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    Essay Describe how artists use symbols in the construction of meaning in their artwork. Artists use symbols in different ways in their works to define their true feelings and to illustrate ideas and experiences. The three artists I will use to demonstrate how symbols can be used to gain different meanings are‚ Joseph Cornell‚ Salvador Dali and Rosalie Gascoigne. Cornell uses symbols to represent his fantasies and dreams‚ Dali also uses surrealist symbols to represent his desires and dreams

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    can go wrong. Instagram for an example is a big social media website that affects in multiple way. Instagram affects us by lowering our self-esteem‚ how we communicate with people‚ and cyberbullying. Instagram always has these high expectations about how someone should look. People post pictures about how they think they should look‚ not how they really look. Society puts these expectations on both men and women about how we should be skinny‚ pretty‚ and perfect. Our self-esteem is a precious thing

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    1984 By George Orwell

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    1984” “War is peace‚ Freedom is slavery ‚ Ignorance is strength.” Having an enemy keeps people united‚ Men who are independent are doomed to fail‚ Men who are subjected to the collective will are free from danger. No society can be perfect‚ love and hate between people always seems to be present because that makes people humans. The party slogan in the 1984 by George Orwell appropriately uses; “War is peace “ because people act united with each other being enemies than while being friends. Humans

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    1984 By George Orwell

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    George Orwell’s book 1984 was not a prophecy but a warning to future generations that their basic rights and liberties as guaranteed by our constitution are both fragile and are worth protecting from the state (Big Brother). Our government uses media and threats of violence in order for the masses to volunteer to give their rights away in the guise of safety. Government manipulates the media and controls the history of the world because they are in control of the present and thus control the reality

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    totalitarianism are explored in George Orwell’s “1984” when his nightmare vision of the future is created through a tyrannical government‚ controlling the past‚ future and everything else. The effects of totalitarianism are explored in George Orwell’s “1984” when the concept of hope is portrayed as both sustaining and misleading. Orwell utilises symbolism‚ setting‚ tone and metaphors to convey the variances of hope. Through these techniques‚ Orwell successfully exposes the two-sided nature of hope

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    Orwell‚ Freud‚ and 1984 Paul Roazen George Orwell and Sigmund Freud seem mutually uncongenial figures in intellectual history. In print Orwell rarely referred to the founder of psychoanalysis. According to his friend Geoffrey Gorer‚ Orwell regarded psychoanalysis with mild hostility‚ putting it somewhat on a par with Christian Science. Another friend‚ Sir Richard Rees‚ had no recollection of Orwell’s ever once mentioning Freud’s name‚ and considered this an aspect of Orwell’s "psychological

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    artifacts from the past are destroyed‚ and if every individual’s memory of the past is distorted‚ the past no longer exists. Throughout 1984 by George Orwell‚ it is evident that the past cannot exist if nobody remembers it‚ which further proves that the Party has complete control over its people. In the novel‚ Winston works at the Ministry of Truth‚ and his job is to rewrite what has occurred in the past in order to fit the Party’s narrative. Winston remarks to Julia that he knows‚ “of course‚ that the past

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    Do you think you can be brainwashed? Most people will tell you that they could not be brainwashed or manipulated into doing something against their will‚ but in reality most of us can be convinced into doing something we would not normally do. George Orwell‚ in his novel “1984”‚ shows how mind power can influence people and society. The group that controls the mind power is known as the Party‚ and the state where this society lives is called Oceania. The only way the Party can maintain total power

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    María Fernanda Kuntzy 10A English Class Motif Theme Symbol What is it? Repetition of person‚ object or image. The context or message of the story. Object‚ person or image that What is its function? Helps us to understand the theme. Gives purpose to the story Represents an idea. Iciar Aldonza Cristina Prats Fernanda Kuntzy Our song: A goodbye to remember Turn around Say it loud. Face the rhythm of the night to say goodbye. Take your time to think about all the things we shared while

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    George Orwell wrote the dystopian novel 1984 in 1949 and‚ like other novels written by Orwell‚ holds a strong political message. Orwell’s disdain for communism and how it affects those under it was visceral and seems blatant with the story’s detail to the oppression and resistance of it by some characters. The story opens with the main character Winston Smith and his struggle with memory in the oppressive government known as Big Brother‚ then grows the line up with other main characters like Julia

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