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is perfectly represented in this quote “Speed up the film…” (pg.73).With the quote, Bradbury is comparing Beatty to the world that he is present in, by doing things like making him speed up, shorten everything and raise his voice with the use of exclamation marks. By structuring his language in such a way, Bradbury is relating the speech to the world shown in the story. The world is becoming simpler. People do everything fast paced so there is no time to mention or even look at the details.…

The Star Trek episode “The Empath”, season 3 episode 12, begins as most all Star Trek shows do; Captain James Tiberius Kirk (Jim), played by William Shatner providing an abbreviated log of events. “Captains log: Star date 5121.5. Orbiting the second planet in the Maniarian star system. This star has long given evidence of entering a nova phase and 6 months ago a research station was established to make close up studies of the star as the end approaches” (Star). The topic of this show is that two…

William Wordsworth’s sonnet, “The World Is Too Much with Us” appears in chapter seven of Digging Into Literature in the middle of the discussion about context. On the surface level, the poem might be difficult to interpret because of its direct references and allusions. But a little research on Wordsworth’s background gives clarity to the deeper argument made in the poem. He was an English poet who is credited with being one of the fathers of Romanticism in English Literature during the late…

William Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest and Stephen Chbosky’s novel ‘the Perks of being a Wallflower’ explore the notion of discovery. Discoveries can be life altering, changing an individual’s mindscape. Through the diverse and complex characters in both texts, the ideas that discoveries encompass rediscovering, discovering something for the first time and the presentation of understanding through discoveries. The experience of discovering what was forgotten can be seen through the character…

As many may already know, in the Disney story of Sleeping Beauty, Sleeping Beauty is asleep for a hundred years, and Prince Phillip decides to risk his life to find her after being specifically told that many have died in the journey. Face to face with a dragon over twenty times his size, he still uses a puny sword to fight the dragon’s deathly breath of fire, instead of finding a logical plan and avoiding it. Likewise, in the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, a play written by William Shakespeare,…

An incident most has occurred in this part of the poem because there seem to be yelling judging from the exclamation marks used. The poem says “GAS! GAS! QUICK, boys!” (Owen line 9). This seems like they were getting attacked by gas and they were trying to escape from it. The aggressiveness from the use of punctuation shows how serious the situation is. In Miller…

What if each person walked around the earth naked? With no clothes, accessories or belongings to indicate social class? This is would be interesting to see because in the documentary, People Like Us, it was seen how much people judge each other by their outward appearance and personal belongings. The first thought about someone is made with the observers eyes, that first meeting could forever change the way you see that person. With that first encounter you walk away with a preconceived idea of…

The film 2081, directed by Chandler Tuttle is a satirical rendition of a dystopian future where everyone is “finally equal”, where no one is greater than the other person in intellect and strength. Harrison Bergeron, a fugitive and the protagonist, rebels against the propriety standards set by the society. He enters a theatre and enacts a liberating performance, critiquing the society’s enforced equality and opinions. Specifically, Tuttle uses Harrison’s dramatic entrance to show how the media…

Discoveries and discovering can offer new understanding and renewed perceptions of ourselves and others Discuss the statement with reference to your prescribed text and ONE related texts of your choosing. Discovery is the act of detecting something new, or something old that had been unrecognised as meaningful. Discoveries can give an individual a different perception of oneself, individuals, and society. In The Tempest, by William Shakespeare, by discovering the truth characters hold a…

I improved on a lot of things in the elements of writing. It has helped me get a lot of work done and actually being interested in writing papers and learning new ways to improve myself as a writer. Writing papers was never my strong point, I was never very good at it. Papers to me have become very manageable with the help of this class and my teacher. Writing in my opinion, doesn’t just communicate ideas, it generates them. When writing I tend to need help by others because I may not realize my…