Cloud atlas is a very interesting novel, I believe cruelty plays a role in The pacific journals of Adam Ewing. The reason I selected this segment of Cloud Atlas is because of the cannibalism that takes place and racism. The way cannibalism is discussed as seems to be relatively normal conversations same goes for using the dead's parts. Slavery, and abuse is also acquired with in this journal. There also appears to be a lot of stereotyping and false accusations made on the other “races” even restricting them from discovery. Cruelty is and will always be apart of man, we all can work and strive to be at peace but no matter how hard we trie there will always be cruelty.
Dr. Henry Goose seeks the teeth from those that have past
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This new character happens to be a stowaway one the ship that Ewing is aboard. The stowaway appears on pg. 26 he introduces himself by frightening Mr. Ewing in his cabin claiming to be a friend. Mr. Ewing was shocked to find a savage in his quarter, but he to had succumbed to the fear of being killed and eaten by an indian. The stowaways name is Autua he also claims that he to is a friend of D'Arnoq. Over the course of time Ewing begins to learn more about him and soon lets the captain (Cpt. Molyneux) learn of an extra set of free hands. Ewing has be educated during Autua presents that Autua has always been a seaman ever since he was about ten years old. Autua had a curiosity of these new places he would supposedly hear about around the other seaman. Being other colored for him made it so it was difficult. His first voyage was to antarctica, thus started his career. Soon he voyage on other ships and gained more experience from each. Though his curiosity was filled by the new exotic location his freedom was still restrained. He made no pay and most of the time he was left aboard the ship only to get off to do work. He was beaten as shown by the laceration on his back. Many dreams are crushed but it's cruel to just dangle it right in front of someone's face. Like Autua he see these location but he can’t explore them.
The pacific journals of Adam Ewing have cruelty place everywhere in their society. The weak are suppressed, or even eaten. Slaves are treated as animals, and the color have little freedom to explore their dreams. All of these subjects are forms of cruelty. The one to cause it all is human society, desire, and power. Humans are the beast that rip each other up. No one can truly be happy like this, being treated as dirt, looked down upon, and being
Irish Playwright, George Bernard Shaw, once said, “The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity.” Inhumanity is mankind’s worse attribute. Every so often, ordinary humans are driven to the point were they have no choice but to think of themselves. One of the most famous example used today is the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night demonstrates how fear is a debilitating force that causes people to lose sight of who they once were. After being forced into concentration camps, Elie was rudely awakened into reality. Traumatizing incidents such as Nazi persecution or even the mistreatment among fellow prisoners pushed Elie to realize the cruelty around him; Or even the wickedness Elie himself is capable of doing. This resulted in the loss of faith, innocence, and the close bonds with others.
The killings made by the slaves are saddening, too. Mutilating the whites and leaving their bodies lying is inhumane. It is such a shocking story. This book was meant to teach the reader on the inhumanity of slavery. It also gives us the image of what happened during the past years when slavery was practised.
There are three things in the article that is very compelling to me as a reader, the living conditions of the slaves in the ships, the rape the women faced, and the punishment styles the rebellious slaves had to endure. What they endured was almost like hell on earth, it was almost genocide, but without the intention of genocide.
Cloud Atlas is a very complex movie that involves rotating and revolving characters and story lines which paint a past, present, and future of the Earth. All of these are interconnected and influenced by one another with a continuing constant theme. This is very interesting as it directly relates to some of the greatest philosophers in recent history. Not only in their beliefs, but in how they arrive at their beliefs. With Aristotle, we see that the main character analyses and arrives at the truth in a similar fashion to his most famous arguments. When it comes to the shaken beliefs of futuristic portrayals of civilization, it is clear that in the film they follow an attitude similar to a combination of Nietzsche and Pope. It is even possible to see a connection between Descartes and the main characters definitions of God. Cloud Atlas is very interesting in its cosmological portrayals and their comparisons to great philosophers.
As “The Blue Hotel,” “The Displaced Person,” “Bernice Bobs her Hair,” and In Dubious Battle demonstrate, the outsiders in each story, though instilling an initial fear in the eyes of society, experience a sudden and considerable downfall in the end. Each of these defeats, some more extreme than others, result from a clash of society’s fixed guidelines with an outsider’s challenge of these rules. Whether this rebellion against society constitutes a conscious or unconscious effort, and whether the punishment results in justifiable or unjustifiable consequences, one pattern emerges. The outsider instills fear in the mind of the community, and as a defense mechanism, society takes it upon itself to conquer the stranger, leading to his or her ultimate downfall.
Within the course of two decades these three novels deal with racism, diversity of people and similar economic status. The writers raise awareness of the oppression of the African American communities and the long lasting struggles that these folks had to endure to survive.
In the book, The Jungle, written by Upton Sinclair, the underlying statement Sinclair tries to reveal the corrupt nature of the city of Chicago and the meat packing industry, which has been lead by beasts that pull along the week and ignorant to take advantage of them at whatever chance they get, which ultimately leads to a city of conflict and turmoil with the immigrants as its prey. While it may seem that a person's conflicts is influenced by others’ actions in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, The situations a person places themselves in, can cause external and internal conflict, which can ultimately influence the actions and morality of a person’s choices that determines the outcome of their life.
