talked and had so much fun. One of the guys, Andrew asked me if I could remember that one time, where the police caught me in having marijuana. I looked wondering at him. Andrew continued, “I took the blame for you that time, and you said you would owe me. I need it now. You see, the guys and I need some extra cash, and that’s why we are going to brake into an old warehouse, and you are going to help us”. I was speechless, I didn’t know what to say. The guys just stared at me, and waited for an answer
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2013 Five Guys is a large fast-food chain restaurant that stands out among the rest. They have different philosophies that set them apart from other fast-food companies. Many of the values that Five Guys started with have made them succeeded and are still a huge factor in their success today. After being around for seventeen years, Five Guys decided to start franchising the company, which lead to a large success in such a
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“By Any Other Name”, by Santha Rama Rau, tells a story of how a culture is taken over by another, and is forced to change. The story talks about two young Indian girls who are sent to an Anglo-Indian School (which was a boarding school run by British Administrators). They don’t realize that they are slowly being turned from their own culture and put into another. For example, when asked to give their names, the girls were forced to change them into British versions of the name. They were also forced
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Albert Camus: an author of the truth about life One of the worst lessons to learn in life is how unimportant people become after the inevitable: death. Albert Camus is very well-known for his many novels exposing the true, cold-hearted facts about life and mankind. Although his writing was mostly focused on the unimportance of life, there was a time when he wrote about politics. He wrote for a very popular underground newspaper that tried to create a non-communist movement in France at the time
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the masses can relate to. In Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; I can relate most to one of the main characters, Guy Montag. Guy Montag is a protagonist that realizes the society is backwards and he takes initiative to make a change to it. To be specific, Montag realizes burning books isn’t really what he want from society. As a result, I can connect to Guy Montag. Throughout the book, Guy Montag expresses his opinion of the way society runs. He believes it’s society that makes him unhappy in life
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The use of line breaks and imagery in the two poems “The History Teacher” by Billy Collins and “Outdistanced” by Larry Rubin punctuate a shared theme that a willful lack of self awareness can quickly lead to a greater societal ignorance of what should shape humanity. In the poems, the use of imagery helps develop the shared theme that a lack of self awareness can quickly lead to a greater societal ignorance of what should shape humanity. Throughout “The History Teacher”, the reader is able to see
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Fahrenheit 451 Too much technology can tear humanity apart. Ray Bradbury shows this theme through the characters Mildred, Clarisse, Montag, and Faber. In Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451, he uses characterization to show the themes of humanity and technology. In the book Montag’s wife is Mildred. Her life revolves around technology. Mildred thinks their three full walls of televisions is not enough so she asks, “How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a fourth
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destroyed. This lead to the result of happiness of most of the community but, not to all of the people. One of those people that was against the idea of banning and destroying literature was Faber, an old retired english professor. In a discussion with Guy Montag the protagonist, he explains that there are 3 key things that was missing from the community of Fahrenheit of 451. Those 3 things are “quality information”, “leisure to digest it” and, “the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from
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spans and no desire for any substance or meaning. There is a show in which people randomly yell at each other for no reason other than that they are in some sort of argument. Mildred watches this show, and when asked by Guy what it is about, she has trouble trying to explain it. Guy prompts her with questions about the people arguing and she struggles remembering. Mildred watches her television shows and does not comprehend what is going on because the shows are very nonsensical. She is not bothered
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In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, there are two characters who are fighting for leadership over the island they are stranded on. Both Ralph and Jack have characteristics to be leaders, but Ralph is the better leader in this case. Ralph is a better leader because he is more respectful of others than Jack. He also keeps things more civilized throughout the book and he cares about getting rescued, whereas Jack doesn’t really show this concern of getting off of the island. There are several
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