I would like to put forth a different perspective. I believe that every generation has come under fire from their predecessors as being lazy, undefined or different, if you will, from the last. Technology is forever changing our climate and has for quite some time. Our generation has the distinct advantage of having grown up in the most technologically advanced age that we have seen. Due to this our challenges that we endure in our society today will be quite different from ones seen in the past and will create different situations or obstacles that previous generations have not had to deal with.
She is actually giving up her life for what she believes is right and good for the society. Before leaving her home, Beatty also refers to the Tower of Babel in his persuasion to get her out alive. One of those forbidden books is the Bible, and Montag, the protagonist, is probably the only person left with a copy of it (Bradbury, 77). Montag’s ally, Faber, reads from the book of Job to calm Montag as he prepares to act on his feelings toward books. The story he reads from the Bible is about whether or not Job will remain faithful through the tough times he is living in, and this parallels Montag’s decision of whether or not to endure despite the difficulty of facing society’s hatred of books.
Eddie felt humiliated about where she was raised, she didn't want to be associated with the "scandals" that belonged to the shacks north of the creek. She believed that, since she grew up in the shacks, she was worth less than the next person. Edith was embarrassed by her drunken father, even though none of his actions were ever her fault. Her mother, a "hallelujah-shouting fool" who preached, but never actually went to church, was also a huge contributor to the way Eddie felt. With people tormenting her about her cousins who were teen moms, or her father who made a fool of his drunken self in public, the poor girl felt like nothing more than dirt, and she wanted to be thought of as flawless and beautiful.
“There is a faction that is sworn to drive me from my pulpit. Do you understand that?” (11) Parris seems to be only interested in trying to keep Betty’s condition silent. Parris shows an illustration to be avarice because he wants the perks of being the Reverend to the church in Salem. Betty’s well-being seems to only derive from Tituba. In Salem the Seven Deadly Sins were a part of their townspeople everyday life it seems.
Puritan by nature, he followed a moral code of life well intertwined within the Ten Commandments. Though he was religious, proctor was not without his faults, one being his expressed distaste toward those who did not follow his own law, such as reverend Parris. His distrust and hate toward reverend parris stems from his own idea that such a man could simply not be a holy one. His mood toward Parris came from such actions like the preaching toward golden candles, and how Parris was a self absorbed minister, and the third minister in the town in 7 years. “There is either obedience or the church will burn like Hell is burning!” (pg 30) Parris tried to defend himself with such passionate and heartfelt comments but Proctor would have none of it.
She married Roger out of social and economic necessity. When she commits adultrey, she conceals his identity from Dimmesdale. Roger chillingworth visits hester while she is in prison and they both discuss to eachother that their marriage never worked out. Hester says, " I have greatly wronged thee!",(72). Hester is the least sinful because she only committed adultrey and that she never told Arthur chillingworth was her husband.
Many popular philosophers, such as Kant and Castle, believe in variations of “self-orphaning” to live a meaningful life. Castle believes that “self-orphaning” is “the absolute precondition, now more than ever, for intellectual and moral freedom.” On the other hand, Kant takes a much less aggressive approach through “enlightenment.” Castle is adamant in her theory that humans in general are too reliant on their parents, and that there is absolutely no way to live a meaningful life without breaking out of this control through “symbolic self-orphaning.” Throughout the rest of this essay I will discuss the idea of “symbolic self-orphaning,” and why Castle believes that this allows us to a live a meaningful life. Furthermore, I will compare Kant’s “enlightenment” with Castle’s “symbolic self-orphaning,” while emphasizing their major similarities and differences. Although Kant and Castle’s ideas are similar, I will also discuss how Castle’s theory relates to Nicholas Carr’s arguments in “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” and Jamais Cascio’s arguments in “Get Smarter.” After discussing each theory and their connections, I will offer my own opinion on how they relate to one another. Kant makes many good arguments when discussing his theory of “enlightenment,” but Castle takes a much more aggressive approach at this theory.
Se habla Espanol The most important part in this essay was when Ms.Barrientos was scared to be herself and scared to acknowledge her Spanish background because when she came to America, it was frowned upon. When she and her family came to America when she was three, her parents automatically started teaching her and her sibling English and never spoke Spanish to them. Ms. Barrientos didn’t like to be called Mexican. She felt it was an insult because all she wanted to be was white. She said that when she spoke her native language to help her friends and other people it didn’t matter if she messed up because they didn’t look at her differently, but as soon as she stumbled over a word while speaking to a Spanish person in Spanish she was looked down on.
Gretchen was excluded from our youth group because she was different. I described her in my essay as , “… the weird girl…who wore hand-me-down clothes, spoke with a lisp and sat in the corner during our youth meetings. The youth group pretty much ignored her existence. Her family was not well off…” As a teacher, I want to work towards inclusion and as far away from exclusion as possible.
She is basically saying that by listening to only one side of a story over and over again, and forming an opinion solely based off of that, that one’s opinion is nothing more than a false illusion of what the reality really is. Those opinions could potentially be damaging to the individual(s) of a certain culture and their society. Adichie also gives her audience some examples of how she grew up learning the behaviors of stereotyping through her mother, her shame in applying these stereotypes to others, and how a college roommate led her to fall victim to a single story herself. Here recently, I encountered a single story where I was not too proud of myself. For one of my assignments last semester, I had to do volunteer work.