Category: Literature Review
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Understanding Of The Rules In The Giver By Lois Lowry
The Novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry allows readers to examine many hidden lessons and messages throughout the story. In the book, we follow Jonas journey in learning the unpleasant truth about his community and his attempt to save its people before they destroy themselves. Many themes and messages are brought to light in the…
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The Significance Of Feelings, Emotions, And Passions in The Giver
In most cases, feelings, emotions, and passions dont seem to have a proper role in the truth that logic aims to achieve. Various logical fallacies stem from them, making such human experiences a nuisance to the pursuit of objective truths. We lose sight of the actual argument and topic because of argumentum ad hominem, and…
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The Importance Of Memory In The Giver By Lois Lowry
The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a sci-fi type novel about a society where everyone is assigned a specific job to do and no one is allowed to have feelings or memories of anything. Society is dictated by a few people in charge and the rest of the people just go about following the rules…
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Meaning of Life: Exploring Existential Meaning
Within the closing remarks of his outstanding work Mans Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl set the stage for which meaning-orientated therapy (Logotherapy) was to be born. For Frankl, human beings were meaning-seeking creatures; compasses tilted towards meaning; towards carrying out the appropriate activities that could help to contextualise a purposeful future, despite the inherent trials…
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Summary Of Robert Nozicks’s Philosophy And The Meaning Of Life
In this paper, I will be explaining the main points of the essay called Philosophy and The Meaning of Life by Robert Nozick, where Robert Nozick begins to talk about how we have to understand the unquestioned assumptions and do we really want to know about the meaning of life. In his essay he talks…
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The Voice Of Silence By Mrinal Pande In The Short Story Girl
Abstract Literature is a writing measured to be as art form or any single writing thought to have intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage. It deals with nature and mans relationship with external world. It has traditionally been applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose.…
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Unique Cultural Perspectives And Ideas About Identity In Henry Lawsons Short Stories
There is no doubt that henry Lawsons short stories capture unique cultural perspectives and ideas about identity. Lawson uses many different techniques to depict and illustrate the outback of Australia and the bushland. His short stories helped to shape a great image of Australia during the 19th and 20th centuries. The stories illuminate the harshness…
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Susan Wolf And Finding A Meaning In Life
It is in our blood as humans to have the need for meaning in our life, but did we ever consider the questions; what is that meaning we constantly search in need, will we ever find it, and how? American philosopher Susan Wolf asks lots of questions but many of them concern what we should…
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Representation of Human Experiences in the Movie ‘The Boy in the Striped Pajamas’ and the Poem ‘War Photographer’
Human experiences can be fraught with danger and trauma, however, can still lead to self-growth and understanding. Human experiences are deeply embedded throughout texts to display and to emphasize how characters interact with each other. In The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, the director describes the three human experiences shown in the three characters: Bruno,…
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The Image Of Society In The Giver
How would you like living in a world with no color, no music, and no love? Well, thats how Jonass life was like. All of those things are present in the book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, 1993, dystopian. Jonass community is idyllic. Everyone is assigned their jobs or assignments. This community has no conflict,…