The story of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions written by Edwin A. Abbott is a story in which the narrator, a Two-dimensional square, travels to other dimensions and learns their customs. In the beginning, this square, otherwise known as A. Square, presents knowledgeable information about the way his world, Flatland, works. He goes on to tell of the social class system, where the more sides a male figure has, the greater rank he has within the social system. Women are straight lines and cannot grow at all within the social system. The customs of Flatland have never changed.
In my opinion, I believe the country of Flatland is a rather dull place. There is little chance for those to rise up in their social ranking (which was determined
"Flatland" is a story of depth, and the lack there of. The tale of A. Square's ventures through Pointland, Lineland and Spaceland ultimately reveal to him the possibilities of the seemingly impossible. In this case, the "impossibilities" are the very existence of other dimensions, or worlds.
The the lower class in this situation are the people who live in the Valley of Ashes. They represent the hardworking people that either lost their jobs or got paid low wages. Being hopeful that one day they can reach the level of success that many people have during the 1920s is a understatement. This is because during that time people had this false hope that things would get better with time, but in reality once you dug your hole it was a lot harder to dig yourself out. Not saying at this time it couldn't be done, but the reality of it
The Catcher in the Rye is a book by J.D. Salinger. It talks about a teenage boy who has mental issues. He is never happy because he thinks everybody is phony. His parents do not care at all about him, and that makes him very sad so he gets expelled from all school.
Simplicity clashes with stress. Living with the bare necessities, the working class families keep themselves happy. The husband works while the wife cooks the meals and takes care of the children. No desire for excessive amounts of m oney exists, just a desire for a strong bond within the family. Upper-class families or families striving for success invite stress into their lives. Too much stress from greedy desires of power creates tension in homes. The higher people c limb up society's ladder, the more likely their families are to fall apart. Flatland, by Edwin Abbott, presents the two dimensional world as a society with mostly working class families. A. Square, the
Among numerous religious writings we mention Philochristos (1878), Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of Paul (1882), and Silanus the Christian (1906). The book has seen many editions, the sixth edition of 1953 being reprinted by Princeton University Press in 1991 with an introduction by Thomas Banchoff. Flatland is an account of the adventures of A Square in Lineland and Spaceland. In it Abbott tries to popularise the notion of multidimensional geometry but the book is also a clever satire on the social, moral, and religious values of the period. I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows - only hard with luminous edges - and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and
In Flatland everyone believes that they are the only dimension that exists. But one night the square has a vision of Lineland. Lineland in world with only one dimension. The square interacts with the inhabitants of Lineland and tries to teach them what right and left are. He fails and is only met with fury and incredulously. But, after waking up he confused and intrigued by this new land. After that he is visited by a sphere. The sphere tries to explain to him the third dimension, but the square acts just like the inhabitants of Lineland when he tried to explain left and right. The sphere takes him to spaceland and shows him all the wonders of the third dimension. He is also introduced to
All throughout time, history has affected the way we think, and shaped our societal and moral views. This is evidently portrayed in “The Outcasts of Poker Flat” by Bret Harte. The same can also be said of Henry Ward Beecher’s “The Moral Theory of Civil Liberty”. Through both of these teachings, it can be said that our moral outlook has been shaped by the stories of our past.
The neighborhood of Flatlands, in central Brooklyn, is a densely populated community, which contains an estimated about 206,963 people. As suggested by the following data, this community is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse in the Brooklyn county; for which 59.6% are Black, 29.2% are White, 2.6 %are Asian, 7.1% are Latino, and 1.5% belong to another racial identity (possibly the recent influx of Orthodox Jews). Due to so richly diverse composition, and the fact that, 39.0% of the local residents are foreign born, 21.9 % of the households in the area speak another language than English at home. The housing in the area is mostly composed by homeowners and co- owners who represent 60.6 %, while the other 39.4% represent Renters and people that do not pay rent but are not owners. Flatlands is a middle-class community, where the median household income ranges around $61,786 and $62,862. Also, 63.7% of the adults are part of the labor force and only 6.0% of the families live below the federal level of poverty. Concerning the levels of education attainment, 37.9% of the adults have a high school diploma, and 22.3% has a college degree. If we take into account the higher and superior education and compare it to the rest of Brooklyn (high school: 26.91% and College:19.36%), we can say that Flatlands has the highest level of education attainment in the borough.
