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    Irony of Plato

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    One could often hear politicians to be regarded as charismatic or charming. However‚ seldom‚ if ever‚ does one associate these adjectives with a political system. The lack of connection between the two words did not stop a great philosopher‚ Plato‚ to describe democracy exactly with one of these terms: “Democracy … is a charming form of government‚ full of variety and disorder; and dispersing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike” (Plato 214). The underlining message of the quoted sentence

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    As a college student bad writing is no stranger to me. On my journey to become a great writer I have made many mistakes and you should as well. No Author writes a perfect story the first time‚ It takes a great deal of revision and hours of word choice to make sure the reader comprehends what is intended to be narrated. This can be very difficult and has been for me as a young writer. George Orwell talks about many different examples of bad writing and what makes this writing so bad such as complex

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    Eng 1A The Battle for Identity In the essay “Stranger in the Village” written by James Baldwin in 1953 from Notes of A Native Son‚ the author mainly describes the idea of racism from both black and white people perspectives and how it affects to the America society as well as throughout the whole world. This essay was written during the time of Jim Crow Law and the onset of the Civil Right War; hence‚ it mostly implies the idea of racism in the US. The grief‚ pain‚ frustration and devastation

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    In the second part of “The Stranger‚” Meursault is on trial for the assassination of an Arab man. Camus simply utilizes the trial as a metaphor for life to promote his notion of the absurd. Camus believes that the absurdity of our inherently meaningless life is our quest to find meaning or validity in a world where there is no absolute truth. Similar to our ambition to find meaning in our life‚ the trial attempts to search for Meursault’s motive to murder the seemingly innocent Arab. As the case

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    In his short story‚ “The Strangers That Came to Town‚” Ambrose Flack is showing that true freedom is about being accepted. It shows that true freedom is about being accepted because of the way that the Duvitch family is placed in a community where they are not accepted at first but then do become accepted. Mr. Duvitch didn’t talk much to anyone because of lack of freedom to be who he was‚ Mrs. Duvitch didn’t have the freedom to also be who she was because people talked about her and the Duvitch children

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    In the story “The Stranger” by Albert Camus there are many theme that are shown throughout the whole book. Themes of the books can be absurdity of life‚ relationships‚ and indifference and passivity. The main character also known as Meursault is in the heart of all of these themes. From Meursault’s perspective he believes that the world is meaningless‚ this can be the absurdity of life. Absurdity of life is shown throughout the book. From the beginning from the beginning Meursault thinks that the

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    and effects of the ‘Stranger Danger’ campaign. Criminal behaviour has predominantly been associated with random acts of deviancy perpetrated by strangers; portrayed to the public through the media’s eyes and further instilled into primary school children during safety week. Children are taught to identify any member of the public whom they are not associated with‚ as a threat; and are further provided with safety measures such as how to avoid unsafe situations and abate strangers when approached by

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    The Ironies of Orwell’s 1984 The novel 1984‚ by George Orwell‚ has many examples of irony throughout it. The two major types of irony: verbal irony and situation irony‚ are demonstrated again and again in this novel. In the following essay I will discuss these types of ironies and give examples of each from the book. The first type of irony is verbal irony‚ in which a person says or does something one way‚ but the true meaning is the opposite. One of the first example of this irony is discovered

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    Authors use irony to make stories more exciting. To begin‚ in the movie The Labyrinth‚ there was some verbal irony. Verbal irony is when a character says something that they don’t really mean. The first example of verbal irony was when Sara referred to the labyrinth as a “piece of cake” while she was truly having many difficulties. Another was when Hoggle the goblin said that he could never hurt Sara‚ but he still gave her the poisonous peach anyway. And finally the last was Hoggle said he didn’t

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    Irony In 'The Lottery'

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    The title‚ “The Lottery” is ironic for this story because during a lottery a person usually wins a prize. Wining a lottery is normally considered positive. When someone wins a lottery‚ that person is thrilled and extremely happy. Although in the story wining the lottery is not a positive thing because the person that wins the lottery would face a painful death. The only thing that the winner of the lottery would get is pain and grief‚ as the villagers would hit her with stones. The description in

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