When The Handmaid’s Tale was written in the 1980s‚ there were many issues‚ such as women’s rights‚ climate change and social control‚ that were happening that caused Margaret Atwood to write this book and all these issues are still very much relevant in today’s world. In the Handmaid’s Tale‚ Atwood brings to light the effects of limiting women’s rights and the use of a strict social class order has on a society suing a first-hand story of a woman being thrown into an authoritative theocracy in the
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walking home‚Montag stumbles across a seventeen year old girl . She is quite strange‚according to him. Our society and the society in the book in some ways are alike. "You’re peculiar‚ you’re aggravating ‚ yet you’re easy to forgive" (Bradbury23). Today‚ we have people who think about certain subjects in a different perspective. Sometimes we look at these people differently because they have a different thinking process. Montag doesn’t have the same thinking process as Clarisse.Therefore‚he finds
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Today‚ healthcare has advanced through extreme procedures in the past that the United States government will never get to make-up for. Innocents were tortured in hopes that they were leading towards finding a cure for their diseases. The Tuskegee Experiment is one of the first documented experiments in the United States that fully admits to the wrong doings they performed to African Americans in their program. The Tuskegee Experiment was‚ by definition‚ the same as a clinical trial in today’s society
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world of Oceania is constantly surrounded by media force-feeding the people lies and deceit. People today know more and are more involved in the government to allow an oppressive government to achieve this type of society. The Party in “1984” has achieved the power to control the minds and thoughts of the people‚ so much so that 2+2=5. This type of powerful‚ oppressive government is not achievable today because people are too aware of how technology works‚ and what the government is doing. In 1948
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I do not think affirmative action is appropriate for the United States today. Affirmative action had an important role back in the 1960’s‚ in the midst of the civil rights era. It was intended to promote equal opportunities to work and to education for minority groups (at that time African Americans). That was almost sixty years ago. Our culture has evolved since then‚ with each passing generation‚ racism and prejudice dies a little more. As a nation‚ we will continue to evolve‚ and the challenges
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The world needs something to fix the chaotic state it is in and chivalry is that factor. Chivalry is still necessary today to help people understand the morals that are still needed in the world today. Back in the days of the knights they lived by this code which was chivalry. They had rules that made them better as a community‚ and keep everything running smoothly. If that could be brought back to today’s society things might start to run a little smoother again. If we would embrace chivalry in
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warnings are without a doubt‚ embedded in today’s society. This dystopian literary work was written to terrify its audience‚ but from truth to privacy‚ the similarities it has to our world today is what is truly horrific. In George Orwell’s 1984 the protagonist Winston Smith’s society is similar to our society today regarding citizens’ knowledge of the truth. President Donald Trump’s adviser‚ Kellyanne Conway‚ used the phrase "alternative facts" in a recent interview defending White House Press Secretary
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Can you believe that the United States of America has been a county since the late 1700’s‚ and the laws and rights that applied back then still apply today? Think about everything that has shifted since then. We have medicines‚ strong education‚ and even new technology that is still being produced today. I believe that America’s gift to my generation is technology and medicines‚ and also freedom. Freedom is a big part of all our daily lives and some of us take it for granted. When the veterans
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There are many people in society today that think the same way that Atticus Finch does about Tom Robinson‚ a black male accused of raping a white woman‚ in Harper Lee’s book “To Kill a Mockingbird”. Atticus believed that although Robinson was African American‚ he deserved a fair trial and not to be killed‚ despite what the other white people were saying in the town. Atticus thought that Tom had just as many rights as the Caucasian people. The towns’ people felt as though Tom was beneath them and
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judgment about someone and treating him or her inversely than other groups because they are from another ethnicity. In today’s society racism is said to be judging a men not by his characteristic or his brain but by his race. Majorities of people today think that racism does not exist in America‚ but every single day people in the United States are raising their children to believe that it is ok to think lower of other people and actually teaching their young ones how to hate people who are simply
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