Pooja Patel Mrs. Pietrzak English 9 24 September 2015 Chapter1 Questions: The Shah of Blah 1. What is “impossible” about the factories of Alifbay? It is impossible to be happy in the factories of Alifbay. In fact, sadness was produced, wrapped up, and mailed all over the world. There was depressing black smoke coming out of the chimneys. 2. Explain possible meaning of the two “nicknames” of Rashid Khalifa. Rashid Khalifa’s two nicknames are the Ocean of Notions, and the Shah of Blah. One possible reason his fans call him Ocean of Notion is because he is joyful and enthusiastic. Another possible reason they call him Ocean of Notion is because he has so many stories, just like the ocean is immense. He has many stories to share with everyone, including …show more content…
Sengupta and Oneeta Sengupta are very dissimilar. Mr. Sengupta never pays attention to Haroun, but Oneeta Sengupta really cares about Haroun and thinks of him as her own child. Mr. Sengupta ignores Haroun, but he talks to Soraya all the time. Oneeta grants Haroun with sweetmeats and give him big and comforting hugs. Their appearances are the last difference. Mr. Sengupta is skinny and not appreciative, and Oneeta is chubby and devoted. 7. What was the value of Rashid’s stories to the politicians? The value of Rashid’s stories was precious to the politicians, but only if they had Rashid’s magic tongue by their side. If they have the magic tongue, all of their troubles will magically disappear. 8. What happens to Haroun when his mother leaves? After Soraya leaves Haroun and Rashid, Haroun has a hard time focusing after eleven minutes of something. For example, Rashid and Haroun went to a movie, but after eleven minutes of the movie, Haroun stopped paying attention to the movie. Another example is when he was a goalie during a game of street hockey in his community. He was making some great saves, but when the eleven minutes were over, he stopped trying and let the most embarrassing passes make
People push being happy on society as a total must in life; sadness is not an option. However, the research that has conducted to the study of happiness speaks otherwise. In this essay Sharon Begley's article "Happiness: Enough Already" critiques and analyzes societies need to be happy and the motivational affects it has on life. Begley believes that individuals do not always have to be happy, and being sad is okay and even good for us. She brings in the research of other professionals to build her claim that extreme constant happiness is not good for people. I strongly agree that we need to experience sadness to build motivation in life and character all around.
Oliver Burkeman, author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking and column writer for The Guardian, explores the human need to seek for happiness and its connection to the Museum of Failures in his article Happiness is a Glass Half Empty. Burkeman’s purpose to writing this essay is to give readers a new view on how to seek happiness – embrace negativity and expect the worst. Burkeman’s use of a friendly, almost informal tone to help relate to his readers is a brilliant attempt to catch his reader’s attention and hold it, therefore enabling the delivery of logic seem almost effortless.
Throughout the lives of most people on the planet, there comes a time when there may be a loss of love, hope or remembrance in our lives. These troublesome times in our lives can be the hardest things we go through. Without love or hope, what is there to live for? Some see that the loss of hope and love means the end, these people being pessimistic, while others can see that even though they feel at a loss of love and hope that one day again they will feel love and have that sense of hope, these people are optimistic. These feelings that all of us had, have been around since the dawn of many. Throughout the centuries, the expression of these feelings has made their ways into literature, novels, plays, poems, and recently movies. The qualities of love, hope, and remembrance can be seen in Emily Bronte’s and Thomas Hardy’s poems of “Remembrance” “Darkling Thrush” and “Ah, Are you Digging on my Grave?”
Life in America for Baba and Amir is much different than their life in Afghanistan. Specifically, Amir adapts well to America. He completes high school and college. Furthermore, he follows his dream of becoming a writer. In American Amir becomes a young man who marries Soraya. The reader witnesses a kinder, non-vindictive Amir.
Through these, the portrayal of the complex nature of happiness is shown to contribute to the enduring value of the film through the realistic style of the film and by showing different perspectives on the same person showing the audience that different people view actions in different
In the story titled The Awakening the author shows the clear idea that to be satisfied in life, one must express their true emotions. A great example is it of this is when Edna is by herself thinking about her life.” There were days when she was happy without knowing why. she was happy to be alive and breathing… There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why…
Everyone can pant a pretty picture of how wonderful their life may be. In fact, doing so may come with a consequences. Reading these three short stories “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell and a short biography by Malcolm X called “My First Conk”, set off many different emotions. I felt as these author’s wanted to me to feel in such way. I believe there is a life lesion in every life story someone has to share, no matter how small or big.
