Each of us, moments after birth, begin our journey exploring the world around us what's real, or safe, or fun, or comfortable - a search to sort out sense from nonsense. Those skills expand as we grow, for understanding what's real and learning how to infer from what little as babies, are the fundamental tools of survival. The importance of the study of logic is to help one learn to think property and focus your…
they are wearing masks. Their society took away all emotions except happiness. As a result, there are no real emotions. When Clarisse asks Montag if he is happy, he is unable to answer (pg.7). At first he replies, “Am I what? … Happy! Of all the nonsense.” because thats what the government wants him to feel, (pg. 8). For example, Millie and others attempt suicide because they are not truly happy. After Millie overdosed her sleeping pills, she would have died if Montag had not realized on time…
“What happened? Why are you two like this, where’s John?” Rebecca asked. “We don’t know. I arrived after he was gone,” Jeremy answered. “He was taken by it. The earth.” “You’re in shock William, you’re just spouting out nonsense.” “Are you sure? Like you said, you weren’t there when it happened,” Rebecca snapped back. “I’m glad a young investigator like you has an open mind to every possibility. It’s just that there is no physical evidence to support this claim,” Jeremy countered. Suddenly, they…
A traveller goes to China and tries to access Youtube, but realizes that it is blocked. A more extreme form of censorship is shown in Fahrenheit 451. In this book, all forms of literature such as books were banned by the government. This caused people to become mindless drones who lacked knowledge and creativity. Bradbury had a purpose for writing this, to warn us about how censorship can be used by the government for malicious purposes; he does this using literary elements. Bradbury…
Abortion Illegal Abortion is a widely hot topic across the nation, especially with the legality or illegality of it. The simple matter of fact is that abortion under almost all circumstances should be illegal— disregarding rape cases. Not only does aborting an unborn human constitute as murder, which is illegal within the United States, but also violates laws already granting protection to the child. The first violation is clear as day, it’s murder. Allowing abortions to be conducted is the act…
Always Been Done South Carolina’s denizens are stuck in their ways. More often than not, the reasoning behind something is that “that’s the way it’s always been done”. Traditions are all good and well, but perpetuating unnecessary acts is simply nonsense. South Carolina is full of highly intelligent people; there’s no reason these people cannot introduce some new ideas and shake things up. Sometimes, change is good. Sometimes, change is needed. South Carolina would improve vastly with the simple…
grades. As she overlooked my grades she just gazed up at me, the look upon her face spoke a thousand words. It hit me hard. I disappointed the woman I looked up to the most. I was so ashamed. All I could do at the time is apologize to my mother for my nonsense and carless attitude towards school. The summer passed, the school year was back in session. This now being my sophomore year, was a new…
The article " Police in schools: keeping kids safe, or arresting them for no good reason is about the advantages and disadvantages of allowing police officers in schools. According to the article, it states " that many of the black and brown children first experience with police violence are in a school building".The article states that School Resource Officers (SRO's) were bought into schools and communities to help against drugs, gangs, and weapons. SRO's have also set concerns with parents…
don’t know what did I get from watching them or if they were worth to watch those movies. I know it is not my place to say that but it is my current opinion, Lars von Trier’s style is feeling like the amateur writers, who think that if they write nonsense people would think that the meaning is so deep, and it is good…
He was a no-nonsense executive who believed that every component of the company had to be profitable. Each person, each piece of equipment, each division, and each manager had to contribute to the bottom line in a positive manner. Those that could not or would not, were…