To many‚ a war is just a war‚ young men that join the military‚ fight and die for their country. They view soldiers as cold blooded emotionless killers that are stripped of their feelings and opinions of what’s right or wrong. They view them as objects detached from society to carry out the orders of their superiors without fear of coming home safe. However the symbolization of “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien is used in a way that is similar to “The Red Convertible” by Louise Erdrich because
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figure) Kouros is a Greek statue from 600 BCE standing at 6 1/2 inches tall and made out of marble. This statue is observed to be nude and emulated an Egyptian stance. It also was used in funerary purposes and can be seen by the emotionless expression and lifeless body. The Kouros differed in the way it was buried‚ it stood outside of the tomb as a grave marker and replaced huge vases during the Geometric Era. Not to mention‚ it was also used for votive offerings in sanctuaries
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essentially that the soma causes everyone to be happy and that in turn the society is always happy and positive. I think that Shaw’s explanation combined with the effects of Soma are what clearly make this a Dystopia. The soma is making people emotionless and distant and yet know one seems to care or have a problem with it. In my eyes‚ any society that is artificially happy and it’s people have no emotion‚ is a dystopia and this is no exception. In addition
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as there is no color to them. The reader also thinks of how animals have gone into hibernation so the setting is almost dead and quiet. The image left for the reader is one of death as there is no color only grey which is representative loss or emotionless. Then an image
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Most soldiers come back from war with physical injuries. However there are also the injuries without the physical scars; the “hidden” wounds of battle. The horrors of armed conflict and war often leave scars on the psyches of soldiers. Soldiers often come home diagnosed with psychological disorders. They are affected mentally by their war experiences. Ernest Hemingway’s‚ “Soldier’s Home” portrays war in a realistic and raw perspective because it focuses on the war’s true capability to mentally
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winning or seeing others live wishing you were in their shoes. I really do believe that its human nature to want to succeed your bloodline‚ your genes for the future generations of your tree to continue. Though it may need to be brutish and emotionless to your fellow man‚ it’s all in our instinct to be the best and surpass one another in order for your genes to thrive. It may be human nature to connect with one another and try to help each other‚ but in times where one can see the future in their
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the near future as the main priority of our existence is to be of something useful to the society. Thus futile actions such as greeting each other would cease to happen. So‚ what might happen to the society in the near future? Will it be full of emotionless people where their sole purpose for existing on Earth is to bring our technological advancements to greater heights? Yes it is‚ there no other possible outcomes other than this. Therefore‚ despite the achievements that we had lift off‚ we had created
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communication that may be encountered. It also can be a place where many things can be misunderstood‚ as everything is just words. When the majority of us communicate face-to-face‚ we communicate true emotion. Through the internet‚ communication can be emotionless-or even appear to have an emotion that is not reflective of the emotion that the composer tried to convey. That is why emoticons were created! Emoticons (also known as "smiley/frowny faces") can help convey the right emotion‚ all the while keeping
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Instead of welcoming him in‚ the chapel has ’Thou shalt not’ of the Ten Commandments written over the door. The speaker sees that this negative morality has destroyed the garden as well‚ transforming the ’sweet flowers’ to graves and tombstones. The emotionless ritual of the priests ’walking their rounds’ threatens to choke out the speaker’s life itself.  The secret to the poem lies in its second line. The speaker is talking about the change in how he now sees his surroundings‚ not a change in
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is in is extremely scary and unusual‚ and the calm language used makes the event seem like a normal occurrence. Although one would think that Kafka would use chilling and disturbing language to describe these events‚ that is not what he did. The emotionless tone of the story confuses
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