If I could meet any character from one of the books we read this year‚ I would choose to meet Skye Miller from Thirteen Reasons Why. There are many unanswered questions about Skye‚ and we don’t know a lot about her. We know she’s an outcast and likes to avoid people. We know Clay used to have a crush on her in 8th grade too. She appears only a few times throughout the book‚ but we can infer Clay goes to help her after he goes after her in the hallway. The reason I would want to meet Skye is because
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English essay – the new true anthem The poem “The New True Anthem” by Kevin Gilbert acknowledges the fact that there is more then a single opinion of what has happened to the lives of people both English and native aboriginal‚ also what has happened to the beautiful land once home to many native aboriginal tribes all over the continent of Australia. It also says that people of English descendent say that they do love Australia while in fact they don’t and are treating it as a land of their own
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The Miracle of Equality 7-2521 “True freedom is the capacity for acting according to one’s true character‚ to be altogether one’s self‚ to be self-determined and not subject to outside coercion” (Corliss Lamont). The book Anthem by Ayn Rand‚ takes place in a collective society‚ all independence is eradicated. People can’t choose their name‚ can’t ever be alone‚ and never say the word “I”. They are mindless workers with the same routine everyday‚ until one man realizes the truth to life. The behemoth
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This essay talks about the story anthem and how equality went from doing whatever his leaders wanted to doing what he wanted and ignoring his leaders. Equality would listen to his leaders and work all day for many years but after he finds the tunnel he starts sneaking out and quits listening to them. Equality starts to find out that his society’s rules and knowledge is wrong and that they don’t know everything. Equality has become very critical of the leaders of his community after they decided to
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our lives a lot easier‚ less stressful‚ and the biggest misconception‚ happier. But‚ in the short story “Why‚ You Reckon?” Langston Hughes uses irony‚ dialogue and character development to show the audience that money can’t buy you happiness. In the beginning of this short story‚ Hughes uses amazing character development to introduce the narrator‚ who is also the main character. It starts off‚ “Well‚ sir‚ I ain’t never been mixed up in nothin’ wrong before nor since‚ and I don’t intend
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In the book “Anthem” everyone is forced against their will in being equally alike; it is against the rules to be different. If you were to disobey the rules or refer to yourself as “I” you will be severely punished or put to death depending on the type of situation. For example‚ there was a man with gold hair and blue eyes that had his tongue torn out of his mouth and was being burned alive for speaking the unspeakable word. The unspeakable word is the word that equality 7-2521 is intrigued in discovering
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Alex Standall in Thirteen Reasons Why Throughout Jay Asher’s novel Thirteen Reasons Why‚ he has demonstrated to the reader how one’s inability to make rational decisions can lead to another individual’s suicide. Over the course of the novel‚ the reader follows the events in the life of the protagonist‚ Hannah Baker that have led to her tragic suicide. One can argue that secondary character‚ Alex Standall plays a significant role in the story‚ and in Hannah Baker’s suicide‚ as none of the
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world of full conformity is from a book named Anthem by Ayn Rand. Anthem was written in 1938 but today the country of North Korea strongly resembles how the citizens in the book act and how their government rules them. From limiting them to better ways of living and using technology‚ brainwashing the entire population to think in a certain way for the benefit of the government and imprisoning those who object to the laws set forth by the government Anthem and North Korea are eerily similar. Even though
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Commentary on ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ In World War 1‚ many soldiers died without any funerals. They just died out with their mates in the war sight. This poem‚ “Anthem for Doomed Youth”‚ was written in 1917 in France during World War 1. The author talks about the young soldiers who died during the war without any funerals. As he also was one of the soldiers in the battlefield‚ he wanted to commemorate the soldiers who have sacrificed for the country and remember their devotions. First of
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opposition‚ no opposing opinions‚ perfect obedience among citizens must exist. Creating laws that grant permission and forbid all other opinions can help lessen opposition. Also to avoid the problem of opposition one can provoke fear. The leaders in Anthem create a world that works as a single unit to completely cut out any chance of rebellion. The leaders set up a system that forces the brothers to work as a single unit. The work system works in a way where the Council of Vocations assigns each person
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