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    The One That Got Away

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    Biology Name ____________________________________ Cell City Analogy Period ___________ Date ___________________ In a far away city called Leeuwenhoek‚ the main export and production product is the steel widget. Everyone in the town has something to do with steel widget making and the entire town is designed to build and export widgets. The town hall has the instructions for widget making. Widgets come in all shapes and sizes and any citizen of Leeuwenhoek can get the instructions and

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    City of Omelas

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    World of Omelas The city of Omelas is a city compared to heaven‚ but in reality‚ it is more like hell. The Festival of Summer paints a perfect picture of a city of happiness with an air of excitement‚ characterized by boisterous running children‚ prancing horses and flag-adorned boats. The mere reason all the people in the small town are so happy is because this one adolescent child is taking all the weight. “The Child” is an independent and significant character in the short story‚ “The Ones Who

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    Examples Of A Scapegoat

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    The Scapegoat People use video games as a scapegoat to violence‚ but since video games have started booming‚ crimes started dropping. Most people are focused on negative effects for the children that play the video games. When the media does start bagging on video games‚ it’s mostly something bad about them (unless a game breaks a record for how many copies it has sold). The media has caused more violence than some of the video games on the market. For example‚ in the 1980’s “Dr.Jekyll and Mr

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    Why Walk When You Could Run? It has been said by many‚ "Any society‚ any nation‚ is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members”. What if the weakest member of a society is placed in a position to carry the town’s woes? That is true in Ursala Le Guin’s short story‚ “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” Le Guin’s depressing tale describes a society that is neither compassionate nor relevant‚ speaks about a culture of people who are corrupt thereby making the characters static. However

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    What Is A Scapegoat

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    A scapegoat is a person or an animal which takes on the sins of others‚ or is unfairly blamed for problems. The idea comes primarily from Leviticus‚ in which a goat is designated to be cast into the desert with the sins of the society. Other ancient societies had similar practices. For example‚ in psychology and sociology‚ the act of selecting somebody as a scapegoat has prompted to the idea of scapegoating. Scapegoats have been used everywhere throughout the world and at all times‚ even before the

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    One take-away from Native American Perspectives that helped me understand Native American history more was the idea of regimes of truth from French philosopher Michel Foucault. This idea was vital in understanding Native American and settler colonial relations. Foucault said‚ “Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by a virtue of multiple forms of constraint. And it induces regular effects of power. Each society has its regime of truth‚ its “general politics” of truth: that is‚ the types

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    Omelas Essay

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    Omelas and American Society. Disturbingly Futuristic? Nothing in this world is perfect‚ just as no single person is perfect. You can’t attain perfection in an imperfect world. There can be no light without dark. But in the short story “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” you come across a truly perfect world with a small catch: the suffering of an individual for the happiness of the rest. Of course there are many differences between the two worlds that present themselves easily. However there are

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    human enslavement‚ from ancient times where people of conquered countries became enslaved to their conquerors to the early America lifestyle with black slaves who worked on white men’s fields. This behavior is also shown through literature. In the short story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas‚” by Ursula Le Guin‚ the majority of people of Omelas are fine with making someone

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    Was Marie-Antionette The Perfect Scapegoat? Marie Antoinette was the perfect target to blame for all the problems France was having at this time. In many ways‚ she somehow tries to help the French people. The marriage was supposed to bring in peace and friendship to both of the countrys‚ but instead‚ it just puts this into a more difficult position than before‚ married into a royal court that hated anything Austrian at this time. Since Austria and France had been fought

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