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Gender Bias in Literature      I have thought about many different ways to organize this paper and have come to the conclusion that the best way to approach the topic is on a book-by-book basis. My perceptions of the gender biases in these books vary greatly and I did not want to begin altering my views on each so that they would fit into certain contrived connections. What interests me most in these stories is how the authors utilize certain character’s within their given

The author Lois Lowry grew up all around the world when she was a child due to her dad being in the U.S. Army. Since father was a dentist in the army and traveled the world she had gone to many countries which inspired her writing. At one point she had lived in Tokyo where she went to an American school on the base during her junior high years. One of her literary works later in her life is, The Giver, which had won a Newbery Award. In The Giver, the setting is a utopian society where the characters

Resilient Rowers of the 1936 Olympics “In an age when Americans enjoy dozens of cable sports channels, when professional athletes often command salaries in the tens of millions of dollars...it’s hard to fully appreciate how important the rising prominence of the University of Washington’s crew was to the people of Seattle in 1935” (Brown 173). As seen by this quote, America is a much different place than what it was in the 1930s. The times have changed significantly. In today’s day and age we have

university in North America which really stressed research at the time (Fields Institute, n.d.). Fields did original research in the theory of algebraic functions that was influenced by his reknowned mentors, Fuchs, Schwarz, Frobenius and Plank (Fields Medal, n.d.). After two

Literary Analysis: The Giver In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, the character Jonas experiences seeing his community in ‘different eyes’, with his capacity to see beyond. Jonas begins to see his community with an mindfulness or awareness that the people in the community lack. The story is set in what seems to be a utopian society, but we later find out that all of the citizens of the community are living superficial and empty lives. Through the wisdom Jonas gained in being the receiver, Jonas

1984 by George Orwell and The giver by Lois Lowry have a similar themes that either the books itself shows or the characters show them. The main character, in this case Jonas and Winston, find themselves in a “perfect world” until they hit a stopping point and turn back to see reality. They see that information and knowledge has been kept from the people of the community, and how it affects the community. It keeps them from progressing altogether as a society. The freedom of expression has been

In the Giver, everyone lives in one boring and mostly emotionless society where only one person is responsible for holding all the memories in the world. Having one person hold all the memories doesn’t seem like a very good idea. If everyone had their own memories of the world, they would be able to experience happiness, they can learn about the past, and they can also know what to avoid in the world so they don’t get injured. Happiness is something we all need to experience more than once in our

Anthem is a book about a golden age society. Most of the time that means that it is a dystopian book. But this society is not destroyed by the people. It is a good city that has been transported to the old west sort of. They don't have any electricity so they have to use torches and candles for lights. They have a council of scholars that does all of the inventions for the world because every city is the same. Every one is the same. They are not allowed to look at themselves and they can not say

Katsutoshi Nekoda was an olympic volleyball player. 1964 he and his team won the bronze medal held in Tokyo, Japan. To get third out of 111 teams all over the world is pretty amazing to me. Four years later, Nekoda helped his team win the silver medal for the Japanese Hiroshima men's national volleyball team. That's not all, a few years later he helped his team achieve their goal of winning a gold medal in 1972. Even though that’s not in the 1960 it is still a very important part of Katsutoshi

Just for a second, imagine a world without war, conflict or grief. Refreshing, right? But it's also a world without memory, feelings and color, at least in the premise of Lois Lowry’s, The Giver. It was published by HarperCollins in 1993, it shares the same motive of a perfect and utopian society. What is a perfect society? Is it where people have to be uniform to each other?What is the point having such a life where you cannot make your own choices?, you cannot have feelings or unable to live with