Parallels Between Muammar Gaddafi’s Regime and 1984 George Orwell‚ author of the modern classic 1984‚ wrote about the politics of his own era and prophesized a dystopian future in his novels. Some of his predications have proved to be terrifyingly accurate in describing some of the world’s nations after the year 1949. The North African country of Libya‚ for example‚ has recently been freed from the long‚ totalitarian rule of Muammar Gaddafi. Libya is now recovering from Gaddafi’s policies that kept
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and‚ therefore; the future. Big brother controls the present. The slogan is an example of the Party’s technique of using false history to deteriorate the psychological independence of its people. "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four." This quote adds to the motif/ theme about psychological freedom and independence. "In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five‚ and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later:
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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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Since this presentation should be related to the specific part of the journalism‚ the newspaper journalism‚ I decided that it would be suitable to present a story‚ showing how the journalism can change‚ manipulate and have serious impact on the society as well as on the stability of the country itself. A story‚ how a single article can save people from life time of imprisonment and prove a government guilty. It happened on the treason conviction which took place in 1894 of Alfred Dreyfus‚ a artillery
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rocks falling into a pond. “Now don’t panic‚ medication and other medical practices can cure this problem. There is not much time left‚ though. She is in a critical stage.” But we could not do anything. With only small income and having to feed four of us‚ hardly any money was left for the treatment. Julieta became more unwell as days passed. As I sat next to her and watched her suffering‚ it pierced my heart with an arrow. I started looking for jobs for some more income. Due to my lack of experience
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Devy then confronts the official terror imposed on the dialects‚ the violence inflicted on them by linguistic theory and the state‚ as a suppressor of dialects. Devy realizes that a sorority of bhasha as a cognitive domain‚ as a theory of survival places a different demand on cognitive politics. Neither Romanticism nor the pragmatic necessities of ethno-botany will be sufficient. To create a Rousseauian theory of education will appear too split. The equation‚ the sibling ship between primitive and
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The book ‘The Animal Farm’ is a cleverly written book by George Orwell‚ which was first published in 1945. The time in which the book’s happenings play is not very specific‚ but can be concluded to the early 20th century in a farm house of rural England. In this book George Orwell describes the negative sides of communism by using different animals on a farm to substitute the different ranks and positions of people in a communist country. This fictional story features quite a few main characters
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World‚ modern society abuses Native Americans. The New York Times wrote that “American Indians are more likely than any other racial group to be killed by the police”. The New York Times also wrote that “adolescent [Native] women have suicide rates four times the rate of white women in the same age group”. American Indians are not being treated as equals. The fact that Natives are more likely to be killed by the police‚ who are supposed to protect‚ is outrageous. Their race is being targeted or it
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first article by George Orwell is out of his book of 50 essays entitled “ Politics and the English Language.” George Orwell is an English journalist and novelist‚ who wrote such famous books as 1984 and Animal Farm. His article begins by talking about four parts of writing that are misused in the English language. The first topic discussed is dying metaphors. Orwell says‚ “A newly-invented metaphor assists thought by evoking a visual image‚ while on the other hand a metaphor which is technically "dead"
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“A fairy story with farmyard creatures has nothing to teach a modern audience” Discuss. Over the time frame of sixty- six years ago‚ today many people are keener on reading books from a wider variety of genres‚ when referring to George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”. It is as important today as it was when first published as we can experience the lives of people and animals during that period of time. This can be portrayed in many ways such‚ as how a history of a revolution that went wrong‚ how the seven
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