Summer Reading Assignment English Language AP Dialectical Journals Passage/Quotes from Text Page #/¶ Response 1. "The priest was blessed with a long‚ incriminating finger‚ which he used to point out sinners in public‚ and tongue schooled in arousing emotions." Pg 2 /¶2 (C) As I continued reading on how the priest was to spot the sins his fellow community has committed‚ it kind of surprised me. My priest could probably tell the people who sin from the guilt that appears in their face but the
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Whenever Logan Oxley‚ one of my greatest friends‚ and I get together we always reminisce about events we’ve experienced‚ one of which was when we went to Harris Teeter and messed around creating short thirty second videos. We would do random shenanigans around the store‚ like dance to the atrocious music the store played. We have shared numerous experiences that still make us laugh today; and the best one‚ you’ll just have to wait there and find out. During the first track out of 8th grade‚ I decided
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novel “Brave New World”‚ by Aldous Huxley‚ he makes some predictions in 1931 that we today. In this novel we find that the predictions that are made are often related to modern day ‚ 2013. There is many examples‚ but the four I will talk about today are how advertisements effect the way we view people and things‚ how birth control leads to promiscuity‚ how the use of medication is a substance for pain and how cloning is used. The predictions that Aldous Huxley makes in the novel “Brave New World”
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accomplishments are a testimony to his own words and thus can be considered the backbone of the novel Island‚ where Aldous Huxley depicts the Pacific island of Pala. Pala is an ideal society sustained by philosophical values and disjunction from the surrounding world. Naturally‚ Pala attracts the envy and acrimony from other civil bodies in pursuit of their rich oil deposits‚ leading to the foreseen demise of the utopia. Shipwrecking on the island‚ William Asquith Farnaby is enlightened by the perfection that is
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chapter | Who? | Where + When? | What? | Chapter I | Director‚ students‚ Henry Foster‚ Lenina | Central London Hatchery and Conditioning CentreYear A.F. 632 | - World State’s motto: ‘Community‚ Identity Stability’ - The Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning (D.H.C.) shows some new arrived students the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Centre–> introduces them to the principles of the mass production of humans- There are groups of ‘alpha’‚ ‘beta’‚ ‘gamma’‚ ‘delta’ and ‘epsilon’ - Work
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A sudden coldness hit my face‚ as I carefully descended down the stairs of the store. The city of New York awaited me‚ like a painting drawn by the very hands of nature. The clouds glimmered as the sun hid behind the tall buildings. The Empire State Building stood majestically among the buildings‚ it’s point shone the brightest. From above‚ a pile of snow landed on my head‚ breaking the spell of the glamorous lights before my eyes. The next second‚ pain slashed through my arm‚ as the very heavy garbage
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There is a world in which humans have developped enough througout the ages to live comfortably‚ without wars or conflicts. Basicially‚ that’s what our society try to make us believe‚ by giving us all these superficials goods for our own benefit. However‚ when you look at it from another point of view‚ this world is only filled with wars‚ conflicts and a tiny touch of feelings necessary for our survival. But‚ in the end‚ aren’t they two sides of the same coin ? This world is split between lands where
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Approach: Given their backgrounds‚ how plausible is the characters’ behavior? The segregated conditioning of the youth from the embryotic stage develops the lack of identity in members of the World State through the members manipulated thought process and physical makeup. At the fertilization room the World State “predestine and condition” babies‚ and also “decant our [the] babies as socialized human beings‚ as Alphas or Epsilons” (Huxley 13). The selective training‚ conditioning‚ and categorization
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Dialectical journal: Scarlet letter 1."But on one side of the portal… was a wild rose-bush… which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in…” (Chapter 1‚ pg.41) The rose bush in this excerpt at the beginning of the book signifies the one thing that seems to bloom despite the harsh rules and restrictions that the Puritan society bestow upon all who reside there. Much like the rose bush‚ Hester Prynne
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passing Grey Poupon through the window of his Chevy Impala‚ Kendrick mocks the famous 1981 mustard commercial in which one wealthy white man passes another wealthy white man the jar through his car window. Often the subject of satire‚ such as in Wayne’s World (1992)‚ as he passes it to a fellow black rapper‚ Kendrick uses the reference to demonstrate how black people are equal to white people even if society is still in denial. Yet another example of Kendrick’s derisions with pop culture and the way they
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