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My Opinion on Colours Written by: Nesta 7T “Colour is a power which directly influences the soul” ~ Wassily Kandinsky Can you imagine what life would be without colour? Thinking of it gives me chills of a nightmare. Well in “The Giver”, pretty much all the people in Jonas’s community can’t see, or even know of colour. In my opinion, being able to see colour is an extremely remarkable, and is an important physical trait that most humans have. It is important in things such as physical…

Fire Through the events of Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë utilizes fire as a mechanism of providing both light and destruction to the main characters of the story. Because Thornfield is often depicted as being an old establishment, its inhabitants have to employ some sense of light and through fire, they see fit. It was extremely necessary for when the “party” guests were residing in the house and heard a frightful ruckus on the floor above. In the means of destruction, fire stood as both the…

Raskolnikov only finds redemption when time slows down and gives him opportunities to reflect on his guilt. When Raskolnikov travels to Sonya’s house to hear her reading of Lazarus from the Bible, “the candle-end had long been burning out… casting a dim light in this destitute room upon the murderer and the harlot strangely come together over the reading of the eternal book” (Dostoevsky 328). Dostoevsky employs the candlestick to freeze the passage of time because of the ambiguous state of the…

The Moral Influence of Literature In an immoral society where technology hypnotizes the people, books are illegal and philosophical thinking is frowned upon; individualism no longer exists, people claim to be happy but feel little emotion, and mistakes are never learned from. However, corruption and immorality remains the result when the obsession of literature and philosophy influence a man’s lifestyle. Philosophy and literature should be learned from, but with reason, adapted into our lives.…

“Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” said Laurie Halse Anderson. Censorship is limiting access to information, ideas or books in order to prevent knowledge or freedom of thought. It suppresses writing or speech for moral, political, or security reasons. Bleeping out swear words in songs, changing the words to more kid friendly version, cutting out sections of a speech, or even just paraphrasing to avoid offending anyone can be considered censorship. Restricting people's…

What Is Heroism? “The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by,”(Felix Adler). This quote of heroism from Felix Adler makes sense, Mr. Adler worked as a professor in political and social ethics, Adler also developed other's minds so that these people could also succeed in this world. In his works he definitely saw examples of a hero. Some of the household heroes that Adler got to experience were presidents like…

Jean Baudrillard The Hyper-realism of Simulation In Baudrillard's essay “The Hyper-realism of Simulation (originally published in 1976), He stresses that the use of media, signs, and symbols has overloaded our culture to the point that “reality itself, as something separable from signs of it …vanished in the information-saturated, media-dominated contemporary world” (J.Baudrillard, 2006). Mass Media i.e television, photography, and advertising have shaped and our human interaction and…

SUMMARY Sets in the futuristic period, Guy Montag, a fireman, who, paradoxically, burns houses and illegally owned books. One night, after having burning quite number of homes and books, Montag met Clarisse, who happens to be his old neighbor. Clarisse, a seventeen year old, who is like a typical teenager, who likes to talk but what Clarisse sets from other teens is that she question about the world and nature In the course of the chapter one: part one, Clarisse asked Montag if he is happy, and…

Historical Narrative Rāhula’s story My dear students, I have gathered you all today to tell you a story. Of course, not an ordinary made-up one that we usually tell around the fire, but my story. The story of how my father was enlightened. The story of how I rejected the foul beliefs of Hinduism, how I stopped believing in the Brahman, and how I started living the life I do today as a monk. I, Rāhula, will tell you the story of my humble beginnings. When I was a young boy, I knew very little…

The Ugly American The Ugly American was a political novel written by Eugene Burdick and William Lederer, depicted through different vignettes, how our inability to understand our operational environment, failing to assimilate into another culture along with an inflated sense of superiority can be disastrous to diplomacy abroad. The book really showed how an individual can impact the impression of a culture and a nation on to another country by their ability or inability to integrate themselves…