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I negate. Resolved: Civil Disobedience in a Democracy is Morally Justified.
I offer the following definitions for today's round.
Civil Disobedience is defined by Merriam Webster as refusal to obey laws as a way of forcing the government to do or change something
The value is MORALITY. The resolution fundamentally asks us to weigh the moral reasons in favor of civil disobedience against the moral reasons counseling against it. Therefore morality is the end-goal of the resolution. It is important to note here that given the definition of morally justified, the resolution is comparative. In other words, simply providing one example or set of examples where civil disobedience would be justified is not sufficient to affirm the resolution. Rather, both sides have a burden to prove their position as a general rule.
The standard is RIGHTS PROTECTION. People come together to form democracies in order to ensure that their rights are protected. Democracies are only acting morally, then, when rights are protected. All impacts must link back to citizens" rights.
Contention one: civil disobedience undermines the democratic process. As members of a democracy, citizens have say in the creation of the laws, thus they consent to them. For civil disobedience to destroy those laws is unjust,
Carl Cohen explains
"Every citizen of a lawful government, then, has a most important duty to obey its laws. That is true whatever the form of government " Where each citizen has a proportionate voice in the making and the framing of laws (either directly or through representatives), his acceptance of this role as partial legislator commits him yet more strongly to abide the laws of that body."
Cohen explains clearly how citizens" voices are what shape a just government. To allow minorities to un-proportionately voice their ideas by side stepping laws destroys the democratic system.
This articulates the key problem with civil disobedience. Every law may look just or unjust to different perspectives however civil disobedience would allow any person to act against any law they didn"t like, regardless of majority consent or legal means. This opens the society as a whole up for anarchy as laws become devoid of meaning and laws are broken meaninglessly.
Contention two: civil disobedience can support legitimate and illegitimate causes. The action "civil disobedience" has no inherent moral quality because it can yield both good and bad results. Similarly "driving" can be both just and unjust, on one hand you can drive someone to the hospital and on the other hand you can hit the person with your car so they have to go to the hospital. Thus, while there may be legitimate outcomes of civil disobedience we must also look at what else it would justify. It would justify any citizen acting out against any law they felt needed change. The inherent repercussions could involve murder, riots, terrorism and more. Because civil disobedience always violates the rights of citizens who have come together to agree upon laws, it always harms rights. However, civil disobedience does not necessarily guarantee rights as it is often just a tool for people to circumvent the democratic process. Indeed, civil disobedience hinders rather than helps the fight for justice. Leon Jaworski in the Morality and the Law, 1988, p. 87 elaborates
One of the most appalling and frightening of the trends in recent years is the self-serving practice of choosing which laws or court orders to obey and which to defy. The preachments that generate this attitude are cancerously dangerous to our system of government under law. To rest upon or hide behind the claim that if one"s conscience speaks to the contrary, justification exists for ignoring laws or decrees are but to say that the rule of law is not to be the governing yardstick of our society"s conduct. It is dangerous to allow people to choose the laws they obey and there is no way to judge whether or not that law is unjust.
Contention three: there are more legitimate avenues than civil disobedience. Susan Tiefenbrun explains
The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees us the right to dissent, to protest, to assemble peaceably, to criticize a law or government, and to oppose a law. The more difficult question is how one may permissibly dissent if a person's first legal and moral imperative is to obey the law. Using means of opposition and dissent that are permissible under the U.S. system of law will not subject a dissenter to punishment by the state. The right to dissent may be exercised by the use of written and spoken words, by acts or conduct such as picketing, "peaceable" mass assembly, sit-ins and demonstrations, which are referred to as "symbolic speech." The basic means of permissible protest under the U.S. system is the right to vote, "the right to organize and to elect new officials to enact and administer the law."
Thus, because Civil disobedience can support clearly unjust things, because there are alternatives that legally and legitimately achieve the desired ends, and because Civil disobedience twists and destroys the democratic process, I urge a negative ballot.
