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    dad is trying to figure out a cure to stinky feet. So since stanley “stole” the police took him to court and the judge said you can either go to camp green lake or you can go to prison. There are several reasons that why stanley is existing in a wasteland. To begin,Stanley’s Physical environment isn’t a positive place to be in. For one thing there is a big lack of nature.

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    The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot In the poem, The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot gives a primarily positive connotation by using the theme of speech, language, and failure of speech. In each of the sections, Eliot shows how speech and communication are important in life. He also shows that speech cannot always accomplish what actions can. The way the characters in the poem use speech show that speech and communication are important. A Game of Chess This section may be the best example of communication

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    to develop, the need to expand increased. Some of this increase causes nature to be destroyed on the very foundation in which the new buildings and complexes are built. In the two pieces of writing, The Serpents of Paradise by Edward Abbey and Wasteland: An Elegy by Mary Oliver, the authors examine their own personal experiences with nature. In order to show that humans should respect and are connected to nature, the authors narrate their story in first person, but choose different approaches to

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    The Great Gatsby and The Wasteland Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby and Elliot’s The Wasteland are two stories that similarly express the modernist post-war disillusionment. Both stories comment pessimistically on the direction that our world is moving in from the post-war modernist perspective. Both men looked past the roaring twenties, and realized that this time period was actually a moral wasteland. The final paragraphs of The Great Gatsby sum up their mutual lack of faith in American culture to

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    considered superpowers when they are compared to the swift influence of the taste, knowledge, and opinions of viewers around the world. No one would want to accept this power because of the awesome responsibility that comes with it. In his famous “Vast Wasteland” address to the National Association of the Broadcasters in 1961, Newton Minow mentioned the awesome responsibility, which I qualify with. He warned the association of the good and evil that also came along with this awesome power. There are many

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    Television: A Vast Wasteland Essay

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    The Cosby Show was the pinnacle of American television. Based on an affluent African-American family in Brooklyn, New York, The Cosby Show demonstrated how to effectively raise a family. The sitcom starred Phylicia Rashad as Clair Huxtable, a confident, assertive, and eloquent attorney. Alongside Rashad was Bill Cosby as Cliff Huxtable, an eccentric and whimsical obstetrician. Together, Clair and Cliff reared five children in the midst of several complex obstacles. When faced with Sondra’s decision

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    A baron wasteland, on a desolate planet, where we are expected to survive on rations by our controlling government. This is the dystopian future we read about in books, and see in Hollywood films, but the SEA club on campus is trying to make this gloomy picture our future an idea left in the past. The Students for Environmental Action or the SEA club, which meets every Wednesday from 1:30pm to 2:30pm in the Index Hall room 101, are not only learning how to become more sustainable in a ever changing

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    Teenage Wasteland Everyone has problems some people have more complex problems that they don’t know how to handle so they think their only option is to put it into somebody else’s hands. Do not help him with his homework, "I think you should start overseeing his homework again.” “But Donny's tutor says…” at first to help Donny bring his grades up Daisy would help him with his homework and would sit there while he did it until he was finished. But as Daisy was told not to help anymore Donny’s grades

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    T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland In T.S. Eliot’s most famous poem The Wasteland, a bleak picture of post-war London civilization is illuminated. The inhabitants of Eliot’s wasteland are living in a morally bankrupt and spiritually lost society. Through fragmented narration, Eliot recalls tales of lost love, misplaced lust, forgone spirituality, fruitless pilgrimages, and the “living dead”- those who shuffle through life without a care. These tales are the personal attempts of each person to fulfill

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    T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland Traditionally, authors begin their compositions at the beginning and then proceed to an end, creating a logical flow of information towards a conclusion. T.S. Eliot threw most traditional form out the window as he composed The Waste Land. The voice changes, the structure varies, his allusions are elusive, and the first section of the poem is entitled “The Burial of The Dead.” This of course does not speak to a beginning, but to the conclusion of what could be one

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