Essay I: Short Fiction In “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” and “The Lottery”‚ Ursula Le Guin and Shirley Jackson depict a seemingly perfect society built on dark secrets. In the story‚ “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”‚ Omelas is a utopian city of happiness and delight‚ whose inhabitants are smart and cultured. Everything about Omelas is pleasing‚ except for the secret of the city: the good fortune of Omelas requires that a single unfortunate child be kept in perpetual filth‚ darkness
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My heart pounds beneath the thick armor like plating that covers my chest. My shoes click and clack on the pavement like a metronome. My brothers are lined up in front and beside me‚ all wearing the same attire but thinking different thoughts. We march down the black road that seems to stretch for miles to the stadium‚ reminiscent of the gladiatorial colosseum in days of old. I can just make out our opponents‚ their white uniforms standing out from the green field like starlight. Our chanting rings
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Tammy Vien February 11‚ 2013 Period 6 Miss Sare Goddess of Fashion Endymata is the Greek goddess of fashion. Endymata was the daughter of Athena. Young Endymata was first found by emerging from Athena’s blue and gold toga which Athena was sleeping in Endymata came to be as a very young adult. Athena did not know she had had a daughter‚ since Endymata just ran off after sprouting about her mother’s outfit. Endymata was walking about Athena’s palace‚ and then some of Athena’s guards spotted
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Do you speak “social?” There is a lot of writing out there about the effects of social media on business‚ marketing‚ branding and customer services. But what about how social media communications is impacting our written communications‚ or even our oral communications? Anyone remember when email was going to destroy letter writing‚ and even the art of writing altogether? Well‚ it did destroy letter writing‚ but did it really destroy the art of writing‚ or just change it? The Impact of “Social Speak”
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Where Have All the Leaders Gone? What is each of us giving back to our country? Do we truly love democracy? Are we too fat and satisfied for our own good? Do we really care about our children’s futures? And who will save the middle class? These are all tough questions examined in Lee Iacocca’s Where Have All the Leaders Gone? A self-made man who many Americans once hoped would run for president‚ Iacocca saved the Chrysler Corporation from financial ruin‚ masterminded the creation of the minivan
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spoken to or called upon. Nothing crushes a 4year old worse than a teacher not interested in what you’ve so proudly learned. I felt as though my learnings weren’t important‚ as if I was just there to take up space‚ I was another face amongst the crowd. I took this lesson and held on to it for the rest of my schooling until I learned otherwise. I never answered another question during group participation nor raised my hand to answer. By the time I was in 5th grade all I learned from Chicago
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where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel”. This Allusion speaks about how Moses spread the Red Sea. Abigail was a character who gain enormous power and could essentially put people to death. This reference to Moses emphasizes the immense fear people had
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his culture in order to fit in. He was often marginalized during school and around crowds. Mumble is the only Emperor penguin chick in Antarctica who can’t sing. His friend Gloria has a glorious voice‚ but Mumble can never hope to attract a mate without a ‘heart song’‚ the personal tune that all Emperor penguins must have. This gender discrimination affected his very way of
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personal experience‚ this just makes children doubt all the praise they receive (no one tells them differently)‚ more sensitive to critique (they are not used to it)‚ and feel stressed and in constant competition because they have to stand out from the crowd (if everyone is being rewarded‚
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novelty‚ myths‚ and plot) throughout the whole story and provides a summary of the story as well. Novelty was the major attraction of audiences for Greek tragedies. This is why the story of Oedipus is so strange and rather unusual to attract a larger crowd. According to Knox‚ another element of Oedipus was that of the myths. Uses of gods such as Apollo were intertwined with Greek tragedies in order to influence the audience to recognize that their will isn’t the most powerful thing in existence. When
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