In this essay, I will find the similarities and differences between True Names and Johnny Mnemonic.True Names and Johnny Mnemonic are similar in many ways including but not limited to, the fact that they both had female companions who saved their buts’. The main characters from True Names and Johnny Mnemonic were tech oriented is another similarity. Both True Names and Johnny Mnemonic is in the cyber punk categories. True Names and Johnny Mnemonic’s main characters were both changed technology wise. True Names and Johnny Mnemonic also has many differences like the fact that Johnny Mnemonic takes place in the real world and True Names takes place mainly in a virtual reality. True names’ main character is within a group that was being internally taken over by the mail man while Johnny Mnemonic is alone with only one other person. Johnny Mnemonic has a memory chip inside his brain to store information while Mr. Slippery has no artificial enhancements. Finally, True Names is more magic cyber punk and Johnny Mnemonic is more tech cyber punk.
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A motif is a literary device used to develop the major theme of a novel. Literary symbols are objects or characters used to represent ideas or concepts.
There are several symbols and motifs developed in Old Man and the Sea. Write an essay on the following prompt, explain the meaning of the symbol or motif and discuss its significance within the novel.
The marlin and the sharks
Writing Reminders:
Develop a multiparagraph response that clearly communicates a thesis statement.
Support your thesis with meaningful examples from the text or prior knowledge.
Organize your essay logically with an introduction, body, and conclusion.
Use well-constructed sentences and appropriate language for your audience.
Proofread for coherency and edit for conventions.
The marlin represented strength, beauty and dedication while the sharks represented hunger, selfishness and relentless destruction. The marlin had a “sleek,massive beautiful body” and went on even when it was almost dead. Santiago almost died when it had been caught and the line zipped and was pulled tight, causing Santiago to almost go over, and being eaten by sharks. Then, it pulled the whole ship, causing it to lurch forward and be steadily pulled out to sea. When Santiago killed the marlin even though it had showed strength and desperation for, he was more desperate than the fish. Once Santiago killed the marlin the sharks came because he went inland, into shark territory. Santiago was fighting off the sharks but they had still destroyed the beautiful marlin and would fight over their food.
In the activity, you examined the important contributions of scientists and theorists like Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin. In the early years of the twentieth century, when Curie and Einstein were announcing their discoveries, two important leaders were debating educational theories and civil rights agendas: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. Open the Web Links tab and click on the associated link to learn more about their different perspectives and use what you learn to answer the following prompt.
Compare the value of industrial education to that of liberal arts education. Use quotations from Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois.
Booker T. Washington believed that blacks would have to work from the bottom up to gain equal rights even if that meant lower education less rights more labor and all in all, near slavery. What Booker T. Washington had planned was to make blacks an essential need for living as a white that when they ask for equal rights, they would have to say yes. Booker T. Washington even said that blacks would have to accept white supremacy in order to obtain equal rights. W.E.B. Du Bois how ever, was an early supporter of Washington and as time went on he saw more and more holes in his plan. Washington was known as a powerful tyrant who was a person full of lies in the black community where as he was seen as a respectful thoughtful man. W.E.B. Du Bois had differing views how ever and believed that blacks should get a liberal arts education instead of a industrial education. Du Bois also was not one for gradual freedom, instead he wished for equal rights as soon as possible and acceptance of equal rights. Du Bois was a known opponent of Washington and battled him until he died but that did not mean he did not respect Washington for instance he said “Washington is a misguided powerful leader.”.
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Evaluate the impact of European conquests in the last half of the nineteenth century.
The European conquests made big changes like modernization of Russia through peer pressure. Or the shaping of Italy and Germany through conquest. The biggest change was revolutionary weapons and that led to conflict with Russia for conquest of Persia. Europe was definitely in a time of conflict and industrialization. Europe was trying to extend outward it’s boundaries and it had to deal with conflict and other world powers trying to extend their boundaries. Europe was also going through industrialization, revolutions and new ideas like social Darwinism and impressionism. The most dramatic changes were in art like the impressionist movement, the post-impressionist movement, and science like longer life spans, less disease and even more like the discovery of radium. Long story short, European conquest made a major science, art and medicine leap.
Martin Luther King Jr. interpretation
”This evening I would like to use this lofty and historic platform to discuss what appears to me to be the most pressing problem confronting mankind today. Modern man has brought this whole world to an awe-inspiring threshold of the future. He has reached new and astonishing peaks of scientific success. He has produced machines that think and instruments that peer into the unfathomable ranges of interstellar space. He has built gigantic bridges to span the seas and gargantuan buildings to kiss the skies. His airplanes and spaceships have dwarfed distance, placed time in chains, and carved highways through the stratosphere. This is a dazzling picture of modern man’s scientific and technological progress.
