Prejudice: Why It Is Awesome? "If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race‚ creed and color‚ we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon." - George Aiken George Aiken’s quote is full of simplicity‚ complexity‚ and social value. It is a quote that can easily inspire discussion on the workings of the civilized human’s mind. Aiken depicts that‚ through the nature of modern society‚ there is a great deal of competition‚ classification‚ and superiority. Aiken
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1. Orwell shoots the elephant because the two thousand native people standing behind him expect him to. They want revenge for the man it killed‚ the meat the carcass will provide‚ and the entertainment of watching the shooting. “The people expected it of me and I had got to do it” he writes. There is a suggestion that if he decided not to shoot the elephant‚ both he and the empire would suffer a loss of prestige‚ but the main concern in Orwell’s mind is the “long struggle not to be laughed at”. He
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(Singapore) Art‚ culture‚ and society; these three elements are closely linked. These three elements affect one another in one way or another. There is often a conflict of interest between the artist‚ the audience‚ and the government body. The artist’s aim is to express art freely. The audience’s aim is to view art in forms that are not offensive to them. The government’s aim is to mitigate the conflict of interest between the two parties by implementing policies and restrictions to art pieces that
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In George RR Martin’s “Sandkings‚” the protagonist‚ Simon Kress‚ is extremely sadistic. Some examples of Simon Kress being sadistic is‚ he starved the sandkings so they would fight each other‚ he like to kill the sandkings‚ and he invited his friends over just so they could be killed and fed to the sandkings. After Simon Kress purchased the sandkings‚ he grew very impatient with them because they were not fighting each other‚ “the sandkings did not war. He was getting upset. Finally‚ he stopped feeding
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In 1984‚ by George Orwell‚ Winston and Julia are in their secret apartment when they hear a voice from behind a painting (Orwell 221). They are being spied on and soldiers come in to take them away. As they are being taken away‚ Winston sees Mr. Charrington come in‚ realizing that‚ “... for the first time in his life he was looking‚ with knowledge‚ at a member of the Thought Police” (224). This immediately changes the dynamic of the story‚ as the main characters are taken away from everything they
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George Eliot George Eliot taking the life of a woman and making it into something big. Mary Ann Evans also known as George Eliot was an English literature writer. In 1819 on November 22 Mary Evans was born. People that she was around for a long time were later put into her books. In the days that George Eliot was writing was when women couldn’t choose writing as a profession (“George Eliot.”www.kirasto.sci.fi web.‚ Kirkpatrick‚ D.L…). Eliot’s first fiction book was Scenes of Clerical Life (Kirkpatrick
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George Washington George Washington‚ born on February 22‚ 1732 is referred to as the Father of our Country. He was born near Wakefield‚ Virginia. Military arts and Western Expansion were Washington’s biggest interests. George Washington displayed great leadership throughout his involvement in the foundation of the United States. He was a talented military commander. He fought in the the French and Indian War as well as leading the Continental Army to final victory at the Battle of Yorktown in
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My overall impression of the socialization process at George Fox is that it is ethical‚ there is little to criticize. I chose to come to George Fox precisely because I wanted to be in a Christian environment. I did not want to be surrounded by alcohol‚ drugs‚ parties‚ and promiscuous roommates. While I find the university’s code of conduct and Resident Assistants to be ethical‚ the practice of clapping when the lights are turned off in the Bon is unethical. There are rules set in place from the
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The man who wouldn’t be King On the day of 1783‚ Three months earlier‚ on September‚ the British had recognized American independence with the signing of the Treaty of Paris‚ General George Washington resigns as commander in chief of the Continental Army and retired to his home at Mount Vernon‚ Virginia. After giving one of his biggest contribution to the new nation through his Resignation speech‚ the reason Washington speech is still widely remembered is because its out of the ordinary
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George Ryga Canadian playwright 1932 1987 George Ryga‚ one of Canada’s most prolific and powerful writers‚ was born in 1932 in Deep Creek‚ Alberta‚ of poor immigrant parents from the Ukraine. At the age of 16 one of his teachers encouraged him to enter a creative writing competition run by the Banff School of the Arts. The work he submitted won and he got a scholarship for the school sponsored by the Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire. Unfortunately‚ his scholarship was revoked
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