...Two Dystopias After reading the iconic novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, and learning about the devastating Holocaust, I have come to a conclusion that there are many similarities between the sick realism of the world and the made up world of a book. A dystopia is a fictional world where people live under a highly controlled, totalitarian system. In both The Giver and in the Holocaust, societies were based off of: rules, sameness, and death. All qualities of a dystopia that make it the highly controlled, totalitarian system that it is. To begin, I will start with the extreme control and rules placed upon all citizens of the community in The Giver, and the millions of Jews during the Holocaust. Over the course of the Holocaust, Hitler...
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...exists and everyone is identical. Ayn Rand creates a perfect picture for that. In the book, Anthem, Equality’s primary motivation is his desire for individuality. Like every other human-being the challenge of finding who you really are and what your purpose is, is a rather difficult task to complete. After being strained to be someone he’s not and living off of strict rules the aspiration to establish who he really was, was the fire within him to conduct his experiments. Equality’s experiments were a symbol of his developing self. If everyone in the world were to be like Equality and have the same motivation, the world would be a more developed and efficient environment with very confident individuals. In similarity to Lois Lowry’s book The Giver, Ayn Rand establishes a society with uniformity. Lowry’s book refers to what is known as sameness and is a world that’s only black and white. What’s the point of no color? Color expresses one’s personality when both authors are trying to achieve the theme of equality. Everyone is seen the same and in most ways are the same. Going back to Ayn Rand’s writing, the kids attend a school where...
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...The Giver - Film/Novel Comparison Fiona from the book The Giver, is very laid back and is a supporting character in the book, while in the film version she is made into this love interest. She also completely changed jobs in the community, which actually resulted in different endings for each the book and movie. Although she is the same dialogue-wise, her personality even somewhat changed from book to movie. Fiona in the book was never a love interest, she was always a best friend and just supported Jonas. The reason I believe they changed her into a love interest is because they were increasing everyone’s age and it gave a more memorable ending to the movie. The book just cut off after he gets to the bottom of the hill. It was never said what happened to Fiona after Jonas leaves the community. She just disappears and isn’t in the book anymore. Fiona was a caregiver in the book and took care of the old people. In the movie, they completely went to the opposite side of the spectrum and she was a nurturer and took care of newchildren. It makes sense that they made the decision to give her a very caring, sweet job with the newchildren. Without her having that job, she wouldn’t have had access to the facility that Gabe was at at the end of the movie when Jonas took him. In the book Gabe never leaves Jonas’s dwelling. He just takes him out of his crib and leaves, in the movie, they made it into a huge action sequence. I thought that it was cliche but essential that the director...
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...Is there really such a thing as a utopian society? In both genres of The Giver, Jonas lives in a community that seems to be a perfect utopia. The book by Lois Lowry and the movie directed by Phillip Noyce both present similarities and differences with plot, theme, and characterization. “Now, seeing the new child and it’s expression, he was reminded that the light eyes were not only a rarity but gave the one who had them a certain look---- What was it?” The second Jonas’s eyes meet Gabriel’s they have a profound connection. They have one very significant feature in common, their pale eyes. This unique quality that they share symbolizes the ability to ‘see beyond’. Their capability of seeing beyond helps the reader understand that Jonas can...
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...When they make novels into movies every movie has to make changes to make fit into the plot better, but are those changes are having a positive impact on the movie or having a negative effect on the movie.The Giver book and the movie have some major changes but both had positive and negative effects. The changes from the book to the movie that had a positive effect and enriched the story. The first change would be Asher job in the book was the Director of Recreation of 6’s and in the movie, his job as a drone pilot.This job enhanced the story by him finding Jonas in elsewhere and moving talks to him and helping him get to the boundary.The second change was when Jonas of the sled the Giver explained it, but in the movie, the Giver just gave...
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...Is perfect always perfect? In Lois Lowry's The Giver “perfect” is where there are no differences in appearance and everything is chosen for you. Whereas in America’s society, perfect doesn’t even exist. A utopia is defined as a place or state where everything is perfect. However, as shown in The Giver, you cannot take something bad away without taking something good away in the process. Both societies strive towards creating a utopia, but have very different ways of creating this and as a result, The Giver’s and America’s societies have both have many similarities and differences. The community in The Giver is extremely different when compared to America’s modern society. The perspectives of jobs in each society are drastically different. As mentioned in The Giver, each Twelve receives their job at the Ceremony...
