesCharon states that the fundamental reasons why societies are unequal are the division of labor, social conflict, institution of private property and ability to accumulate wealth, and power, prestige, and privilege (Charon 69). Jonathon Kozol in his article "Savage Inequalities" describes the societies of both a lower class African American neighborhood and upper class predominantly white school. Charon believes that the social conflict, which can occur during social organization is when one group claims victory by power, whether personal or superior (Charon 75). The system of inequality begins with the winners, or the upper class white community, and the losers, the African American city of East St. Louis, to create a system of inequality. This system results in the establishment of a culture, its institutions, and the socialization supporting and justifying the social elite. However as Kozol's essay continues, he approaches the reasons why these societies continue this syste |
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Religious Music - Renaissance to BaroqueMusic from the Renaissance and Baroque period in many ways reflect the mentality and setting of their times, each birthed upon the evolution and changes of profound ideas that became signature motifs of their place in history. From politics and economics to religion/patronage and technology like the printing press, there were many factors that all played large roles in shaping not only the music composed but it also affected the way it was composed, who composed it, and its overall societal context. This paper will discuss the factors which helped shape the stylistic differences between the two periods. The Renaissance Period, spanning from 1400-1600, was more than just a movement in the type of music that was playing; it was a movement of ideas in almost every art form of the time. This period is noted heavily for its revival of Greek and roman ideas, hence the name renaissance meaning "revival"(Sherrane 1). This spanned to all forms of art and generally took people as a wh |
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The World of 1984 Compared to TodayGeorge Orwell created a dystopian future in his novel 1984. Winston Smith is an outer party member who works in the records department in the Ministry of Truth. His job is to rewrite the past so it is in accordance with the present. Winston is not like the others in Oceania. He secretly hates Big Brother and The Party. Winston has a love affair with another outer party member named Julia. Winston and Julia elope to a room above an old antique shop owned by Mr. Charrington. O'Brien, an inner party member, senses Winston's discontent for the The Party and invites him to his home to become a part of "The Brotherhood" an underground organization with the intent of bringing down Big Brother. One day while Winston and Julia are in the room above the antique shop the "Thought Police" charge into the room and arrest Winston and Julia for being "thought criminals". Winston is taken to the Ministry of Love to be interrogated. While there Winston discovers that O'Bri |
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History of WitchcraftNumerous written traces regarding witchcraft have been read through and analyzed by historians. As most of works done afterwards, we need to keep in full view the context in which witchcraft has evolved. Many cultural and social circumstances could provide answers, but some questions are still unsolved. In many ways, witchcraft and the reasons which led to persecutions remain a mystery. What we know for sure is that "80% of the victims were women". Why- while many trials were primarily focused on the events and disasters of daily life- women were the main target? Jennifer Ward in "women in medieval Europe", states that radical changes occurred after about the end of the middle-Ages. Because of social fictions and religious evolution, the number of accusations against women increased. Women began to be seen as Devil's worshippers, sharing the same physical features with him. One would know that every stereotypes lies in their application. This latter has reached a po |
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The Negative Effects of Junk Food on StudentsThere has always been debate on whether serving junk food and snacks in schools was the best decision. Jennifer Van Hook, PhD, professor of sociology and demography at Penn State University says "What we found basically is, there is no relationship between going to a middle school that sells junk food and gaining weight," This may be true as far as the studies show, but did they check back on the same children in their high school years to see their health conditions? Giving young children the choice to buy junk food in schools is questionable. If you give a child the choice between a plate of vegetables and a bag of chips then most likely they will choose the chips Even though junk food sold in elementary and middle schools is not the primary source of weight gain it is still a contributor and should be taken out of the schools. There is no question that young children want materialistic things when its right in front of their eyes or it's been presented to them. Junk food works that way for the children. This |
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Rip Van Winkle and NatureRip Van Winkle, a tale written by Washington Irving, an author most identified with the Hudson Valley, portrays the independence of the colonies from Great Britain. The setting of the story takes place in the Catskill Mountains, depicting many literary elements through the nature of the scene. The mountains illustrate foreshadowing, personification, and symbolism of the strong rule that Britain once obtained over the colonies. The protagonist, Rip Van Winkle, can also be closely associated with the theme of nature. When Rip falls asleep for twenty years and awakes everything has changed besides the nature that has always offered him comfort. The setting of the story, the Catskill Mountains, is essential to the nature theme that is illustrated throughout. There is a lot of symbolism that takes place in the mountains. Irving states, "Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day, produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains& |
