“The Concentration City” is a short story by J.G. Ballard that is dystopic in nature. The short story revolves around a young physics student’s dream which is the gear for the story. The main character‚ Franz Mattheson‚ dreams that he is floating in the air with his hands by his side implying that he wishes to construct an aircraft. Social control can come in many forms; however‚ the social control demonstrated in this shorty story is social norms. The existence of social norms impacts Franz’s desire
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Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a book about a boy who travels down the river with a runaway slave. Twain uses these two characters to poke fun at society. They go through many trials‚ tribulations‚ and tests of their friendship and loyalty. Huck Finn‚ the protagonist‚ uses his instinct to get himself and his slave friend Jim through many a pickle. In the book‚ there are examples of civilized‚ primitive‚ and natural man. Civilized man is shown in the book. The widows are a good example. They
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500 BCE there were two city states that were controlling powers in Greece. These two city states were Athens and Sparta. These two city states were very different with Sparta being a military state with an Oligarchy‚ and Athens‚ a naval‚ peaceful state with a democracy. Sparta is the better city state because they have the best army‚ the safest city‚ they are the leader of the Peloponnesian league‚ they have rights for women‚ and have strongest government. Sparta is the best city state with the best
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either designed by humans or passed on by our own family tree. Besides with all these assumptions being made we need to back them up with facts and many scientist have provided a sufficient amount of evidence to make their theories valid. This virus has two species. First one is HIV-1 with came from a Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) developed in Chimpanzees. HIV-1 was accountable for the rapid spread of AIDS. It then was divided into three groups the’’ major” M group‚ the ‘’much rarer’’ O group‚ and’’
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IB English Crucible Commentary by Kim Le Select 2/3 sequential pages of significant thematic and literary value Pages Chosen: 124‚125‚ 126 The crucible is a play written by American playwright‚ Arthur Miller and is a dramatization of the Salem witch trials‚ in the late 1600’s. In the final 3 pages of the novel (124-126)‚ Proctor (the protagonists) of the novel faces the prospect of a hanging unless he confesses to his alleged crimes of witchery. The passage is of high literary value‚ cleverly
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Macbeth Commentary During life everybody has a downfall of sort‚ some maybe more significant than others. In selection #3 the purpose is to show the beginning of Macbethʼs downfall. Shakespeare uses literary devices like irony and the use of exclamation marks to illustrate this. Irony is used throughout Shakespeare’s plays‚ in Macbeth the device irony is used frequently. An example is at the dinner when Macbeth says “And to our dear friend Banquo‚ whom we miss:/Would he were here
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Name: Class: AEI-B Student Number: Graded Writing Assignment 1 – Data Commentary – Chart #5 According to a chart created by using the IMF DataMapper‚ the real per capita GDP of several Asian countries has risen since 2008 and will continue to rise. Despite this similarity‚ the Asian countries in the chart can be divided into four groups. The data in the chart indicates that Malaysia is moderately distinguished among other Asian countries. Since 2008‚ it has become the highest per
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COMMENTARY Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is a complex literary piece that through diction‚ symbolism‚ and imagery explores the typical human inclination to push boundaries and the corollary that comes with these actions. The use of diction in the excerpt builds intricate characters that question and challenge the reader’s ideas. As a main component of the story’s theme in an overall sense‚ as well as in the passage‚ the allegory and representation of the characters form a new interpretation of the
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Economics Internal Assessment Writing a Commentary on News article Task 1 Headline: Pharmaceutical giant Paladol misjudge its market by raising the price on its best-selling headache relief tablet. Price elasticity of demand (PED) is a measure of the responsiveness or sensitivity of consumers to a change in the price of a particular good. In this article‚ Paladol raised the price of its product‚ which was a mistake; there are a lot of other medicines for a headache and most of them would
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Coach Bob Knight and Coach Mike Krzyzewski are arguably two of the best coaches to have ever coached college basketball in terms of notoriety and success. Anyone can reference a stat book and realize how successful these two coaches have been‚ according to the numbers‚ but comparing their leadership styles and approach to the game is a whole other story. While the two coaches have completely different leadership styles‚ Coach K and Coach Knight have more in common than just developing future NBA
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