Propaganda

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(World War I -US) don't waste food while others starve!

Analysis:

Americans around the world were starving while others were eating plentifully and wasting the extra food. The point of this poster is to make known that the Americans wasting food need to step it up and share what they have, thus avoiding wasting any food. Food and money was scarce during WWI and people were wasting it. Anger broke out in the poor of America and people began creating posters like this one to raise awareness. This poster targets the wealthier, more wasteful classes. When seeing such a disturbing image of children begging and starving, many people began to turn their habits around and not wasting food. The image is pretty realistic and portrays a mother with her daughter both starving. The image stays in people's minds and also is appropriate because it makes one feel uncomfortable but also states the truth. 

Distopian Journal 2

Topic B:

Moira is a young energetic girl who doesn't agree with the society that surrounds her. She feels trapped and unable to be free to do as she pleases. Many times throughout the book, Moira becomes more and more eager to get out and live the life she wants to. She feels compelled and forced to be someone who she isn't. She doesn't want to be valued for her ability to bear children she wants to be worth something. Moira is logical and very independent. The society doesn't let her personality shine. She loves women instead of men and cannot be with another woman no matter what the circumstances are. The society oppresses her. "If I were Moira, I'd know how to take it apart , reduce it to its cutting edges [...] She said that was no excuse. Moira was always more logical than I am" (Atwood 171).

This passage shows how self-relient she is and how much she needs to be independent. Women can't even show their faces let alone be their own women. Moira must resist. She acts in a somewhat ruthless manner. Whatever she can get away with she does and without a hesitation. She'll do almost anything for a change in scenery. Unfortunately, society is too smart for Moira and she is forced to cope with the life she is "forced" to live. She must deal in reality and with her present situation. She is caught and punished every time she rebels. She cannot escape this prison.

Athanasia Dorrance

Symbols Handmaids Tale:

The symbol of "red" is shown throughout the book. Red symbolizes the inner rebellion of everyone in the society. Even though outwardly people do not show the resentment they have for the rules and restrictions of their society, by wearing red they all secretly feel it. They don't know what they feel or why but something about their society is wrong and too limiting. The idea of the handmaids is absurd and everyone knows it but because of the leaders who tell them that its okay, they don't completely realize it. "Everything except the wings around my face is red: the color of blood, which defines us" (Atwood 8). The color of blood, red, represents the rebellion rushing through everyone's veins. They know that the way in which they live is wrong.

Dystopian Journal 1

Topic A:

"I stop walking. Ofglen stops beside me and I know that she too cannot take her eyes off these women. We are fascinated, but also repelled. They seem undressed. It has taken so little time to change our minds, about things like this. Then I think: I used to dress like that. That was freedom" (Atwood 38).

This passage in This passage The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood describes the society in which the narrator resides. Freedom is not a luxury in which the women of this society possess. The lack of freedom is produced from the government and the pressure to keep women low. When the narrator walks alongside her partner, Oglen, on her routinely walk she realizes that she used to be like the young tourists who wear whatever they please. They have freedom to live but because of the society the narrator lives in, she can't even share eye contact with other human beings. This cage that the women in her situation live in is a controlled environment and oppresses the inhabitants. The environment has caused the two women to begin to believe in what they are told to believe. The narrator shows disgust with the skimpy way the tourists dress. The controlled society has brainwashed these women and cause them to believe that its okay. The narrator remembers what her life used to be like before she was sucked into this society and cannot help rebelling in her heart a little bit against what is expected of her.

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THESIS

In Brave New World, Huxley proves that one can be an outsider and still find happiness in an environment of people who believe that life is centered on being a part of society and following others no matter what one feels is right. Huxley creates four different characters to portray this idea: Lenina Crowne, Bernard Marx, and Helmholtz Watson.

Journal 8: The Stranger

Journal 1:

At the end of the book, Meursault comes to the conclusion that life is only worth living if you want it to be worth something. He realizes that no one cares when you die and no one will remember you. Camus doesn't want the reader to come to the same conclusion and instead wants us to understand that this is Meursault's only way of coming to terms with his capital punishment of death. Meursault ends up happy at the end of the book because he really believes that he doesn't need to live anymore and that it really doesn't matter when he dies. 

Thesis Statement: The Stranger

Thesis:

Through the motifs of Meursault's sexual desires, hunger and the remembrance of his mother's death, Camus reveals that by living in the moment one can avoid emotional conflicts that occur in everyday life.

Journal 7: The stranger

Journal 1: 

Camus creates a part one and two to distinguish and emphasize Meursault's change in character. By creating two different parts to a plot and separating them, the reader can understand Meursault's change in character better. In both the first and second parts, the sun is used as a reoccurring symbol of Meursault's inner struggle. Another parallel is that the similarities between Meursault's lifestyles at home in is his apartment an when he lived in his jail cell. Camus accomplishes the reader's understanding of how Meursault changes in character and how his personality, revealed in the first part, is fulfilled in the second part. It help the reader understand Meursault's actions and motivation behind his actions in the second part.