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    ideal of her that she should not fall beneath the tragic dignity of her fate through any levity of her own. Now, at her innocent laugh, a subtle irreverence, which he was not able to exorcise, infused itself into his sense of her.” (Howells, A Modern Instance 178) Here, we watch as Halleck’s intense emotional struggle begins to take shape. Marcia’s baby is a reality that wounds his moral value, provoking his own “self-disgust” at his reaction. By showing him like this, he indicates that “self-disgust”

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    Modernism and Art

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    cannot be at the stand with new and modern approaches of relaying similar activities and solutions. The challenges brought by the environment have changed urgency of approach and perception of ideas in the world. Change of ideas and approaches touch on every sector of human and animal life in the world. For instance, modernism is characterized by abandonment of the old and outdated approaches of activity and embracing new ideas backed by innovation and modern thought. Therefore, modernism is a gradual

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    The Giver Research Paper

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    Can there be a perfect society? While modern day and the novel society differ, they both aren’t perfect. The society in The Giver has a few similarities from our society, but there are a lot of differences that make them completely different. They both may seem like they are perfect, but in all reality they are not. While modern day society and the novel The Giver are different, they have a few things that are the same. For instance, they both have laws and both has a “boss”. In addition, they both

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    America today, focus on freedom of children. For instance, children are no longer working at an early age. Children today have laws that protect them from working. In addition, children are encouraged to go to school. For instance, children often start going to school around five or six years old and will continue until they are seventeen or eighteen. Children are expected to finish high school, because it most jobs require a high school education. Modern childhood consists of working parents, so some

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    The Giver Imagine a world without freedom. Jonas’s,the protagonist, in the book The Giver experience this everyday life. Comparing Jonas’s society and modern society they are two different worlds. While Jonas’s society is controlling, sameness, and has no emotional connection, and modern society is free, celebrate individual, and love. Jonas live in a society where they strictly control their people. They can not have their own kids. For example, “Two children- one male,

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    When doing the sequence alignment using BLAST, the sequences were confirmed to be those of the eight species. In other words, the sequences were confirmed to be from Homo sapiens sapiens (modern human), Homo sapiens neanderthalensis (Neanderthal), Pan troglodytes (chimpanzee), Pan paniscus (bonobo), Gorilla gorilla (gorilla), Pongo abelii (Sumatran orangutan), Pongo pygmaeus (Bornean orangutan), and Hylobates lar (gibbon). Using BLAST, we were also able to confirm that the species were closely related

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    Big Brother in Orwell’s 1984 uses television as a way to watch and control the minds of individuals through forced program watching as a way of propaganda. If one was to look at modern society they would notice the exponential rise in television ownership in the past decades and notice the direct correlation it has with the sociability and trust members of society have. Tirman states that “a kind of media malaise effect takes hold

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    Introduction: Hook: A dystopian society and a modern-day society both are very much alike and different in many ways. Background Information: A modern-day society can be compared to a dystopian society because they both can be bad. Thesis: Both a modern-day society and a dystopian society are alike because they both are not perfect, which is the exact opposite of a utopian society. Body Paragraph 1: Topic Sentence: Even though both societies are alike, they also are very different.

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    I. For instance, when Freder found out how badly the under city workers were being treated in Metropolis. Soviet montage school teaches students all aspects of the film industry. In 1919 Russian filmmakers Sergei

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    In the text “1908 Adolf Loos: Ornament and crime”, it introduced the Austrian Architect, Adolf Loos’s ideal modern architecture and his thoughts on the evolution of the 20 century. Adolf Loos have said, “It could only benefit us if for a time we were to abandon ornament and concentrate entirely on the erection of buildings that were finely shaped and charming in their sobriety”, it shows that Loos was very against the ornament within the buildings, which also is the center theme though out the whole

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