Honors English 2 Period 3 James 5-17-13 Outside Reading: Les Miserables by Victor Hugo The historical fiction novel‚ Les Miserables‚ is written by Victor Hugo. The tragic figure named Jean Valjean is compelled by his past‚ desires‚ ambitions‚ obligations‚ and influences of others. Jean is an ex-convict and has been recently released. Everyone knows of the dastardly crimes he have performed not long ago. As he is left alone in the wilderness with
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Charity (excerpts) Governor John Winthrop (1630 on board the Arbella) [pic] Introduction John Beardsley This is Winthrop’s most famous thesis‚ written on board the Arbella‚ 1630. Winthrop’s genius was logical reasoning combined with a sympathetic nature. Winthrop’s intent was to prepare the people for planting a new society in a perilous environment‚ but his practical wisdom is timeless. Redacted and introduced by John Beardsley‚ Editor in Chief‚ the
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two essays differ in circumstances‚ both authors analyze neurological effect to explore their topic. Mate claims that drug addiction is the result of chemical and emotional vulnerability due to a lack of healthy life experiences at a young age. While Carr claims that the more people rely on digital media‚ the more their own intelligence becomes artificial. Mate article is written for The Globe and Mail‚ a national newspaper which is targeted towards Canadians. Mate explores how Canadians understand
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Carr’s own words give the gist of his work: “The essential point . . . is that the ethics of business are game ethics‚ different from the ethics of religion. . . ” He is not suggesting that there are two moral/ethical codes to which a businessperson owes allegiance. He simply noticed that folks in business often seem to operate under one set of moral principles at home and another in the business world. The business world appears‚ on the whole‚ much less moral than the world of home and church
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In Victor Hugo’s novel Les Miserable’s‚ one character plays a part in each of the other character’s lives. Cosette‚ a little girl‚ is created to develop the rest of the “miserables” throughout the book. Fantine‚ Cosette’s mother‚ digs herself into the shameless lifestyle of prostitution and poverty‚ while trying to support Cosette. The Thenardiers become her home while her mother leaves in search for work. There‚ Cosette is used to clean and work. Through Cosette‚ the Thenardier’s are shown as they
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He grouped technology into two categories: proprietary and infrastructure technology. Carr states‚ “proprietary technologies can be owned‚ actually or effectively‚ by a single company.” The fact that only one firm has the ability to utilize this tool allows the firm to dominate among its competitors. A company is able to sustain competitive
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E. H. Carr and the Thesis of What is History? Edward Carr begins What is History? By saying what he thinks history is not…by being negative. In Carr’s words‚ what history is not‚ or should not be‚ is a way of constructing historical accounts that are obsessed with both the facts and the documents which are said to contain them. Carr believes that by doing this the profoundly important shaping power of the historian will surely be downplayed.1 Carr goes on to
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benefiting him largely as a writer (Carr‚ 589). While enjoying this positive influence of the Net‚ however‚ he brings up a side effect of the Internet which is hardly ever mentioned:
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Making Us Stupid‚ the author‚ Nicholas Carr suggests that the Internet affects how human beings process literary works. He begins to illustrate this point by using a scene from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey where the man purposely disassembles HAL‚ the supercomputer‚ in order to disconnect its ability to think for itself. Carr personifies HAL‚ and describes how it could feel its brain being taken away as the man stripped it of its memory circuits. Carr compares the sensation that the supercomputer
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literary history‚ there are thousands of examples of authority in plays‚ poetry and emblems and‚ in many cases‚ these authorities are inextricably linked. Hierarchical authority is not laid out in black and white; it is a complex power. In Corneille’s Le Cid‚ the audience is introduced to the power of hierarchical authority before even beginning to read
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