Hello Brain Fam,
I hope this helps:
Harrison Bergeron is considered a threat to society because he cannot be contained in both physical and symbolic handicaps the totalitarian society places on him.
Again, I hope this helps.
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An independent clause and a dependent clause.
An independent clause is a clause that can stand alone as a sentence (i.e., it expresses a complete thought). However, a dependent clause (or subordinate clause) is one that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence because it does not express a complete thought. Cause it is not a complete thought, it is dependent on being attached to an independent clause to form a sentence. The link between a dependent clause and an independent clause will often be a subordinating conjunction or a relative pronoun.
Yes, I agree you have to look at your own school.
First, ask yourself: is there bullying in your school? (I can give you an example of my school: there wasn't)
Then ask youself: how can you know that there is? what have you seen? have you seen people crying, being beaten, being forced to do something they didn't want to?
And finally, look into the reasons - i can tell you that my school was so small that we all knew each other's parents, so noone would bully someone while knowing their paretns so close.
Yes, the lady in Cullen's poem is a deeply prejudiced and ignorant person, who doesn't want to really get to know black people as they are. Those prejudices seem to be so deeply engraved in collective memory that black people are associated with slavery, menial jobs, and intellectual inferiority. Hurston argues that media have the power to solve this problem. Hurston writes: "It is assumed that all non-Anglo-Saxons are uncomplicated stereotypes. Everybody knows all about them. They are lay figures mounted in the museum where all may take them in at a glance. They are made of bent wires without insides at all. So how could anybody write a book about the non-existent?"
Similarly, in Cullen's short and poignant poem, the lady believes that even in heaven black people will be assigned the same kind of duty that they have on Earth, in her opinion. It's as if they aren't capable of doing anything else, nor are they entitled to anything else above that.
