missing from our human lives. Having a perfect world would eliminate a true family unit‚ a graduation‚ and a job. I don’t think living in a perfect world is worth giving up choices because you would have to give up your true family and parents. In The Giver‚ everyone has an assigned family unit. “Like the Matching of Spouses and the Naming and Placement of newchildren‚ the Assignments were scrupulously thought
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“This place is just astonishing. Can we please settle here?” “It is a necessity to‚” I said‚ “We can’t go back to our former community. We chose to leave and now we can’t change our minds‚” I sobbed a little at the end. I would miss my family‚ the Giver‚ and everyone else. I knew I was doing this for a
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Lillian Jean and her dad to walk in the streets‚ but later in the story beat her up. By doing these things‚ both Jonas and Cassie showed perseverance and courage by taking a painful memory to standing up for what you think is right! In the novel‚ The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ Jonas (a 12 year old boy) becomes the Receiver of Memories through having these 5 qualities. The first qualities are intelligence‚ integrity‚ and courage. The
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Indians made a huge contribution to our modern culture and life‚ including economic‚ social‚ political‚ and environmental fields. Jack Weatherford in his book Indian Givers stated‚ that Indians who lived on the lands of Americas were very wise men‚ and they have taught the people from all over the world many useful things in many fields like industry and agriculture‚ food and culinary‚ economy and medicine. It is very important for people who live now to understand this and to be grateful for everything
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A job is‚ for many people‚ one of the most important parts of their life. If it’s so important‚ you have to enjoy it‚ and to enjoy it‚ you have to choose it yourself. In this "utopia‚" created in The Giver you don’t get to do that. Other people choose the activity you are going to do for the rest of your life. Fiona was assigned Caretaker of The Old‚ a job she really wanted‚ but what happens if she starts that job and decides that she really doesn’t like it‚ She can’t change jobs because she lives
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Portrait of an ENFJ - Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging (Extraverted Feeling with Introverted Intuition) The Giver As an ENFJ‚ you’re primary mode of living is focused externally‚ where you deal with things according to how you feel about them‚ or how they fit into your personal value system. Your secondary mode is internal‚ where you take things in primarily via your intuition. ENFJs are people-focused individuals. They live in the world of people possibilities. More so than any other
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Caring for the Care Giver Sharon Woods Northeast State Community College Abstract In a world that went through a stage of “baby boomers” we now find ourselves in a situation of caring for mom and dad or grandparents while raising a family and working. All of us feel that we are superman or wonder women at the time we take on the task of caregiving. After evaluating and working directly with the elderly‚ mentally challenged‚ and profound mentally retarded population I have spent many hours with
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The Influence of Altruism Against the Evil of the World A civil rights activist named Martin Luther King Jr. once declared “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” King contemplates the issue of those who choose to condone the evil and injustice they see in the world‚ stating that those who grow complacent with the evil are comparable to those who cause the evil themselves
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community nothing like our‚ but has no right to anything at all. Yet‚ he is chosen to be the giver. The giver transmits memories in Jonas of things he never knew before and not experience‚ he then finds out the real truth about his community and decides to change it. Emotions express ourselves about how we feel towards events that happen through our lives‚ but when memories turn unpleasent‚ Lowry shows in The Giver‚ emotions can feel painful. The memory is about war which gives an euphemism to Jonas and
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The Giver and Self-Sacrifice The Oxford English Dictionary defines sacrifices as “an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important of worthy.” One way to make a proper sacrifice is to put others before yourself whether it’s keeping something from someone else or having to make an important decisions. Nonetheless sacrifices are a part of one’s everyday life‚ but in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry‚ the opposite happens. Living in a community of Sameness
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