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Poetry - Porphyria's LoverThe poem is about Porphyria unconditional love for the man, and the man's desire to capture it forever by killing her. Porphyria shows her love for him, and the image is brought by "murmuring how she loved me". The verb "murmuring" shows the gentleness of her passion for him and his supposed domination over her. Her love for him is further accentuated by "Porphyria worshipped me". The verb "worshipped" creates an image of a god or idol Porphyria looks up to with admiration. This again creates his domination over her. This domination however, is opposed by "looked up at her eyes". The word "up" implicitly implies Porphyria's power over the man, contrasting the previous idea. The fact that the man looks up at her suggests her superiority. This ides of Porphyria being superior to him is also enhanced by "spread o'er all, her yellow hair". The wide spread hair acts as an overshadowing feature, again expressing her power over the man. Furthermore, the yellow g |
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Psychoanalytic Approach to Jim MorrisonJim Morrison suffered from a major dramatic accident, as well as continued drug and alcohol abuse in his teen and adult years. If a therapist was to analyze Jim in the last year of his life, they would view these as major parts of his id and superego unconscious based on Sigmund Freud's ideas on Psychoanalysis. Repression occurs when the unconscious tries to forget something. Jim most likely acted in ways he did because he was trying to forget about bad repressed in his childhood. Good therapists like Freud would free association and analyze the contents of Jim's dreams and their interpretations in order to recognize and work on long standing conflicts. In cognitive behavioral therapy, a therapist might used Mary Cover Jones' idea of systematic desensitization to introduce a new way of relaxing Jim and inhibits fear and anxiety that he may have suppressed in his lifetime. Focusing on what Jims current behav |
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Synaesthesia: A Window into Perception, Thought and LanguageThe paper I chose is called, Synaesthesia- A Window into Perception, Thought and Language by V.S Ramachandran and E.M Hubbard. Throughout the paper Ramachandran and Hubbard discuss many things including perception and thought and how it related to synaesthesia. Both authors also talk about the experiments in which they have conducted which unquestionably prove that synaesthesis is a genuine perceptual phenomenon, and not an effect based on memory association from childhood. The two also talked about synaesthesia with respect to language and how it evolved. For the sake of this class I chose to focus/elaborate on how Ramachandran and Hubbard explain their thought on Synaesthesia and its relation to the evolution of Language. One of the oldest puzzles known to mankind is the evolution of language, and how it has evolved. Both Ramachandran and Hubbard believe that language origins come from synaesthesia. The two attempt to explain and give valid arguments to support this theory, but unf |
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Loyalty and Sir GawainThe value of loyalty is one of the prominent themes explored by Anglo-Saxon literature. Faith is highly representative of the emotional and physical tension experienced by some of the characters in Anglo-Saxon literature. Aspects of these tensions can be seen in Lanval and in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in which the central speakers, Lanval and Sir Gawain, are shadowed and challenged by the maintenance of their faith to women. As a result, the value in these characters' faith is complicated by the relationships that they each established with the women of whom they encountered; in a sense, the concept of women, through the value of loyalty and faith, can be looked at as the good and evil of Lanval and Sir Gawain. The story of Lanval responds to this tension of faith when it first introduces the relationship of Lanval and of a fairy, whom of which seeks for his presence. Among the first instances of love and lust experienced by Lanval, seen where Lanval "looked at her and |
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Soccer Goal Line TechnologyIn soccer, there are various debates and controversies about whether the ball crosses the goal line, mistakes made by referees. But the most controversial incidents have been about goals in recent years. One of the best solutions to these problems is Goal Line technology. This method is used to determine when the ball has slightly crossed the goal line with the assistance of electronic devices and at the same time assisting the referee in awarding the goal or not. The objective of GLT is not to replace the role of the officials, but to support them in their choices. The question of the inclusion of this system was raised in the year 2000, due to a penalty shoot-out in the African Cup of Nations Final after a player from Nigeria w |
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The Annals School of HistoryIn this essay I will examine the variety of history known as the Annales school of history. This essay will outline what the Annales schools is, how its different from other varieties of history, and its value as a style of history. First lets identify and briefly describe the tradition or school of history being examined. The Annales school was established by two french, Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch. The scholars of the Annales have drawn their inspiration from non-historians as much as from historians, theirs is a kind of history which crosses all frontiers and uses all techniques. But what- ever non-historical sources have fed it, the school itself is essentially historical. Trevor-Roper explains in his copy the first edition of the journal Annales d'Histoire Economique et Sociale, that Bloch and Febvre describes their view on history. They describe that historians, having passed through the same experiences and drawn from them the same conclusions, have long been afflicted by the |
