1984 Reading Questions and “Writing” prompts Read each of the passages during class and answer the following numbered questions. What you do not finish will be homework. The questions that are not numbered will be used for discussion as an entire class. For each “Writing‚” record your response in the designated section of your notebook. Part One: I (p.1-20) 1. This society shows everything as thoroughly manipulated as possible. In the first sentence‚ what strikes you as wrong? In
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Physician Assisted Suicide Name HCA 322 Health Care Ethics & Medical Law Instructor Date Physician Assisted Suicide (Physician Assisted Suicide) also referred to as Physician Aid-in-dying (PAD) is practice in which a physician assist a terminally patient in the termination of his/her own life by prescribing a deadly/lethal medication. “The term physician aid-in-dying is used to describe the practice authorized under the Washington and Oregon Death with Dignity Acts….” Starks
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“The word style is originally derived from the Latin word ‘stylus’ which meant a short stick sharp at one end and flat at the other used by the Romans for writing on wax tablets”(Galperin 11). Nowadays the word “stylus” according to Oxford Advanced Learners Dictionary means “a special pen used to write a text or draw an image on a special computer screen.” We clearly see that the meaning of the word style has been changed greatly. According to Longman dictionary “style is a particular
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end up similar to the way society is in his work 1984. The novel is divided into three chapters‚ or books‚ each with multiple subunits‚ and these sections tell the story in chronological order. The book ends with an appendix on the principles of newspeak‚ the new language of Oceania. The novel follows Winston Smith’s experiences in London in 1984. Smith is a low-ranking member of “the Party‚” the all-controlling ruling entity of their county Oceania. The Party (represented by Big Brother) has telescreens
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Problems studying cognition : Use cognition to study cognition Introspection : Wudnt introspection of cognition When you look inward and make ideas‚ old school of psychology‚ describe what feeling from inside‚ not measurable; can’t just give accounts of feelings‚ not scientific Behaviorists : Know inputs/outputs (unknown between) Falls apart because the in between (behaviors) is unknown Definition of learning Types of learning: Classical‚ Operant‚ Modeling Classical conditioning
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Chapter 1 Questions Sections I-II 1. Describe Victory Mansions. Why is the name ironic? Victory Mansions‚ Winston’s home‚ is a smelly‚ run-down place with no electricity in the daytime and an inoperable elevatior. It is certainly no mansion. 2. Describe Winston Smith. Frail‚ blonde‚ 39‚ blue overalls‚ nervous‚ depressed 3. What kind of invasion of privacy exist in Oceania? The two-way telescreen‚ the Police Patrol swooping down in helicopters to peer in people’s windows‚ the constant fear
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Oh‚ to be in England THEODORE DALRYMPLE The Dystopian Imagination Autumn 2001 Why did the twentieth century produce so many—and such vivid—dystopias‚ works of fiction depicting not an ideal future but a future as terrible as could be imagined? After all‚ never had material progress been greater; never should man have felt himself freer of the anxieties that‚ with good reason‚ had beset him in the past. Famine had all but disappeared‚ except in civil wars or where regimes deliberately engineered
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Why Literature? The premature obituary of the book. By Mario Vargas Llosa It has often happened to me‚ at book fairs or in bookstores‚ that a gentleman approaches me and asks me for a signature. "It is for my wife‚ my young daughter‚ or my mother‚" he explains. "She is a great reader and loves literature." Immediately I ask: "And what about you? Don’t you like to read?" The answer is almost always the same: "Of course I like to read‚ but I am a very busy person." I have heard this explanation
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I finally came unhinged in the dentist’s office — one of those ritzy pediatric practices tricked out with comic books‚ DVDs and arcade games — where I’d taken my 3-year-old daughter for her first exam. Until then‚ I’d held my tongue. I’d smiled politely every time the supermarket-checkout clerk greeted her with “Hi‚ Princess”; ignored the waitress at our local breakfast joint who called the funny-face pancakes she ordered her “princess meal”; made no comment when the lady at Longs Drugs said‚ “I
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The Inquiry into the James Hardie transactions: whitewashing some very dirty linen The Inquiry is over‚ the heads of agreement are signed and the CEO is appropriately publicly contrite — the matter of the James Hardie Group’s attempt to distance itself from $1.5 billion tort liabilities seems to have been resolved to everyone’s reasonable satisfaction. Should we move on‚ consigning委托 the episode插曲 to the dustbin of understandings of the world’s inevitable moral turpitude不可避免的道德沦丧? If it were
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