Our Posthuman Future Chapter 1: At the beginning of Our Posthuman Future by Francis Fukuyama‚ it talks about two different books: 1984 and Brave New World. These books talk about multiple technologies that would change and shape the next two generations. For the decade that these books were published it had them think that having a utopian world would have no consequences. I disagree with it for the most part‚ because if we are created to have certain qualities or characteristics then we would
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Simon Garfield has presented the diary entries of five ordinary citizens living between 1945 and 1948 in his book‚ Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Post-War Britain. The content was drawn from what came to be known as the Mass-Observation Archive‚ an effort initiated by an anthropologist‚ a journalist‚ and a documentary filmmaker as “a study of everyday people living regular lives.” (Garfield‚ 1) From the thousands collected‚ Garfield selected these five diaries because they provided a
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Compare and Contrast In‚ “A Quilt of Our Country” by Anna Quindlen‚ she tells about how our country is like a “crazy quilt” because everything on it is different but still tied together. In‚ “An Immigrant Contribution” by John F. Kennedy‚ he talks about immigrants in the U.S. and how they change our life. These articles both have different views on the same topic and are expressed differently. John F. Kennedy had a more “real life” view of American immigration oppression obsession; Quindlen had
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to change all that in 1776. Plato argues in the Republic that in order to build a proper Utopia‚ it will be necessary to depict the gods as virtuous‚ regardless of what Homer and other authors may actually have written about them. Hence censorship and deception were seen as requisite for instilling virtue: "The lie in words is in certain cases useful and not hateful." Thomas Jefferson tried to make a utopia of the people where they
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Instead of accepting society as it is‚ the characters in the story have fought for their rights. In Cairo: My City‚ Our Revolution‚ it claims‚ “We stood. That was our job‚ the people at the back: we stood and we chanted our declaration of peace: ‘Selmeyya! Selmeyya!’ while our comrades at the front‚ unarmed‚ fought with the security forces.” The defiant yet heroic act these women portrayed have showed that they were fighting for what they wanted
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Michael Marder’s article “Our polluted senses” on The New York Times expresses the author’s preoccupation about the urban life where noise‚ light‚ flavor‚ and scent pollution are “assaulting” our sensories. As an urban citizen‚ I completely agree with the author for what artificial factors are exacerbating the quality of life. The overwhelming presence of industrial revolution restrains us from utterly perceive the world. Bright lights on the street‚ the resplendence coming from skyscrapers‚ metropolitan
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Uncomfortable in Our Skin: the Body Image Report The Body Image Report by Eva Wiseman focuses mainly on body image and some factors that may affect it. A point Wiseman makes is about photo-shop and photo-shopped images. A concern of mine is that the evidence may show that Wiseman doesn’t connect photo-shop and photo-shopped images as being one whole issue and instead makes them two different entities. This is important because Wiseman claims we are drowning in visuals that change our comparison‚ but
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natural there would be no need to define what equality for Blacks should be. W. E. B. Du Bois is able to further disprove race as problematic through his personal account of the moment he learned of his Blackness. In “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”‚ Du Bois is rejected as a young child and describes it as the moment “it dawned upon [him] with a certain suddenness that [he] was different from others;or like‚ mayhap‚ in heart and life and longing‚ but shut out from their world by a vast veil” (695).
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Marianne Williamson’s piece on “Our Deepest Fear” is motivational. It motivates you to speak out and be yourself. Don’t be afraid to show the real you. The resounding theme that comes to mind is one of motivation. She delivers this theme through her explicit use of symbolism‚ imagery and tone. Williamson uses a few symbols throughout the passage. One that stands out to me is when she writes “We are all meant to shine‚ as children do.” Children are pure‚ innocent‚ lovable‚ and never afraid to
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The book The Fault In Our Stars is about a teenager named Hazel Grace Lancaster who is a cancer survivor who falls for a boy named Augustus Waters that she meets at a support group where kids with or who have survived cancer go. Hazel who has had cancer in her lungs and Augustus who has one leg became interested in each other the first day there‚ through their friend Isaac who has cancer in his eyes. They quickly become friends and share everything with each other‚ Hazel gives Augustus her favorite
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