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    The Giver is the best book I have ever read. The Giver is amazing because there is sacrifice‚ courage‚ and love. Those are all thing that I think make a story fantastic. There is sacrifice an example of it; is when he left so that the community would have the memories which benefits them and puts him in danger.Jonas left the community so that he could be free from the control of the community. He had to leave all of his friend‚ his family‚ and the giver behind which would be hard. Jonas also shared

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    The Giver I have recently read the novel The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ and watched the movie Pleasantville. These works focus on making perfect societies. The Giver is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a community with many rules. He is assigned the job of the Receiver of Memory and goes through great amounts of pain and happiness

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    LOI 10-4

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    Case 10-4 Lack of Information As indicated in the following memo‚ Lack of Information (LOI) has identified obligations to handle and dispose of asbestos upon retirement of several of its warehouses. Also as reflected in the memo‚ LOI has decided that it is not required to recognize any liabilities related to these obligations because it has asserted that the obligations are not probable or that it does not have sufficient information available. Required: • For each identified obligation

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    Sameness In The Giver

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    society include Sameness? In the novel‚ The Giver by Lois Lowery‚ Jonas‚ the main character‚ lives in a society where everyone portrays Sameness. Sameness is where everything is equal. For example‚ every family has four people: a mother and a father‚ one boy and one girl. Jonas is assigned the job of the Receiver of Memory. The Receiver of Memory holds all the memories‚ so that the members of the society don’t have to feel pain‚ or happiness. The Giver‚ the old Receiver of Memory‚ and Jonas can have

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    Lois Lowry’s The Giver introduces the reader to the perception of a perfect society based on sameness. The story revolves around young boy named Jonas living in a "perfect" world called The Community where there is no pain‚ war‚ or fear. The weather and every citizens emotions are under control. To everyone living there‚ the community might seem like the perfect place to "live"‚ but they never get to experience what it truly is to live. The creators of Jonas’s community created a society based on

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    Lois Lowry wrote an award Winning book called "The Giver"‚ the story is based on a dystopian world were no one is able to make their own choices and their emotions are controlled.The story is about a boy named Jonas who is chosen to be a receiver‚ and receives memories from the Giver. Jonas notices what’s happening in the memories and how wonderful some are‚ but he is also shown the truth behind being released‚ very very cruel‚ the way they kill innocent people Jonas just does not like that. Jonas

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    A.) To Begin‚ the film clip I have chosn was “The Giver” based off of the book written by: Louis Lowry. (1) My secne is narrorated by the main character Jonas or actor (Brenton Thwaites). (2) Before he begins to talk‚ there are statements as to how things became the way they were. (3) “From the ashes of the ruin‚ the Communities were built… Protected by the boundary… All memories of the past were erased.”(The Giver) (4) Jonas states that after the ruin they maade a new society‚ one of “true equality”

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    take away colours? (p. 124 in the book). Jonas is possible to see things beyond what other people in the community can’t see because they don’t have the memories and abilities to see it. For example‚ Jonas realizes the colour red in Fiona’s hair. As Giver said that the community decided to choose sameness‚ so they gave up colours. 7. How would you describe what colour is to someone who has never experienced it? It is very tough to describe. However‚ translate feeling into colour might help. For example

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    The Giver Ethical Issues

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    In the story The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ a utopian society emphasizes sameness in all aspects of life. Citizens obey rules that eliminate everything from their feelings to their choice of their devoted spouses whom they must spend their whole life with. These rules were created to eliminate world problems such as poverty‚ refugees‚ and world hunger. The World’s most prominent problem today however is world hunger. I believe‚ the origin of this is overpopulation. A possible ethical solution to this

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    same. In my community‚ which isn’t a perfect world‚ unless you are color blind‚ you can see the beauty of the world in color. In the book‚ The Giver‚ only the Receiver and the Giver could see color. All of the other characters in the book could only see the world in black in white. An example in the book is when the Giver tells Jonas about Sameness. The Giver says‚ “We gained control of many things. We had to let go of others.” This means that in Sameness‚ they lost color and gained Sameness which

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