However, the fictional writer Luisa Valenzuela in “The Censors” uses problem and solution text Structure to show the disadvantages of distractions on the human brain; As a result Juan was affected by distraction while attempting to retrieve his letter. The problem with Juan and his written letter was how it affected everything around him. For instance when writer Luisa Valenzuela stated in the story that his letter “Something that now prevents him from concentrating on his work during the day and doesn’t let him sleep when night comes”. Even though Juan was facing difficulties with the letter, he still worked to find a solution which included him becoming a sensor: “try to sabotage the mechanism, throw sand in the gears that is’ go to the
Every issue, topic, or argument consists usually of two opposing views and two answers. Both of these opposing views may both be right in their own manner. However, both sides have to effectively convince their own audience and the opposing audience as to why their side is more valid than the opposing side. The issue of whether or not falling birth rates pose a threat to human welfare, has been debated extensively by both sides of the argument. Michael Meyer and Julia Whitty both profoundly argue their sides in their articles regarding as to whether or not birth rates do pose a threat. In order to fully understand which side was more effective in their argument, both sides by Meyer and Whitty must analyzed profoundly by looking at their style
“It was a pleasure to burn,”(3) that was the idea Ray Bradbury was trying to get across in the novel Fahrenheit 451. This novel takes place in the future, where governments only law is to burn books. In this novel, you will see how Bradbury explains the life of Guy Montag, a fireman who burns houses for a living. However one day he burns a house with a woman in who is willing to die for her books, this made Montag have the urge to steal a book. The stealing of the book is what lead him to believe society is lead by censorship. In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury shows us a world in the future, in which free thought is controlled through censorship, which leads to an ignorant, insensitive, and non independent society.
She put American combat troops in harm's way, betrayed her own people and handed over so many secrets that experts say the U.S. may never know the full extent of the damage. Ana Montes was the Queen of Cuba, an American who from 1985 to the September 11, 2001 attacks handed over U.S. military secrets to Havana while working as a top analyst for the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency. But despite her crimes, Montes remains largely unknown. The threat increases, when Havana goes on to sell those U.S. military secrets to nations like China, Russia, Iran, Venezuela and North Korea. Montes' anger about U.S. foreign policy complicated her relationships and drew the attention of Cubans who enticed her to turn her back on friends, family and
In the Red Convertible by Louise Erdrich, the main character Henry loses his hold on reality. The story takes place in North Dakota on an Indian Reservation where Henry lives with his brother Lyman. Henry and Lyman buy a Red Convertible that later in the story illustrates Henry’s lack of ability to stay sane. The brothers take a summer trip across the United States in the car. When they return, Henry is called to join the army, which turns out to be the transitional point in Henry and Lyman’s personal life. The Vietnam War changed Henry’s appearance, psyche, and his feelings about the Red Convertible.
What is happiness? It’s a very vague question. Different people have a different satisfaction and needs. What each and every one of us wants are so different from one another that you can’t really categorize what exactly a happiness is for a person. In the modern society, American Dream is the pinnacle that everyone is racing to reach too. It’s what they believe as the ultimate goal and only a selected few are able to achieve it. It’s what people assume as a path to achieve happiness. Although, this might not actually be the case, but people failed to recognize this as materialistic value has been such a dominant factor in a person life. A strong sense of individualism is also very dominating in the western culture, which largely contribute to the factor of what makes American Dream. Does happiness really lies on the other side of the very decorated “American Dream”? Does being rich and famous really bring you happiness?
Censorship has been a big part of the world’s history and especially America’s history. One of the most quoted amendments to the United States constitution is the first amendment; “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ...” This amendment guaranteeing free speech, press, and religion is still heavily debated and contested today. Censorship, as a challenge to free speech and press has been allowed many times and has been heavily debated itself. Many people censor for many different reasons and in many different forms. Censorship itself is not always a bad thing and has in some cases been used for protection of the general population.
The short story “The Censors” by Luisa Valenzuela is set in Argentina during the dictatorship of Jorge Videla who reigned from 1976 to 1983. Juan, the protagonist of the text, starts the story by writing a letter to his old friend, Mariana, at her new residence in Paris. He had received Mariana’s new address from a confidential source and was too excited to think of his actions before writing and sending the letter. Later, Juan’s “mind [was] off his job during the day and [he couldn’t] sleep at night,” thinking of the letter (Valenzuela 966). He believes the contents to be innocent and irreproachable, but the censors of the Argentine government “examine, sniff, feel, and read between the lines of each and every letter” (Valenzuela 966) for the signs of uprising among the people. He then thinks of the censorship offices and the extremely few letters that are actually sent. He ponders the months or years that a single letter could take to be delivered and all that time “the freedom, maybe even life, of both the sender and receiver [are] in jeopardy” (Valenzuela 966). Juan is troubled for Mariana’s well being. He knows that the “Censor’s Secret Command operates all over the world [and] there’s nothing to stop them from going [to the] obscure Paris neighborhood [and] kidnapping Mariana” (Valenzuela 966). Soon he decides his course of action is to join the Post Office’s Censorship Division and retrieve his letter to save Mariana. Juan was hired immediately as there was a great demand for censors and no one “bothered to check on his references” (Valenzuela 966). He was content to be working; all he could do to retrieve his letter was being done. Even when he was sent to Section K where envelopes were ...