The people have the right to replace or revise any government which to preserve their liberties. Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of independence:
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."-Thomas Jefferson
I think it is less that I have misinterpreted Thomas Jeffersons quote so much as my opponent has misinterpreted my quote, Civil Disobedience is defined as:
"the refusal to comply with certain laws or to pay taxes and fines, as a peaceful form of political protest."
So clearly I am not defending a violent revolt, though in some extreme cases this becomes necessary, I am saying that if the goveronment ceases preserving our liberties we should be able to refuse obedience to them.
Now, onto my opponent's only piece of offense in the round, where he says Civil Disobedience is non-violent. Sure, Civil Disobedience might be non-violent, but it's the fact that Civil Disobedience leads to anarchy and violence. There will always be opposing views, so with Civil Disobedience you will always have opposing views. We should go with the legal system because Civil Disobedience undermines the democratic process. By voting negative, you are still providing alternate alternatives that do not break the law to help the minorities, while still meeting the majority's needs, while in the pro world, you allow for people to deliberately break the law. Thus, I negate.
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Posted by BackCommander 2 years ago
You use the word guarantee like it's magic. If the government decides to send armed police forces to disassemble a peaceful protest with force, the constitution doesn't prevent them from doing so. Your argument only stands if peaceful protests are effective, which is kind of statistically wrong.
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The second law of thermodynamics appears to be a mysterious concept in physics that is full of contradictions. It says that physical states evolve irreversibly, yet the underlying physical laws are reversible. It says that in closed systems, states of high entropy never evolve into states of lower entropy, yet the Poincaré recurrence theorem says that a state in a closed system always eventually almost return to its original configuration.
A few weeks ago ddarius pointed me to the works of E. T. Jaynes where he clears up the mystery surrounding entropy and the second law of thermodynamics. I will present a quick overview of what I learned about entropy from this paper.
Firstly throw away any ideas that entropy has anything to do with order or disorder. That was an analogy created over 100 years ago and it does more harm than good for understanding entropy.
Now, the most important thing to understand about entropy is that it is not a function of state. You cannot point to a flask and say the entropy of this particular flask is such and such. Instead entropy, is a function of a description of state. A description of a state characterizes the set of states that satisfies the description. For example, I can describe a flask containing a certain volume of a certain number of moles of ideal gas at a certain pressure. There are many different collections of molecules at various positions and momenta that satisfies such a description. This set of states will form some (hyper-)volume in phase space. The logarithm of this volume is the entropy of the description. Actually, for historical reasons, entropy is really defined as the logarithm of this volume times Boltzmann's constant, but this constant factor is not important.
Liouville's theorem says that the volume of a subset of phase space is preserved under time evolution of the system. Therefore, if you want to build a system that reliably takes you from any state satisfying description A to some state satisfying description B, the volume of phase space of states satisfying B had better be larger than the volume of phase space of states satisfying A. In other words, the entropy of B has to be greater than the entropy of A.
That is all there is to the second law. It is not so much a law of physics as it is a law of inference.
Notice that it is quite possible for a state with description A to evolve into a state with description B where the entropy of B is less than the entropy of A; however, this process will necessarily be unreliable. If you keep trying the same process again and again with random starting states satisfying description A, the probability that you will end up in a state satisfying description B is at most (and likely much smaller than) exp((S(B) - S(A))/k) where S(A) is the entropy of A and S(B) is the entropy of B and k is Boltzmann's constant.
Jaynes, in "The Evolution of Carnot's Principle", notes that if S(B) is smaller than S(A) by only (1 microcalorie / room temperature) then the probability of reaching a state satisfying B from a random state satisfying A is less than exp(-1015) which is approximately 10-440000000000000, an astronomically low probability. Stated differently, this is an upper bound on the probability of being able to extract an extra 1 microcalorie of energy than the second law allows from a heat engine operating with a cold sink at room temperature.
A more optimistic point of view says that there could be up to a 79% chance of getting an extra 1 zeptojoule of work out of a heat engine operating at room temperature. I will leave it as an exercise to the reader to look up how much a zeptojoule is. But remember the 79% chance is an upper bound on the probability. The actual probability could be much lower depending on the exact process of the engine.

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Opinion: Is America Inflating Another Housing Bubble?