Yet, in spite of these spectacular strides in science and technology, and still unlimited ones to come, something basic is missing. There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.-Martin Luther King Jr.”
Prompt 1:
Write a brief essay explaining your understanding of Dr. King’s message. Support your ideas with evidence from the speech. Include an analysis of how these issues have evolved since Dr. King delivered this address over 40 years ago.
Martin Luther King Jr. was pointing out that we have airplanes,space shuttles,skyscrapers, cars, even computers that could calculate almost any problem and yet there was still racism, white only stores, buses that you had to give up your seat to a white person if you were black. Basically even though we had abolished slavery we were still treating black people like crap and he pointed out that so many technological advancements had happened just imagine how many more will be accomplished if every one was treated equal and if not improvements to the others. Motorcycles back then were not even dreamed about, even regular cars were prone to breaking down and they did not get very good gas mileage. Now, at this day and age there are flip-phones more powerful than the computers, racism is now looked down upon, and we are able to do things that he couldn’t dream of. I am certain that if he could see what man has accomplished he would be more than proud, I think he would cry in joy. Please, who ever reads this put your interpretation in the comments.
Dad
Try your hand at a four-line poem that reflects your thoughts and feelings about a group of people or an individual you know who has endured difficult times.
My dad has been through rough times,
I know my dad is mine
My dad is the best,
at least better than the rest.
sonnet
Try your hand at writing a sonnet. Remember the structure is 14 lines: three quatrains (group of four lines) and a couplet (two lines), with a rhyme scheme of abab, cdcd, efef, gg. Try for iambic pentameter (da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM da DUM) but don’t get too hung up on it this first time.
a: My sister had
b: In my mom’s life
a: the best dad
b: she was the best wife
c: Fifty pices
d: of lettus
c: of feices
d: and sixty love letters
e: My girl freind’s
f: sister
e: I got a new lense
f: mister
g: Love
g: Dove
idioms
Read the sentences below. For each idiom:
Define it literally.
Define it as a figure of speech in the context.
Write a new sentence using the idiom.
1. My mother scolded me to bite back my tongue when I boldly asked for more candy.
My mother told me to harm my tongue when I boldly asked for more candy.
bite back my tongue means shut up
I bit back my tongue when I had the urge to yell.
2. My requests for a new car fell on deaf ears. I guess I’ll keep driving the old one.
My requests for a new car became solid and fell on deaf people’s ears.
fell on deaf ears means her requests had been ignored or denied even though she had presented a good argument.
I thought I would become president but I guess my request fell on deaf ears.
3. I was so tired after a long day of unpacking boxes that I decided to call it a day. I’ll finish tomorrow.
he was so tired he did not know what day was called but he remembered it as his own name for it day.
call it a day means he finished working for the day he was so tired.
I was so buisy selling fish that when i was half way through I called it a day.
4. After completing a marathon, a five-mile run will be a bed of roses.
After completing a marathon a five mile run will be a bed made out of roses.
bed of roses means super easy.
I thought that math would be a bed of roses after algebra, I guess I was wrong.
Simile
A simile is a comparison of two or more things using the words
like or as.
For example: My new ring shone as bright as the noonday sun.
Write either a poem or a one-paragraph description of your bedroom using similes.
My bedroom is like a tornado in the night. My bedroom window curtain blocks out the sun like thick black smoke. My bedroom has a toy box as wide as my bath tub and twice as tall. My bedroom has a bookshelf as tall as the beast’s from beauty and the beast. The mess that I call my room is as large as the sky. My bedroom’s mess is as bad as a tiger in a room of stuffed animals.
dress codes
One aspect of Chinese dress and fashion was its ability to communicate the wearer’s identity, social status, gender, occupation, and ethnic background. Identify ways in which modern dress allows one to assume such things about others.
If you dress in a suit in public people will automatically assume that you are male and high class but if the suit is ripped or stained people will assume you were rich but you had budget cuts. If you wore a dress in public it would be the same thing. If you live in a trailer people will assume you are poor. while if you live in a mansion people will assume that your rich. If you have a very nice car, people will assume your rich. It’s all based on stereotypes like if your a male wearing pink your a homosexual even if you just like the color pink and are a heterosexual.
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