Walter White: The Ethics of Being a Crystal Meth Kingpin Let’s begin a scenario: You wake up in your bed on your fiftieth birthday‚ next to your wife‚ who is five months pregnant with a child you didn’t intend to have‚ while your son (who has cerebral palsy) stirs in his sleep in the other room. You get out of bed and begin your day as you do every day: brush your teeth‚ shower‚ exercise‚ eat breakfast and go to your job as a chemistry teacher at your son’s high school‚ then go to your second job
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what side of the “Good vs. Evil” line that a character treads on. The main character Walter White treads that line like no other character on television ever has. In the show‚ Walter begins as a high school chemistry teacher and winds up a multi-millionaire‚ meth producer‚ and murderer‚ while still remaining a family man for a great majority of the series. A key component in analyzing which side of the line Walter is on is the authority he possesses a different points in the series. By analyzing the
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"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" written by James Thurber and the story of "Rip Van Winkle" written by Washington Irving are similar in many ways. Both characters use dreaming to escape what appear to be drab lives they live. The wife figures in both stories seem to be overbearing and constantly nag each man. Depending on what the reader takes away from each story‚ they can believe the nagging is justified in the actions of the man or the actions of the man are due to the nagging of the wives
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“The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” by James Herbert‚ Walter Mitty daydreams all the time. He daydreams while driving‚ eating‚ and if he’s working he is probably day dreaming. I would have dinner with him because I can talk all i want‚ I can space out when i want and he won’t care. Also when I’m done eating I can leave him the bill and he has to pay. Those are some of the reasons I would like to have dinner with Walter Mitty. The best reason I want to have dinner with Walter is that he and I can
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read as a kid? The stories of adventure with the heroic protagonist fighting their way to the end of their journey? Maybe the stories you read weren’t like that‚ but Rumo and His Miraculous Adventures sure is. Rumo and his Miraculous Adventures by Walter Moers is a fantasy book set in the continent Zamonia‚ the only safe place for the creatures being ostracized by the rising population of humans. The story follows a young Wolperting named Rumo‚ a cross between a deer and a wolf‚ who is kidnapped by
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this article‚ Walter Fleming argues that because Native Americans are such a small minority in the United States‚ most Americans are not properly educated or have limited knowledge of Native Americans. Based on the lack of knowledge people tend to get stereotype using information from popular culture instead of actually fact. “Stereotyping is a poor substitute for getting to know individuals at a more intimate‚ meaningful level”. (Myths and Stereotypes About Native Americans‚ Walter C. Fleming‚ Pg
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal. Eric Schlosser. New York‚ NY: Houghton Mifflin Company‚ 2001‚ 383 pp. Notes. $13.95. "This book is about fast food‚ the values it embodies‚ and the world it has made‚" writes Eric Schlosser in the introduction of his book‚ Fast Food Nation. His argument against fast food is based on the premise that "the real price never appears on the menu." The "real price‚" according to Schlosser‚ ranges from obliterating small business‚ spreading pathogenic
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Sir Walter Scott‚ who considered the work superb while a “Quarterly Review” editor considered it to be on the verge of insanity. These two authors use different and similar rhetorical styles to convey their opinions. The most glaring difference between the two writer’s passages is their plot summaries. Sir Walter Scott glorified the plot as he quoted parts from the novel. This glorification of the plot gives the reader a sensation of greatness throughout the novel‚ not just what Sir Walter had quoted
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‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’: how has the reproduction of images changed the development of art? Identify three works of your choice to support your argument. This essay will start from Walter Benjamin’s consideration about the impact of mechanical reproduction of art as revolutionizing its social function and will describe the noticeable validity of his theory in the contemporary world. By introducing three artworks that belong to different historical periods‚ namely
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Walter Dean Meyers’ Monster is a realistic fiction novel following Steve Harmon‚ a sixteen year-old student on trial for felony murder‚ navigate his way through one of the most challenging‚ nerve-wrecking experiences of his life. The novel focuses on time spent at Steve’s trials as well as moments in jail‚ while it also takes the reader back to moments of his childhood. Written in the point of view of Steve himself‚ the book is written as a journal and not only focuses on the events which are taking
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