American Enterprise Institute resident fellow Ed Pinto on the worrying divergence between rents and housing prices. Photo credit: Getty Images.
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"First, interest rates are again rising, with the yield on the 10-year higher again on Tuesday," Cramer said. "When rates go up, banks make more money from the difference between your deposits and the loans they make."
That should boost the bottom line long-term. However, Cramer sees two other catalysts, and they're both somewhat immediate.
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Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas made such an awesome spider web with marble painting and handprints - this is surely on my to-do list this week.
I instantly fell in love with these flying purple people eaters from Toddler Approved. I would say this is also on my to-do list, but we were so excited about this one that we already did it {will share ours soon}.
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It's amazing how we meet friends and cultivate friendships these days..If 2yrs earlier, someone had told me that I'd meet people on a blog and actually continue a friendship with them I'd have given them a funny look. But now it's a whole new ball game. Thanks to blogs and social network sites (read Twitter), it's become so easy to meet like-minded people and this has turned out to be a boon for me.
First it was Rashmi from Indyabeauty and the Anamika from Wiseshe with whom I formed a bond with. This was about 1.2yrs back. and I never looked back. One of the friends I made through blogging is Kejal Shah from NailartandThings. A pro at Nail Art, Kejal is the person who has promoted me from an exclusive makeup lover to a nail art fanatic as well! Yes Kej, I'm blaming you again 😉
She has been my Nail Guru for quite a while and she's the gal I ping on my Blackberry whenever I have a Nail-art related query. About a week back when her Hubby went for a short trip abroad, she asked whether I wanted any GOSH nail polishes. Could i say no? 😉 I immediately hunted online on my cell and gave her 3 shades I was interested in and she ensured I got them! I got my parcel from her today and had the shock of my life!!! I'd expected just the 3 nail polishes but what i received was a truckload of nail art goodies!
Here are some pics of the GOSH nail polishes. I got the shades: Gasoline, Miss Minty & Ocean.
She also send these butterfly nail art stickers and 2 sets of decals along with a cuticle oil pen.
After discussing on Twitter at length with Emm (Circular Insanity) and Nirah (Present Perfect) about these, I was genuinely curious to know what these were like. Thanks to Kej, I am on my way to being enlightened! 😉
And last but not least, she also sent me 2 amazing CH nail polishes which have the most amazing texture and finish. They are shimmery but look matte… cool right??
I was having a really bad week at work and I'd like to say a BBBIIIGGG Thanks to Kej for kicking all the negativity of this week into oblivion with this gesture of hers. Kisses!!


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Now that Cisco is freed from the VCE/vBlock engagement (rumoured to be exclusive arrangement), most people are wondering why Cisco took so long to announce this.
Cisco announced another HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI) platform this week. I say "another" because Cisco already works with several partners for Converged and Hyperconverged such as NetApp, VCE, Simplicity and Nutanix. (Argue about the difference in your own time).
This announcement is different because Cisco is doing the selling. Cisco has taken the Springpath software, integrated & validated it with specific models of UCS (you won't be able to use your existing UCS hardware). Cisco and its partners are the primary channel for sales of the Springpath software.
Springpath isn't Dead
It has chosen to partner with Springpath Inc, an almost unknown HCI company that stopped submitting accounts to the US Government in November 2015. There was speculation that they were dead after being sued by Simplivity. Now we know Cisco has done a deal to give Springpath access to its resellers and customers – and thats a lot of sales by being stocked in the Cisco supermarket.
This is unusual strategy for Cisco. It is much more common for Cisco to buyout small companies. So, lets have some speculation about unanswered questions.
1) Why is Cisco effectively the only customer of Springpath ? They don't want to acquire Springpath because Simplivity/Nutanix/Atlantis might walk away and that would impact sales. Cisco has a big push this week at its partner conference on "power partnerships" with resellers, and kicking some partners in the teeth wouldn't be good press.
2) Does Springpath really work ? The failure of UCS Invicta to scale and work reliably might be causing Cisco to take it slowly and reduce risk. "Lets see if the product really works but without saying its ours". If it fails they can walk away, if it succeeds then they can buy the company. Probably at a pre-agreed price.
