right-hand‚ Sister Vera. She gets assigned to her own chores and lives peacefully‚ without question‚ in the monastery. Lourdes befriends Sister Remy‚ the monastery’s extern and eventually they are asked to do the same chore together: buying supplies from the city. That is a big task to these nuns because they are supposedly to remain inside the monastery to not be led into temptation of any kind. Secretly‚ Lourdes and Sister Remy help around the city and its meetings about rallies regarding Marcos
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1302 14 July‚ 2013 Poetic Devices Paper “From the Diary of An Almost-Four-Year-Old” In life we experience many things. Most of the things we experience we experience them as children. We see things for the first time that we have obviously never seen before. We see things that bring us joy‚ sadness‚ anger‚ and excitement‚ a variety of emotions. We might see things that should not be seen‚ things that we cannot take back and we might also see good things. As children it is a given that we shall
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Etymologically Utopia means “nowhere” but in reality it means everywhere. It starts at the personal individual level to reach the community and beyond. Someone once said “everybody wants to change the world‚ nobody wants to change himself”. We all remember Martin Luther King: “I have a dream”. We recall Cervantes with his famous Don Quixote de la Mancha. We also have the worst with Hitler and the Holocaust . Jesus himself came up with his own utopia: “my kingdom is not of this world" ( john 18:36). To
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Four Loko The alcoholic beverage formally known as Four Loko began in an Ohio college dorm room as an experiment in 2006. Recently the drink has been banned in most states in America due to deaths and injuries. These tragedies could have easily been prevented if people were smarter and more responsible about their drinking. Four Lokos have been known for their high amount of alcohol and even higher amount of energy drink. Even though Four Lokos may be the best and most fun drunk ever‚ it is
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In his essay‚ the savages of Northern America Benjamin compare and contrast the lives and general perception of several issues between the whites and the Native Americans. He offers a non-biased analysis regarding the two cultures (Benjamin Franklin‚ 1967). In his essay‚ he insinuates that both are equal to some extent by portraying them both as viewing their cultures as better. “Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours‚ which we think the perfection of civility‚ they think the
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on to become economic systems. The first among these thinkers to conceive a paradise free of corruption was Sir Thomas More. In his 1516 book‚ Utopia‚ More aims to illuminate and eradicate the socio-political corruptions in Europe by creating a more reformed society. Though his community is isolated from the rest of the world‚ scholars govern More’s Utopia; creating a place where food is plentiful‚ labor is universal (abolishing the division if social classes)‚ and camaraderie‚ rather
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Utopia; a perfect world‚ where nothing is out place and everything is quintessential. There’s no crime‚ no murder‚ no rebellious kids‚ nothing to complain about. Its the definition of a nice boring place. It’s the perfect location that takes place in the book Candor‚ by Pam Bachorz. The book focuses on this idea of life that could happen in the near future‚ where nothing can go wrong and a child is the definition of perfect‚ always studying‚ never eating anything with artificial anywhere in the
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The Four Spheres Tatum Digirolamo Geography 103-02 For centuries‚ humans have been exploring and have discovered that everything in Earth’s system can be placed into one of four major classifications: land‚ water‚ living things‚ or air. These four categories are actually called "spheres." There is the lithosphere‚ which is the land‚ hydrosphere for the water‚ atmosphere meaning the air‚ and lastly‚ the biosphere‚ which is life. These four spheres are all dependent on each other making our entire
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had the chance to create a better world there would undoubtedly be many changes. My vision of a utopia would be on a beautiful‚ self-sustaining world where innovation and nature co-exist peacefully‚ there are no wars and equality reigns‚ and my friends and family are safe and happy. Nowadays‚ just walking outside your door shows just how wrecked our once beautiful world has become; and the sad thing is‚ we only have ourselves to blame. Earth is in a downwards spiral concerning all of the environmental
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"Brave New World” utopia or dystopia? The society displayed in the book shows that it is quite hard to label as one or another. Many would say that in the novel Huxley portrays a systematic utopian society. Whereas others such as author Leon Kass states "Huxley shows the reader a dystopia that goes with rather than against‚ the human grain". (p.311) Advances in scientific research allow the World State to create a world where people are conditioned to be happy the way they are. In the novel science
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