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    to an online document entitled “The War on Drugs Criminalizes Youth”‚ the drug war is often defended as a necessary policy to protect the nation’s young people. However in many countries‚ just like in the United States‚ the youth caught in the “crossfire of the ‘war on drugs’ are frequently prosecuted‚ incarcerated and denied access to educational opportunities.” In the United States‚ according to the said document‚ the “war on drugs‚ rather than protecting youth‚ has resulted in the institutionalized

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    forget about all the great things that were in the Unmentionable Times. The events in anthem establish a slow progress of science and technology in totalitarian societies because everyone was told they must be equal‚ cannot be smart‚ and cannot express themselves. With anthem being technologically primitive it will never be able to improve the nature of science and technology. The technological progress in anthem is moving slowly but surely. It hasn’t moved since before the Unmentionable Times

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    Youth

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    “Bringing back the true purpose of the youth in filling up the missing pieces of our country’s key to success” In every dot begins a stroke. In every stroke begins a figure. In every figure begins an image. And in every image creates a masterpiece. Like a painting‚ our world is full of dots and strokes‚ and through those dots represents us people that though we may look like insignificant points‚ we‚ if taken as one body‚ can define the world. This shows that no matter who we are or what we are

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    Anthem a dystopian world

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    English II February 13‚ 2015 Anthem a dystopian world Why is Anthem a dystopian world? A dystopian world is a world in which an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad‚ typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. Ayn Rand’s novel Anthem demonstrates dystopian novels because the citizens of the society worship a figurehead or concept‚ citizens have fear of the outside world‚ and the natural world is banished and distrusted. Anthem society demonstrates that they

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    National Anthem Essay

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    Is it right to force someone to stand for National Anthem? I’m 21 year old. I’m proud of my Country and proud of our Constitution. I don’t need the Supreme Court to tell me to stand for National Anthem. I don’t need the Supreme Court to mandate that where the National Anthem should be played‚ where it should be sung‚ how it should be sung. You can’t force people to be patriotic; you can’t force people to respect Flag. Respect is earned it’s never mandated. It is from within and need not be dictated

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    War Is Futile

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    Prompt: “War is futile” Discuss in relation to Owen’s poems (Ducle and Anthem for Doomed Youth). Wilfred Owen once wrote‚ “All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.” Owen’s poetry on war can be described as a passionate outrage over the horrors of war and pity for the young soldiers sacrificed in it. By combining gruesome images‚ effective similes and a range of other poetic techniques Owen evokes an appalling picture that war is futile because soldiers were

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    What techniques does Owen use to communicate his feelings about ‘the pity of war’ in his poem “Futility”? He uses techniques in the poem such as empathy as he really uses his feeling to express his ideas‚ while using his ideas to express his feelings. The poem begins with the narrator ordering that the man be moved into the sun; this leads us to believe that the narrator is of a high rank than the person he was talking to‚ someone of low rank would not be giving orders to someone who outranked

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    In Anthem and The Giver they both rebel. Equality likes a girl named Liberty. This is extremely against the rules because “boys are not allowed to take notice of girls and girls are not allowed to take notice of boys (pg. 38).” Also‚ “We shall go to this Council and we shall lay before them‚ as our gift‚ the glass box with the power of the sky. (pg. 61)” They have disobeyed the council again because they made this “glass box with the power of the sky”‚ which is a light bulb. They want to present

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    Philosophy‚ what role does it play in one’s life‚ what are people ready to sacrifice for it.In Anthem‚ there is an ongoing battle between two major philosophies‚ Individualism and Collectivism. The novella shows the key aspects of these two philosophies‚ but has a strong bias towards individualism. This due to the fact that the structure of novella is based on these two philosophies. When someone’s philosophy changes‚ that also means that his perspective on the world also changes. Philosophy and

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    youth

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    He youth of today is the driving force of tomorrow. It has some responsibility towards its country‚ which it must acknowledge and practice. Instead of blaming the system‚ youth should come together and mould the nation for a better tomorrow. YOUTH HAVE some responsibility towards their country. We need to learn from yesterday and live with hope for a better tomorrow. We can learn from our past how the young warriors shed their blood for the country. - See more at: http://www.merinews.com/article/role-of-youth-in-indias-development/140606

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