Cisco Springpath HCI Reviews
I read a bunch of reviews about Cisco/Springpath HCI here are some links.
Cisco And Springpath Take On Hyperconvergence Incumbents – Next Platform
Cisco HyperFlexes its muscles. – UCS Guru
Citrix Adds Cisco HyperFlex HCI as Secure App and Data Delivery Infrastructure Option – Citrix
The EtherealMind View
I'm positive about the future of converged & hyperconverged systems, especially in the Enterprise mid-market where its makes sense to avoid complex sales negotiations around licensing, SKUs and interoperability. (Why do we even have to consider these things ?)
However, there are some odd things about "partnering" with Springpath for HCI. I would be cautious about jumping into the reselling or buying the product unless these questions could be answered ?
Also,compare Simplivity (more than 1000 UCS deployments) or Nutanix for pricing and features. Those are comparable HCI platforms that have been much more successful to date. I have no doubt that Springpath is going to get great sales with the Cisco sales machine behind it but its not proven to my mind.


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The Journal spent roughly $22 million to advertise its core newspaper and online products in the first half of this year and nearly $50 million in 2007, according to estimates by TNS Media Intelligence.


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You need a freelance web developer or are thinking about freelancing yourself, but you have no idea where to start when it comes to rates. Should you pay or charge by the hour? How much does this stuff cost? You ask around, and you can't get a straight answer.
That's because freelance web developer rates vary based on experienced, location, and expertise. Some developers charge $20,000 per website, while others scrape by at $30 per hour. It all depends on the developer.
The trick to figuring out a web developer hourly rate is figuring out the services you need, and venturing out into the field to determine how much it will cost you. Whether you're a freelance yourself or you want to hire one, you've got to ask yourself what you need done, and what you can realistically afford.
What Type of Development?
Do you need ongoing maintenance? Do you need someone to build a website from scratch? Ecommerce websites that sell online might have more needs than brick-and-mortar shops, and rates will adjust accordingly.
- Website from scratch — Building a website from scratch is likely to be more expensive in the short term than adding on to a website that already exists. Note that it could cost more to add a content management system, have someone code in HTML5, or to be responsive on mobile devices.
- Ongoing maintenance — All websites need ongoing maintenance, and you should be prepared to have a freelance web developer on hand to help with the creation of new pages, any issues with hosting, URL changes, and integration with marketing tools.
- Design needs — Sometimes freelance web developers also offer design services, such as image creation for blog posts and other website pages.
Typical Freelance Web Developer Rates
There's a wide array of rates. A new website can cost anywhere from $2000 to $20,000. An experienced freelance web developer might charge upwards $150 per hour, while a newbie might charge $30 per hour. But what do you need?
The trick is to determine your needs and set your budget first. Determine what work you need done, and decide on how much you'd be willing to pay for it. For example, you might decide that you need a 5 page WordPress website, and that you'd be willing to pay $800 for it. This will give you a basis to work with, and even if it the designers and developers you want appear out of your reach, you'll be able to have some sort of starting point, and can adjust accordingly.
It's also a good idea to ask any friends and colleagues for insight. How much did they pay for their website? Try to collect as much information as possible from real experiences.
You Get What You Pay For
People want to get a good deal, but everyone knows the best goods come with a substantial price tag. If you want high quality, or can provide high quality to your clients, your rates should reflect that.
When a company hires a freelance web developer, it's typically a lot cheaper than hiring an employee. Freelancers and those who hire them should keep this in mind when it comes to rates, and not shy away when rates seem high.
For example, a freelancer might charge $10,000 to build a website from scratch, delivering it within three or four months. If an employer hires someone to do this in-house at a salary of $80,000 per year, plus benefits, this employee might take three months to build the same website, which winds up costing you $20,000, which is twice as expensive. That doesn't include the benefits you have to provide that employee, either.
Finding Developers
Finding high quality, trustworthy developers is half the battle. If you're searching for a freelance developer, here are some sources to turn to:
- Your connections — Hands down, your connections are the best places to look for a freelance web developer. Who built their websites? What do they use for ongoing maintenance? Who do they recommend?
