Designer clothes‚ Hollywood‚ and actors are the priority of many people today. The book that explains all this is J.D Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye. This novel is about a teenager‚ Holden Caulfield‚ who notices the world around him. He sees how a materialistic view on life has dominated over a spiritual view. The Catcher in the Rye by Salinger indicates that ways of a material world is present‚ just the way it is today. When parents are not there for their children‚ they will often buy
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Is Gandhian Mode of Protest (Satyagraha) still relevant? Satyagraha is the method of resistance and mass movement developed by Gandhi during his days in South Africa and later epitomised in India during its freedom struggle against British Empire. Satyagraha was developed as a broad term for techniques of civil disobedience‚ non cooperation‚ hunger strike and protest. Satyagraha is a portmanteau of the Sanskrit words Satya (meaning "truth") and Agraha ("insistence"‚ or "holding firmly to"). For
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legend‚ a beacon of hope‚ to others. Arthur’s death was never documented and his burial site never found. Many speculate that King Arthur never existed and some even say he is still alive to this day‚ waiting for the need to arise for his return. Regardless of the truth behind this spectacle‚ the tales of King Arthur still live today because we have an inherent need for what he represents: chivalry and honorable behavior. The lack of documentation leaves scholars guessing as to how this hero met his end
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Plato’s Cave: Still Current in Mass Media In the “Allegory of the Cave‚” Plato describes a group of stupefied people who have been trapped in a cave their entire lives. These prisoners are chained facing a wall; they cannot see anything except the shadows on that wall‚ which are being cast by men carrying unknown objects in front of a glowing fire. They never see the actual carriers or items‚ and they hear nothing but the echoes of these obscure men‚ yet are still entranced by these illogical sounds
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walking home‚Montag stumbles across a seventeen year old girl . She is quite strange‚according to him. Our society and the society in the book in some ways are alike. "You’re peculiar‚ you’re aggravating ‚ yet you’re easy to forgive" (Bradbury23). Today‚ we have people who think about certain subjects in a different perspective. Sometimes we look at these people differently because they have a different thinking process. Montag doesn’t have the same thinking process as Clarisse.Therefore‚he finds
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I do not think affirmative action is appropriate for the United States today. Affirmative action had an important role back in the 1960’s‚ in the midst of the civil rights era. It was intended to promote equal opportunities to work and to education for minority groups (at that time African Americans). That was almost sixty years ago. Our culture has evolved since then‚ with each passing generation‚ racism and prejudice dies a little more. As a nation‚ we will continue to evolve‚ and the challenges
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warnings are without a doubt‚ embedded in today’s society. This dystopian literary work was written to terrify its audience‚ but from truth to privacy‚ the similarities it has to our world today is what is truly horrific. In George Orwell’s 1984 the protagonist Winston Smith’s society is similar to our society today regarding citizens’ knowledge of the truth. President Donald Trump’s adviser‚ Kellyanne Conway‚ used the phrase "alternative facts" in a recent interview defending White House Press Secretary
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The Color Purple‚ an epistolary novel‚ was written in 1982 by American Author Alice Walker. The epic tale was produced into a film by Steven Spielberg in 1985. The Color Purple is an American drama film about the life of an African-American woman who survives abuse and bigotry. The protagonist of the story‚ Celie‚ is a young girl who is abused and raped everyday by her own father. Her father‚ Alphonso‚ impregnates her and steals her children. He then marries her off to another abusive man by the
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over the past few decades and there doesn’t seem to be any hope for any betterment in the future. It’s very heart wrenching when I see on television pictures of children‚ much younger than us‚ that have significantly nothing compared to what we have today. It makes me think and appreciate everything that’s been given to me in my lifetime. I know it is much more than most and I am very appreciative of
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anything. We have allowed moral relativism to creep in and push us into the proverbial corner. Moral relativism is a belief that there is no right or wrong‚ no good or evil where rules no longer exist. Dr. Dobson’s letter seems to have more relevance today than it did 20 years ago. I believe relativism has had the most impact in regards to healthcare. The Hippocratic Oath seems to have flown out the window. The patient is no longer the top priority
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