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What is this an example of: "If I can't borrow the car tonight..." |
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| Ad Misercordium (fallacy) |
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What is this an example of: "I have red hair. Mrs. Robinson has red hair. All English teachers have red hair." |
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| Hasty Generalization (fallacy) |
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What is this an example of: "Let's not have our picnic on Saturday. it always rains on Saturday." |
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| An immodest man wrote this outrageous suggestion in hopes of shaking the Irish people into taking steops to improve their position. What is this talking about? |
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What is this an example of: "God is love. Love is blind. Ray Charles is blind. Ray Charles is God." |
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| Ghandi andMLK were influenced by what author? |
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| According to him, the government that governs best, governs not at all. Who believes this? |
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| Whose real name was Eric Blair? |
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| His world exists not in the world of emotions, but in the world of ideas. Who believes this? |
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| Who was Skinner's personna in Walden II? |
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| According to a stoic, reality exists in the world of what? |
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| According to an existentialist, reality exists in the world of what? |
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| According to the naturalist, reality exists in the world of what? |
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| According to transcendentalists, reality exists in the world of what? |
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| beyond reasons and senses |
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| According to a hedonists, reality exists in the world of what? |
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| Freud is to psycoanalysis as who is to behaviorism? |
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| Who coined the phrase 'Catch 22?' |
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| Who served a prison sentence for Unconventional Behavior? |
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| Faulkner tells young writers that the only things worth writing about are what? |
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| problems of the human heart in confict with itself |
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| Solynetsin showed the prisoners will and human dignity by depicting what things? |
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| Behavior in a mess hall, swearing done mostly by guards, pride they take in thier work, etc. |
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| The Judas Iscariot line in 1984 is what? |
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| "Do it to Julia, Do it to Julia!" |
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| These are the three slogans in Oceana: |
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1. War is Peace 2. Freedom is Slavery 3. Ignorance is Strength |
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| Who said to picture the future - imagine a boot stamping onthe human face...forever? |
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| What does the note say the Julia gives to Winston in 1984? |
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| The savages's (Brave New World) need for freedom of choice strongly parallels that of this character in Walden II |
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| The Bokanovsky process in Brave New World insures what? |
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| Classes, supply of workers, ruling class |
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| The T in Brave New World equals what? |
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Faulkner renamed a county in Mississippi what ficiticious name, whichwas the setting for many of his works? |
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| Faulkner believed that man will not merely endure, he will do what? |
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| The narration of As I Lay Dyng was told in what way(s)? |
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| multipe, first, second,thrid, and stream of consious |
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| Vardaman thinks of his mother as what? |
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| What is the primary use of humor used by Faulkner? |
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| The governmental structure of Walden II is made up of what? |
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| Three men and three women |
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| Who is considered the father of behaviorism? |
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| Frazier in Walden II wants to eliminate what two human emtions with the use of positive reinforcement? |
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| What character expresses a need for freedom of choice? |
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| What is the real life Walden II called? |
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| Ayn and wrote what anti-Utopia novle depicting the evils of collectivism? |
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| The title of Huxley's BNW comes from what Shakesperin Play? |
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| Why does Julia say that the government bans sex? |
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| peole can devote time and energy to leader worship |
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| How many cirlces does Dante's version of hell have? |
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| What was the author of ONE DAY arrested for? |
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| Who is Plato's republc ruled by? |
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| What is controlling human behavior by stimulating subconcious desires called? It is often used in advertising |
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| What community started in Massachusettes by writers like Emerson, Alcott and Hawthorne? |
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| What is the name of the Utopia in the LOST HORIZEN? |
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| The Ephrata Cloister failed because of what policy? |
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| Describe a Modest Proposal |
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| there was a problem of overpopulation and children in te streets with their mothers sick and prostituting themselves can be solved by eating the extra children. |
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| Describe a Modest Proposal |
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| there was a problem of overpopulation and children in te streets with their mothers sick and prostituting themselves can be solved by eating the extra children. |
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| He was the quthor of a Modest Proposal and he coined the word Yahoo (crazy person) |
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| Define: Hasty Generalization |
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Few examples proving on thing wrong EX: Cigarettes cause cancer. Saccharin causes cancer. Radiaion causes cancer. Caffeine causes cancer. Everything causes cancer. |
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Equal treatment for all, even if nonsensical EX: If students mst wait in line for lunch, so should teachers. |
