Gossip Girl and a Youth Obsessed Culture Breakfast at Tiffany’s‚ shopping at New York’s finest stores‚ a masked ball‚ an affair‚ drug overdose‚ and sex in a limo is just a common schedule for Manhattan’s elite group‚ Serena van der Woodsen and her partner in crime‚ Blair Waldorf. Yet‚ they are still able to make it to Algebra and Ivy League college interviews. The crazy life of Serena‚ Blair‚ and all their friends makes it a lot easier when they have a trust fund the size of a jackpot
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The novella‚ Animal Farm‚ satirizes the lifestyle of Stalinist Russia. The author‚ Eric Blair‚ known by the pseudonym George Orwell‚ uses a farm in which every animal and conflict is allegorical to the lifestyle of the Soviet Union. In the story‚ Orwell portrays how the animals are unaware of their power similar to the working class in Russia. After the rebellion‚ which represents the Russian Revolution‚ the animals anticipate an exponentially better life that consists of bigger rations‚ proper care
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We all talk about how hitting animals‚ dog fighting‚ not feeding or housing animals is cruel and unusual punishment. Although this is always our definition of cruelty towards animals‚ many of us may push scientific animal experiments off to the side because that’s not animal cruelty‚ we are using it for research. Well people argue on this topic quite frequently even though it doesn’t seem that way. One person could be fascinated by the findings done by animal testing or one person could just be absolutely
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“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes‚ working jobs we hate‚ so we can buy things we don’t need.” (Palahnuik‚ Fight Club) We have been forced our whole lives to believe that what we see on commercials and what we hear from higher figures of the media are of complete truth‚ when in actuality it is all in an attempt to completely regress the once strong state of mind. Prescription medication being one of them has been commercialized as a cure to the non-existent problems of modern day Americans
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of the novel ‘Candide’ published this satirical fiction the year of 1759. Voltaire having went to school to become a writer and then being thrown out of numerous countries afterwards. Kings and noble people who were offended by Voltaire’s genre of satire and black humor throughout his books. Leibniz‚ a german philosopher proposed Optimism and this philosophy was created upon the reason that they thought that logic was the reason for why god created the world and its people were as perfect as it was
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The character study essay I wrote for A Prayer for Owen Meany‚ by John Irving clearly demonstrates my knowledge of John Wheelwright and the text as a whole. I was able to dissect his personality‚ his relationships‚ and how he reacted to different conflicts. John Wheelright is not the main character‚ or protagonist‚ in A Prayer for Owen Meany‚ he is the narrator‚ which made it much more of a challenge to determine his personality. I had to understand the conflicts of the story and how John responded
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In both of Wilson’s passages he illustrates the unproductiveness actions made by the Environmentalist and the “critics of the environmental movement” by emphasizing their similar strategies on bashing one another’s view on the environment. Wilson writes both passages with parallelism to emphasis his point on how similar both arguments made by each side are and because they are similar they have no effect towards one another’s extreme claims. Through his satirical works Wilson makes the assertion
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Christmas is hailed as the most wonderful time of the year‚ but when you go to the mall‚ you start to seriously wonder if the person who said that was on drugs. Have you ever been to a mall a week before Christmas? Customers and workers alike‚ furtively rush throughout the store in a panic. Occasionally some stressed out mothers will desperately fight over the last gaming system for their son or the last makeup kit for their daughter. There is always a chorus of‚ "It’s mine!" or "No‚ I saw it first
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“Bojack Horseman” has been getting a lot of praises for its satirical theme and invaluable humor. As the show’s last installment recently concluded in July‚ fans are now waiting for the coming of “Bojack Horseman” Season 4. Many viewers can easily relate to the titular character‚ Bojack Horseman – voiced by Will Arnett. The animated TV series shows the life of talking horse living in Hollywood with humans and “anthropomorphic animals.” Just like any other individuals‚ he drinks‚ parties and living
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Have you ever questioned where your clothes are coming from or who your coffee was picked by? Have you ever considered if the cotton from your garments was picked by a six-year-old child being paid one US dollar each day doing hard labour? Or the cup of coffee you enjoy so much in the morning - were the beans were harvested by a minor? Abuse of child labor from international corporations should not be supported. Human life and dignity should be our greatest value and the protection of children are
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