best ending ever

SO here is what happens. The woman points towards the tiger because she is selfish and just wants to have the guy for herself. Unfortunately the guys backstage forgot to put the divider between the walls so the tiger had already eaten his bride to be. The lion no longer hungry decided to sleep. It was at this time that Lilo and Stitch came and stitch ate the king. Everyone in disbelief about what just happened started running around and talking gibberish in a crazy frenzy. After twenty minutes of this everyone's head exploded and there were only 300 left. These 300 went on to fight the Persians in what is known as World War II. Unfortunately because the 300 soldiers exploded from radiation poisoning the governments decided to cover it up and make a fake history. The moral of the story is simple and obvious and it is one that anyone can make a connection to; stop illegal aliens.

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4. Leo Tolstoy tells us in the first line of his great novel Anna Karenina, “All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Lear’s is obviously an unhappy family, as is Gloucester’s. Explore the source of the unhappiness in both of the families. What is it that has torn each one apart? Some sin of the fathers? Or of the children? Human nature? What is wrong here? Are there any similarities between the two, or are they indeed “both unhappy in their own way?”

Both families are unhappy because of unfaithfulness. King Lear is unhappy because, of the two daughters he divided the kingdom with, both have betrayed him, taken away all power, and stripped him of everything he had as king. It is partially his fault as he took a sin of gluttony and then took it farther as he only wanted verbal praise. This led to him disinheriting the only daughter that truly loved him. When the kingdom was split up the two daughters that received portions of it decided that they had no reason to keep respecting their father and could do what they wanted.

Gloucester is torn apart by the greed of a bastard son whose bastard way is going to cause his father and his other non bastard son to fight against each other. It is based on deception and false trust. It seems to be nature of different people but I would say that loyalty in this case is the ultimate reason for the betrayal.

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How do you understand the relationship between Cordelia and Lear? He seems to love her, and she him, but how? Why is she unable to speak when her very survival depends on her speaking? Why is he unable to hear her truth?
To take the same concept from another angle…. While her sisters’ speeches are excellent examples of verbal manipulation, the one person (Cordelia) who goes in honestly with Lear’s best interests at heart is punished because she doesn’t want (or know how to) “play the game.” Have you seen situations like this? Have you used your powers of manipulation to get what you want? Have you been the loser in a game like this?

The relationship between Cordelia and Lear is one of love the only problem is that they both express their love differently. Cordelia tends to give herself to someone and is by them to show them that she cares while Lear wants someone that will flatter him as much as they can. Because Cordelia sees this as an untrue representation of love she cannot bring herself to flatter him. She instead says that she cannot express herself other than her actions. She also disproves her other sisters that are saying that they have given themselves to Lear even though they are married and in all reality they must have given at least part of themselves to their husband.

I have been in a situation like this where I am able to verbally make someone believe me. When this happened I simply took something completely unrelated to the subject and would bring it into the conversation. This simply draws attention from me towards someone else and also destroys credibility. Verbal manipulation really does not work too often simply because it is a fight of logic not of anything else

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To clarify it is partially good and partially bad. For the people living the lives it obviously is not bad because it has been that way for a while. It is not so bad because that's what they have grown up to think that it is fine. They do not mind it because they have not had anything different and to them freedom means chaos. To us it is unimaginable because we live with the ability to make choices and decide what we want to do with our life. We choose our jobs, who we want to marry, and what we want to do on a day to day basis. The loss of this freedom seems to make us scared and we make sure that we can preserve these freedoms. Also we like to talk about individuality and how much we stand out so being told to blend in goes against what we believe.


(hey i got em done....) (and i used the correct notation of 3 dots to lead and the 4th to end the conversaton....)<----------

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3) In chapter 17, Mustapha Mond and John Savage discuss civilization. John says two startling things: “What you need is something with tears for a change. Nothing costs enough here” and “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.” Read this interchange carefully and then put Mond and Savage’s arguments into your own words.


The entire society is based on controlling peoples feelings and actions. Even the main people are called "the controllers". This means that in the end there are no highs. There are no lows. But because of this there is no emotional involvement and no way to really feel involved. If you feel sad for losing something then it means that you felt great when you had it. All in all its about variety. Rather than have the "perfect" Utopian but bland lives he wants to be able to experience those things that he has not been able to do. There is something special about new experience even if its a bad experience. If it is a good experience that means that you have grown as a person and if its bad then if nothing else you have learned something

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2) Comment on the purpose of sex, games, and sayings like “ending is better than mending” in the book. How are all of these things used as a method of control?

The purpose of sex and games seems to be to keep peoples mind off of things relationship wise and more on work. When you are trying to find someone it takes time, effort, and energy. This in the dystopia is energy taken away from work and also time that is not spent buying goods in order to further the economy. The games are all extremely complex and takes many different items to play. This means that money is required to play and also that it again keeps people distracted enough not to thing about the situation that they are in. The phrase "ending is better than mending" it means it is better to put less effort into it and to just forget about it rather than think and try to fix things. This is all a big form of getting people not to think about their life. They buy new things, stay busy, and do not fix things they should.

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The most relevant that they talked about was the "taxicopter" and how everyone has a personal vehicle. Today most people have 1 or 2 cars per family and it is not unreasonable to think that in another 550 years we could have some of the things. The most ridiculous thing they talked about was how the class system worked. How everyone is the exact same I would think that someone would come around and rebel. Also how 10 people tend to control everything about life also seems odd. Even the Alphas would have some sort of conflict with their conscience and try to stop what they saw as unjust. Overall the ideas in this book are not overly crazy. In some time with a little push from a crazy leader we could end up in this book. Its hard to tell especially when there are over 500 years until this book would "take place"

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