My computer powers on, I wait patiently for it to boot up. It displays my personal image and the bar continues to flash in the text block, beckoning for my password. My fingers type fast as I have completed this action more than a few times. The computer finalizes my profile and I am able to control the mouse, directing where to go. I open the internet and click on my favorites. I scroll down to Park University while my right index finger pushes down on the button. Logged into the school, I
I expected many in-depth personal stories of peoples' experiences and references to small battles that I had never heard of. Instead I feel like Moynahan has come across some great facts during his time researching and hails the reader with them without making many useful interpretations
authoritarianism and Osnos portrayed both aspects well. I would have like to read more stories of people in the countryside or normal middle class people rather than those intellectual or dissident individual. I believe this is one of his biggest weaknesses of Osnos' novel, not having real people talk about their struggles or their dreams and ambitions. I found that his first story of Captain Lin Zhengyi was very interesting and would have liked to read more stories similar to his, where his ambition
The Dispossessed Following World War I, novels describing utopias gradually decreased in number, until the genre almost went extinct in mid-century, being replaced by dystopias like the famous Nineteen-Eighty-Four written by George Orwell. Later on, in the mid-seventies, fuelled by the upsurge of social reform that began in the late sixties and continued into the new decade, new utopias graced the scene, the most memorable ones being Ernest Callenbach's Ecotopia, Samuel R. Delany's Triton, and