Kurt Cobain

“The Veldt” is a short story written by Ray Bradbury on September 23, 1950. Bradbury, known for his science fiction genre, wrote many novels including: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, Dandelion Wine and more. The common theme of his novels is that humans can be manipulated by technology. “The Veldt” is about a family that has a very technologically advanced home that performs every task for them. The children eventually get revenge on their parents with their own technology – the nursery…

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” This quote by John F. Kennedy exemplifies the insight Ray Bradbury portrays in “Fahrenheit 451” about a future world in which society has finally carved the perfect people with the perfect lives. Everything seems to be okay for Guy Montag, as he has completely conformed to what is expected of him, until Clarisse, a woman who has been raised knowing the truth of the world, unknowingly displays human connection that Guy himself has…

For my Essay #3, The Juror’s Reflection, I have chosen to discuss the case of Moon Microsystems, Inc. v. John Zucchini. I have chosen this case as I found John Zucchini sounded very innocent during my first read through of the trial description, but on each successive read through I found he sounded more and more guilty. I believe that Zucchini would have had a hard time justifying any benefits of his chosen domain name outside of the gained popularity through Moon’s customer’s confusion. In…

Benjelloun, Zakary Mrs. Salas English II Pre-AP, Pd.2 20 October 2014 Depiction Of The Flaws In “Harrison Bergeron,” Kurt Vonnegut Jr., the author, portrays society as a flawed system where people are reprimanded for their strengths. The government thinks that conformity is the answer to equality, but in reality it only makes matters worse. Limiting potential only hurts the growth of a certain society because making everyone equal will not generate the hardship required for a society to seek a…

In the story “Harrison Bergeron” the year is 2081. Everyone is finally equal and at peace, but one person by the name of Harrison Bergeron becomes a threat to that peace. Being a threat to that peace he is considered a danger to society. Harrison is considered a danger to society not a hero because he is ruining the peace and equality everyone has finally achieved. The first piece of evidence that shows Harrison Bergeron is a danger not a hero to society is that when he came upon the stage he…

every action to take in a society called school. Although there were no rules, I tried to make a more appropriate decision which reflects on my own ethics so that I do not have the wrong idea of freedom. I have also read a story "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut in English class and it made me think what true equality is. Though everyone was made equal by law in the story, no one seemed to be happy as the meaning of equality here was to treat anyone the same, resulting in an elimination of…

like to be held back from your full potential? We as people love to express our thoughts and be individuals, so when these things are taken from us we feel caged. An example of this in literacy is found in the short stories, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut and “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. In these stories, we see that blind obedience can lead to the loss of morals and faith. In Vonnegut’s…

masculinity is an invisible barrier but has various depictions in literature and in politics. Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity by Kenneth Paradis states that masculinity is a social contract for a manhood with melodrama. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut writes an anti-war book that describes masculinity, but he makes the characters not so beautiful, so people can’t copy it and make a movie of what they think war should look like. The Vietnamization…

In in the black comedy novel, Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut recalls and discusses the destruction of Dresden through the narration of the main character Billy Pilgrim, in order to highlight his perspective regarding the horrors of the war. When Dresden gets bombed, Vonnegut— who injects himself in his own novel as Billy— experiences sadness and sympathy rather than anger and resentfulness. Billy’s misery— due to being ambushed and witnessing the gruesomeness of the war— leads him to…

One of the books i read this semester was called Alien 3 by Alan Dean Foster. Alien 3 follows after aliens and is apart of a trilogy of movies. Alien 3 takes place after the Aliens in which the main protagonist and her crew are in cryogenic sleep. While the humans are comfy and having a safe journey home the stories antagonist causes havoc on the ship causing a fire to the ship and impregnating Ripley. The ship that is badly wounded has to make an emergency landing at Fiornia 161 a all men…