Prompt: ‘We cannot always be ourselves in the company of others’ Statement of Intention This expository piece draws upon the context ‘Identity and Belonging’ in conjunction with personal memoirs from Alice Pung’s ‘Growing up Asian in Australia’. The purpose of this piece is to explore and invite my audience to experience what it is like to be the subject of isolation due to differences in appearance‚ language and culture and to point out the internal struggles people have while trying to discover
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Malú Buil Think Piece Identify There’s a disorder called mythomaniac disorder that’s when people go on lying forever until they are indeed living in a lie. These people actually believe the lies they say. Sometimes when I listen to a song that has nothing to do with my life I adapt it to my life and get really angry if the singer is feeling that way or romantic if that’s the case. It happens to me so often that I thought that I was somehow a mythomaniac‚ but just lying to myself not to the world
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in anything. Through the eyes of Winston‚ the protagonist in 1984‚ we observe the forces used for the government to retain its complete power over the people. The government almost diminished free thought of the people‚ has destroyed any means of building relationships‚ and utilized fear to make sure everyone would stay true to Big Brother. In such a dystopian society it may only take one person to overcome such obstacles‚ or so we thought. Orwell designed 1984 to warn his readers about the grave
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A Piece of String Guy de Maupassant It was just midnight. Somewhere near the center of a cloud of tobacco smoke‚ which hovered over one corner of the long editorial room‚ Hutchinson Hatch‚ reporter‚ was writing. The rapid click-click of his type writer went on and on‚ broken only when he laid aside one sheet to put in another. The finished pages were seized upon one at a time by an office boy and rushed off to the city editor. That astute person glanced at them for information and sent them on
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Winston Churchill in World War II Winston Churchill was made Prime Minster of Great Britain on May 10‚ 1940. Historians have analyzed Churchill’s impact on the Second World War‚ especially from his appointment in 1940 until 1941. This period of the war is seen as being a crucial time for Britain‚ a time when they had to fight the war alone against Germany. Churchill’s appointment was not well received by everyone‚ as many people were unsure of his ability. However‚ for Churchill‚ he was waiting
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Winston Churchill was very charismatic‚ and as a result of that had great people-skills and became very popular with the British affected by the bombs dropped during WWII. He was also very smart and intelligent‚ as many people who suffer from depression are. He had many great characteristics that helped Great Britain win the war against the Nazis- great military and political skills‚ high ambition‚ and many other things. Without his leadership‚ Britain might have not beaten the Nazis. First‚ Winston
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The world around us is just like the book 1984 by the despair‚ people losing their human qualities and becoming soulless automotrons. So these are the examples of these terrible things in our world. The despair in the book 1984 by George Orwell starts with the Winston being tortured in room 101 with a rat and electric shock therapy that only hurt and scared Winston while also trying to brainwash Winston to love Big Brother meaning the government. In the real world the government doesn’t make there
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Through the study of intertextual perspectives‚ the relationship between context and key values can become clearer. The personal and historical context of an author can lead them to write about important values of that time. The novel‚ 1984 by George Orwell‚ is a dystopian text about an oppressive government that controls the citizens every movement. George Orwell was inspired to write by the totalitarian regimes of his time such as Hitler and Stalin. He also wrote with his Democratic Socialist views
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DIARY ENTRY Lennie after Crushing Curleys Hand October 9th 2012 I done a bad ting..... I really bad ting! Why’d I have to do it! I know George already told me it ain’ my fault but why’d I have to do it! I disappointed ’im‚ I know I did! I don’t wan’a’ make George sad. No never. George never makes me sad on purpose. Sometimes he tells me his life would have been better without me. He tells me he could have been goin’ to cat houses every night but he tells me he doesn’ mean it. He always says
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are closely examined by the government. In George Orwell’s novel 1984 Winston Smith’s feelings of rebellion for an escape of “Big Brother’s” watchful eye jeopardizes his life and satisfied intimate relationship with Julia. An individual’s responsibility to society is to pursue happiness for them and others to the best of their ability despite the consequences. Throughout many months Julia spent her days and nights observing Winston Smith only to formulate a plan; one that would define their fate
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