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    Fitzgerald does a righteous job at embroidering the era in “The Great Gatsby” to the world around him. Jay Gatsby is a man that desires to break out of his poor social rank and comes to this new wealth in the means of illegal business in order to win over his dream girl. This dream girl, Daisy Buchanon, is merely a small-minded product of the cushioned lifestyle wealth afforded and women of her generation, insisting she’s better off a fool in this world. While her husband Tom Buchanon represents…

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    The Plum Nation

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    In the early 1500’s the plum nation was born. It originated in china and slowly spread about asia. The plum religion was pluminissum. Pluminissim had a great culture of sacrificing otters to their god, lord squaw. Squaw cultists (what pluminissim followers were called) spread their religion around to humans. Some group of teenage boy’s in the metro early college high school and middle school are still following pluminissim have been heard making the squaw oath. (said by shouting lord squaw's…

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    feel almost condescending. Despite the way he was being treated, he knew he was far much more superiorintelligent than anyone with the amongamount of knowledge he carried. Overall, Rulloff was treated unfairly however, he knew he was far much more superior; thus one should not look down upon others because of their status…

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    themselves would have you believe differently, they would “explain their origin through legends, such as the legend of the Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo, which emerged from Lake Titicaca and the Legend of the Ayar Brothers.” (Staff Writer, 2016). The legend of Lake Titicaca states, the god like Tici Viracocha arose from out of the Lake Titicaca, when…

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    throughout many periods of history, but who is the Ku Klux Klan, and what did they believe? The Ku Klux Klan, also known as the KKK, is a secret society made up of purely white, male and female, protestant, christians. They believed that they were superior than all other races and religions. The bible is their main source of knowledge. The Ku Klux Klan believes that if you do not believe in Jesus Christ as the Messiah, God cannot hear your prayers. Around 1865 to 1866, the Ku Klux Klan was…

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    think that their little minds can be easily manipulated and controlled. This is not the case. Kids have intelligent, beautiful, and compassionate thoughts and ideas. Still, adults have seemingly unchangeable needs to rule over children as their superiors, even though many kids are smarter and more logical than their elders. In Orson Scott Card’s, Ender’s Game, adults attempt to sway the mind of the child genius and protagonist, Ender Wiggin. One important theme in Ender’s Game is that adults…

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    Gattaca Manipulation

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    removing and adding different traits to a person’s genetic makeup completely negates any mystery to life, even if it is physically good for individuals bred for perfection, the destruction of natural laws impacts both the genetically inferior and superior in negative ways. The lack of chance comes dangerously close to removing choice from the lives of both valids and in-valids in the film. People are no longer left to decide their own fortune and are forced into the path chosen by their…

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    between the tensions of the British and French, instead all of the tribes would have sided with the British because they have a common enemy. There still is a huge divide on race during this period, and class. The French believe they’re religion is superior to others, especially the Native religion, even though the environment has lots of rivers and they could learn how to fish from the Natives and learn how to adapt to the environment, instead they cut down the woods, and plan to convert the…

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    Racism and Imperialism Racism and imperialism often go hand in hand; imperialism cannot exist without some display of racism and power. In Hunt Hawkins’ essay “Heart of Darkness and Racism”, he suggests that Joseph Conrad attacks the colonization of Africa through racism in his novel Heart of Darkness. While most critical essays regarding race generally focus on whether or not Conrad is a racist, like Chinua Achebe’s “An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness”, Hawkins neither…

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    was the cause of his problems, but at the same time it tranquilized him. Even though Victor isolated himself his problems didn’t go away, in one way or another he was going to be reminded of the monster. “Alas, why the man boast of sensibilities superior to those apparent in the brute, it only renders them more necessary beings. If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free, but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that the…

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