preferred medium of information‚ America was submerged in a culture dominated by the influence of the printed word. As Neil Postman writes in Amusing Ourselves to Death‚ in the chapters “Typographic America” and “The Typographic Mind”‚ he explores the influence of a print-based culture in the realms of education‚ religion‚ and politics. First‚ look at the importance Postman places at school and the literacy levels of Colonial America. Over time‚ the printing press had allowed the ordinary man
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I: General Introduction II: Biography III: George Orwell is distinguished as one of the most influential writers to the English Culture in the 20th century. Notorious for having written satirical fiction and societal criticism‚ Orwell is best known for his works of Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949). Within his novels Orwell echoes the presence of a struggle for freedom in a society that refuses it‚ the similarities of the characters‚ and a reoccurring theme of a fear of corruption of power
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literature could be containing of many ideas that probably take an advantage to develop a certain social attitude even to arouse a certain social event (damono‚ 1979:2).. The object of this research is book‚ "nineteen eighty-four" by george orwell. the author tries to give the view about dystopia with different kinds of repressive social control systems‚ and various
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George Orwell Antisemitism in Britain There are about 400‚000 known Jews in Britain‚ and in addition some thousands or‚ at most‚ scores of thousands of Jewish refugees who have entered the country from 1934 onwards. The Jewish population is almost entirely concentrated in half a dozen big towns and is mostly employed in the food‚ clothing and furniture trades. A few of the big monopolies‚ such as the ICI‚ one or two leading newspapers and at least one big chain of department stores are Jewish-owned
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What is music? I don’t know I think it’s something that we listen to relax our minds from the harsh realities and troubles which we find in our day-to-day time. When I read the quote from by Huxley‚ I totally agree with his thoughts on music. Music is just a temporary solution to your problem. By forgetting your problem‚ it makes it even worse. Therefore‚ I agree with his point. We live in twenty first century a world that is so busy and fast. Music Industry plays a great role in people’s lives.
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Good evening I’m Philip Coastal. Today’s top story‚ a man robbing a bank wanted the police to assist him. That’s right the Fidelity bank in Huxley is nothing more than a friendly place to store your hard earned money. But today at 12:37pm‚ an unidentified man had walked into the bank shooting the ceiling and eventually the cameras. Police were quickly on the scene and had to shut down part of the highway. With a sawn off 12 gauge shotgun in his hand‚ the man had hostages and made some outrageous
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George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair or better known as George Orwell was an English journalist and novelist‚ whom was born on the 25th of June 1903. George Orwell had spent his school years at St Cyprian’s School‚ Eastbourne. Blair hated it there; he could not wait till the day he was rid of that school. George was a Socialist; The Spanish Civil War played the most important part in defining Orwell’s socialism because it made him fight for what he loved‚ beauty. During most of his career‚ Orwell was best
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spies such as "Hitler Youth"‚ used in Nazi Germany. This group gave children of Oceania and of Nazi Germany a whole hearted patriotism to guide them by monitoring their parent’s behaviors to prevent any disloyalty to the party and to the 3rd Reich. Orwell also was inspired to use Hitler’s Gestapo and SS as the "thought police" to prevent and then enforce strict obedience to the government. The use of propaganda has proven to be the most effective method of gaining control over a vast majority of the
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In the speech “Informing Ourselves to Death” given by Neil Postman‚ he talks about the danger of computer technology that people are not aware of. Firstly‚ the speaker gives explanation of two characteristics of new technologies‚ including computer technology. One that he claims is that every technology has both positive and negative impacts on people‚ and “sometimes‚ it [a new technology] destroys more than it creates” (Postman 1). The other is that a new technology makes difference between those
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I think the nature of poetry is to convey the concept to others‚ who might change their belief by reading the poetry. In fact‚ a small poetry really possesses the immense power‚ which can exist for a long time even after the death of the poet. For example‚ the great poet Neruda had created lots of poetry in his life. And no matter the poetry is for expressing the love or for transmitting the ideology‚ the influence he made can still be seen nowadays even after his death. In this movie‚ we audience
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