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College, Cellphones and DistractionsWhy are things like cell phones, iPods, and tablets so important to have when coming to college? Many people would answer this question like this "because they are cool". Well with the way technology is today and how todays phones are so high tech that is not the only answer. With products like Apple, Samsung, HP, and Android these are no longer just phone to call and text, this a phone that you can do any and everything on, from calling to texting, playing games, listening to music and even surfing the web. Instead of students, getting phones where you can call in text they purchase the $500.00 iPhone, Galaxy, HP or Droid so they can do everything on it. With this cool technology there is no stopping these young adults they must have it on them at all times of the day, including class time. This paper will use a literature review to search for a better understanding of why college students use their mobile devices during class time and the distractions it causes them affect |
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What I Would Change in My LifePeople always want to make changes and for everyone all the changes that they want to make are different, some want to be rich, some want to be strong, some want to change their life since when they born, even some want to make changes in their body and so more. Also, most people are not happy with their life and some of them continue with their road of unhappiness but some other really wants to make changes about their lifestyle. Many questions will come in everybody's mind like: are you in a very satisfy relationship, career choices, in a good financial situation or in other aspects of your life? Do you feel that you should do something more about your life or you want to stay in happiness? For most of us are some days that we want to change everything and to go back in time, I would say that the same thing happen and to me sometimes. Like everyone else and I want to ma |
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My Brothers Keeper - Sonny's BluesMy Brothers Keeper A Greek philosopher and disciple of Socrates by the name of Antisthenes once said When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. Many people agree that one of the most profound things in life is the bond between brothers. The closest, genuine, and most personal relationship one may share will be with their siblings; the person that knows them best. Sonnys Blues and the Biblical story of Cain and Abel are both two stories that depict the true importance of brotherly love. In Sonnys Blues, a narrative by James Baldwin, the story about two brothers makes an interesting turn when the narrator finds out that his brother Sonny has been arrested for the use of heroin. The estranged brother is shocked by the news and it sends the narrator into feeling a mix of emotions. As time passes, the narrator finally decides to reach out to his brother in jail, after the narrators daughter dies. He writes his brother a letter and lets him know about the unfortuna |
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The Keystone PipelineThe Keystone Pipeline is a project that transports crude oil from Alberta all the way to Illinois and Oklahoma. This project was approved in the year 2007 by the National Energy Board. TransCanada has now proposed to expand the pipeline all the way to Houston, Texas. This has become a tremendous issue in our society today because not everyone supports this proposal. People are protesting against the expansion of the pipeline because of the environmental concerns they have. About 200 people had been arrested for protesting against this project. (Uechi, 2) Naomi Klein, a Canadian activist, who is completely against the expansion of the pipeline, says that it could contaminate drinking water since the pipeline would pass through the Ogallala Aquifer, which is one of the largest fresh water reserves in the world. (Uechi, 1) There is no doubt that there are going to |
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History and Future of the PennyThe one-cent, better known as the penny, was first introduced by the Coinage Act of 1864 (pennies.org). Since then, the penny has become a respected tangible reminder of our American heritage. But how significant does the one-cent hold in the present day American economy? This question has ignited a controversial debate over the issue of whether to keep the penny. While one side would like to see its ongoing production, the other wants to see it dropped. However, in a world possessed by a constant drive for innovation and development, the penny is a thing of the past. So why continue its meaningless existence? The penny may have been the star of its time two centuries ago when it was of economic worth, but in todays age, its long overdue for retirement. Pennys arent what they were back in their day when people were able to buy things with it. Today the penny is a bothersome, worthless, nuisance circulating in production within todays currency. The penny is literally worthless. I repe |
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Harriet Jacobs - Slave GirlHarriet Jacobs story "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" is a true story about her life and her struggles growing up and being a female slave, Jacobs wrote her story during the 1850's and published it in 1861, the same year the civil war began. In this narrative Jacobs was not only able to recall and describe the physical pains slaves go through, but also made it easier to understand what slaves went through mentally. Slave owners even affected the slave's sexual lives from continuous sexual abuse. Sexual abuse from slave owners caused a serious problem for slaves and caused women to feel father apart from men. The tradition of treating women as property in the south made it difficult for people to see the immediate effects of the abuse, but over time it became clear that slave women and men were treated very differently. The fact that men had power over their female slave's sexuality affected not only women slaves but also negatively affected many relationships between families, genders, and race. Sexual abuse aimed at slave women caused the slave owners wives to fe |
