Imagine being homeless, if you’ve been lucky enough to not endure that suffering. Think about it. Your home is no longer yours. Your family is no longer there. Now you have to find a new home to temporarily lay your head at night, like a homeless shelter which you share with complete strangers of varying ages and mental stability, or an abandoned building where you constantly worry if and when you’ll get caught, or even a sidewalk with cars passing by, the cold cement beneath you, and utter fear…
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It is a melancholy object to those, who drive or walk through the streets and come across those who are homeless and travel great distances from one shelter to another. More than 700,000 people in the U.S live without a proper shelter and struggle to get a good meal each day. They’re known as “beggars”, “hobos”, “vagrants”, “tramps”; the list goes on. We can’t help but think that they have become such vulnerable beings, who no longer have any control or power over their life. They’re not viewed as…
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The genre of satire is a category of literature in which vices, shortcomings, evil, and stupidity are held in derision. Take for example the most of the stories in the Canterbury tales. Most of those on the journey in the Canterbury tale have some sort of vice or shortcoming. Geoffrey Chaucer laid out their vices and shortcomings before the reader in such a way that instead of just accepting them the reader see the error of the character ways. This is the point of a satire, but when does this mockery…
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unfiltered look at what really happens behind the scenes of our favorite fast food restaurants. With the use of satire, irony, and excellent storytelling, the author successfully brings to light the cold hard facts that the Food Industry consciously keeps from the public. The fast food industry has inflicted many grievances on Americans; abusing cattle…
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Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most respected and known social activist of all time. He was a man who wanted to enacted change that would allow all people: rich or poor, black or white, male or female, to succeed. King Jr. was quoted as saying “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter.” He made sure to always stand for what he believed in through passive protests; from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the March on Washington. Charles Dickens lived with this…
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Moreover, Mark Twain is known for writing about issues of his time and using social satire as well as realism of place and language, and memorable characters. This can be proved in the short story “a curious dream” in which he wrote about a social issue using as a setting a cemetery near his house. Also, the main character, the skeleton…
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In Candide, there are many instances where Voltaire blatantly criticizes multiple aspects pertaining to the Enlightenment period. One aspect in particular that Voltaire criticizes many times throughout this text, is the religion of his time. Voltaire’s history of conflict with the Catholic Church heavily influences his writings and beliefs. Candide provides many situations that depict how the Catholic Church during this period is hypocritical or overly structured. Voltaire in this episode emphasizes…
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American Psycho: Analysis of Novel and Movie Production American Psycho has been recognized as a brilliant thriller of its time and can legitimately be labeled a scandalous novel. The novel was published in 1991 by the daring author Bret Easton Ellis and was later adapted into a movie production in 2000 by the director Mary Harron. The novel endured nasty criticism to the point of rousing riots and the boycott of the publishing company, Simon & Schuster; who later dropped the publication of…
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In the author's pen, he describes the background and position of Ah Q very clearly and his personality is very prominent. We know that Ah Q is a poor who can do any works. According the first two chapter, we know that he lives in in poverty as a homeless laborer, but he has the traditional good traits of Chinese farmers as hard-working, honest, and simple in nature. Certainly, Ah Q also has some negatives what are caused by social impact and oppression. His traits are very simple and very obvious…
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Constitutional Rights Project By: Cory Nguyen Constitutional Rights Project By: Cory Nguyen Table of Contents 1. 1st – Freedom of Religion 2. 1st – Freedom of Speech 3. 1st- Freedom of Press 4. 1st- Freedom of Assembly 5. 1st- Freedom of Petition 6. 2nd Right to Keep and Bear Arms 7. 4th Freedom from Unreasonable Searches and Seizures 8. 4th Search Warrant Based on Probable Cause 9. 5th Grand Jury Indictment in capital cases 10. 5th Double Jeopardy…
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