The Death Of Oasis By Wade Watts Essay

In Rick Bragg’s article, “Down Here,” he portrays the importance of football in the South through his use of the rhetoric triangle. He establishes ethos through his stories of growing up in the South and giving various examples of Southerners that held football in such a bright light. He gives a logical reason for why the South is so dominant in the sport, establishing logos. Finally, Bragg uses the hardships of the South to create an overwhelming sense of pathos. Bragg is able to combine all three of these elements, ethos, logos, and pathos, to create a story that draws in the readers attention and has them hanging on to every word.

The first section of the novel Ready Player One describes a utopia that is infatuated with video gaming inside a world called the OASIS, created by the late James Holliday, that left his will to the first player to discover all of his “Easter Eggs” within the game. Wade is a high school senior who lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma with his aunt and several families in a trailer home, known as part of the “stacks.” He also attends public school in the virtual world of the OASIS, and spends his spare time adventuring across numerous planets and completing quests. While inside the game, Wade, whose character is also known as Parzival, completes many tasks that refer to many 80s movies, music videos, games, and styles. Wade’s character in the OASIS allows him to escape a world that is falling into

How would you feel mentally if you woke up to an eviction crew taking all your things to the curb? In the book Evicted, Matthew Desmond makes an argument about the psychological impact of poverty and eviction by displaying many examples throughout the book of how poverty takes a toll on people’s minds. They are impacted by the feeling of having nowhere to go and the thought of having nothing but what’s on the curb after being evicted. People require basic needs, but instead many in the book focus on the wants, making it hard to climb out of poverty. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs relates to the way in which people like Larraine think. Consequently, they don't follow the building blocks. Poverty and eviction create a mindset in people that

James Joyce emerged as a radical new narrative writer in modern times. Joyce conveyed this new writing style through his stylistic devices such as the stream of consciousness, and a complex set of mythic parallels and literary parodies. This mythic parallel is called an epiphany. “The Dead” by Joyce was written as a part of Joyce’s collection called “The Dubliners”. Joyce’s influence behind writing the short story was all around him. The growing nationalist Irish movement around Dublin, Ireland greatly influences Joyce’s inspiration for writing “The Dubliners”. Joyce attempted to create an original portrayal of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. The historical

A dystopian novel is a story relating to or denoting an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. 1984 by George Orwell, is indeed a dystopian novel as it describes a nightmare vision of future society which is opposite to a perfect world. George Orwell creates this image using a few different techniques including, the language or style, the setting, characterization, and oppression.

Joseph Campbell’s treatise on the 12 stages of the making of a hero, introduced in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, formulates his classic archetype of the monomyth in describing the journey and transformation that a character must endure to emerge in triumphant fulfillment of an odyssey or quest. These journeys are deftly manifested in two works of different mediums, John Knowles’ A Separate Peace and Dead Poets’ Society, a film by Peter Weir (hereafter referred to as ASP and DPS, respectively). Both these works, though offered in different formats, closely follow Campbell’s template for the hero’s transformation. Using the universal themes of coming of age, the fall from innocence and ultimately a measure of redemption, these two tales

The Australian actor who portrayed the role of Josh Taylor in the soap opera Neighbours - Liam Hemsworth, covers the latest issue of Men's Fitness magazine, and in addition to talking about his past engagement with the 'Party In The USA' hitmaker - Miley Cyrus, Liam who portrayed Marcus on the children's television series The Elephant Princess, also opens up about his diet and exercise regime, revealing that the actor recently took on a vegan diet.