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Effects of the Internet on Human BehaviorWe have entered a world where people are completely reliant on the Internet and social media. People cannot walk into a family home or even a restaurant without seeing one person not on a cell phone, computer, or tablet, talking, texting, or playing a game instead of interacting with each other. This generation's technology was made to ease communication skills, and over all make the world a "better " place. However, technology is not just used as a helper in communication but is now a substitution for boredom and a real social interaction. In Alan Greenblatt's "Impact of the Internet on Thinking: Is the Web Changing the Way We Think? " an UCLA psychiatrist suggests that: "'We have a generation of digital natives with very strong techno-skills and very strong neuro pathways for multitasking and experiencing partial continuous attention and other wonderful adaptive skills, [b]ut they're not developing the face-to-face human contact skills.' " (Greenblatt, 9) American's of the twenty |
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Symbols in Shakespeare's MacbethShakespearean literature is often characterized by imagery. William Shakespeare uses this technique in order to give hidden deeper meanings to his pieces, as we can see in the play Macbeth. As a matter of fact, in this tragedy the audience can find many different types of imagery: plant, animal, sleep, clothing and so forth. Most of these images are associated with a human characteristic; the imagery of light and darkness is no exception. The symbols of light and darkness in Macbeth are used to illustrate the contrasts between good and evil, to explain the actions of the protagonists, and are associated with sight and blindness to emphasize drama. Being two contrasting elements, the characteristics associated with light and darkness are also opposite; light is related to innocence, truth and purity, while darkness is associated with corruption, cruelty and guilt. In Macbeth, there are many different references to these two elements, and each one is connected to certain symb |
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Religion - The Book of Christ by Anne RiceI traveled to Southern Israel and as I walked along a stream I saw something in the distance. Upon further inspection me and my excavation team discovered a jar. We were not sure what was in the jar so we took the jar back to the tent where we had our equipment set up. In that jar was an ancient scroll. We started to put the script together. Because of me and my teams vast knowledge of both the the Old Testament and the Apocrypha we determined the scroll was very old . The scroll that we found was in my opinion written by the Essenes.The Essenes believed and trusted in God. The Essenes specifically believed in enduring Gods law to have everlasting life. I plan on proving that the Essenes had written the script by making a comparison between the Zealots, Pharisees, and Sadducees. All four of the sects had a different viewpoint and beliefs in God. The following text is a summary of the script I believe was written by the essences. Oh Lord thank you for your promises to me. God you hav |
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Volunteering at Willow Elementary SchoolOver the past few weeks I have been volunteering at Willow Elementary School in Lansing with 1st graders. While I am in the classroom, I help the teacher with different activities like making booklets and working one-on-one with students. There are some days where the teacher will have me help her with stuff she wasn't able to get to like putting together packets, but I usually help with a group of students or a few individual kids. I also go to lunch and recess sometimes with the children. During lunch I help open up milk cartons and other food they struggle to open, and then I help when it's time to clean up and throw everything into the trash. While at recess I help watch all the children with a few other teachers and volunteer students. On my first day in the classroom, I got to see what the children do on a daily basis. They start their day out in a group in the middle of the classroom where they sing, count, and talk about the weather outside. "The student of the day " gets to stand up in front of everyone with the teacher and help them figure out the date, count the numbers in the date, look outside and decide what the weather is, and then help the teacher spel |
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Puritans in the New WorldJournalist Alistair Cooke wrote, "People, when they first come to America, whether as travelers or settlers, become aware of a new and agreeable feeling: that the whole country is their oyster." This proved to be true with the Puritans and their arrival in the new world. They traveled to the New World to escape religious persecution from the Church of England. They were pushed out for being too extreme. The new land provided so many opportunities yet to be discovered. The new life seemed so promising. With the new opportunities came potential for disaster as well. The Puritans found out quickly, settling in New England was not easy. They had to work hard to keep the colony running. Changes would need to be made if the New England colony wanted to stay alive. In coming to the New World, Puritans found the experience they expected, but not as easily as they anticipated. In all, the tendency of English colonists to form like-minded colonies was crucial to the success of the Massachusett |
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