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    Bobby Hollis Mrs. Ward English 1301 26 Sept. 2012 Chains and Delusions All people from Texas ride horses‚ white guys can’t dance and Asians are very good at math. Some stereotypes are humorous but others for example‚ one dangerous pre-notion is that African-Americans are more likely to become professional athletes then acquire a real job like a doctor or lawyer. This is an illusion portrayed by the coaches and teachers who promote athleticism over academics. Plato’s “The Allegory of the cave”

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    Explore how Pat Barker portrays the theme of escape in Regeneration and explain what this tells you about the effects of war. “In peace‚ children inter their parents; War violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.” ~ Herodotus (484BC – 430BC) Regeneration is a novel that tells the story of soldiers of World War One sent to an asylum due to emotional tribulation. Regeneration connects as a “back door into the present”‚ particularly with the theme of escape; and

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    Richard Connell’s Suspense Suspense is what makes a story popular because it is interesting to read. Suspense is used in most stories to make the plot interesting. There are several factors that generate suspense in the story The Most Dangerous Game produced by Richard Connell. The use of pauses by punctuations‚ recurring vivid imagery‚ and the dialogue itself helped create mystery and suspense. These are just a few of the many ways that Richard Connell used to make the reader lust for emotionally

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    "The Most Dangerous Game" is a short story about a hunter named "Sanger Rainsford" who is marooned on an island after accidentally falling off a yacht and is a highly anthologized story. As the film industry has done many times before and will continue to do so‚ very popular short stories‚ such as this one‚ and books get remade as movies. Traditionally when Hollywood does this‚ a few liberties are taken and some elements of the original work are changed or eliminated. "The Most Dangerous Game" by

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    would be a dangerous delusion because Science cannot mould the more intrinsic aspects of a perfect society like values and personality. To depend on Science alone to create a utopia would inevitably result in a superficial utopian society‚ where all appears perfect on the outside‚ but flawed at its core. With advances in genetic engineering‚ we may soon have the ability to create ‘superhumans’ - human beings with all the desirable traits in their genes. However‚ it is extremely dangerous to assert

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    Dawkins wrote a book called the The God Delusion‚ where he explains his many arguments against faith. Dawkins believes that religion is unnecessary‚ and at times dangerous‚ and that science is the only realm that people should be concerned with. Much of what Dawkins argues in his book is that although the world seems to have some natural order‚ that can all

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    The song “What’s he building in there?” by Tom Waits is a song that has many different possible meanings. Some may think that the man is building something strange or dangerous‚ while others may think they know what the man is specifically building. These are good theories‚ but they are incorrect. The true focus is not even what he is building. It is the ridiculous paranoia. The reasons why the narrators paranoia is the focus of the song is because he makes ridiculous assumptions‚ and he does not

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    “To Build a Fire” and “The Most Dangerous Game” Part A. In the story “To Build a Fire” it provides a great amount of writing devices‚ such as: Foreshadowing - to show or indicate beforehand; omen or warning. 1. The behavior of the dog represents foreshadowing‚ how it uses it’s instincts to survive the weather and stray from “danger” 2. The terrible cold. It says several times in the story “Fifty degrees below zero” over and over again‚ a human being can only survive so long alone in the cold

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    thing in "The Grapevine." Laurie takes this action despite of knowing that many people will hate her after that. The second evidence is that Laurie convinced her boyfriend who is also one of the major Wave members‚ David Collins‚ that the Wave is dangerous. David was trying to convince Laurie that she was incorrect‚ but fortunately David himself was convinced. The evidence is found on page 112. "Hey‚ Laurie‚ can’t you wait up? David asked". Laurie you’ve got to stop writing stuff against the Wave.

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    ways to succeed. In addition‚ if children learn about adult topics from TV‚ they will have a distorted view of the world. When children watch a lot of television‚ they are encouraged to be materialistic. They get surrounded by advertisements for dangerous toys‚ mindless games‚ and unhealthy foods. They force their parents to buy them‚ for the children themselves are not wise enough to detect the falsity of so much advertising. Advertising teaches children that having a lot of things is important.

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