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    Ignorance + Fear = Racism

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    Ignorance + Fear = Racism Racism is really another word for ignorance. It’s another way of saying that nature should have had only one type of flower or tree. It’s another way of looking at the world with your eyes closed to diversity and change. Racism is another word for fear. Fear of the unknown is understandable‚ of course‚ and for many of us those of different races and creeds are the great unknown. Most of us are brought up in a particular environment with a particular type of people

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    The Black Plague

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    20 million people in Western Europe. The Bubonic‚ or “Black Plague”‚ began in China in 1334. The bacillus‚ Yersinia pestis‚ existed in all forms of the plague and caused it. The disease was carried in the bellies of fleas that attached to rats. The Black Death subsided in the Russian Steppe in 1351. Bad hygienic conditions in Europe helped the epidemic spread. European lifestyle also changed greatly during and after the disease. As the Black Plague spread rapidly through Western Europe‚ people tried

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    Fear in Lord of the Flies

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    meaning to them. Some of the really great themes are fear‚ civilization vs. savagery‚ loss of innocence and many more.     Fear is something that we don’t want to accept in our lives‚ but it is still there. It always will be even if you think it is not. Those boys also have a fear. They have a fear of the beast‚ the adults. The fear leads them to killing because they think it gives them power. They look for the beast that they fear of‚ but really they fear of themselves‚ of the beast that is actually in

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    Loss of Identity is a common reaction‚ especially in rebellious spirits trying to survive in a life of subjugation. Whereas the situations are different‚ De Landro depicts Penelope in Bitch Planet similar to the way Atwood depicts Moira in The Handmaid’s tale‚ as both of them attempts to continually act according to their beliefs‚ they became overwhelmed by the irrational laws than they had to follow. Eventually‚ this subjugation forced them to give in to the opposing authority. Moira in The Handmaid’s

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    Beloved Country Fear

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    Realizing what our fears are Most people do not realize how much nature gives them nor do they realize why they have opportunities. Sometimes people just go by what seems better; they get deceive by big cities and luxurious belongings but‚ honesty is what they fear when returning to their origin. “When people go to Johannesburg‚ they do not come back. They go to Johannesburg‚ and there they are lost. And no one hears of them at all” (Pg 39). In the book‚ Cry‚ the Beloved Country‚ written by Alan

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    The style of the film can be debated and compared with the style of the original Planet of the Apes (1968)‚ directed by Franklin J. Schaffner. Matt Reeves decided to focus more on the apes being the central part of the story. “The organic scope of the digitized character creation is breathtaking‚ using the technology to tell the story from the point of view of the apes‚ who remain the primary focus of the narrative.”(Kermode‚ 2014) Mark Kermode even goes on to say‚ “From its origins… to this state-of-the

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    terms: Bent: the plural form of bend. To take something straight and force it into a curve Broken: having been fractured or damaged and no longer in one piece or working order These terms are used throughout the entirety of Out of the Silent Planet to describe the characters Weston‚ Devine‚ and Ransom. Both Weston and Ransom are described to be bent while Devine is broken. When an object is bent one sees a future hope that it can be straightened back out and become straight again. With broken

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    The main theme of the documentary “ The Blue Planet” was basically survival of the animals of the ocean. In the film they showed all the different environments and how these animals live in them. They showed what the animals eat and how they live and survive in their habitat. The film was separated in to seven different videos. Each video was about a different ocean environment. The ocean world‚ the arctic‚ the open ocean‚ the deep ocean‚ the coral reefs‚ the tides‚ and the coasts. A portion of

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    Lorraine Peters American Literature Ms. Jelen September 29 The Crucible and The Dynamics of Fear The worst thing one has to fear is fear itself. In Arthur Miller’s play‚ fear infiltrates the everyday lives of the people of Salem by disturbing many citizens and causing some of them to resort to lies and dishonesty to deflect criticism of their character. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible‚ fear changes a girl’s true nature and power thirsty men begin to crumble at the thought of losing their

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    In The Crucible‚ the author displays the power that fear and suspicion have over people through the divine will of the main characters as it spreads throughout the community. During act three of The Crucible‚ Mary Warren was taken in front of the court to confess the lies and suspicion that the young girls were spreading throughout the town. While trying to confess‚ Mary was pressured into irrational fear of being convicted of being a witch‚ because of this Mary turned against Mr.Proctor‚ accusing

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