- Stack Exchange — Stack Exchange is a community for developers of all kinds, and tons of freelance developers hang out and exchange tips in this community. It's a great place to tap if you have a new project and want to get the word out.
- Guru — Guru is a freelance website that specializes in freelance developers. It allows you to post your project and your budget. It's a good option for those on a tight budget as many freelance developers on Guru are inexpensive.
- Toptal — Toptal is a newer freelance platform that connects the best developers with clients in need. Unlike Guru or other freelancing sites, Toptal focuses on the best of the best, only accepting 3% of all developers who apply.
Testing the Waters
Many want to understand freelance web developer rates before they hire a developer, but you may need to test the waters to understand how your rates work out in the field.
- If you're looking for a freelance web developer, find a few developers and get some quotes. Find a few different developers, explain your project, and ask them for a quote. How much would they charge to get it done? What would their process be? This is the best way to figure out the going rate.
- If you are a freelance developer, test out some rates and see how clients respond. Setting rates is tough, and sometimes the best way to learn is through experience. It's also a good idea to ask other freelance developers what they charge, and join up with some freelance communities to learn more.
Understanding Freelance Web Developer Rates
Asking about typical freelance web developer hourly rate is much like asking how much it costs to pay rent. Rent depends a lot on budget, location, and size and quality of the home. Web developer rates depend a lot on project, expertise, and quality of the freelance web developer.


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A Muslim fanatic with an Internet site praising Islamic suicide bombers as defenders of their comrades is a Major in the U.S. Army with access to military intelligence and lethal weaponry. And it's not as though the army didn't know that he was a Muslim fanatic and supporter of the Islamic jihad against the West. He was under investigation for six months because of his anti-American, jihadist rantings. He did not want to be deployed. He wanted to be discharged.
But despite his identification with America's enemies, the army kept him in its officer corps. How in God's name was this possible? But it was. And so, after calling America the "aggressor" in Afghanistan and Iraq this Muslim jihadist traitor army officer picks up his semi-automatic weapons and heads for the center at Ft. Hood where soldiers are being deployed to fight the jihadists in Afghanistan to conduct his massacre. Yet this morning the Fox News Channel chiron says "Investigators search for a motive in the Ft. Hood killings." Is everybody out of their mind?
The Ft. Hood killings are the chickens of the left coming home to roost. Already the chief political correspondent of The Nation has decried even mention of the fact that the jihadist killer Hasan is a Palestinian Muslim. According to The Nation this is "Islamophobia." This fatuous attempt to protect America's enemies carries on The Nation's 60-year tradition as the leading fifth column collaborator with America's enemies — defender of the Rosenbergs, defender of Hiss, defender of their boss Stalin, defender of Mao, defender of Castro and now defender of Islamic terrorists. But The Nation is only the tip of an iceberg. The fifth column formed out of the unholy alliance between radical Islam and the American left is now entrenched in the White House and throughout our government. And in matters like the Muslim jihadist Major Hasan our military is its captive.
The Fort Hood massacre is the first of the preventable atrocities we have been warning about on our websites since 9/11 — the atrocities which are apparently necessary for Americans to wake up to the threat that confronts us. We have a vast internal threat in this country in the form of this unholy alliance between the anti-American Left and radical Islam — whose Muslim Brotherhood network extends through our universities, our government and our military. It is "politically incorrect" to recognize this fact. You can be barred — as I have been — from speaking at universities for even talking about it. The embargo of discussion of the Islamo-fascist threat puts every American (including the infidel collaborators) at risk. Hasan had semi-automatic weapons. But they weren't nuclear. That possibility is just around the corner unless we undergo a sea change in our attitudes and marshal the intelligence and the courage to recognize the threat.