“You’ve got to listen to the heavens, you got to try to understand. The greatness of their movement is just as small as it is grand.” Most young adults of my generation do not know who The Grateful Dead are, but they unknowingly dawn the apparels and slang created in the counterculture of the bands following the Deadheads. The band, The Grateful Dead, became popular in the 60s and carried out wide spread recognition and fame into the 80s. Their calming, peace-promoting music became popular because it ‘transported’ people, it took them away from whatever they were going through in their life and set them on a new path. Fans of the band

The Grateful Dead was a band that toured continuously for 30 years until the death of lead man Jerry Garcia. They were known for free flowing jams and bluegrass roots. Phish is a band that has toured consistently for the last 17 years and has in time made themselves into stealth multi-millionaires. Both are very talented bands, who have and in the Dead's case, had, created big names for themselves. Many people make wrongful association with these two groups of musicians. It is said that Phish is trying to be the Dead of this generation. This statement is very untrue. Phish is not a Grateful Dead take-off. Phish and the Dead have much more differences than similarities. There are of course a few similarities between

In the novel, Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline fandom is depicted constantly throughout the Oasis. Through James Hallidays contest, each individual (Guther or Sixer) attempts to learn Hallidays past characteristics and preferences in order to be like him and learn the location of keys and gates to win the contest. In the contest those who find the keys first like Parizal, Art3mis, Aech, Daib, and Shob receive massive fame, endorsements, and gain popularity as well as fan mail, and even mentions in news broadcasts. As Wade begins to gain popularity he describes how some fans are, during Morrow's birthday Wade illustrates his popularity by saying "As I walked towards the entrance, the crowd bombarded me with a mix of insults, autograph requests, death threats, and tearful dedications of underlying love."(pg 186) The novel depicts fans of the Oasis as somewhat obsessive, yet this virtual reality is extremely popular and the fans who play are extremely dedicated so much so that they rather play then be in reality. In the book those who are dedicated and true fans like Wade and his friends find the keys which lead to victory, wealth, and empowerment.

Dead Poets Society and the Suicide of Neil Perry "Dead Poets Society" deals with the angst of growing up in a public boys' school, with the typical themes of pressure to achieve academically and the themes of rebellion featuring heavily. Several young boys' worlds are changed forever when Mr. Keating (Robin Williams) arrives at their school. The director of the 1989 film, Peter Weir, utilises a variety of techniques to subconsciously signal to the viewer that all is not well in the Perry household. Through these techniques, it becomes evident that Neil is unhappy with life. This triggers the assumption from the viewer that he will commit

Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums, predicts the direction in which the world’s cities are headed, and how the changes in living conditions are only going to deteriorate if certain trends continue. The title of his book explains Davis’s vision for the future of cities as he feels there is enough evidence pointing towards an exponential rise in slum populations across the world’s largest cities. Additionally, he expresses his opinion on many issues regarding the rapid rise in developing cities’ slum populations, although he offers very one-sided arguments geared towards those who feel the current system is causing more problems rather than improving current conditions. This causes Davis to overlook the problems of slums as resolvable through different modes of assistance such as international aid programs. Instead, he views aid programs as the root cause of imbalance created during industrialization. Throughout the book, Davis presents information that confirms his preconceptions towards the slums. Therefore, all the evidence that is presented by him portrays confirmation bias as Davis fails to mention anything about the resolution of the problem of the growing number of slums and instead sees this problem as unavoidable. Particularly, Davis’ writing, although intended for the general population, is more geared towards critics who have similar ideas. Instead of providing the means through which the economy could be improved and the problem of slums could be resolved, it is

The Head of IOI tells Wade Watts that “There are billions of dollars at stake here, along with control of one of the world’s most profitable corporations, and of the OASIS itself” (144). This is a fight over the future of the OASIS. Wade Watts wants to improve it and IOI wants to commercialize it to make as much money as possible. This conflict is introduced when the head of IOI and Wade Watts are talking together over a technology like virtual reality skype. Sorrento tells Wade “Tell us how to reach the first gate.

How would you react to being trapped, fighting for survival, in a post apocalyptic society? Coupland takes an interesting look at this and presents many other underlying ideas that build up the basics of human nature, such as, competition, control and survival of the fittest. The relatable main character showcases the darker, bitter, side that is contained in the fabric in all of us, but in a satirical comedic tone. He does so in a way where the even the structure of the writing is how you might expect an average persons’ thought process of events.

Desertification is a term few people recognize and even fewer are concerned about. This paper will cover what desertification is along with why it is a global crisis, what the root causes of desertification are, what can be done to reverse the harm full desertification process, it will also cover how farmers can work together to prevent future desertification.