‘The Outsiders’ to give a voice to the harsh reality for teenagers all over the world. Hinton clearly utilises language features such as dialogue‚ symbolism and characters in a way to specifically explore the issues with finding identity which is still relevant in today’s society. ‘The Outsiders’ novel features two main social classes‚ Socs and Greasers. Socs are born into wealthy families and seem to have it all but Greasers struggle in more ways than just financially. In ‘The Outsiders’ dialogue is
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clothes they wear‚ to the assignments (jobs) they will work they rest of their lives. The community has been blindsided for years‚ and is highly unaware of the the pick-n-choose world they are missing out on. Consider that our current government had announced they were planning on recreating a population just like that. Having a civilization like the one Lois Lowry wrote about become real‚ would be an alarming concern. The nation that we live in today would no longer be the same. There would be no more
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Athens When one thinks of Ancient Greece‚ often one thinks of Athens. One of the two most notable states of Ancient Greece‚ Athens paved the road for history as we know it today. From Solon to Pericles‚ the people and government of Athens are some of the sires of the way we view government in the modern world. Why is this a problem? This is due to the fact that Athens had a large impact on the Greek world‚ laid the foundations of modern democracy‚ and consequently made the blueprints for the American
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Power Relations Power is the ability to influence or outright control the behaviour of people. In our world today power within the relations is unevenly distributed. Power relationships exists around us and these relationships vary from relationship to relationship and from person to person. Class‚ social status and wealth play a big role in power relationships. A class system can be defined as “a system for producing social wealth in which productive resources and the results of production are
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People today know more and are more involved in the government to allow an oppressive government to achieve this type of society. The Party in “1984” has achieved the power to control the minds and thoughts of the people‚ so much so that 2+2=5. This type of powerful‚ oppressive government is not achievable today because people are too aware of how technology works‚ and what the government is doing. In 1948‚ when Orwell wrote 1984 technology was just starting to advance and people were still worried
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judgment about someone and treating him or her inversely than other groups because they are from another ethnicity. In today’s society racism is said to be judging a men not by his characteristic or his brain but by his race. Majorities of people today think that racism does not exist in America‚ but every single day people in the United States are raising their children to believe that it is ok to think lower of other people and actually teaching their young ones how to hate people who are simply
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inform the government and the people of the new country what they can and cannot do. There were originally twenty-seven amendments created‚ although only ten of these were ratified to be in the official Bill of Rights. The First Amendment is extremely relevant to today’s society because there is less conflict‚ it is used consistently‚ and every citizen in the U.S. has the freedom of speech. When a government obtains too much power‚ it is difficult for citizens to appreciate the strict rules set aside for
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Today‚ healthcare has advanced through extreme procedures in the past that the United States government will never get to make-up for. Innocents were tortured in hopes that they were leading towards finding a cure for their diseases. The Tuskegee Experiment is one of the first documented experiments in the United States that fully admits to the wrong doings they performed to African Americans in their program. The Tuskegee Experiment was‚ by definition‚ the same as a clinical trial in today’s society
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In our society many people try to eliminate racism but some still are racist. You might not think about racism everyday but it happens a lot around the world. Even though all genders and races should be treated the same they are not and it can lead to personal issues just because of people looking different from each other. All women and men are created equal and the same. People in the world do not treat others fairly. We should get treated the same way not because you like white people or black
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Hysteria The Crucible is a play written by Arthur Miller in 1953. The Crucible is about a group of girls who practice witchcraft and then accuse innocent people of being witches in order to avoid consequences. Miller wrote The Crucible in 1953 during the McCarthy period when many Americans were accused for having Pro-Communist beliefs. The Crucible draws many parallels between the witch-hunts of the 1690s and the McCarthy trials of the 1950s The Puritan life was a very plain‚ straightforward
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