Part one of term paper
A solitary snowy crystal slowly drifts and whirls towards the waiting ground below. Its graceful decent symbolizes so much; the first snowflake of winter, cold, solitude, gloom, sorrow, the beginning of the end. In an instant, it's crushed within the merciless death-grip of progression. In one fell swoop we have rid ourselves of the loneli ...

Part two of term paper
... tears, we may not laugh, and without grief, we experience no joy. Living in a three-dimensional world means accepting the two sides to everything. In the book "The Giver" by lois lowery, the authour makes her point very clear. Through the mind of a twelve-year old boy chosen to recieve the memories of a lost world for the sake of the "happiness" of the rest of his perfect society, we learn that perfection comes at a steep price. The people in this story lost the ability to see color, to smel ...