allowed himself one last chance to partake in sweet memories of friends‚ family‚ his country‚ all left behind. As his wife stirred he turned around. He never looked back. Forward they walked towards opportunities untold. Forward they walk towards a new beginning. Forward they walked in America‚ home of the free. For centuries humans have forsaken the comforts of their current situations in search of a better existence for themselves and their families. From migrating thousands of miles to overthrowing
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Aldous Huxley’s book Brave New World strongly‚ the vast majority of the population is unified under the World State‚ an eternally peaceful‚ stable global society in which goods and resources are plentiful and everyone is happy. Happiness is deprived from mass produced goods such as obstacle golf‚ Centrifugal Bumble-puppy‚ recreational sex and the most common one‚ the use of the drug soma; a hallucinogen that takes users on enjoyable‚ hangover-free "holidays". We meet the protagonist Bernard‚ who
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Summer Reading Assignment: Dialectical Journal Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë |NOTE TAKING (QUOTES) |Pg. No. |NOTE MAKING (RESPONSES) | |“This room was chill‚ because it seldom had a fire; it has |10 |The red room is significant to Jane‚ because it admonishes her| |silent‚ because remote from the nursery and kitchens; solemn | |uncle’s passing.
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Dialectical Journals of The Things They Carried Idea/Stylistic aspect | Quotation | Response | Truth | “Among the men in Alpha Company‚ Rat had a reputation for exaggeration and overstatement‚ a compulsion to rev up the facts…it was normal procedure to discount sixty or seventy percent of anything he had to say.” | The narrator‚ in making a seemingly offhanded comment about Rat’s tendency to lie‚ reveals another major point of the novel: the truth of a particular story is differing from person
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In the beginning we learn all about this new‚ modern world‚ where this story takes place. A world without emotion. A world where infants are produced in factories. All of this just to control the useless factors and to do what is best for the people. A place where it is acceptable for individuals to escape reality for countless hours. A society where it is nothing but common to engage in innumerable sexual acts. A world very different from the one we live in today. People are divided into classes
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Chapter 6 -“Bernard pushed away the proffered glass impatiently.” (page 99) In this example the proffered glass refers to soma. Soma in the new world is taken to relieve stress and forget one’s problems. There are hypnopaedic phrases to make children want to take soma such as “A gram in time saves nine‚” or “One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments‚” (Huxley 99). Although the sayings are pumped into children’s’ ears thousands of times Bernard seems to not have absorbed them. Children
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makes the World State sound like a utopia- the perfect world. However‚ as you continue reading‚ you realize the society they have created is more dystopian- a world where no one is an individual and through technology‚ the government is very powerful. I felt the World States motto- "Community‚ Identity‚ Stability" (Huxley‚ 1)‚ was ironic because the people in this community don’t have an identity since they are conditioned to act‚ feel‚ and think a certain way. None of the people in the World State
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A year ago today I woke up from an enduring coma‚ which was due to a bullet hitting my frontal lobe in a mass shooting at a concert in Chicago‚ and it brought me to a dull country with no opportunity for advancement . I woke up to a dreary hospital room waiting for someone to come in‚ and I pondered a look around my room which only displayed one machine that kept me alive and a bed. Apparently the government stopped funding hospitals and several other groups because our debt came back to us to bite
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Tamara Haddad Wilhite P.5 Scarlet Letter Dialectical Journal “Like anything that pertains to crime‚ it seemed never to have a youthful era… a wild rose-bush‚ in this month of June‚ with delicate gems‚ which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in” (Hawthorne 45). Hawthorne describes the door of the jail‚ as well as the rose bush to the side of it. I feel as if this is supposed to represent what Hester is about the experience: the harsh
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children in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. The children in Brave New World are encouraged to participate in erotic play; they are conditioned at a young age to stay away from emotional bonding and view everyone as their personal property. To many- imagining the world where
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