always misses the peasant hoeing at his patch.
http://engl210-deykute.wikispaces.umb.edu/file/view/omelas.pdf
Reminds me of this short story. How we are willing to turn a blind eye to human suffering to continue a comfortable life.
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www.george-orwell.org www.george-orwell.org
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All people who work with their hands are partly invisible, and the more important the work they do, the less visible they are.
I feel like this can be relevant in our own society. Those that work the line production jobs or some of the less desirable positions are forgotten or go as unseen. Yet, they are extremely important in our society and economy. There are way more "invisible" people than visible. I think it is important to make sure that those behind the scenes do not feel forgotten.
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like clouds of flies
another reference to flies, could this be a recurring thing through out the essay?
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What really appeals to the flies is that the corpses here are never put into coffins, they are merely wrapped in a piece of rag and carried on a rough wooden bier on the shoulders of four friends. When the friends get to the burying-ground they hack an oblong hole a foot or two deep, dump the body in it and fling over it a little of the dried-up, lumpy earth, which is like broken brick.
How different this is from the American way of life, though our culture would view this as weird, others would see it as normal. That is what makes the world an interesting place!
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As the corpse went past the flies left the restaurant table in a cloud and rushed after it, but they came back a few minutes later.
Interesting way of starting an essay. This automatically draws the reader in and grabs for attention. Very descriptive.
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morecrows.wordpress.com morecrows.wordpress.com
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(mandatory) $1k/month plan with a $5k deductible: they’ll still declare bankruptcy and lose the farm if they get sick, but in the meantime they pay a shit-ton to the shareholders of United Healthcare, or Aetna, or whoever.
In my English 100 class we did a project on universal health care. There are more reasons of why this is important and it is more in-depth of an issue that goes on.
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Are you laughing yet?
not sure why she is making this a joke if she said it is a problem
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41,699 Americans died of AIDS. To put that in perspective, that’s about 70% of the number of Americans who died in all nineteen years of the Vietnam War combined.
That is crazy to think about.
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