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    He lives with his father and mother and sister lily. The Giver is a novel that copies the world today. Jonas and all the other 12 year olds in his world are given jobs. He, among them, is given the most important job of receiving all the memories of the world. He learns that there is actually color and truth about his world. It copies the world today because the whole point is that when your 12 in that world you leave your parents and are given a job and you only produce one boy and one girl and…

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    literature written by people from different countries or cultures teach us many things. This is much so because the people around us and in other parts of the world can help us understand ourselves by taking the time to know them and accepting them the way they are .We don’t take notice until someone else points it out to us like in the story “Day of the Butterfly” by Alice Munro. This author is from Canada and in her selection shows that were are not any different, we think about life the same…

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    technology is ruining the world and some might say other wise. It is an on going issue that might never get resolved. To the click of a button on the top of your finger we have access to information that we didn’t have 30 years ago, just goes to show how much the world has evolved. I think the real argument here is that does and will the Internet give or take away the value of art. We are faced with not just on world but two… the Internet. We have always dreamed of a better world and what did…

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    and directed by Juan Solana’s. Juan Solana dose an outstanding job at telling a classic love story between two lovers from opposite worlds while giving it a strange yet appealing twist. This PG-13 dramatic romance was released in 2012 and was viewed and loved by many. Actors Kristen Dunset (Playing Eden) and Jim Sturgess (Playing Adam) come from very different worlds in the movie yet somehow are able to fall in love and connect despite where they come from and their differences. Just as Romeo…

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    Composers have the power to create different worlds and new messages. The autobiographical novel Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah and the drama Across the Barricades by Joan Lingard demonstrate the hardships faced by individuals in difficult circumstances and their ability to escape to new places. In these texts the composers have developed the concept of new messages having the power to change an individual’s lack of acceptance in their world. _In Chinese Cinderella, the protagonist…

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    In “Seeing” by Annie Dillard, she wants to tell everyone that we should notice the small things in life. Many people go through their lives going from point A to point B, but they fail to realize all of the wonders that the world has to offer. Many people often succeed in seeing the “natural obvious”, which is seeing what one expects to see, but they fail to see the “artificial obvious”, which is seeing what one does not expect. Seeing more closely and noticing the unexpected, the “artificial…

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    Currently, society is evolving at a faster pace than ever before, with professional and research fields developing at speedier rates, changing lives and population views on world crisis’s. This progress is in large part due to the rise of new technologies, as it opens the doors of the professional world to whole new slew of possibilities. For example, it has helped the medical field greatly in curing deadly diseases, permitted global and instant communication, and even sent a man into outer…

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    He does not see how the world has transformed. When he opens his eyes, the previous world already becomes the totally different world. Especially for Coburn, as a vampire, he has a good power while living in the previous world. To drink the blood was not a problem, and he was not afraid of anyone. At first, he still thinks that it “would be easy pickings in this city by heading down to Times Square or Penn Station” (Wendig 15). However, he realizes that not enough food supply exists. Moreover,…

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    safe from any predator or severe weather conditions and provides protectable shelter for them. Santiago's second trait is he is always open to learning new things. He reads one of the books the Englishmen had to have a better understanding of the world. Santiago's third trait is when he was robbed that he wanted to figure a way to get back home. He found a job and started to wait until his money was growing and had enough to travel back home. Santiago's negative traits were that Santiago…

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    standing on the opposite side may view it is a “9”. The way someone looks at something isn’t the only way to see it. There is no right or wrong way to view something because it all relies on your cultural background and how one was raised to see the world. In “An Indian Father’s Plea”, “Legal Alien”, and “Everyday Use” the characters’ culture impacts their everyday life and the decisions they make in difficult situations. Therefore, a person’s culture plays a major role in the way they perceive…

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