(57) Then Beatty asks Montag, “What do we want in this country, above all?” To be happy and Montag agrees with Beatty. That is why we burn books such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin, because white people don’t feel good about it. (59) Everything Beatty just got done telling Montag made him wonder how Beatty knows all this. Does Beatty read books? Does he have books?
Some of the causes included, the extreme power to a single leader, and the desire for power, while some responses would be hatred towards the leader and hard work to stay alive, all depending on one’s perspective due to their status in a society. My first grouping would be documents 1, 4, and 6 because they all pertain to the leaders of the societies that caused the inequality. Document 1 is a wall relief from the palace of Sannacherib at Nineveh in 704-681 B.C.E. This wall relief shows the ruler or leader sitting at the top of a hill watching his slaves being brutally treated as they do hard work. His amount of power caused him to control his slaves to do hard work without remorse or sympathy towards them which caused the social inequality.
“I believe our president and my dad are business partners. My dad said someday coke would be sold in every country in the world and when that happened there would be no more wars” (Dacey, line 21). By stating this he was trying to let us know that the war that was going on at the time was because there was no coke around, but when coke spread world wide the war stopped and its joy spread all around the world, which its ridiculous that a drink its going to stop a war or spread joy all over the world, which from what I understand his trying to call America uptight. At the beginning of the poem he begins to talk about the logo on his dad pockets. Then he states” Coca-cola was America” (Dacey, line 4).
He even points out in the movie that the white men have put liquor stores and gun shops on every corner, so that the black community can kill off each other and the white men can just watch. Martin Luther King Jr. also wanted the black communities to come together in protest against segregation. Even though these are two different topics they both wanted their communities to come together and advocate peaceful gestures instead of violence. Tre out of all his friends had a family to
Their attitude would be characterized by “stark truthfulness, fast living, and sexual behavior,” (Flappers). These women clinged to their youthfulness, took risks, and were wild. To part ways from the Gibson Girl image, the flappers partook in activities that were frowned about by their earlier generation. These women began smoking. Only men were known to smoke cigarettes.
He is also seen as a sexual object by some of the woman at Catskills and Baby eventually rescues him. This is a complete role reversal. Although Dirty Dancing does attempt to address some important social and political issues it will always be seen by most as a love story, which of course it is.
This has the consequence that many people have to commit crimes and go into prostitution to buy the drugs they depend on. Yet each time they get what they want, they become more and more sick. Although everything for the people in “Brave New World” is great and everyone is happy and uninhibited if they get their lovely soma, they are also often dependent on the drug. Brave New World’s government supports soma to ensure passiveness of its people and thereby the stability of their created world. Alcohol, on the contrary, seems like an illegal drug in the New World because you become an outsider by drinking it, though it is not forbidden by the
John looks at both worlds through the lenses of the religion he got from the Reservation-a mixture of Christianity and American Indian beliefs - and the old-fashioned morality he learned from reading Shakespeare. He tries to adapt; he deludes himself into thinking that the world he entered is a better one. He faces civilized society with a bright outlook, but eventually comes to hate it bitterly. His beliefs contradict those of the brave new world, as he shows it in his struggle over sex with Lenina and his fight with the system after his mother dies. In the Matrix, conflict between technology and individuality is more hidden in the intricate illusion of the world woven by the
Although Elvis seemed to be an extraordinary role model, the underlying truth was that Elvis was a heavy drug and alcohol user and allowed sexual gyrations to dominate his performances. To adolescents, especially girls, Elvis was a heart-throb,
Traditional blue collar occupations are dominated by males, while women remain concentrated in service and clerical positions. There are also many stereotypes, such as the occupation of nurses being only connected to women. Male nurses are often criticized for entering an occupation that is dominated by females. The same can be said about construction workers, which are nearly all males, along with jobs in the military. These factors may be due to occupational segregation, which is when workers are excluded from certain jobs due to various circumstances regarding gender and class.