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|Francisco Goya - 1746-1828
Everytime I visit Prado Museum in Madrid I tend to review the inexplicable Francisco Goya's (1746-1828) black paintings drawn on the walls of "Quinta del Sordo", where the painter lived between 1819-23. "Quinta del Sordo" was a country villa with farmland which stood on the Manzanares River banks on the outskirts of Madrid. Goya felt seriously hill after moving to this property and while recovering he decorated the walls of the main two rooms, on the ground and first floors, with mural paintings. Under these paintings, X-Rays showed that there were beautiful landscapes with bright colours and gentle countryside perspectives giving harmony and tranquility to the walls decoration. But over those peaceful paintings Goya felt the need to full all walls with black and terrifying paintings which inevitably shocks everyone who stands for a while looking at such a dark art made with such strong anger and deep outbreak nonconforming feelings. The compositions are enigmatic but it's commonly accept among art critics that undoubtly evil, terror, ignorance and death surely underlyed on Goya's motivations.
One of the paintings that puzzles me the most is the terrifying "Saturn devouring his Son". The strong image, which inevitably creates us a feeling of strangeness is empowered by the exaggeration of gesture and attitude, making us wonder how can a father project over his son such a demoniac anger reaching to the point of wanting to kill him in the most desperate way, by ripping him apart, peace by peace, so that nothing could be left to tell about his existence.
The image of a father killing his son, even if we are looking at Titans, has the power to makes us feel terribly anguish and perplex raising immediate questions to find answers for such an unjustifiable act. What could possibly have lead to such a desperate situation? Various interpretations have been forward but two of them have been credited as the most viable. On one hand critics say that the painting is related with Goya's inner conflicts between youth and old age and the disappearance of his main faculties due to aging specially those related with sexual abilities and impotence.
Goya expressed himself on those walls with total freedom letting reveal only to himself a tormented and a disturbed character which certainly was not meant to be exposed to the public.
Subsequent to Goy's death, these surrealistic paintings were removed from the villa's walls and transferred to canvas. After being restored, on the 19 century, they were publicly exihibited at Prado Museum perplexing visitors since then and having a major effect, as a starting point, for several later art movements like Surrealism and Expressionism.


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SACRAMENTO -- As leader of the California Assembly, Speaker Fabian Nunez has traveled the world in luxury, paying with campaign funds for visits to some of the finest hotels and restaurants and for purchases at high-end retailers such as Louis Vuitton in Paris.
It is not clear how these activities have related to legislative business, as state law requires, because the Los Angeles Democrat refuses to provide details on tens of thousands of dollars in such expenditures.
The spending, listed in mandatory filings with the state, includes $47,412 on United, Lufthansa and Air France airlines this year; $8,745 at the exclusive Hotel Arts in Barcelona, Spain; $5,149 for a "meeting" at Cave L'Avant Garde, a wine seller in the Bordeaux region of France; a total of $2,562 for two "office expenses" at Vuitton, two years apart; and $1,795 for a "meeting" at Le Grand Colbert, a venerable Parisian restaurant.
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Monday, November 28, 2011
Howl's Moving Castle
by Diana Wynne Jones
I wanted to read this book because I saw the animated version and fell in love. The movie was full of sweet, lighthearted characters and intriguing magic. I had high hopes for this book, and it exceeded them.
Diana Wynne Jones's writing is direct and agreeable. She starts out with the classic Cinderella structure: protagonist, two sisters, dead father, stepmother, magic, and then throws everything on its head by declaring that the two sisters are lovely and kind, and the stepmother treats all the daughters the same. So, we have the basic structure of Howl's Moving Castle: a Cinderella story, but not. Instead of falling in love with a handsome prince, Sophie falls for the selfish and vain wizard Howl, who's only redeeming characteristic appears to be that he under-charges poor people for his spells (naturally, he over-charges the rich).
Unlike the Perrault version of Cinderella, where the fairy godmother saves the day, Howl's Moving Castle has a Grimm brothers' protagonist: a clever woman. But Jones goes even father than the Grimms did; where the Grimm Cinderella is aided by nature, Sophie has to figure things out on her own. So, Howl's Moving Castle tackles the idea of taking responsibility for your own actions and your own life. It contends that we all choose the course of our lives and shape them the way we want, regardless of circumstances. It's within each individual's power to find joy or sorrow, no matter what obstacles life (or witches) throw in their way.
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Genre: young adult fantasy
Format: hardcopy
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