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Well I have chosen an essay that I found online and it actually does not have an author that I can find easily.  So I can say that this might not be one of the most reliable things to look at, but what can I argue with.  I want to see what other people are thinking about this book and compare them to my observations.  The essay that I found talks mostly about how Art Spiegelman does not use the pictures in the comments as most people would think they are.  He does not want the pictures to over come his writing in a sense because he would rather the reader learn about what he is saying by reading his writing and not only by looking at his drawings.  He points out that in man cases Spiegelman uses the same expression over and over on the characters faces.  I believe that the person wrote about this because it really shows how Spiegelman does not and can not represent these terrible events.  Also the essay tries to explain how Spiegelman uses humor throughout the story in order to make it less terrible.  He believes that instead of representing the story in a negative way, Spiegelman used comedy to make it readable to an average person.  I like the thought of this becasue it is again along the lines on how Spiegelman uses something to take away from the real feeling of the event.  He knows that he can not represent this event because he was not there and wherever he got the information survived through it so that also would not even be the worst thing that happened.  When Spiegelman uses techniques like this he is showing that he can not represent what actually happened.  He is just merely giving us something to think about and base our ideas on.http://mybestessays.com/maus-2-essay-research-paper-there-is/ or http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/home.php?sk=group_115752808497570

Kittens Kradule Blog

Throughout the story there are many different parallels found throughout Cats Cradle that connect to the postmodernist views.  Postmodernism really has no true meaning and is percieved in a load of different ways.  People from this really just kinda take a lot of different people and put them in their respective groups just like a "granfallon" or a "karass".  Many postemodernist believe that the real destruction to human life will be the ultimate truth of humanity.  This is also shown becasue throughout the book there are a lot of connections to the religion of "Bokonon".  This could sort of be attactched to the thoughts of postmodernism becasue both of them run people.  Postmodernism has certain views and ideas on the world just like how in the book Bokononism really does the same exact thing, by putting people in "karasses" and also by making people believe in certain ideals of the world.  One of the good quotes in the story is "All of the true things that I am to tell you are shameless lies."  This quote is very eye catching because it is really just showing how the people in the story always have something to look for to believe in because there is not one set thing to believe in.  Pretty much this religion is made to make someone think of something else so they do not really have their attention on the main goal.  They believe they are happy with what they found out but they do not know that they just got off track and are now believing or looking for something that is made to get them off topic.  This is the same as the postmodernist becasue they believe that you should live in your own thoughts, pretty much your own world, and that is a close connection to the ideals found throughout Cat's Cradle.

Brave New World Essay Blog

Well for this essay I believe I am going to argue how the book Brave New World compares and contrasts to the real world.  I think this is a very interesting point to argue because people look at the story and think wow this is so un-real and is nothing like the real world.  We did that when we read the book 1984 but when we looked closer and into the deeper meaning we actually saw that 1984 was very similar to some real world situations.  So I would like to connect Brave New World to real life to help open eyes.  The first source I was going to use to help prove my point was going to be Sir Ken Robinson's video.  His video compared how education worked and how it ran to the Industrial Revolution.  He used symbols such as assembly lines to show this and I believe this could really help out my essay because it is dealing with a real world topic and fits in perfectly with Brave New World because everything in that story is too based on the Industrial Revolution.  Another source I am thinking about using is Postmodernism for Beginners by Jim Powell.  I want to use this because it would help compare the Postmodernism found throughout the story which is also found throughout the real world, but in ways known as racism.   These two sources will help me immensley because both of them hit on two subjects found throughout the book that are very big and important and both of these ideas are found throughout the real world.  Another point that I would like to hit on in my essay would be how they are taking family and love out of life.  I would like to connect this to how people in the real world are taking things from people that keep them original and themselves and take out sources that could really help the individual.  I do not have a source yet for this but I am trying to find one.  I know this idea does not sound to good at the moment but I believe if I fix it up I can make a good argument and it will make sense.

