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In Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Dick distinguishes humans from androids by their ability to develop empathy through the social interactions between androids and humans, in which they highlight each other’s differences, thus Dick reveals that the lack of empathy within human society leads to the misunderstanding and segregation of societal classes. The characterization of androids and people within Rick’s society displays the potential effects of Dick's society if it…

Anthem and the Concept of Free Will Anthem by Ayn Rand’s “hymn to man’s ego,” The story is about a man’s rebellion in regards to an authoritarian, communist society. A young man by the name Equality 7-2521 craves to comprehend “the Science of Things.’’ The problem is that he exists in a desolate, dystopian future in which sovereign thought is an offense and whereby science and technology have reverted to primeval levels. All terminologies of individualism have been stifled in the world of…

Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer is the story of a nameless communist spy who is disturbed by his own political beliefs. He is a half French and half Vietnamese communist agent, who is conflicted about his own views on events. In the beginning of the novel, the narrator explains that he is being held as a prisoner and is being forced to write a letter of confession for the edict. A clash of thoughts, a sequence of dualities. Born and raised in Vietnam, he is a Vietnamese spy in South Vietnam…

Tragedy of the Commons is the idea of when a public resource is taken advantage of and is used to near or complete depletion. Dr. Seuss’ 1972 TV movie, The Lorax exemplifies ideas from The Tragedy of the Commons. These ideas include putting pollution into nature is just as bad as taking something out, human nature to breed and give birth to an exuberant amount of children, and then there is the impossible human thought of making infinite things out of a finite world. The Lorax portrays the idea…

Communism Farm The book animal farm is about a farm of animals that have a revolution against the farmers and begin to run the farm on their own, but is this the only thing the book is about? The book is about more than just animals taking over a farm and running a corrupt government. The book is also about the time period it was written and the way things were run in the world war two era. The book was written by a man named George Orwell, he lived during that time and he had political…

100. Andrew W.K. - Party Hard The sonic equivalent of shotgunning on a Four Loko, Party Hard is of this unique blend of dumb that is so stupid, it might actually be smart. Chances are, Andrew W.K. won’t win a Nobel Prize for the lyrics of his signature hit (or any other of his songs, really), but no song managed to encapsulate the spirit of doing donuts in an empty grocery store’s parking lot like this one. 99. Eminem - Lose Yourself Lose Yourself was the exact moment when Eminem was seen as…

In her novel, When the Emperor was Divine, Julie Otsuka explores how people’s identity can be forced to change due to fear. Fear causes people to change because people may not be able to handle all of the pressure and stress. In the novel based around WWII, the family is split apart from each other. While the father goes to prison,the mother and the kids go to an internment camp close to Utah. While they are in the camp the pressure fear has put on all of them leads to an unstable life…

My three identities are America’s worst fears. My identity is what prevents those who are closed-minded to sleep at night. Men disrespect me. Those who are privileged look down on me, and the racist fear I will bomb their “Land of the Free.” Kwame Anthony Appiah wrote his article “Racial Identities” explaining our different identities and how each of our “collective identities” makes up a script or narrative of shaping our life. I identify myself as an African-American-female-Muslim. As an…

Delusions and Misconceptions Even as perfect a utopia world may be, it is misconceived to be a dystopia. A utopia is “a place of ideal perfection especially government and social conditions” (“Utopia”). The other, dystopia, is “an imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives” (“Dystopia”). At the end, there can only be a dystopian world. Considering the fact that nothing can be perfect and there will always be people to defy the rules and laws. In 1984, it may seem…

In the book of Republic, Socrates talk about two different cities name city of pigs and city of luxury. Socrates believed that the city of pigs was “the true city and the healthy city. But, as the story went on we found that it was another city called the city of luxury which people from the city of pigs believe was exactly the same as the city of pigs. I think that the city of pigs is the best city because it’s a healthy a society in which everyone shares the work according to ability and the…