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round-about sorry stor with no answer to the original question (excuses) EX: I was in cermics class an I was tring to make a pot on the wheel, but it fel apart and I made a big mess. Ican never make anything on the wheel. And the teacher got called down to the office and I couldn't ask for her help an e didn't come back. That's why I don't have a pass. |
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| Define: Hypothesis Contrary to Fact |
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If a certain person did not do something, it never would have happened. EX: If Franklin D. Roosevelt had not developed the program of Social Security, there wouldn't be such a beneficial program today. |
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based on under-qualified generalization EX: All people wih a colege education get high paying jobs. Everone who wants a high paying job should go to college. |
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false assumption/suggestion EX: ou shouldn't need a icense to drive a car. You don't need a license to ride a bike on the same roads. |
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| Define: Poisoning the Well |
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puting someone down with no defense or evidence EX: If I were ou, I wouldn't choose her for a ob; she never does anthing right. |
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| Define: Contradictory Premise |
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premises of arguments contradict themselves EX: The only thing I know is that I don't known anything. |
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one person causes unconrolable events EX: I'm not allowing Linda in my car anymore because every time she's in it, the car breaks down. |
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| One who s seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain. |
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| What do Judeo-Christians believe about reality? |
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| That reality exists in the spirit |
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| What does a Hedonist believe about reality? |
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| That reality exists in the world of pleasure |
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| What is Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" reality state? |
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| That those who have only seen shadows for their entire life may not be satisfied once they see the light - perception and reason are realit |
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| What are three beliefs of the Transcendentalist? |
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1. Reality exists in the world beyond reason and senses 2. Self-trust and self-reliance 3. Every person's relation to God was to be established directly by the ndividual rather that through a ritualistic church |
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| What do the Objectivists think about reality? |
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| That reality exists in the world of individual responsibilty |
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| What do Existentialists believe about reality? |
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| That reality exists in the moment |
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| Define two beliefs of the Naturalist |
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1. Reality exists in the good of society 2. A view of the world that takes into account only naturay elements or forces, excluding the supernatural or spiritual. Actions arise from natural instincts and desires. (Streetcar) |
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| In Walkden II and Brave New World (B.F. Skinner), where society attempted to alter and control human behavior in order to eliminate jealousy and create harmony. |
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| Define: Civil Disobedience |
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| It was written by David Thoreau and it stated that nonvilent techniques advocated were used by Gandhi and Dr. King |
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| Means 'nowhere' from utopis, Thomas More's word meaning "the ruler of nowhere" |
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A fictional book that had these following traits: 1. Society afraid of machines 2. Jail criminals or the "sick" 3. Fair-haired man is worshipped 4. Boy falls in love with grl who is not first daughter- illegal - like "Taming of the Shrew" |
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| Describe: Plato's Republic Rulers |
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| Guardians who see the absoutes, r the people who can see the sun in the Allegory of the Cave |
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| It was a socialist society on farm led by bad pigs (Stalin) and all the animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. |
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| Describe: The Player Piano |
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| This was Kurt Vonnegut's account of the third industrial revolution where machines do everything. |
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| Describe: The Lost Horizon |
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| This was written by James Hilton and it was about a lost paradise of Shangri-la |
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| This is Ray Bradbury's tale of firefighters who burn books |
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| Describe: Clockwork Orange |
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| There was a society that used character modification to prevent crime; criminals would associate a crime with a bad feeling like illness. Ludovico's Techlique was also called an AVERSION CONTROL |
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| This is the real life Walden II that is in Virginia |
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| Describe: Ephrata Cloisters |
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| This is a failed utopia. It was a German religious organization. It failed because people could not have sex. |
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| this is the community that had Emerson, Alcott, and Hathrone's support. It was a Transcendentalit community. |
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1. He wrote Catch 22 2. He used anti-war satire of the government 3. He believed that you had to be insane to leave the army, but you would only know if you were insane if you were sane (Catch 22) |
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| He wrote Alice in Wonderland and had a split personality. |
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| He wrote short stories with wit and suprise endings |
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His real name was Samuel Clemens. He was known for stories of wild frontier and American classics like The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn |
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| George Orwell's real name |
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| The main character of 1984 who works and lives in and wants to revolt against the society and Big Brother |
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| A torture room with one's worst fear inside (1984) |
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| a new language for distribution of history and news (1984) |
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1. Smart, outgoing man who works with Winston in the Ministry of Truth 2. Specializes in language and is working on the Newspeak dictionary 3. Believed to be too intelligent to stay in the Party's favor |
