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    On April 22, Mac Arthur surprised the Japanese by attacking hollandia and taking the village of Aitape. Nearly all-Japanese air power was destroyed and their eighteenth army was forced to retreat into the jungle. Battle for the Island of Biak ( May 27 1944 – July 29 1944 ) This battle was a turning point in Japanese military Strategy. The Japanese practice is to meet the invaders beachhead, and if unsuccessful, they proceed to launch suicidal Banzai charges at the enemy’s position

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    ear from the motor. I turn and gaze over the railing, there are islands scattered in the distance including one, my final destination, the largest island in sight. The mysterious water curls against the edge of the boat, foamy and disturbed by the passing boat. My fingers drum consistently on the railing, repeating a rhythmic beat. I find myself pacing the deck, back and forth, always returning to the same location, facing the island. As the ferry boat approaches the dock, I become overwhelmed with

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    Close your eyes and imagine a world free of war, suffering and pain; an environment that provides all the necessary luxuries to maintain eternal happiness; one that is stable, friendly, peaceful and enjoyable. In this world, every inconvenience known to man is rid of. We are no longer affected by disease, aging, heartbreak, depression or loneliness; conformity is at hand and stability is achieved. Now envision a world where there is no love, families do not exist, humans are no longer conceived

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    Brave New World:  Utopia Without Shakespeare?     The Utopia of the future- something every human seemingly wants, but is it worth it to throw away everything for happiness and live in a world where only a few people can recall a man named Shakespeare? In Aldous Huxley's satirical novel, "Brave New World," this cellophaned world, polished and regulated to perfection, is a reality. In this Utopia, people like Bernard Marx, an intelligent and adverse Alpha, the highest class

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    “But the tears are necessary. Don’t you remember what Othello said? ‘If after every tempest came such calms, may the winds blow till they have wakened death.’ There’s a story one of the old Indians used to tell us, about the Girl of Mataski. The young men who wanted to marry her had to do a morning’s hoeing in her garden. It seemed easy; but there were flies and mosquitoes, magic ones. Most of the young men simply cannot stand the biting and stinging. But the one that could-he got the girl.” “Charming

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    Novel and Play Review Notes 2. Huxley, Aldous. Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1932. Print. Aldous Huxley: 1894-1963(Born in the Industrial Revolution) 3. Explaining his reasoning behind hindering a fetus 's development to intellectually fit it’s job, Mustapha Mond pronounces “Only an Epsilon can be expected to make Epsilon sacrifices, for the good reason that for him they aren 't sacrifices; they 're the line of least resistance”(Huxley 266-67). Bernard, John, and Helmholtz are receiving this

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    Following the departure, the ship headed south. She passed Lisbon on the 15th and had passed through the Suez Canal by the end of the month. Australian waters were reached by the end of July and passen-gers unloaded in Townsville from the 1st to the 3rd of August, in Rock-hampton from the 5th to the 6th, and deposited the remainder in Bris-bane after her arrival there on the 13th. She departed in ballast on the 26th and proceeded to load wool in Newcastle and Sydney. Destined for London via

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    Claire Conti AP Literature Mrs. Scruggs 29 August 2017 A Savage’s New World In the totalitarian country of London, the people are not subjected to war, hate, poverty, disease and suffering. There is an abundance of wealth, leisure and pleasures, but with utopia comes elimination of freedom and orthodox values. The people in the society are created in factories, then put into a strict 5 class hierarchy. To take the edge off of the harshness of reality, they take a synthetic drug called Soma and drift

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    Ralph awoke on the island and met the Fat Boy, it was apparent that he would be the one to create a system just as the society that he had so unwillingly left behind. At the moment Ralph discovers the Fat Boy, he immediately is taken by his rule oriented personality and begins his conversation by questioning the presence of any adults. Instead of panicking, Ralph stays calm and starts figuring out the situation stating, “This is an island. At least I think it’s an island. That’s a reef out

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    In Brave New World, Huxley uses a numerous amount of allusions that pertain to the works of William Shakespeare. These allusions help to strengthen the plot and connect readers to the piece. For instance, when John is eagerly awaiting his visit to the civilized world he says, “O brave new world that has such people in it” (Huxley 139). This is an allusion to one of Shakespeare’s plays, The Tempest, where Miranda says the same line when she realizes there are many men like the ones she was rescued

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