The history of the United states consisted of victories, losses, and the ones who cause it. Osama Bin Laden was a man who caused the loses of many lives and also caused the victory of strength. Although Osama has caused an abundance of negative impacts to the United States, many things were learned from it. As unbelievable as it is, Bin Laden was an advantage in many ways that may not overrule the negative but is still significant. We have learned that the attacks were due to actions committed by our own Country and was not a random attack as well as the fact that our leaders cannot always be trusted. Not only have we learned but we took action in our new lessons. Additionally, Osama has shown America and many places around the world what exactly religion has to do with politics and finally, what many people around the work want and feel. Although Osama Bin Laden was a man that had negative intentions that led to many calamities, he was a voice that spoke out and allowed America to understand that the freedom we had was not replicated all over the world manly due to what America has done. Osama Bin Laden was one man who killed thousands, cost millions, and impacted billions of people and had an impact that was beneficial, and immensely negative to society and those who lived in it.
“The strangers Besa had spoken about had arrived.” this is evidence that a lot of people died.”Her parents were dead. She looked frantically at Besa and Kwasi, but all was smoke and screams and death.” The reason this was sad was her whole family died by the whites.The reason both of these quotes are important is if the whites never showed up they wouldn’t of been captured and Amari wouldn’t end up in America and if Amari’s parents wouldn’t of died she could of not of had the power to survive the ruthless adventure. The second example of sadness is losing a friend and that friend of Amari’s is Afi. The reason this is important to the story is without Afi’s helpful advice Amari would of gave up. An example of Afi being taken away is “More buyers had arrived so we can be sold.” This had a lot of impact in the story because the last words Afi said to Amari was “Let your spirit be strong Amari.” The third example is having a baby you don’t want. The last example of sadness is getting pregnant with someone’s baby that you don’t want to have. “You be with child Amari.” this had happened when Clay
This tragedy pointed out the negatives of sweatshop conditions of the industrialization era. It emphasized the worst part of its times the low wages, long hours, and unsanitary working conditions were what symbolized what sweatshops were all about. These conditions were appalling, and no person should ever be made to work in these conditions.
“[Her mother as well as] Soraya, thumb in mouth. Both were as still as a block of stone” (p.2) This simile describes the feeling and actions of Mahtab and her family in the truck to Pakistan, there is an essence of fear woven into this simile as they (Mahtab’s mother and the children) are “sentenced to silence” in fear of being caught or discovered.
If one doesn’t know that they’re sad, they’re always happy. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, is set in a future where books are banned and conformity is pressured. Firemen burn books, and information is censored. Without an ability to question, one cannot question their own happiness. With censorship, anything that can cause you to is removed, and this effect is increased. With reliance on technology, one is so immersed that it becomes almost impossible to question anything, let alone think for oneself, and they can be made to think that they are happy, when in reality, they aren’t. Because the government in Fahrenheit 451 removed the ability to question, censors books and ideas, and creates a reliance on technology, the people in Fahrenheit 451 have deceived themselves into believing they are happy and content.
Cassius Clay Jr. or known to many people as ‘Muhammad Ali’ was born in Louisville, KY on January 17th , 1942 He was the first Heavyweight Boxer to win the Heavyweight title three times, his professional career lasted about twenty one years, in that time he won a total of fifty six fights. Most people do not know Cassius changed his name to ‘Muhammad Ali’ because of his religion, History.com staff.(2-4) Muhammad Ali’s early career before becoming a professional boxer, how he worked his way to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World, him converting his religion to Islam and his life after boxing.
Mohsin Hamid has successfully captured the dominant political discourses of the contemporary world and presented them as mutually exclusive. What makes this book work is the masterful employment of irony and controlled suspense to create a subtle polemic. As one reviewer has put it:-
We’ve emptied out the house, leaving behind the painting of the 101 Dalmations with my ‘modifications’ Grandpa encouraged me to create with marker on the walls. We went through the boxes, finding memories, like the coffee can, wrapped in construction paper and tape. Without them here I can’t go back to that house. I can’t create more memories with them, but I can reflect. I’ll always have those memories to look back on when times are low, but I won’t mourn anymore because they are in a better place, watching what I’m becoming. The house and them will always hold a special place in my heart, and my