The novella Anthem by Ayn Rand showcases the confession of Equality‚ who lives in a society that scorns individualism. In the poem “Invictus” by William Ernest Henry‚ the main character is a martyr with an unbreakable spirit. Equality and the main character are alike; they are both persecuted by their respective societies and possess similar characteristics as a result. Equality and the main character are both rebels in their society‚ which brands them as somebody to punish. The community Ayn Rand
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No Easy Day No Easy day by Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer‚ is the firsthand account of the mission that killed Bin Laden. Navy seal operator mark Owen was on operation Neptune Spear‚ also known as mission jeranamo and was tasked with leading a team of seals into the guest house of the compound that held Bin Laden. After they raided the guest house and kill Bin Laden’s brother he goes to the main building; c1‚ to assist the other operators. Once they got to the third floor of the main building‚ Bin Laden
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Soldier Sentenced to death for Fort Hood shooting A military jury sentenced Maj. Nidal Hasan to death for a 2009 shooting in Fort Hood‚ Texas. A death sentence for an army personal hardly ever happens. Maj. Nidal Hasan walked into a medical building where army soldiers were getting medical check-ups and shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ which means in Arabic for “God is great!.” He then opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun. He killed thirteen army men and women that day and injured over 30. When police
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constantly battling over polar positions: state against individual citizen‚ law against conscience‚ and human nature against divine nature. Ultimately‚ in following her conscience and sacrificing her life in defiance of nomos‚ Antigone is validated as a martyr and hero‚ while Creon is left alone in sorrow and despair. Given the fates of these two characters‚ is the fate of man subjective to acting solely on what is morally righteous‚ essentially upholding physis over nomos? In Antigone’s very famous choral
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The Bluest Eye depicts the social conditions and psychology of black citizens in post-World War II United States. This excerpt‚ situated in the Autumn part of the book‚ introduces the reader to a family‚ the Breedloves‚ part of whom is the protagonist‚ Pecola. The point of view is omniscient‚ enabling the author to describe the family‚ their house and state of mind. This extract has several layers of meaning : it depicts the physical‚ then moral conditions of the Breedloves‚ but also sheds light
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Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists used his theatrical convention to evoke the inwardness of their characters‚ a soliloquy provides the audience with accurate access to the character’s innermost thoughts and we learn more about a character than could ever be gathered from the action of the play alone. In ’Othello’‚ both the hero and the villain speak in soliloquy. Iago‚ the villain‚ speaks his soliloquies first (Othello’s occur towards the end of the play)‚ drawing the audience in as he outlines
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The Death of the American Dream in the Great Gatsby World War I brought out the deepest‚ darkest‚ most malignant tendencies of human nature. Young men died in the thousands on the battlefield‚ martyrs of a wanton cause. 1920’s American society mirrored the Great War’s atmosphere of excess. The newly wealthy class‚ in onslaught‚ threw lavish parties and indulged in sexual promiscuity as exorbitance became the new state religion. Traditional values‚ including that of the American Dream‚ seemed to
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Writing and Communication‚ SS 100-4 15th December‚ 2012 Tracing the history of mankind reveals fascinating behavioral patterns of our ancestors that have been adopted by generations for generations. Most of these behavioral patterns were aimed at protecting oneself and survival. However‚ certain mutations‚ as you may call them‚ have led to people choosing to end their own lives at will and in some cases‚ ending it along with several others’. These people are called suicide bombers. By definition
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Tim Peterson REL 480 Brandt 4/14/09 In A Canticle For Leibowitz‚ there is plenty of talk concerning the Apocalypse. The nuclear holocaust which creates an atmosphere of mass chaos‚ book burnings‚ killings‚ and mutants; the wandering Jew who waits for Christ’s second coming‚ apparently unable to die; and finally a second nuclear holocaust which appears to do away with many things save some marine life‚ a certain mutant who represents the new creation‚ and of course‚ the wandering Jew has to
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Violence‚ physical and psychological‚ is rife in modern art‚ be it cinematic or literary. Examining the intrinsic roots of nihilism is rarely done‚ however‚ in favor of leaving imagery to feed the desensitized audiences. Yet‚ it is something irrevocably valuable‚ as finding the motives of antiheroes can give us introspective power. Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and Michael Dickman’s Red Migraine share the themes of violence and pain with such jarring imagery‚ making an unlikely connection
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