Air Medal

What defines an idealistic society? It could be where everyone is accepted, there are no social classes, or where no one is homeless or has to think about their next meal. In contrary, what defines a dystopian society? Kurt Vonnegut’s short story, Harrison Bergeron illustrates a dystopian society with total equality. The government achieves this status by authorizing handicaps for the citizens ensuring that nobody is smarter, better looking, or more athletic than anybody else, thus accomplishing…

Have you ever thought of living in a place where everyone is the same and one is different? Boring, right. In the book Anthem, Rand fully expresses her thoughts about the role of the individualism and of society. Anthem is a dystopian novel, written in 1937 and published in England in 1938. The book is about a dystopian society, in which there is no “I” and only “we” is allowed. The dictatorship of Anthem tries to keep the members of its society brainwashed by focusing on the importance of…

The idea of Utopia came about through Thomas More’s Utopia. More’s idea of his utopia society is where there is no class, everyone is of the same level and wears the same clothes except to distinguish between male and female. Everybody look the same, act the same and just practically doing the same thing everyday without any freedom to do things they want to or they would probably never wish to as they are expose to the outside world just in their own Utopia society. Furthermore, the housing and…

What is a utopia?In Jonas’s community it had many things that could make it a utopia. They focused on making sure that there was peace, no pain, no judgment, no violence, and not having to worry about everything; but because of the all the positive things that they wanted they had to make it successful the caused it to be a dystopian soicety because of its lack of feelings, choices, and individuality. In the book The Giver Jonas the main protagonist has his job chosen as the Receiver and is…

A New, Unrecognizable Society Imagine a society and a city where rules are so strict that everyday is the exact same. Everyone's the same. Everything is the same. Everyone and everything relies on equality to live their everyday to day life. In the book “Anthem” by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 envisions his own perfect world without the cities control. Will he include the society he grew up in within the society he envisions? The city seems to rely on these rules and…

1. The giver is written in third person limited, in which the narrator takes no place in the story but tells the story in the point of view of the protagonist, which is Jonas. In the book, Jonas is a twelve year old boy, in the movie however Jonas is eighteen years old. The age difference between the book and the movie is one of the major differences between the two; the maturation of the characters in the movie adds more romance and unnecessary drama. In both the movie and the book Jonas was…

Throughout history, our behavior during our lives has left lasting impacts on the world. Whether indirectly or directly, the world has been affected by the conduct we show when people are watching. The term “long residual” is used to explain the consistencies we notice and study in history, especially sport history. The reason we perform the actions today, can be explained by examining what people did in the past. It is important to understand our past actions as they are often repeated. With…

It is human nature for each of us to believe that we are the unluckiest person in the world. Some would argue, however, that Stanley Yelnats Ⅳ is even worse off. Although many readers and even Stanley himself seems to think that he is ill-fated and always in the wrong place at the wrong time, the entirety of Louis Sachar’s novel, Holes, says otherwise. In fact, everything that has happened to Stanley and his family in the past and throughout the present setting of the novel happened for a reason…

The novel Holes by Louis Sachar is a comedy adventure fiction novel that tells the story of Stanley Yelnats in a third person point of view. The setting of this novel takes place in Camp Green Lake which is a juvenile detention center. Once at Camp Green Lake inmates are forced to dig holes through the day. The novel takes place in present day, but deals with a lot of flashbacks that happen through the novel. The main character in the novel is Stanley Yelnats, he is an overweight, shy,…

Ronald G, Spaeth, FACHE, is the recipient of the American College of Healthcare Executive’s 2005 Cold Medal Award. (“Interview,” 2005) The purpose of this award is to identify ACHE Fellows who best exemplify leadership at the organizational, local, state/provincial, and national levels and who continually contribute to the improvement of the delivery of healthcare services and community health (“Gold Medal,”2016). Ronald has had a long time career in many positions including vice president of…