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Summary The story continues to narrator with a visit from an unexpected visitor. His uncle spent two days where he suspects Ishmael being evicted. A taker life has its disadvantages is that they're always busy. The narrator is distracted by his enlightenment from his uncle where he entertains his uncle. The narrator uses Ishmael's lessons and goes into Taker culture of drinking and taking painkillers. Ishmael is also not above the law and that he has to follow the rules of playing rent to the old lady. Imprisonment plays as a theme and how Ismael is not free from his prison and that there is more than one kind of person. He is always stuck and trapped by Taker society despite breaking away from the circus. Quotes "But that's what all our lawgivers gave us--inventions. Contrivance." (205) "You must change people's minds. And you can't just root out a harmful complex of ideas and leave a void behind; you have to give people something as meaningful a...

PG 95 - 197 Summary Continuing from the early chapters, Ishmael introduces the important analogy about the laws of the university. Ishmael claims that the laws are universal and one has build a better life for oneself and where on lives. Humans believed they are center of the universe and and see them as they are. The section explains Ishmael and the prophet of Takers. Ishmael is going over to remind the wheel and how it works. He also compares the story of Adam and Eve and historical events in the past. Quotes "Filmmakers understandably love footage of gore and battle, but any naturalist will tell you that the species are not in any sense at war with one another. The gazelle and the lion are enemies only in the minds of the Takers. The lion that comes across a herd of gazelles doesn't massacre them, as an enemy would. It kills one, not to satisfy its hatred of gazelles but to satisfy its hunger, and once it has made its kill the gazelles are perfectly content to go on g...

Reflection

Essay #5

"As in the outside world, there are the rich and the poor, the powerful and the weak. And relatively speaking, the rich and the powerful live very well inside the prison - not as well as they do in the outside, of course, but much, much better than the poor and the weak." (pg. 251) - The prison is the laws that man made and that the rich are controlled by other people and the poor can control their own lives.

Essay 4  apparently forgot to change it to sharable link! I updated it now!

If you could congratulate yourself for one thing this semester, what would it be and why? I would like to congratulate myself for the hard work and effort put on to this class. My grammar and my overall English subject needs improvement but I continued to persist through with my papers. This class for me has been a great experience that allowed me to improve not in my English skills but also as a person. We tackled sustainability subjects that made me realize more about humanity in a social, economic and our society.

The overall process went smooth since my interviewee was my dad. The outreach started with a text followed up by an email to his professional workplace. The planning out session consisted of me telling my dad about the project and when and what the interview is about. The actual interview was during his free time at work where we had an interview for 10 to 15 minutes. The writeup was fairly standard since the interview was straightforward. I learned about more about my topic from the perspective of an expert of that field/topic. I learned about more about immigrants and his side of view. This is not my first professional interview and I was able to be professional, polite and considerate with my words.

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