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    A dystopia is defined as an imagined place or state where everything is unpleasant or sad. This is definitely how you could describe the world in Fahrenheit 451. In Fahrenheit 451‚ by Ray Bradbury‚ there are a lot of things missing in order to build a successful society. An older man named Faber‚ a character in this particular story‚ has narrowed it down to three: quality‚ leisure‚ and the right to take action. Number one: quality of information. Books tell stories and play with the emotions of

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    River Island

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    http://www.riverisland.com/Online/ [pic] Logo [pic] DESCRIPTION/PURPOSE The logo is placed in the top left of the website page. The word River Island are shown above is in black and in Capital which this emphasis their company name. The purpose for this logo is that people would know what website they are visiting and seeing company’s image. This logo’s size has the height of 76px and width 172 px. TARGET AUDIENCE The target audience is for teenagers and adults aged 13-35.

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    Extended Response to The Handmaid’s Tale Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale‚ written in the 1980s‚ is a highly complex post-modern dstopian text that explores the issues of feminism. The dystopian genre attacks the myth of a utopia‚ bringing all possibilities to an extreme while the term post modernism explores the consequences of monocracy on modern society and the dynamics of language. Atwood’s use of a female perspective on a hypothetical dystopian society enables her to pursue the controversy of

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    Mankind Is No Island

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    Mankind is no Island. The message in the film is questioning love. This film is saying that these two cities‚ new York and Sydney‚ are famous‚ loved cities. But it is asking‚ what is it that people love? Is it the people or the place? Because there are people suffering everywhere in these cities and people notice them‚ but turn a blind eye. Theis films shows tat everyone is their equal and that they should be helped and cared for‚ just like everyone else. Throughout the film there is extreme

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    Treasure Island

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    Journals Writing about your favorite book If you are a fan of adventure books‚ Treasure Island is what you are looking for. It is not because I’m a fan of the book‚ but is Treasure Island itself is one of greatest fictional adventures in the pirates’ world. Robert Louis Stevenson‚ who is the author of this book‚ tells the story under the narration of the young Jim Hawkins. Jim and his mother own an inn‚ living a normal life. But when the destiny comes and knocks the door‚ his life changed forever

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    is a very significant difference between a utopia and a dystopia‚ however Brave New World by Aldous Huxley could be seen as either. There are many aspects of this society which are perfect and completely cancel out many problems with our real world‚ nevertheless along with these are effects which could be seen as the opposite. This essay will discuss these aspects and effects and whether the Brave New World society is a utopia or a dystopia. A utopian society is one which is perfect (Mastin (2008)

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    English Essay Island Voices “The use of symbolism is interestingly used to express the theme of ‘seeing’ and the effects of modernism in Tanjong Rhu and Lee” The stories in Island Voices were compiled to highlight the consequences faced by Singaporean as the city transformed from a traditional society to a cosmopolitan Asian city. Many of the authors of these short stories use literary devices to emphasize their message. I feel that Tanjong Rhu and Lee both use symbolisms to emphasize the

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    cultivation‚ but hidden beneath the layers is the glance at a scene of a true dystopia‚ where human conditioning is talking to a higher level then ever seen before. There is no free will. There is no love. A Brave New World is a warning of the power of control as well as the extreme and logically developed society and its bizarre points of what “true” economic value stands to be. To understand the mechanics of a Dystopia (that in which the society of Brave New World entails) we must first know what

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    According to the Oxford English Dictionary‚ dystopia is an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad‚ typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. The genre of dystopia is clearly illustrated through the short stories of “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut‚ and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman‚ the main character is suppressed of her freedom from doing anything

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    Shutter Island

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    The Law of 4: You Are the 67   If you have seen the movie Shutter Island‚ you will notice that topic is according to scrip in this film. Andrew Laeddis was a soldier who joined the World War Two and killed Germany prisoners of war in death camp. Then he became a U.S. Marshal in Boston‚ and became alcoholics and ignored his suicidal-wife. Her wife burned their apartment then drowning their three kids in the back yard. Andrew killed his wife to “set her free” and burned their house. According to

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