Im sitting in the back office at Dollar General on my lunch break at work and it is far removed from the rest of the store and it is completely silent‚ on the desk immediately to the right through the door is our CCTV monitor. I like to watch the people as if it were a show because it is never the same. On this particular day two homeless teenagers walked in and having encountered them earlier that day I knew that they smelled like they haven’t showered in months. They were coming in to buy cigarettes
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Even though Ray Bradbury urged the world to beware of the onslaught of increasingly meaningless media and to preserve morals and ethics through intellectually stimulating content‚ such as books and deep human relationships‚ through his book Fahrenheit 451 in 1953‚ based on the current situation of society today‚ it seems that the world ironically ignored his warnings. For example‚ in the realm of reading‚ an increasing amount of people prefer to read summaries of a book on websites like Shmoop and
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Persepolis is a graphic novel written by Marjane Satrapi‚ who was growing up during the Iranian Revolution in the late 1970’s. The novel displays her experience during the Revolution and shows how it impacted her as a child and the environment she lived. Almost all of the pictures she draws in the graphic novel have a lot more thought put into them than the average reader might think. For example the image to the right (Persepolis‚ page 44‚ far-right center) shows many different things when looked
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In the story “Rikki-tikki-tavi” by Rudyard Kipling their is a mongoose named Rikki-tikki-tavi. He is the main protagonist in the story. When he gets washed up in front of a British bungalow‚ the excitement just starts to happen. He will have to have a war with the evil. Along the way he shows the traits curiosity‚ cunningness‚ and bravery making him a hero. Rikki-tikki-tavi shows his curiosity when he first arrives at the British bungalow. He is amazed of how many things to find. ‘“There are
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Arminius chose to fly instead of teleport so that he could watch the scenery underneath him slowly change. He didn’t enjoy the sprawling forest or gente fields; Arminius used the situation to observe possible routes for retreating. During his fight with Caius‚ Arminius had his teleportation spell copied and traced. If he teleported too much‚ the magicians of his new world would figure out how to do it‚ and that would put him at a disadvantage in certain fights. All magic left traces from where the
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Fahrenheit 451 shows us how censorship can go too far. In this novel‚ it is in the future where books‚ whether for knowledge or entertainment have been banned by the government. The government uses censorship of these mediums to control the public by limiting what kind of input the community has. This theme is shown by the settings‚ the characters‚ and with symbols. The settings in the novel really convey the theme by showing how the society is controlled by the government. Take for instance
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The riveting question that Ralph asks in the Lord of the Flies on page 139 is “What makes things break up the way they do?” Ralph asks a compelling question‚ one which could be answered in many ways. Ralph ponders what is it that makes societies fall apart and regress. Civilizations and societies are based on order‚ rules‚ and authority; which are necessary to keep it together and avoid falling apart into savagery. In The Lord of the Flies‚ we can see how these aspects of a functioning society can
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In society people learn about history through other people perspectives because we are only told about history through one person’s viewpoints and beliefs. It is hard to learn the full truth of history because most books we read about history is very one sided. Many events that happened in the past are told by one side‚ you don’t get all perspectives of the time. In school you learn what the government feels like telling you and then hide the other information or perspectives. For example‚ in high
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Metropolis the story set in the future which shows the gap between the working class and the wealthy. Joh Fredersen is the city’s ruler‚ his son Freder is seen enjoying a carefree lifestyle. Freder is in the eternal garden when a woman appears with children that are filthy that live in the worker’s city. Freder is awed by the women’s beauty decides to follow her to an underground city. He is distraught to see the machine these people working explode and killing many of the workers. Freder runs to
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What is The Hobbit?What decisions impact others lives?This book is a books that is banned or is currently challenged.I think that decisions that change something or take away something that a person likes;like banning a book shouldn’t be allowed. I think that they’re should be only certain banned books.”The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks...Considered to be pornigraphic…”This quote means that a parent decided that a book should be banned for nothing.What i mean is that he/she decided that because
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