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    my writing skills, if I write an outline it helps me stay on track in my papers, and how to incorporate evidence into a paper. Throughout the semester, I have enjoyed reading about the theme "the outsider" in the articles and short stories. Some of my favorite works that we read were Dracula, Othello, Hunger, The Things They Carried, Where are you Going Where have you Been, Interpreter of Maladies, and Sonny 's Blues. If I would not have been forced to read these works I don 't think I would have

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    Intimate Partner Violence

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    relationships. Why don’t they just pack up and leave one might wonder? Is this because they want to believe that people can change? It is a very disturbing issue, when the person that you are in “Love” with is the person inflicting so much pain on you. An outsider looking in a on a relationship of this sort will question why women that are victims of Intimate Partner Violence simply do not leave their relationships? Women that are victims of abusive relationships don’t pack up and leave for many reasons

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    by making it into a game. By using zippers, children are conditioned to connect zippers with the game and be happy when seeing zippers. On the other hand, John, who was raised on the savage reservation, values chastity and modesty; making him an outsider in the World State. John gets himself in a promiscuous situation with Lenina and thinks to himself, “He had only to take hold of the zipper at her neck and give one long, strong pull… He shut his eyes” (Huxley 144). John thinks of pulling her zipper

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    Brave New World essay Imagine a world without wars, famine, old-age or diseases, where everybody is happy with what they have and where people don’t complain. Imagine this place, where people do not discriminate each other for their skin colour or because of their religion. This is the situation of the Brave New World, the people there are divided into ranks, from Alpha Plus to Epsilon. But they don’t care about the classes, their mentality is simple; without the other classes, life wouldn’t be

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    Also, he is not decanted and not sleep-taught. He chose to be the World Controller of Western Europe, in order to do that he had to give up his literature and science. He has a secret safe in his office where he keeps his forbidden books; including Othello and the Holy Bible. The fact that certain books like the Bible or Shakespeare are forbidden are hard for us to believe. Moreover, Mond knows about God but he won’t tell the people for the same reason as why the books are forbidden; they might give

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    The Unexpected Downside of Science Explored in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World Since the first day that humans were put on this earth, they have been curious and have searched for ways to become more efficient. Throughout the years they have created tools to better serve them, created clothing to keep them warm, built homes to protect them from the elements, and produced transportation methods to transport them across the world. In Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), the human race has evolved

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    Nayiri Khatchadourian HNRS 63W Prof. Bruce Stone 6 June 2017 The Consequence of Reading Fiction In his essay ”Formative Fictions: Imaginative Literature and the Training of the Capacities”, Joshua Landy, professor at Stanford University, aims to explain the function of fiction and the reward of our engagement with literary works. Landy highlights three theories of the function of fiction: the exemplary branch, which invites the reader to consider characters as models for emulation or avoidance,

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    Science and technological advancement require limits according to H.G. Wells and Aldous Huxley; their respective novels argue that the loss of individuality is inevitable when science attempts to perfect every aspect of society. Technology without laws holds the danger to eliminate individuality and ultimately requires humans to assimilate to a new standard without error and within the bounds of scientific advancement. In H.G. Wells’ novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, Wells argues the influence technology

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    Censorship of Poetry in Plato’s The Republic and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. 1. What is the difference between a. and a. Introduction In The Republic, Plato introduces a concept of an ideal society. To reach the goal of an ideal state, the formation and education of the different classes of citizens, like the producers, guardians and philosopher-kings, should be modified and adapted. Plato proposes a form of censorship of poetry in the ideal society. He suggests that

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    Many political figures assert that freedom is knowledge and knowledge is power. However, imagine if that knowledge was never attainable due to the government in ones society. Would one ever become free? Would anyone resist that government to gain knowledge? Would these people be considered individuals though they are not unique from the man next to him? Some universal ideas consist of, individuality, the cost of happiness, technology and control, and dystopia/totalitarianism. Humanity over time has

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