Tsvangirai: When Misfortune Forces Lords to Appreciate the Servants Some years ago‚ the thought of the opposition leader of the Zimbabwean MDC-T party‚ Morgan Tsvangirai invoked fear‚ respect‚ invincibility…. and indeed‚ hopes for a new Zimbabwe. He was the epitome of a fresh start from a 34year old uninterrupted and often controversial rule of the ZANU-PF under the iron fist of 90 year old President Robert Gabriel Mugabe. Morgan Tsvangirai was‚ indeed‚ the untouchable darling and the anointed choice
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Life as an Elemental has never been easy. You live your life the first seventeen years unknowing. Then you have your reveal‚ changing your whole life. Maybe you’re a shaker (earth)‚ thrower (water)‚ torcher (fire) or a rider (wind). Depending on where you are born decides what element you will be able to control. The people from Nereidium are most likely to be a thrower‚ where from the Clavish area are torchers. It says that you cannot escape your past‚ and never give up the place you were born.
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Society as a whole has been oppressed without knowing by the idea of “doublethink”. This emerges as an important consequence of The Party’s massive campaign of large-scale psychological manipulation. Simply put‚ doublethink is the ability to hold two contradictory ideas in one’s mind at the same time. As The Party’s mind-control techniques break down an individual’s capacity for independent thought‚ it becomes possible for that individual to believe anything that The Party tells them‚ even while
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In the novel‚ 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley are both about dystopian societies where the government is corrupted. Both novels are similar due to both conveying the government as corrupted in a satirical way. Also‚ both books purposes are to portray the possibility‚ to what might happen to a society where a government has too much power‚ and how far the government will go to maintain total control and totalitarianism. Both novels also convey gender roles where women are
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Winston Smith‚ the main character of the novel 1984 believes a society based on hate would disintegrate‚ however a hateful society has been proven to last when humans betray one another. Winston along with his lover Julia falsely admitted to several crimes such as the assassination of party members‚ being religious believers‚ and many more because they knew that punishment would be inevitable. Before liberation they were both about to be tortured in Room 101‚ but were instead released due to the
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Ready Player One takes on character development with the gender issues in virtual reality game‚ OASIS. Characters are more likely developed in the virtual game; however‚ once the characters enter the real world‚ few of them face the different side of their identity. Gender issues directly connected to our society and the development of the characters in the novel. Therefore‚ the real version of the main characters‚ Wade‚ Aech‚ and Art3mis are greatly different from their avatars and they all differently
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Imagine a whole person’s existence erased. Picture years’ worth of memories‚ feelings‚ and thoughts vaporized from everyone’s minds. Visualize a new world‚ now with one less person that supposedly never existed. This idea of vaporization‚ or complete destruction of an entire person from living memory‚ is a significant part of George Orwell’s novel 1984. In the novel‚ a dystopian society exists where people are convicted of having their own free thoughts and opinions. The main character‚ Winston Smith
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Within the novella Anthem the author‚ Ayn Rand‚ forges a government based upon a puppet master council that controls the inhabitants of a postwar dystopian world. This council dehumanizes their people from birth with no individualism in the sleeping quarters‚ being locked in the cellar for fighting‚ and indoctrinating “We are nothing and mankind is all” (Rand 21). As a result of the dehumanization‚ technology and scientific advancements halt and anything revolutionary to the society to vanish. Inside
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1984 is a dystopian novel written by English author George Orwell that was published in the June of 1949. Although George Orwell himself called his novel a parody‚ not many consider it to be one. I believe that Orwell’s novel 1984 fits into the category of dystopian fiction and parody. Utopian fiction is the creation of an ideal society while dystopian fiction is the creation of a terrible or tainted society that is generally headed to an irreparable oblivion (dystopia). Unlike a Utopian novel in
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Totalitarianism‚ a form of government that has absolute authority over all aspects of its citizen’s public and private lives. Media persistently regulated to convey that those in power are great and always right‚ citizens are closely monitored to identify any form of rebelliousness; propaganda is plentiful and a police state is held to oppress and instill a sense of powerlessness in people who dare think of fighting back. A single party is in power and has no competition‚ and is never challenged
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