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...Topic: In both The Giver and The Chrysalids, the communities strive to create utopias in their own ways. Discuss how memories are forgotten and/or emphasized to achieve this. In the novels The Chrysalids by John Wyndham and The Giver by Lois Lowry, both authors illustrate how, when communities emphasize or forget memories from the past, it will result in a dystopia. Further, it will also affect our future generations and the way people choose to live. In the Waknuk community of The Chrysalids, memories are recalled, emphasized, and then used to threaten and control the society. The leaders rule the community using fear as a weapon, forcing the people to believe what they want them to believe. The Waknuk community’s idea of a utopia is to have the people obey the rules, and to live under the will of God. A citizen of another community criticized the Old People, “If they had not brought down Tribulation which all but destroyed them” (Wyndham 157). The memory of Tribulation is constantly discussed, repeated and emphasized throughout the novel. The community believes that if they break the laws and rules of The Bible and Nicholson’s Repentances, their two only and sacred books, they will be faced with consequences like how the “Old People” of the past did. Tribulation is believed to be a period of time where the people of earth made too many mistakes, broke too many rules, that angered God, causing Him to destroy all of earth to give people a chance to start a new...
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...“The Giver” Literary Analysis In life, people find that memories are a benefit, yet it somehow contains cons. Like societies in the novel The Giver, a fiction novel wrote by Lois Lowry, it explained that memories can provide wisdom and experience for situations. This theme is expressed in many ways such as figurative language and diction. Memories are needed in society so that people can learn from their experience. Recalling to the texts, Lowry uses her figurative language to give context clues of the theme. Doing that, she uses simile and imagery to hide the theme. For instance, using simile, a group of visitors from another community broke a few rules who upsetted the fair-playing Lily. “She shook her head. ‘I don’t know. They acted like…...
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...Ethics comparison essay Michael Njus ETH316 June 23, 2014 Aubrey Weekes Ethics comparison essay INTRODUCTION This paper will take a look at three different theories of ethics. The three theories are deontological, utilitarianism and virtue theory. The basics of ethics theories are similar in the fact that they are all a set of rules that govern what is deemed to be right or wrong, the following will define each and attempt to point out some differences in the theories. Deontological ethics, are ethical theories that place special emphasis on the relationship between duty and the morality of human actions. Deontology (Greek deon, “duty,” and logos, “science”) consequently focuses on logic and ethics (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2014) Utilitarianism is a doctrine that the useful is the good and that the determining consideration of right conduct should be the usefulness of its consequences; specifically: a theory that the aim of action should be the largest possible balance of pleasure over pain or the greatest happiness of the greatest number. (Merriam Webster, 2014) Virtue ethics is a broad term for theories that emphasize the role of character and virtue in moral philosophy rather than either doing one’s duty or acting in order to bring about good consequences. (Athanassoulis, 2014) While the aim of all three theories is that we should strive to do what is right, the length that we should go to and who they would affect is the main difference in the three. The main difference...
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...Another possible outcome of our society could turn out like the the motion picture of The Giver. The “community” in The Giver “lived in tranquility without the existence of emotions or color, as these would produce conflicts. The citizens have also had their memories wiped” (IMDb). The people were also “assigned their positions in the community” and were always watched by the Elders. Children were similarly brainwashed by the government to obey the rules and suppress emotion and free thought. People could not choose their own fates which were assigned by the Elders and children were born almost genetically perfect after selective breeding. Similarly, citizens were not allowed to hold differing views and feelings towards the state. The people...
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...established relationships. Comparing Japan to that of the United States and how we interact culturally is like comparing apples to oranges. One of the biggest differences culturally is how we conduct business. In Japan, business cannot be conducted until after business cards, called meishi, have been exchanged. By contrast in the United States we often give business cards either at the start or end of a business meeting with no prescribed time frame. We often will make notes on our business cards, such as where or when we received and some important fact that we wish to remember about the giver. In Japan, it is unconscionable, to even think of writing on a card handed to you. Culturally, it is an offense to the giver. You must commit the name and title of the individual to memory in order to show good face and respect to the owner of the card. I wanted to show in the above comparison how different we are from Japan in our business dealings. They are very formidable in how they conduct business and how they treat their business partners. With a literacy rate country wide of nearly 100% it is no wonder they are consider by some to be the smartest people on the planet. As a result of such “mental wealth”, if you will, it is no wonder that we have to take greater pains to understand our Japanese friends, especially when conducting business. When we...
