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The Right Mistake “… You want kill yourself abi? You be young, strong gentleman with enough energy to work. Why you for make the same mistake wey I want make?” Baba Adewole, the sixty-two-year-old millionaire, tries to convince Abeka not to commit suicide whilst justifying why he should be the one to throw himself down the newly constructed 87 metres high bridge, Third Mainland Bridge. Abeka had graduated from University of Ghana, Legon, with a first class honour in Business Administration.…

concerns was that even though a communist society is an idealistic one, it is impractical as shown through the book. Orwell tries to educate people and show them at it just isn’t likely that the soviets would not use their power to further their own. One big motif is the idea of doublethink, which is where people think of two contradicting things at the same time, but don’t question it. Orwell uses this where a speaker for the Party needs to change his speech midway from Eurasia to EastAsia…

continue to become more diverse, and more often than not, they depict minorities inaccurately which leads to dangerous stereotyping. Many shows provide insight into different cultures and ways of life which draws in lots of viewers. “Little People, Big World,” for example, follows a family with dwarfism, and “All American Muslim” shows life as a Muslim in the United States. Shows similar to these contain the potential to break certain stereotypes and end discrimination; however, the over…

President John F. Kennedy once said “conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” The concept of conformity and individuality is clearly illustrated in the novel, Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury. Like most dystopian societies, Fahrenheit 451 contains a damaged society in which the people watch excessive amounts of television on wall size sets, listen to music on seashell radio sets, and drive extremely fast, not afraid to hit animals or people. The masses never think…

20th century author George Orwell’s 1984 is a bleak yet powerful depiction of a dystopia deprived of individualism and free thinking. Several themes are explored throughout the novel’s progression such as freedom, gender, and technology. However, Orwell’s message about power is especially strong. 1984 is essentially a warning of the corruption and apathy that power brings when it is abused, as can be seen from the perspectives of the protagonists and progression of events. In the country of…

The importance of silence in Mohammed Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes and Nadine Gordimer’s My Son’s Story hinges on the assumption that the spread of information is simultaneously valuable and dangerous. Each of these authors frame their stories around political upheaval where violence and oppression are constantly just beneath the surface. The apartheid-era South African activists of My Son’s Story, like Sonny and his wife Aila, use information to find support in a movement that opposes…

While many concepts on astronomy of the ancient Greeks are no longer relevant, many of their ideas were used to guide astronomers today in establishing concepts more valid. The ancient Greeks had no clear division of science and philosophy. Neither did they have separate and developed fields such as physics, chemistry, biology, and astronomy. The formerly deficient range of information the ancient Greeks had, allowed an individual to become an expert in several fields whereas nowadays, there is…

One major theme that is predominantly shown in chapters two and three of Nineteen Eighty-Four is that individuals do not have any control over their own destinies as they are being oppressed by a totalitarian party. This theme is clearly demonstrated when Winston can hardly recall anything of his childhood: “…he was struggling to think his way backward into the dim period of his early childhood…. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your own life lost…

In the Hunger Games, desensitization is a key component in the Capitol’s ignorance and arrogance. Not only do the Capitol citizens find the violent nature of the Games completely normal, but it is also a great source of entertainment for them. No one should find the murder of children by other children entertaining and the Capitol citizens must be very heartless because of it. The Capitol citizens would feel differently about the Games if their own children competed and faced the full effect…

Harrison Bergeron The story “Harrison Bergeron” was written by Kurt Vonnegut. The story takes place around 2081, at the time the government wanted everyone to be equal and would do certain things to keep people equal such as putting black caps on teeth, giving them special glasses, or putting a radio on their head to mess with their thinking. Harrison his self is a huge boy to be fourteen years old, he is seven feet tall, handsome, and smart. He represents the hard working…