November 3‚ 2012 English A Letter from Simon We are the beasts. I’ve been on this island-stranded- for I don’t know how long. I crashed here‚ on a plane with the other schoolboys‚ and since then we’ve been stranded. Everyone’s afraid of the beast. We’re losing our humanity‚ and the beast we’ve been running from? It’s us. We are the only Frankenstein on this island. I dunno why I’m writing this‚ I guess I just figure I ought to let someone know‚ even if it’s just the ocean. The others
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most—a sense of togetherness that would unify us much more than anything else could. Yet we never did make that connection. Instead we found it best to try and act as though we knew what a functional family was as though we were doing a bad game of Simon Says. As Gary Soto recalls from his childhood‚ “I tried to convince them that if we improved the way we looked we might get along better in life” (Soto‚ 29). That was the way my fake family was. We knew the meaning of values‚ but in reality we did
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Evaluating The Cohabitation Epidemic Neil Clark Warren in his essay “The Cohabitation Epidemic” starts by using tennis stars Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf’s case to mention the “cohabitation” issue and then quoting the data from the U.S Census Bureau and researcher Larry Bumpass to show that the number of people involved in cohabitation has significantly increased in the U.S in the last few decades. After that‚ Warren concludes that we should be alarmed over the recent increase of cohabiting couples
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Book Assessment – Campus Traditions Essay In Simon Bronner’s Campus Traditions‚ the folkloric contributions of the primal scream‚ school rivalries‚ and graduation traditions are detailed as means for students to cope with a specific anxiety or stress to keep them sane in the world of college life. The primal scream is one example of a major contribution to folkloric activity as it addresses the stress of final exams and academics. During final exams students are put under heavy workloads accompanied
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This paper is a response criticism in Jose Neil P. Garcia Poem “The Conversion”. Based on my perspective‚ this poem is all about the life of a gay who converted himself from being back to its original gender which is “male” because he never accepted by his father‚ family and even his uncle’s and auntie’s by who really he want to be‚ except his mother which is died. He drowning by his own father when he caught wearing his mom’s dress‚ he locked himself in the cabinet when he feeling alone. But at
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boy named Simon‚ who is a character in the novel The Lord of the Flies‚ stands out from all the others and shows similarities in his actions and qualities with Jesus Christ. Simon is the name of one of the 12 apostles of Jesus. This helps support the idea that the boy‚ Simon‚ on the island is a Christ-figure (Fabiola Marques‚ 2013) Simon‚ like Jesus‚ cares about other people and their emotions. Ralph symbolizes civilization and Ralph symbolizes savagery‚ so where does Simon stand? Simon stands in
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but‚ ironically‚ most people love the media and blindly believe what the media says. As Alford Huxley says‚ people will “adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.” Unfortunately‚ Huxley’s hypothesis is slowly becoming a reality. In Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves To Death‚” Postman argues that the many facets of television people love will actually ruin them. Of these many facets of television‚ three are predominant. Television is ruining people’s lifestyles
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“Why I Am A Visigoth” In “My Graduation Speech” written by Neil Postman‚ he indicates how there are two types of people in the world: an Athenian or a Visigoth. He explains how both groups flourished more than 1‚500 years ago and gave a general idea of what an Athenian is and how they lived versus what a Visigoth is and how they conducted their life. What I understood from Postman’s speech is Athenians are well rounded‚ overall good people. They cherished life‚ language‚ and knowledge. Postman wrote
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Neil Steinberg‚ in “The New Science of Cute”‚ approaches cuteness culture from different perspectives‚ such as the scientific study of cute and how cute is utilized in marketing. Steinberg demonstrates the cute elements that would attract people and the relationship between cuteness and other objects. By comparing cuteness culture among countries‚ Steinberg explores the usage of cuteness in marketing‚ which is especially focusing on girls and women. Steinberg cites the result of what scientists found
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In Amusing Ourselves to Death‚ by Neil Postman‚ Postman offers many points along with sufficient evidence as to how today’s media and technology control our mind and our affairs. He also brings up two clashing points of view towards this by the end of the novel: Orwell’s and Huxley’s. Between these two‚ I agree with Postman’s assertion that Huxley’s vision best applies to American culture today. Even though this book was published in the mid-80’s‚ television is still as prominent today as it was
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