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There were many different parallels that could be found between the educational video and the book Brave New World.  The one I am going with will be the way that the video compares education to a factory type environment.  This is just like Brave New World because that is exactly how their society is run and sustained.  The assembly line connection from the video is shown throughout Brave New World when Mr. Foster says "Sixteen thousand and twelve in this Centre...Sixteen thousand and twelve; in one hundred and eighty-nine batches of identicals."  This quote really shows like data or statistics that would be taken down and known throughout a factory type place.  The environment of Brave New World is truly showing how the plot of the story is about how the whole place is based on this idea of industrialism or workplace environment.  Everything is only about how well they are doing and how to make this and that easier.  When complication might be the only thing that makes everyone different and better.  That is just how the video is really connected to the book.  The video is all about efficiency for education and how people want it to be.  But is that the smart way to go about it?  When you could be using free thought.  It really shouldn't matter how you test or what your grades are, but what you have learned and how you have matured.  The whole "factory" and "efficiency" thoughts are good, but is that the smart thing to do?  Is it smart to make everyone do everything exactly the same and make everyone be held to the same standards.  I believe that everyone learns in their own way which leads them to what they will be doing in the future.  You do not have to book smart just smart in their own way.  Well that was just my two cents.  PEACE!

Brave New World Posting

"Wheels must turn steadily, but can not turn untended. There must be men to tend them, men as sturdy as the wheels upon their axles, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment." Mustapha Mond.

This quote right here really sums up the whole guides for society in Brave New World because it points out what is "really" going on.  If we try to decifer this quote when it states "Wheels must turn steadily, but can not turn untended."  This part of the quote is talking about a society and how it must run steadily, but only with the help of the people (Alpha and Betas).  "There must be men to tend them, men as sturdy as the wheels upon their axels, sane men, obedient men, stable in contentment." This section of the quote points out the other half of what is happening in the society.  It can not run fluidly without "brute" work.  For this the scientist have created a certain type of man to do jobs and dumbed them down in the process (Gamma, Delta, and mainly Epsilon).  If you look at it as a social latter the Apha and Beta are the high class rich, smart, white people. And the Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon are the dumb, strong, and poor people. 

The way this is run really takes away from family, monogomy, impulse, and desire.  There is no way that anyone of these developing humans can choose what they want to do because the directors have already chosen what they are going to be before they get to choose and train them for their future job.  The controller says "Stability. No civilization without individual stability."  This quote shows that instead of using family as help to live and make decisions, that all of the decisions are made by you the person.  Which in the end means that all of the decisions are made by the directors who really choose what they desire you to be.  The "people" they create have no impulse or desire because they were taught to do one specific thing pretty much.  They just do their jobs and really have no clue of anything else.  There is no sight or knowledge on the outside world so they have no desire or impulse to change what they are doing becasue they "love" or where taught to love what they are doing. 
That is what I think.. Not so sure if I am going in the right direction or not.. WHO KNOWS!!

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In discussions of The Tempest, the traditional view is to think that it is about how Caliban is portrayed as a native on the island.  However, there may be other ways to think about this text. For one thing, Aime Cesaire's A Tempest explains the more humorous version of the original version.  And the same source also contends that there could have been a different outcome on what happened because of one difference in the story.  Therefore, taking these positions into account we can see that one small change can make a huge impact in the end of things.

Aime Cesaire's A Tempest is a variation of the original The Tempest.  This version shows how there can be a different way to view the reading of the play.  Aime Cesaire's version of the story shows a much more comical version of the play.  Part of the reason for this idea could be because of the people who read it and did a fantastic job with it, but I do believe that with the literature of this one it was more simplistic and it had more humorous writing.  Another way to look at this story is to think that it is a different outcome of the story.  For example in this version of the play Ariel actually did not like Prospero as he did in the original play.  With this one little change of the story Ariel plots against him with the help of Caliban and the whole play goes in a different direction.

I will use this source for mainly the second reason because I believe that I can prove a very good argument on it.  I want to use it in the way that shows that this one small change can change the whole play in itself.  I like this because instead of Prospero getting everything he wants; he actually will have people plotting against him and these people will actually have the ability to defeat him. 

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