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    to like the color pink and girls should forget about a career of their own and instead strive to act as arm candy to their more accomplished significant others. It 's hard to imagine that these values are considered controversial to some but both Ursula K. Le Guin, the celebrated science-fiction author who penned works such as The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), and Paul Theroux, an American travel writer best known for The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), argue that they are socially harmful and socially

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    imagination. In “Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons?,” Ursula LeGuin claims that Americans fail to read fictional novels because they have lost faith in an alternate reality, and find books useless, due to the lack of personal gain. Yet, LeGuin overlooks the many maturely developed Americans who have never touched any fictional print, and exaggerates their self-indulging nature. In the essay “Why Are Americans Afraid of Dragons,” LeGuin attempts to explain why todays society rejects fiction, as

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    being clever, caring, or wise in general. The Tombs of Atuan is a very internal quest as it follows Tenar, whom learns and grows as she searches the caves mysteries deeper. The sexual allegory of searching the caves is quite blatant when realized. Ursula Le Guin, the author of The Tombs of Atuan said herself that the story is about sex, however it is more distinctively about female sexuality. As the class notes point out, as Ged drags Tenar out of the tombs, Tenar screaming, Arha is reborn into Tenar

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    lot has changed for women since then but in some parts of the world they are still being held lower than men. In some companies women are denied certain jobs due to their gender, and they receive lower pay than a man would in the same job position. Ursula Kroeber Le Guin wanted to highlight that in “A Left-handed commencement Address,” where she points out that the world revolves around men and yet she proves that women are actually equal to men. Le Guin supports this with allusions, rhetorical questions

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    very significant element in the article. Shirley Jackson uses the tone in "The Lottery" is not entirely same with the subjects mentioned above. I compared with the previous articles that we have read which was “The One Who walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula Le Guin, he uses a satirical tone to describe utopianism; nevertheless, let’s return to this article, Shirley Jackson uses a very light tone, but at the end of the passage, I can see that there’s a dark ending in the story. The story is

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    To truly understand a great novel and its author, the reader must dig deep inside the life of the author and why he or she wrote the novel. In this case, one must delve into the lives of Aldous Huxley and Ursula Le Guin to understand why Brave New World and The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas are written in the ways that they are. In both the 30’s and the 70’s, the two time periods that these stories were written, America was undergoing severe turmoil. Both the depression and the Vietnam conflict

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    For as long as humans have thrived in a society, the diversity and variety within ourselves is the main culprit of our international division. As humans, we tend to try and separate from those who are different from ourselves in expectancy of a better world to live in. The division will not bring this tranquil idea into reality, but rather prejudice and destruction among ourselves. The key to a world of positivity and peace is through the act of accepting others and their differences. People should

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    “inferiority” of the person. Black people observed as people who are bullied and deprived by their right to live a good peaceful life and woman perceived as weak and incapable of doing things that man can do. The themes in Toni Morrison’s “Recitatif” and Ursula Le Guin’s “She Unnames Them” reveals that racism and feminism having different sort (one short story is about feminism and one is about racism) when it comes to short stories, are recognized to have similar themes because these two are perceived as

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    Science Fiction as a Thought Experiment Science fiction is a fairly new genre compared to many other literature styles but is one of the most relevant and evolving literary classifications. It is a huge genre that encompasses many different types of stories such as dystopian, utopian, superheroes, and more. Science fiction is primarily used as a reflection of society as well as a forecast of what current society could become. Science fiction is argued to be a “Gedankenexperiment,” or thought experiment

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    us. How difficult is to see, understand, except and live with the truth the way it is. Without the burden, the guilt and the pain we can’t learn, evolve to eventually reach a certain degree of happiness. “The ones who walked away from Omelas ” by Ursula K. Le. Guinn is a story about a city. In this city everything is perfect. Everyone’s who lives in this city are having what they want. They are happy, they never felt guilt they never experience sadness, is basically perfect. As reading along the

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