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not all cops are bad people like people tend to think. A good majority of police are honest, caring, loving people that love their job, protecting us and their city from harm. Of course, there are the handful of officers that abuse their power, that do not deserve to wear their badges. They are the ones that give the hardworking, honest, caring ones, the ones that have a love for their job, a bad name. Not all cops are bad, corrupt people. We need to change the public’s perception of police…

This past summer my youth group went on a missions trip to Ohio, and one day we went to Columbus to visit a ministry called Lower Lights. At one point during the day we entered the owner 's house, and she started to tell a group of us the history of the house. She explained that an arsonist had burnt the house down a couple years previously and everything was consumed by the fire with the exception of a portrait hanging on the wall. As I walked into the home, my eyes locked onto the warped…

remember any of it, but maybe had handful of memories. Those memories play in your head like a old vintage movie projector. Short, choppy, and blurry. At the age of 23, trying to remember what life was like before nine is a headache. The few memories I do have are constantly being played in my head on repeat. After years it has become hard to decipher between my actually experiences, dreams, stories or magazine articles. As I older I get my sense of identity becomes more unclear. If society put…

What would you do if the one thing that made a group stay together left? What if that group was a family of outcasts,or ”hoodlums” that their society blames them for. Would that group be able to stay together? That group of “Misfits” would be able to stay together after losing the thing that kept them together. Even though they lost a loved one,they would still do anything for one another like backing each other up without a second thought.While reading The Outsiders by S.E Hinton, the death of…

Comparing Antifone to Me ¨I was born to join in love, not hate - that is my nature.¨ Sophocles. When you get the chance to help someone do not take a second to think, just immediately do it. When and if you think for a second you will think how others may judge you for doing this. You may be shunned at first, but soon they will clearly see what you did and understand that it was more important than following everyone else. Many people may never fully understand why you did the thing you did,…

It is an early autumn morning, the sun flowed like a rushing stream over the steady running brook. “Well Christoff, we’ve made it,” declared Stonewise proudly. The bear exerted a simple grunt as a sign of recognition. StoneWise was a great sorcerer who was sent afar in his youth. He had been searching for his home for many years, only enhancing his power along the way. “It has been near twenty years since I last saw my home, and it’s only past the brook and over the hill,” Stonewise sighed in…

Justin Ramos Mr. Banks Science Fiction Period 1 16 December, 2017 In the novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, there are many questions that the author makes readers question. For example, what makes a living being human?, how are androids and humans different?, and is his view of human nature essentially positive, negative, or both? These questions make the reader more engaged in the novel and really gives Philip’s thoughts on these questions as well. The first…

Humans that have a complete lack of empathy are diagnosed with a mental illness, possibly narcissistic or antisocial personality disorder. They are seen as sick or can even be seen as inhuman. In Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick attests that a person’s humanity lies in his ability to feel empathetic, and to be without empathy is to be inhuman. Rick Deckard makes his living as a bounty hunter retiring escaped androids. An android’s lack of empathy is the only defining…

Philip K. Dick’s prediction of the future presented in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, while outdated, gives insight into the controversies and opinions during the 1960s. Throughout the 1960s, both men and women would invest in pills and other products in order to ensure they could conceive. The novel places a large emphasis on the ability to reproduce—Rick is concerned that one day the radiation will take away his ability to reproduce, so he, like other men, takes to wearing a codpiece…

The book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep was published in the year of 1968 by the author Phillip Dick. This novel was a depiction of a futuristic outcome of androids being created with similarities to humans. Within the book, readers are given a vivid understanding that the main character Rick Deckard is human. Shortly after, readers compare Dick’s book to an adapted version in 1982, of a futuristic film interpretation by Ridley Scott, who utilized the book to call into question the theme of…