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Mental Handicap Fifteen Minutes
1,843 wordsYear 2081 and everyone in America is equal to one another. Nobody is smarter, better looking, stronger or quicker than anyone else. It is because of the 211 th, 212 th, and 213 th Amendments to the Constitution. It is April, Handicapper General's men take away George and Hazel Bergeron's 14 -year-old son, Harrison. The couple are sitting watching ballerinas dance on television. George has an intelligence way above normal and is required by law to wear a little mental handicap radio in his ear, w...
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Equality As Portrayed In Harrison Bergeron
741 wordsEquality as Portrayed in "Harrison Bergeron" The story was written in 1961 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , an American fiction writer, but was set in the year 2081. This futuristic (and maybe prophetic) narrative talks about egalitarianism in the context of using artificial not to mention harmful methods to monitor, control and maintain the perceived social equality, the classlessness in the society. The society seventy-three years from now was able to design, develop and implement a system that which cr...
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Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Fetal Alcohol Effects
2,065 wordsFetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a condition affecting children born to women who drink heavily during pregnancy. There are three criteria used to describe the effects of prenatal alcohol exposure and to make a diagnosis of FAS. The first of these is a pattern of facial anomalies, these features include: &# 61558; Small eye openings &# 61558; Flat cheekbones &# 61558; Flattened groove between nose and upper lip &# 61558; Thin upper lip These characteristics can gradually diminish as the child age...
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr American Political System
1,526 wordsKurt Vonnegut Jr. ? s Too Equal Society &# 9; The society that the story " Harrison Bergeron" portrays, is one with no passion, no spirit, merely one with no individuality. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. does a great job in satirizing the American political system. Stanley Schatt notices this in his biography of Vonnegut, where he states that Vonnegut writes " political fables that satirize the American political and this country? s relationship with both China and the Soviet Union" (133)...
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Harrison Bergeron Mental Handicap
1,853 wordsYear 2081 Harrison Harrison Bergeron Year 2081 and everyone in America is equal to one another. Nobody is smarter, better looking, stronger or quicker than anyone else. It is because of the 211 th, 212 th, and 213 th Amendments to the Constitution. It is April, Handicapper Generals men take away George and Hazel Bergeron's 14 -year-old son, Harrison. The couple are sitting watching ballerinas dance on television. George has an intelligence way above normal and is required by law to wear a little...
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