Tan (2002) shows cause-and-effect structure throughout the text. During her copy, Tan uses this rhetorical element to show her readers how hard it was for her to grow up knowing two languages in America. The following selection from Tan (2002) shows how cause-and-effect is used in her example:
Through out the essay “books a dying art”, the author developed the thesis extremely well, so the reader could grasp the meaning of the essay. First, the thesis opens the introduction; it’s stated every clearly (par1), that every other day people says that books are dying, it compares with new technology. In similar manner, when television was invented people thought that the radio will diminished. The body of the essay consist nine paragraphs. The first paragraph of the body talks about people thinks “disappearance of books”(par2). As well as in our society no one reads book any more. In the second paragraph of the body, people are confused in “clouded direction of culture” (par3). Furthermore, the co-operations want to buy publishers because the books are becoming more interesting; also, books are coming in different languages. Mainly, the society has change, many years the books weren’t traveling anywhere, today for instant books are found everywhere they are moving. For example, books are moving into hotel, motel, etc. Later in the paragraph the author Proulx talks about “electronic highway”(par6) is taking over the world. Although computers are taking over but people are not going to “sit down and read a novel on a twitchy little screen”(par6). In addiction, the books are the identification of the man & women “not software”. In my view, today in our society books are not disappearance; computer will never take over the books. In order to understand the thesis and the topic of an essay the text has to have some structure.
“Ismael grabbed the gun and slowly rubbed it across his face. Then he pulled the trigger and there was a shot. Bang. One more person dead in the city. It’s getting to be a vice. First he grabbed the revolver that was in a desk drawer, rubbed it gently across his face, put it to his temple, and pulled the trigger. Without saying a word. Bang. Dead.” (Luisa Valenzuela).
One might say that throughout the world, there are dark ages. However, problematic times ultimately bring peace. It is no secret that there is war, dictatorship, and death throughout the world. In the novel “Beneath the Lions Gaze”, written by Maaza Mengiste, the author tells a story of a historically and violent movement taken place in the country of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1974. Yonus, a prominent student and his family go through unimaginable hardships facing death, starvation, and most importantly finding their true selves and what they stand for. In this essay the author will list the key passages in order of importance from greatest to least. Yonus a brother, father, and husband develops the theme of self-discovery, and unlocks the reader’s understanding of what finding ones purpose in life really is.
During the Renaissance period there were many intellectuals and many different rulers. However, in: The Borgias: and Their Enemies, by Christopher Hibbert, the time period resembles one of which most readers are not familiar with. The book is masked with violence, greed, incest, and many forms of sin that is all too common in the modern world. The book itself aims to reveal how corrupted not only society itself once was, but the church as well. There is an apparent parallel between the church and society during this time period, and modern society and as well as the government we live in today. This parallel can be drawn by the reader by looking into two key elements: greed and corruption. Corruption is defined by many as the use of public
Of the works we had to review for this module, Gloria Anzaldúa's First Chapter (from her book Borderlands/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza) The Homeland, Aztlan invoked thoughts and feelings. Upon reading certain sections, I was emotionally invested (especially in her personal anecdote as she watched her cousin being dragged away by Border Patrol). I've re-read the opening but still have a difficult time understanding it. Why would she mention a portion of Los Tigres del Norte lyrics? How does it tie in with her main argument?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie made numerous of valid points in her Ted Talks (2009), The Danger of a Single Story. She enlightened readers that incorrect information can travel through generations and never be corrected. She expressed that one single story is the gateway for judgement, and once you present a person as one thing over and over again that one thing becomes that person. Ms. Adichie explained that a single story creates stereotypes which are incomplete stories. A single story also provides a piece of a story that can be seen as the whole story, which develops misconceptions. Furthermore, it robs people of dignity and shines light on how we as people are different and not similar. Overall, we should educate ourselves so that we
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides is a novel set in suburban America in the 1970’s. It is told in a retrospective by a group of men who are obsessed with five sisters who killed themselves, that they lived near when they were teenagers. The narrators collect different pictures and objects that once belonged to the sisters, and even 20 years after the last Lisbon girl took her life, they are still infatuated with the idea of these teenaged sisters. The Virgin Suicides brings to the surface statements and ideas pertinent to women and how they are treated in society. These ideas are timeless, as many of the issues women faced decades ago are still important today.