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“Harrison Bergeron” is a fictitious story written by Kurt Vonnegut in October of 1961. During the time period in which it was published, the Soviet Union (USSR) was still in power. The Soviet Union was a communist society that used force from “secret police”, whose main objective was to censor the people. The story “Harrison Bergeron” has a similar approach set in a dystopian society in the year 2081. In this society “Everybody was finally equal....Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody…

endured much hatred and failed implementation. Within her piece “Novostroïka,” native Ukrainian Maria Reva satirizes the inadequacy of this particular ideology through the lens of Daniil Blinov and his family struggling to exist in the collapsing Soviet Union. With the use of literary devices throughout the story, Reva articulates--both outwardly and subtly--the strife of citizens under Communist reign. Specifically, her motif of a lack of identity within Daniil, his family, and his apartment…

Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli moved to a small town in America shortly after they became husband and wife. Not only was the move a culture shock to Ashima but the idea of assimilating into the American culture was about as foreign as she was. Throughout her novel Lahiri paints the picture of what it was like for a Bengali foreigner to try and hold onto their culture in America. Along with trying to raise a Bengali family surrounded by ever pressing American influence. In the novel The Namesake by…

Power can have the persuasive action in undoing the moral ethics of one’s character. This can be seen throughout history with the Russian Revolution and can also be proven by the actions of Napoleon in, Animal Farm, by George Orwell. As John Dalberg said “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” A leader does not begin wanting to do wrong, they start with the best intentions, but power is a tricky thing. As someone gains more and more power, they increasingly become…

Name: ANG, Jose Mari P. Title of Film: Schindler’s list 1. Summarize the film. The film is about a German businessman named Oskar Schindler, who dreams of making it big in Poland. Although at first his goal was to make money, after witnessing the massacre of Jews by the Nazis his goal shifted to saving as many Jews as he can. Schindler continued to operate his owned factory as a means to protect and house the Jews under him, even bribing high ranking officials for his goals. The war ended…

An Inspector Calls is a play written by Dramatist J.B Priestley in 1945. Priestley was a left-wing socialist and this was one of the factors which influenced him to write this play. Even though the play was written in 1945, it was actually set in 1912, right before the start of the First World War. It is set in the spring of 1912 at the Brumley home of the Birlings, a prosperous industrial family in the North Midlands, getting involved in the death of a woman named Eva Smith. The Inspector uses…

Thesis: In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses Jim to explain that slavery was a wrong institution because whites treated blacks like they were a different species, which was wrong because blacks are humans too. TS1 Violence: In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, violence is seen as one of the most vulgar aspects of slavery because humans beat and other humans and deprive them of their basic amenities. TS2 Family Separation: Miss Watson shows how separation of families was another…

The Mongols, when you think of them what comes up, is it the way they used violence to conquer and destroy societies or the way they ruled them? Speculation on the Middle East and Eastern Asia will elucidate in the difference and similarities on the manner they were ruled by the Mongolians in an Interaction with Environment and Economical perspective. How both regions were similar were that during Mongol rule, they pushed taxation on both societies. In Eastern Asia for example, the Mongols made…

Lebensuwertes Leben, German for “life unworthy of life”. From early on in WWII, the Nazi policy was to murder the individuals that they felt were unimportant in society. Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor and author of the memoir, Night. Night, describes in detail his life during the Holocaust and the sacrifices he made when he was there. He is also well known for his White House speech, Perils of Indifference. The speech described how he felt about the experience and how people could have…

There are many similarities and differences between Joseph Stalin and Fidel Castro. Both are strong communist leaders that rule their counties with an iron fist. Stalin and Castro rose to power to form totalitarian dictatorships in the countries they ruled. They have used various methods to rise to power in their countries and they have worked hard to maintain that power. They both had huge impacts on the world and on Cuba and Russia. Joseph Stalin rose to power after the death of Vladimir Lenin…