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become a major player and contributor to this organization. It is usually thought that celebrities do charity work to look good to the public, but Audrey did it because she sincerely understood what it was like to starve and live in fear. Throughout her life, she took over 50 trips to various areas of the globe in order to help everyone she could (as UNCIEF ambassador). It is easy to classify Hepburn as a giver because of her incredible humanitarian work over the course of her life.
Audrey’s life mentality began to center on the ideals of selflessness, sympathy and honesty even more so as she grew older. When the famous French novelist, Colette discovered Audrey in 1951 she was abruptly thrown into the limelight. This drastic lifestyle change however did not change Audrey’s moral character or ethical code. She kept her private life very hidden from the media (because she deemed it inappropriate for others to know much about her) and was always incredibly friendly to the media, fans and coworkers. As Audrey was in the midst of her run as Gigi on Broadway, she was cast as the female lead in Roman Holiday. In 1953, she became the first woman to win an Academy Award, a Golden …show more content…

She continually put less emphasis on the rules people needed to follow in society and focused on how positive character traits could be formed. This connects back to her view on decision making because virtue ethics rets on the idea that the formulation of said positive traits help you make the correct choices. Audrey’s philanthropic spirit is a prime example of continual alignment with this view because of its concentration on the breaking of bad character traits (such as greed or selfishness). Hepburn continually fought against the atrocities that affected millions of innocent people around the world and viewed oppression as the major evil in

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Pale Eyes When daily life is controlled, it is possible some people wouldn’t have the ability to see color and most parents wouldn’t love their children just due to the fact that it was not the way they were “programmed”. It may get a little frustrating after awhile... if someone even noticed that something was off. In the science fiction novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, there is a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas. He is named the new Receiver which is a very respected and high-end job in his community. This job also introduces him to a man that he calls the Giver.

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The Giver - Think About What You've Read Write at least five sentences for each one! 1. Somehow, you come upon Jonas’s Community…a group of people living peacefully, with no poverty, no suffering, no pain, and no war. Should you tell them about pain and war and all those bad things, or not? List the arguments for telling them, and then list the arguments for not telling them.

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Just think. Nobody has any knowledge of the past. You do not know what color is, you have no emotion, and everybody is the same. The world that you live in is colorless, emotionless, drab, even lifeless. This is the type of world that Jonas and The Giver live in.

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Feelings and Emotion Different feelings and emotion are not known in the community within the people. The Giver and Jonas are the only true people that know how to feel the different emotions. Every night at the conclusion of their evening meal one of the rituals is the evening telling of feelings. In the very first Chapter Jonas talks about how it was almost December and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. But then thought that was the wrong word to use.

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The Dystopian Societies “‘[Jonas’s society] relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences.’ He thought for a moment. ‘We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others’” (Lowry 95).

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Imagine living in a world with no freedom, choice, individuality, and color. Would you want to live in a world like this? Most of you would have said no, but a boy named Jonas has no choice, but to adhere to his community’s rules. In the book and the movie, “The Giver”, by Louis Lowery, Jonas finds it difficult to accept his community’s way of life. However, after he becomes the receiver of memory, he challenges the community after discovering what the world used to be like before sameness.

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Is Jonas’s society different than ours? Utopian (N) an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The key word there is ‘imagined’ as we haved learned in The Giver that not everything can be perfect; it 's just limiting the being of a human. By having such limitations, the people can’t hold their memories, can’t see color, and the government chooses their family. Jonas’s society is vastly different than ours in various ways.

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The Giver Literature essay I have read the dystopian novel “The Giver” (1993) which is written by the beloved American author Lois Lowry. “The Giver” is about a twelve-year-old boy with the name Jonas. Jonas lives a similar life as all the others in the community, until the Ceremony of Twelve when he got assigned the task as the Receiver of Memory. As The Receiver of Memory it is Jonas’ task to keep all the memories of the past so not everyone needs to keep this burden. Although Jonas received beautiful memories with a lot of colors and happiness he also felt grief, pain and anger.

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Within the novel Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, irony is used in order to establish themes of blindness, invisibility, and race. Irony is a literary device with which the author conveys an alternate meaning to the words than is actually said. There are different types of irony that are used in writing, although Ellison primarily uses two kinds: verbal irony and dramatic irony. Verbal irony is when words are used to convey something different than what is being said and dramatic irony describes a situation in which the audience has knowledge that the characters do not. Within the novel, Ellison uses these two types of irony in order to convey the aforementioned complex themes within the book through symbolism and through the narrator's interactions with other people.

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Would you give up love and true happiness for a life without pain? In the dystopian novel The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, strong emotion is sacrificed for a peaceful environment. The depicted community at first appears to be a utopia, where hate and discrimination are abolished, but the emotionless society is quickly revealed to be dystopian as the story continues. They live in a world of sameness; there is no hunger, suffering, or war, but also no color, diversity, or sensuality. The protagonist, a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas, uncovers the truth about his community when he is assigned to be the Receiver of Memory, and acquires the memories from the past from an elder called the Giver.

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“We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others” (Lowry). In other words, this means that to get what you want, you have to get rid of other things you have. Although there are many similarities between The Giver and our society, there are a lot more differences like families, rules, and personal freedoms. For starters there are many differences with families between their society and our society.

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