Marist Brothers

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…

Similarly, these tales share similar fragments of plot where the character Shrek, in both Steig’s “Shrek!” and Anderson’s Shrek, journey to get a princess, encounter a donkey, slay a dragon in pursuing a princess, and marry the princess. In both “Sleeping Beauty in the Wood” and Shrek the rescuer saves the princess and marries her and each story includes a villainous character that tries to hurt the princess for his/her own gain, as Lord Farquaad desired to become king by marrying Fiona and the…

Hiʻiaka 2 Page Essay English Tysen Oyama and Kalehua Kalili The thought process behind the Instagram page that Kalehua and I made was to make Panaʻewaʻs page look like he is a stuck up and selfish moʻo that shouldnʻt be considered a leader of the moʻo because his actions donʻt reflect what an actual leader is supposed to. He talks as if he can do anything. But, risks the lives of his own people to defeat an opposition that he states he could defeat himself. This proves to my point that Panaʻewa…

If I remember my childhood days. The days of learning in school, chasing after my younger brothers and sisters, playing cricket under the beating sun against the neighborhood boys and being able to embrace my life as it prospered. But as I grew from a scrawny young boy to a fresh young adult, I enjoyed mathematics, physics and the understanding of structural architecture. Engineering, a job reserved for the illustrious and high British scholars before the Satyagraha movement, was now available…

The movie commences with upside down images and faces imprinted on its memory. We observe yellow fog and trees which precede a napalm air strike. We find a soldier face which is pained and disillusioned. This depicts war everywhere. The soldiers merge with another soldier and disappear into the forest. The soldier is tormented and possessed; he looks at his image in the mirror and grins to destroy it. He wraps himself in his blood, and this reminds us of his face painted with mad. In this scene,…

Brave New World Essay In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the government uses many methods of brainwashing to control the people of their society and force them to submit to the will of the higher-ups. Huxley was trying to make a connection between his writing and the world he lived in through his use of details, tone, and diction. In his time period, people were easily swayed and deluded by their culture, government, and drug dependency. To begin, one way that the government…

They are constantly reminded that Big Brother is always watching them, knowing if and when they will commit a crime. Set design by __ was envisioned to resemble a Television screen using black barriers looking into the stage, this was as if the audience themselves were the all-seeing Big Brother. Tim Reid’s video design.. Winston and Julia leave the stage believing they are alone, however, a live video displays their…

Swiper no swiping, Swiper no swiping! This common phrase was used by the popular trickster character, Swiper, from the television show Dora. Trickster characters are a universal type of character and appear in many stories from all over the world. All of the trickster stories in the world have similar elements, including helpfulness of a trickster, the use of brain over brawn, and the cleverness of the character. Helpfulness of the trickster is an element found in all trickster tales. For…

with ourselves (256)." The existence of the totalitarian society itself has caused the change in views of human subjects. Things like sex, love, and gender should be a human right not taken away or altered by the crown, or in Oceanias world, Big Brother. In the end of 1984 by George Orwell the totalitarian society, with Winston and Julia as evidence, has squeezed and depicted the life and normality of sex, the many aspects of love, and gender. Works Cited Becnel, Kim E. “How to Write…