Dave Eggers

the new innovations. Even though the new technology have positive effects, it also presents with some unfortunate consequences for our personal life. In short, it can be said that the new technology can break down personal relationship. Based on Dave Eggers, the author of a 2013 novel book called the Circle, the relationship…

Manic Pixie Dream Girl by Olivia Gatwood is a spoken word poem that dives into the topic of sexism in the United States. Gatwood focus’ in on the idealistic image of women in today's society, and names these unrealistic characteristics as Manic Pixie Dream Girl. This Dream Girl is everything society wants her to be and nothing more. She saves those needing saved, wears a convincing fake smile at all times, and always does what's asked of her. Gatwood paints a picture of this “girl” with her…

American writer, Dave Eggers, in his nonfiction book, “Zeitoun,” delineates the treatment and the circumstances a Syrian man named Abdulrahman Zeitoun goes through during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, in the year 2005. Egger’s purpose is to spread awareness on how Islamophobia affected the way one with a racial background was treated than one who did not. Egger covey’s this idea through Zeitoun by telling the readers about how Zeitoun was captured standing in his own home. He adopts an…

According to Psychology Today, on average kids spend 5-7 hours a day looking at screens. This is a staggering amount, accounting for around half of daylight hours. In The Circle, a novel by Dave Eggers, a young girl named Mae in a job with a large technology company spends close to her entire day on a screen, leaving little time for interactions with people. Instead she relies on how others perceive her online, rather than as a real human being. Truman’s entire life is fake in The Truman Show, a…

Many teachers around the United States are struggling to make a living off of the pay they are making. Teachers are not getting paid enough for the amount of time, work, and effort they put in every day to help us get the highest level of education. Why should teachers not be able to teach the bare minimum when they are getting paid the bare minimum amount? Teachers put their heart and soul into making sure we get the education we need to be successful in life but, are getting paid pretty much…

In The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers, and Buried Onions, by Gary Soto, the main characters live in environments that test their emotions and their opinions. The Man, Eddie, and Zeitoun have to survive in a society, where people judge them because of their actions and values. Zeitoun lives in a society that judges him for being Muslim and his beliefs. Eddie finds himself having to pick between being himself and the cousin that wants to avenge the death of his family member.…

promises are often not followed through. This is because, despite humanity's best efforts, when placed in a position of power even those with the purest intentions succumb to unethical practices as seen in Matched by Ally Condie and The Circle by Dave Eggers. Such unethical practices consist of their obsessive need to control others and their reaction when control cannot be obtained, how they will endanger others for their own personal gain, and how they abuse the power given to them. When…

stripping the kid naked, I ran to tell his mother. Later I went home but I didn’t want to leave the house again because they could do the same thing to me.” The fear of rape in young people is a common factor that drives one from their home. As in Dave Eggers’ novel, “What is the What,” the main character, Achak also leaves his hometown for fear of rape by the Murahaleen invading his village. The molestation of young boys was unheard of in Marial Bai and thus caused a great fear in Achak. Even…

Rizga provides a different point of view when looking at education. She shows how almost everything Gatto stated was inaccurate as she spent a year inside of San Francisco’s most challenging/failing school Mission High School. She experienced the truth of the schooling system through first hand experiences as well as reporting the struggles and challenges a senior student named Maria faced. Rizga’s article refutes Gatto’s statement that “It is in the interest of the complex management, economic…

Media， the medium of communication.， can also be regarded as the tool to pass the information from the source to the subject， using all the technical means with the ever-accelerated updating of science and technology. Great changes have been made in the way of media such as technologies, platforms, services and uses. One remarkable phenomenon of the contemporary media is that the number of people who focus on digital media is increasing. A good case in point is that the network information…