In the world of economic competition that we live in today, many thrive and many are left to dig through trash cans. It has been a constant struggle throughout the modern history of society. One widely prescribed example of this struggle is Upton Sinclair's groundbreaking novel, The Jungle. The Jungle takes the reader along on a journey with a group of recent Lithuanian immigrants to America. As well as a physical journey, this is a journey into a new world for them. They have come to America, where in the early twentieth century it was said that any man willing to work an honest day, would make a living and could support his family. It is an ideal that all Americans are familiar with one of the foundations that got American society where it is today. However, while telling this story, Upton Sinclair engages the reader in a symbolic and metaphorical war against capitalism. Sinclair's contempt for capitalist society is present throughout the novel, from cover to cover, personified in the eagerness of Jurgis to work, the constant struggle for survival of the workers of Packingtown, the corruption of "the man" at all levels of society, and in many other ways.
The economical and social issues of the book are told by the tragic stories of the men and women who worked, and died in the stockyards district. They encountered nearly every evil possible. Unable to speak English they were easily exploited and taken advantage of. The workers of the stockyards were paid horribly low wages that weren’t even enough to keep a family going. Every member of the family must work or they would all starve. It seems that no one cared or even knew about this until Upton Sinclair wrote “The Jungle.” For the people of the stockyards they were living in a great depression, a life of depression.
After reading the novels assigned in this Asian American class, it seems that many Asian American experiences are similar. One similarity that is outstandingly prominent is how an outside culture impacts either directly or indirectly a foreign society. Often, the influences of the powerful yet glamorous American lifestyle lead to self-hatred of one's own society and culture. We see this in "Obasan," by Joy Kogawa, and in "Dogeaters," by Jessica Hagedorn, where many of the characters cease to acknowledge their own identity by living vicariously through movies, music and other American influences. In this essay, I will compare and contrast the portrayals of this self-hatred, and analyze how America influences it. I will also discuss resolutions, or escapes that these characters use to counteract this self-hatred.
People face adversity everyday, whether it be at work, at school, at home, or just walking down the street. Adversity itself isn’t inherently bad or good, but most of the time when see adversity as having a negative connotation to it. Throughout the past, the present, and even fiction, we see how people react to adversity in different ways and we see the effects that this has on their lives. Using humanist philosophies from the REnaissance, The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, and an article called “Inspired or Frustrated, Women Go to Work for Themselves”, it is clear to see that people challenge and persist in the face of adversity which leads to the development and acceptance of new social and economic standards.
In an identified video in ATLAS (Case #876), the language arts teacher did a great job in assessing her students. In this video, the students were analyzing the mental images in the poem “Loo-Wit”. The language arts teacher learning goal for the instruction was to allow the students to hear each other’s viewpoints about the poem. The students should be able to offer their own ideas with evidence so that other students can clarify and help the group’s progress. The teacher assessed the students by having a whole-group discussion. She allowed different students to share their perspectives about the poem based on the questions she asked. She assessed them on multiple-level questions about text to aid comprehension. The main assessment was seeing
The world consists of economic competition which throws people for a whirlwind. Many however do thrive, yet there are still some with scratched knee’s left to dig through the dumpster. Throughout the modern history of society, it has been a constant struggle for practically everyone. A world popular example of this struggle is Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel, The Jungle. The groundbreaking book takes readers along on a journey into a new world for a family of recent Lithuanian immigrants. The family trekked to America, which in the early twentieth century was said to be the land where any man willing to work hard during the day would make a fair amount of living and could support his family. It happens to be an ideal that every American should be familiar with at least one of the foundations that got the American society to where it is at today. Yet, while telling his story, Upton Sinclair put the reader in a metaphorical war against Capitalism. Sinclair’s disdain against capitalist society is present from cover to cover, shown through the enthusiasm of Jurgis to work, the struggle for workers of Packingtown, and the corruption that was put on “the man” at all levels of society.
In this Award winning novel the 1900 display an astonishing amount of racism, and makes us realize that is is still going on till this very day. “I was just shootin a negro in my collard patch” (pg72Lee). This quote shows us that even maybe the gentlest most kind people are very judgemental and racist. That's the problem even today before even getting to know someone we automatically process the way they look and say to ourself he is black so he will steal something or we will say he has tattoos so we have to hold our belongings a little tighter, and without even knowing, we ourself have become something that we have all feared which is not give everyone a fair chance based on what they look like. Today racism is still very much apart of our culture
Paton is able to convey the idea of racial injustice and tension thoroughly throughout the novel as he writes about the tragedy of “Christian reconciliation” of the races in the face of almost unforgivable sin in which the whites treat the blacks unjustly and in return the blacks create chaos leaving both sides uneasy with one another. The whites push the natives down because they do no want to pay or educate them, for they fear “ a better-paid labor will also read more, think more, ask more, and will not be conten...