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...The Psychology of Gift Exchange Mayet, C. & Pine, K. J. University of Hertfordshire Internal Report 2010 Gift giving is a social, cultural and economic experience; a material and social communication exchange that is inherent across human societies and instrumental in maintaining social relationships and expressing feelings (Camerer, 1988, Joy 2001). Research within different disciplines to gain insight of gift giving behaviour has continued for over forty years. Gifts are bestowed in celebration of key life events, a medium for nurturing personal relationships, to encourage economic exchange and to socialise children into appropriate behaviour patterns (Belk, 1979). Obligations within a community require that individuals are required to give, receive and to reciprocate (Mauss, 1954). In his essay the French anthropologist-sociologist Marcel Mauss (1954), presented a theoretical analysis of the gift-giving process, that was based on his examination of giftgiving amongst various primitive, secluded, or ancient societies. He concluded that giftgiving is a self-perpetuating system of reciprocity and summarised three types of obligations which preserve gift-giving: 1. The obligation to give. 2. The obligation to receive. 3. The obligation to repay. The requirement to give may be ingrained in religious or moral necessities, with a strong need to recognise and maintain a status hierarchy and to establish or maintain peaceful relations, or merely the expectation of reciprocal giving...
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...illness, the road ahead seemed “lined with peril.” Yet, with time, I began to understand that I need not make this journey alone; that my family and my faith would give me the strength to persevere; that at present, all I can control is how I react to these circumstances. As a result, I have been able to improve personal relationships, especially with my dad, and (for the most part) overcome the negative emotions that once flooded my mind. 2. The Necromancer (how Sauron is known in The Hobbit) has “magic prism eyes.” He is also seen “gazing into his prisms,” apparently watching something. What are these “prisms,” and what do they allow the Necromancer to accomplish? Also, provide at least one example of a character in past readings (The Giver through The Hobbit) that also gazed into “prisms,” and explain what this accomplished. a. The Necromancer’s “prisms” allow him to see beyond normal capacity—to be aware of all that happens in his lands. One character from the readings who also has this ability is Leader from Messenger. However, unlike the Necromancer, who uses his power to accomplish his evil deeds, Leader uses his gift sparingly, only when it was absolutely necessary for the safety of his friends. 3. Describe the tone or attitude of the music and lyrics of Part II. In what way does that tone mirror other conflicts, climaxes, or moments of terror found in Beowulf and The Hobbit? In other words, how could Part II serve as a soundtrack to certain parts of Beowulf and The Hobbit...
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...The board of directors requested our team to develop an e-mail campaign strategy to improve membership and donor rates. However, as systems engineers, none of our team members had any prior knowledge of marketing or segmenting. Therefore our team was forced to do some extensive research on non-profit marketing, as well as database segmenting. The ideals and concepts learned throughout the research process were eventually used as a foundation for completing the project objectives proposed by the Lightfactory board of directors. Segmenting the database was a success and provided some key insights about the LightFactory’s customer base. Most of the customer’s in the database were segmented into three major populations: Big givers, Middle givers, and Low givers. These segments are customers who have donated more than once. Each segment shows the mean, median, mode, upper control limit, lower control limit, and other relevant statistical data. The database was also segmented by regular and former members that had enrolled in classes. Also the concentration of average donations and non-donors in all cities in North Carolina that had people affiliated with The Light...
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...A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE TWO CREEDS NICENE-CONSTANTINOPLE CREED | APOSTLES' CREED | We believe in one God, | I believe in God, | the Father, the Almighty | the Father almighty, | maker of heaven and earth | creator of heaven and earth. | of all that is seen and unseen. | | We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ, | I believe in Jesus Christ, | the only Son of God. | His only Son, our Lord. | God from God, Light from Light, | | true God from true God, | | begotten, not made, one in Being with the Father | | Through him all things were made, for us and for our salvation He came down from heaven: | | by the Power of the Holy Spirit. | He was conceived by the power of the Holy Spirit | He was born of the Virgin Mary, | and born of the Virgin Mary. | and became man. | | For our sake He was crucified under Pontius Pilate; was crucified, died, and was buried. | He suffered under Pontius Pilate, He suffered, died, and was buried. | | He descended to the dead. | On the third day He rose again. | On the third day he rose again | In fulfilment of the Scriptures | From the dead | He ascended into heaven and is seated on the right hand of the Father. | He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. | He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, | He will come again to judge the living and the dead. | and His kingdom will have no end. | | We believe in the Holy Spirit, | I believe in the Holy Spirit,...
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