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two minutes of television and propagand showing the enemy and how they hate the Party and Big Brother 1. This is used to promote the Party and create loyalty - Brainwashing |
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| Winson's lover, a beautiful dark-haired girl working in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth. She enjoys sex, and claims to have had affairs with many Party members. She is pragmatic and optimistic; her rebellion against the Party is small and personal, for her own enjoyment, in contrast to Winston's ideological motivation |
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| A mysterious, powerful, and sophisticated member of the Inner Party whom Winston believes is also a memeber of the Brotherhood, thelegendary group of anti-Party rebels. |
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| According to the Party, he is the legendary leader of the Brotherhood, or the enemies. He seems to have been a Party leader who fell out of favor with the regime. He is described as one of the most dangerous and treacherous men in Oceana. |
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| he is the perceived ruler of Oceania. His face is located everywhere you look with the message: "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU." His image is stamped on coins and braodcast on the unavoidable telescreens. He haunts Winston's life and fills him with hatred and facination (1984) |
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| "I love you" - When Julia betrays Wilson |
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| A fictional rurla setting of As I Lay Dying; named for the old Chickasaw word for the Yocona River that ran south of Oxford. |
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| The Author and winner of the Nobel Prize, his most famous novel is The Sound and the Fury |
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He is a WWII verteran, POW survivor of the firebombing of Dresden, prospering optometrist, husband, and father. He is the protagonist of the novel who 'comes unstuck intime' - he walks through a door at one moment inhis life and suddenly finds himself in another time and place. |
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Describe the Title of Slaughterhouse-Five |
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| Slaughterhouse Five is the building in which Billy and his troops stayed when Dresden was being bombed |
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| A city in Europe during WWII that was fire bombed until it was leveled - civilians shot as well - US government keeps it all hush-hush |
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What was Vonnegut's writing style? |
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| He used satire and black comedy |
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| A former classmet of Burris's at graduate school and now the founding member of Walden II. He was driven by an urge to dominate and achieve. |
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| He was the son of the Director and Linda and the only major character to have grown up outside of the World State (with 'savages'). The consummate outsider, he has spent his life alienated from his village on the New Mexico Savage Reservation, and he finds himself similarly unable to fit into World State society. His entire worldview is based on his knowledge of Shakespeare's plays, which he can quote with great facility. |
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This is a drug that is a symbol of the instant gratification to control the World State's populace. It is also a symbol of the powerful influence of science and technology of society. It is a kind of 'sacrament,' it also represents the use of religion to control society. |
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| He is an Alpha who is failing to fit in due to his inferior physical stature. He holds unorthodox beliefs about sexual relationships, sports, and community events. His insecurity about his size and status makes him discontented with the World State. Bernard's surname recalls Karl marx, a nineteenth-centruy German author best known for writing Capital, a monumental critique of capitalist society. Unlike his famous nameskae, Bernard's discontent stems frmo his frutrated desire to fit into his own society, rather than from a systematic or philosophical criticism of it. |
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| The five castes (Alpha, Beta, Delta, Gamma, Epsilon) with the exception of ALpha and Beta undergo the Bokanovsky Process which involves shocking an egg so taht it divides to form up to ninety-six identical embryos, which then develop into ninety-six identical human beings. The Bokanovsky Process facilitates social stability because the clones it produces are predestined to perform identical tasks at identical machines. |
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A recorded voice whispers to each sleeping child. It States that Alpha children have to work harder than other classes and it sidparages the lower intelligences and inferiority of the lower castes, teaches pride and happiness in the Beta caste (Betas do not have to work as hard as the cleverer Alphas, it explains, but they are still smarter than the Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons.) The director explains that the lesson will be repeated one hundred and twenty times, three times a wkke, for thirty months. Hypnopaedia instills the fine distinctions and prejudices for which electric shocks and alarms are too crude. Hypnopaedia, the Director concludes, is "the greatest moralizing and socializing force of all time." |
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He is the most recent highly-esteemed Russian writer. he was sentenced to eight years in labor camps for criticizing Stalin. His book supports anti-Stalin movements, and criticizes all leaders who use power for self-aggrandizement to victimize ordinary men and women and he encountered increasing opposition from the Soviets. One Day is his first published work - his work expresses a conviction that one of the literature's main purposes is enlightenment. The apparent conflict between this principle and the Marxist doctrine that the primary duty of literature is to support the state is the root of his conflict with Russian authorities. |
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He is prisoner in a Russian work camp (zulag) |
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| A forced labor camp in the former USSR |
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This is when an action is completed, the audience recognizes a set of charming contraditions. EX: 1. Romantic sentiments shown to be illusions, yet romantic triumphs 2. High comedy sustains a sense of general wonder 3. Ideas of myths of the golden age endure 4. Natural simplicity is shown to be lovely fiction 5. All is forgiven because characters understand all 6. Emphasis on the cycle of seasons, representing and unending pattern of renewal 7. Promises social justice or spiritual salvation 8. Momentarily captures the conditions for delight, joy, and peace, suggesting and enchanting, but impossible perspective 9. Tolerance modifies laughter; criticism is softened by sympathy |
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This devotes its energies to the relationship of the individual to society. EX: 1. Concentrates on the individual's life as part of a group... many of the situations that yield laughter become familiar and through prepeated used achieve the status of cliche. 2. Clowns' nature exists, even in nice clothes; remains incompetent buffoon and finishes last 3. Lovers are lively and attractive - noticeable stereotypes 4. Prefers to view social arrangements rather than study human nature |
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