The Opposite

Pitty can often be a good thing, other times it could be sad. Pitty is used in stories to make the reader feel sorry for the character who needs help or is struggling. Situational irony is when things go the complete opposite of what is planned. Sometimes it can be a good opposite and other times it can be bad. Like in the story “The Necklace” by Guy De Maupassant, the author uses situational irony by making the readers feel pity towards Mathilde. In the story “The Ransom of Red Chief” by O.…

The rules of the community In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the community has a lot of rules. Some people have contracting and contrasting feelings with these rules. One rule is that in one family unit you can only have one female and one male child. The reason for this rule is they want every family to be equal and they also don't want the community to overpopulate. For example, in China there is a human overpopulation law. It states that you are only allowed 2 children. This rule in…

In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the community Jonas lives in is an imperfect world. It is an illusion of a utopia. A utopia is a place that we can only dream about. While a dystopia is the opposite. Their society lacks the qualities of a utopia, and has flaws, such as, lack of knowledge, sameness, and complete control. The community doesn’t know the past, so they lack knowledge. The only person that knows is the Receiver of Memory. In The Giver it says, ”Everyone in the community has one…

they think of themselves higher than anyone else. A typical dystopia country are overpopulated, therefore creates problems in the society. Dystopia is not the same thing as a anti-utopia, where anti utopia is the opposite of the utopia where they started as a place thats the opposite of utopia but for dystopia it is seem as its outer appearance to be a utopian society but in some ways it has become corrupted. As the results for an overpopulated Dystopian state more resources are needed to…

The Great Gatsby is a great story.It has very different characters that are all bold in their own unique ways. It also has a setting that is upscale and dirt poor in the same setting. This story is portrayed by a well written book and a very well put together movie. And, although it's the same story in both there are some differences that occur between the characters and the setting. But as many would think there are of course multiple similarities. In the book and the movie many of the…

387-397) gives an example of two well-bred ladies that have been intimate friends from childhood into ripe middle age. The two ladies, Grace Ansley and Alida Slade, are different in nearly every aspect. From appearance to personality, they are on opposite sides of the scale. However, there is a side to both of these ladies that is venomous and shrouded. Although Grace and Alida have striking physical, personality…

The media’s effect of the Affordable Care Act has caused quite a stir in the government and the United States. The Affordable Care Act, referred to as “ObamaCare”, is a federal healthcare law aimed to increase the number of people covered under health insurance. Even from the beginning of the Affordable Care Act, the media geared towards Republican’s would publish articles and news story’s speaking of President Obama’s overhaul of this bill forcing it to be signed by Congress. This wasn’t the…

Armelagos, and the article from the Bradford Foundation I am comparing it to is “The Cochimi Culture on the Baja California Peninsula of Mexico.” I found it fascinating that both articles talked of disease and death but both came from completely opposite reasons. What I mean by that is that the artifacts show that the people of Dickson Mounds came from being farmers and having homesteads that are more permanent. Midwestern winters are brutally cold with substantial amounts of snowfall. This…

Amanda, Nice job explaining several Hispanic cultural beliefs in your post. I wanted to add a couple that I also found interesting. According to Smith (n.d.), the way a healthcare provider greets a Hispanic patient and family member may convey respect or disrepect. She recommends greeting patients and their family members using a title and their full name for the first greeting. For example, saying "Hello Julio" is considered disrespectful, while saying, "Hello Senor Julio Perez" conveys…

against them and try to prove everyone wrong. “Romeo and Juliet / Act 2, Scene 2” is an excerpt from a play by William Shakespeare. Juliet talks about her love for Romeo and Romeo joins in. They plan to get married the next day. When people are polar opposites and fall in love, they feel the burden of everyone’s shame. Juliet exclaims, “O Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name” (Romeo and Juliet. 2.2. 33-34). Romeo and Juliet’s origins have a mutually shared…