know it‚ I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.” Ernest Hemingway is known for using this unique style of writing‚ in which he presents the story in a way that something as simple as the scenery conceals a deeper meaning. Hemingway’s famous short stories “A Canary for One” and “Hills Like White Elephants” are two perfect examples that display Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory at it’s best. To begin‚ “A Canary for One” is
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The American society is the Iceberg of self-improvement in the middle class. In the end of the nineteenth century‚ the rise of consumer society had grown. With the consumption of mass produced goods was depended on by the growth of industries and growing cities (Faragher‚ 2009). The middle class was made of engineers‚ managers‚ clerks‚ and technicians for big businesses. The wealthy business owners and politicians made up the upper class that lived this lavish lifestyle. The middle class was
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Iceberg Model The Iceberg Model has been used in systems thinking. It explains that an iceberg only exposes 10% of its mass above water while 90% of its mass is hidden below the surface. Similarly‚ an individual competence is analogous to an Iceberg Model because there are both observable and hidden components. (Refer to Illustration 1) The observable components would be the individual’s knowledge and skills while the hidden components include values‚ self-image and motives. (Refer to Illustration
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in a 1908 play‚ the term “Melting Pot” considers the American Dream‚ the incorporation and Americanization of immigrants in the American society. The melting pot derives from a process called assimilation‚ which consists of adoption of a host country’s cultures. This may imply sometimes the abandoning of some aspects of the ethnic culture of an individual (Zanca). The melting pot is an idea of “individuals of all nations melted into a new race of men‚” as J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur paints it
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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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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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