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    Authoritative If advertisers use authoritative executional framework‚ experts like dentist‚ engineer‚ chemist and nurse act in advertisements. They tell product’s benefits‚ they can show evidence survey results and independent test results and these have a positive effect on consumers. In our advertising‚ expert tells Calgon’s benefits for washing machine. He says Calgon provides maximum protection for her machine and family. Its slogan is “washing machines live longer with Calgon”. Demonstration

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    The Price of Equality

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    of Equality In the story “Harrison Bergeron‚” equality among citizens in the year 2081 became universal for the American society. What price was paid to achieve this‚ and is it really as good as it seemed? As revealed in the story‚ we discover that equality comes at a terrible price. Is it a price we could be forced to accept in our lifetime? Kurt Vonnegut provides us with the combination of conflict and symbols‚ along with the characters of George and Hazel Bergeron‚ to reveal the theme of the

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    struggles with himself and his occupation as a firefighter. “Harrison Bergeron” is a short story written by Kurt Vonnegut‚ Jr. and it is also takes place in an authoritarian society. The main character‚ Harrison Bergeron‚ and his society were forced to be limited with mandates created by the government. Bergeron is challenged by an external conflict because his government is forcing him to have burdens that limit himself. Bradbury and Vonnegut‚ Jr. both challenge the reader to think about equality

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    matter-of-factly fashion that “life ends with death”‚ however we learn that in reality he still feels grief and “calls the disconnected number” for his mother and father who have both passed away. The poet (Tony Harrison) uses few devices. This avoids an overly constructed and artificial style as Harrison wants to strike a more natural conversational tone. He uses words such as “he’d” and “can’t” to make the piece more understated and less theatrical. The use of enjambment also reinforces this idea. By

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    era. Harrison‚ from Kurt Vonnegut’s‚ Harrison Bergeron ‚ is forced to suffer because he is much smarter than other people. He ends up showing people what they can truly become. Jonas and Harrison have the bravery and audacity to stand up against their society only because they both know what is right‚ think differently than conventional people‚ and they have an inner strength. Their valor is gained from these three attributes. Jonas and Harrison’s wisdom and their virtuous

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    Forced Equality

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    Forced Equality In “Harrison Bergeron”‚ Kurt Vonnegut explores the theme of forced equality in American society in the future. Vonnegut creates a world in which all living people are equal in all ways. He focuses on creating equality by altering beauty‚ strength‚ and intelligence as opposed to dealing with race‚ religion‚ and sex‚ the true issues of equality in society. Although Vonnegut writes this story to teach the lesson that all people are not equal‚ he forces equality on America in the areas

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    Through close analysis of a single poem‚ discuss the ways which Harrison explores the theme of education and its impact on his life Education is a key theme within Harrison’s poetry as the impact it had upon his own life was fundamental to making him the person and poet he is today. This was mainly due to the fact he attended a middle class grammar school‚ the culture of which clashed dramatically with the working class environment he was brought up in. Many of Harrison’s poems express a reluctance

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    A Future Society

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    A Future Society The story Harrison Bergeron shines a new perspective on the future of the government. It made me sit and think about the possible reasons of inequality and whether they are fair or not. However‚ I wasn’t too pleased with how the laws of equality were carried out. Were the government’s alterations of each person’s life harsh? Did they take these laws too far over the line? The selected piece of reading is Harrison Bergeron written by Hurt Vonnegut Jr. It is a short story of a future

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    which someone pays the cost for perfection in society. There are three short stories that are most thematically alike those are: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson in 1948; The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin in 1975; and Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. in 1961. I have chosen these three stories because someone pays the cost in each of these stories and the results in each of them are the same. The elements of plot‚ characterizations‚ settings and symbols of each of these stories

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    They control you whether you know it or not You may be in a totalitarian government and not even know it like in the story of Harrison Bergeron or be very aware of it like in North Korea‚ but in both worlds the government control detail in their lives whether they are aware of it or not. In Harrison Bergeron their government tells them that everyone must be equal no matter who you are but in reality not everyone is equal because their government nor their army has to pay the price for equality unlike

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