...The View of Happiness in the Society of Fahrenheit 451 The dictionary states that Happiness in a state of well-being or contemptment. In our world we know happiness as a feeling when something good happens. Happiness is different for everyone. For example, to some it can be materialistic like getting new items. To others it could be just the ability to spend time with family and friends. Now how is happiness seen in Fahrenheit 451? At the beginning of the book after Clarisse and Montag meet, Clarisse asks if he is happy. He laughs if off but after a little starts rethinking it. On page 59, Captain Beatty says “People want to be happy, isn’t that right? Haven’t you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well aren’t they? Don’t we keep them moving, don’t we give them fun? That’s all we live for isn’t it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.” In this quote Captain Beatty is stating that the way to make people happy is to provide them with pleasure and fun. What happens in society when the pleasurable and fun things end? No one knows because people are always being provided with the supplies to keep them happy or busy enough that they think...
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...the meaning behind stereotypes and how it categorizes people into groups. To start off, Charles Ramirez-Berg begins his reading “Stereotypes and Stereotyping” by explaining how the mind thinks, proving his point as to how we all make stereotypical remarks. Ramirez-Berg justifies this statement with an explanation on how people put others in categories, which are ranked in value. For most of the article Ramirez-Berg breaks down stereotypes in a way that makes them seem harmless. He makes it clear that there are positive and negative stereotypes, but does not emphasis their effects. Although his reasoning is logical, it does not justify the hundreds of attacks that people made directly towards Middle Easterners. The reasoning behind the contemptment people have towards Middle Easterners is not mentioned which leads me to further investigate. What I did obtain from this resource was the idea that people naturally label others, which can lead to harmful actions. For my next resource, I decided to regain focus on the negative aspects of stereotypes on Muslims since they seem to be affected the most after 9/11. In fact, Nicholas Brooklier focused on just that in this news article “Islamophobia: The Stereotyping and Prejudice Towards Muslims Since 9/11.” Brooklier introduces his work by explaining how others viewed Middle Easterners after 9/11. He portrays Middle Easterners as people fearful for their lives because of the harm that Americans create viewing them as terrorists. The way...
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...Essay The novel The Things They Carried works as a vessel, a mask that can fit on the face of any man left scarred by war. O'Brien paints war in a heighten and pellucid manner, stripping a soldier down to a basic primitive concept: the preservation of the body and the mind. Without the essenial exertion of the mind, we cannot lead our bodies. O'Brien illustrates how a common soldier struggles with moral duty, passion and discipline in the time of war. A moral duty is the desire to conduct a task in an attempt to obey a higher authority; or by following what one believes is right (morally or legally) without self interest or desire involved. Its a background force that leads man into action, the conviction that is instilled within every soldier...
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