Human beliefs of reality primarily focus on what a person sees around them and what they believe they understand. The three concepts that attach themselves to this belief system are thinking, knowing, and finally being. As person journeys through these concepts, they begin to see that it is not a simple idea to truly understand reality and their part within it. A true understanding of reality flows more from the interconnectedness of these three concepts than from them individually. Once individual concepts are grasped the path towards the full realization of potentiality that these represent is discovered. These concepts allows understanding the main character in Flatland, A. Square, when he proclaimed “I looked below, and saw with my physical eye all that domestic individuality which I had hitherto merely inferred with the understanding. And how poor and shadowy was the inferred conjecture in comparison with the reality I now beheld.” To fully understand the power of this statement, I will demonstrate how thinking, knowing, and being are unique to themselves individually. I will also demonstrate how they interconnect with each other, allowing anyone willing to work through the process a much broader understanding not only of the reality they live in, but additionally the new reality that is now open before them.
Flatland describes a two dimensional world where the women are line segments and the men are all polygons. The narrator of the story is A. Square. A square dreams about visiting a one dimensional world where he tries to convince the leader that there really is a 2nd dimension. But the king of lineland won't hear him out and he ends up trying to kill A square. After this happens. A square himself is visited by A Sphere, a sphere from the third dimension. A square isn't able to comprehend A Sphere because he's never been to Spaceland ( The third dimension) . The square learns that the sphere visits flatland each millennium to educate one polygon about the third dimension.
The Vale of White Horse currently has a population of 125,600 people. In the area the amount of people over 60 years old is predicted to rise by 2,800 from 32, 00 now to 35,600 in 2020. The amount of people living in the Vale of White Horse who are from ethnic minority background currently is 12,600 (10%) and 16,000 under 16’s living in the area have no qualifications (12%) and 2,190 people are unemployed (See A3). Also in the area 6,600 (5%) of peoples activities were limited by health problems. This can show us that the Vale of White Horse might not have many social
The literary device of setting is often overlooked in its impact towards the plot and character development of a story. However, as can be extrapolated from the assigned readings thus far this semester, setting plays a vital role in determining the direction, feel and structure that a particular story invariably takes. The setting is a reflection of many significant pieces of a work: time, location, culture and tone, thereby immediately creating an ambiance and establishing connotative emotions within the reader. Characters are a direct and ultimate byproduct of the communities and surroundings in which they live. They can be put at ease by pleasant accommodations or, as in the cases of the two works at the base of this paper, place a
I would like to start this off by saying the idea of a flat Earth is the stupidest thing I've ever heard, and if you were to truly believe that the Earth is flat you might actually be a moron. Most people are to say that christians and Christianity started the idea of a flat world. But there were only “A handful of so-called intellectual Scholars throughout the centuries, claiming to represent the church, To held to a flat Earth.” The majority of these people were look down upon and ignored by the church. But their writings still somehow made it into earlier history books as being the “Official Christian viewpoint”.
A rather mathematical society, each of Flatland's inhabitants take the form of a geometric figure. Men are represented as polygons such as triangles, squares, and pentagons. Women however, are represented as straight lines. With these two pieces of information and the fact that "Flatland" is a satire of Victorian society, one can infer that one's placement in Flatland's social hierarchy is based off the number of sides one has. For men, those in the lowest class would be triangles. Unfortunately for women, who are represented simply by lines, this sort of
In view of Thomas Friedman’s work “It’s a flat world, after all”, the entire planet is turning into a global village due to a rapid growth of information technology. There are 10 major contributors, which were also named “flateners” by Friedman, that made the playing field level. Undoubtedly, current sophistication in technology has provided us great access to internet, a virtual platform where people are capable of communicating, sharing knowledge, or performing online activities. Globalization appears to have collapsed the concerns of space and time by outsourcing cheap labor from another continent to undertake the same task but with equal or better performance. To some extent, Friedman has brought about an