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    Shaped by Fear : How George Orwell Used Fear in Prophesizing the Future “War is peace‚ Freedom is slavery‚ Ignorance is strength‚” (Orwell 6). George Orwell the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four‚ heavily influenced by the events of World War Two used these slogans in his prediction of what the world could become. Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel set in a dystopian society however‚ to be understood one needs to fully examine world history during the 1900’s. By examining this history one begins to understand

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    Crooks Room

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    Steinbeck mentions many different items in Crook’s room‚ including a ‘’long box filled with straw’’. This item could represent crooks in many ways. Firstly‚ the use of the noun ‘’BOX’’ suggests he doesn’t own a bed which could actually leads the reader thinking he is devalued within the ranch. This implies he was treated like an animal in the barn with the animals because he has to sleep in the box which is so uncomfortable. He doesn’t have the quality of life. Secondly‚ the use of the word ‘’STRAW’’

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    The Upstairs Room This book is about a Jewish girl named Annie. Her life completely changed around 1941. When Hitler had started to do the bad things to the Jewish. She had two sisters‚ Rachael and Sini. They lived in Winterswijk. They weren’t safe living there‚ so they moved to the woods. Their mother was sick‚ so she didn’t want to go to America. She ended up in the hospital. But she died a week before they were taking Jewish people from the hospitals. The Germans wanted more people

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    Essay Question #2: In “A Room of Ones Own” by Virginia Wolf‚ this is where I started to think about domestic unease. To think about the inequality between men and women of the time‚ you would have to also imagine how this idea of a woman not being looked as equal to her husband could cause domestic unease. Virginia Wolf does a great job painting that picture for us when we imagine if Shakespeare had a sister. Here is a young lady who is married off young‚ ran away‚ attempts to become an actress

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    Doris Lessing’s On Not Winning the Nobel Prize (2007) and Margaret Atwood’s Spotty-Handed Villainesses (1994) are both worthy speeches because they evoke a personal response in their intended audience and offer solutions to complex global issues. These issues are complex because they do not have a clear answer and hence‚ remains a controversial topic and reverberates across time. Therefore‚ the solutions offered by these speeches also resonates beyond the contextual audience and holds value for the

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    secretly in the room‚ there are many levels of trust and bonds between the two. They control the present in their own hands‚ as Winston and Julia are free to do as they please in the secrecy of their room. Furthermore‚ Winston goes to say that “the paperweight was the room that he was in‚ and the coral was Julia’s life and his own‚ fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal‚” which suggests how the paperweight is an exact representation of their relationship and the room they spend their

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    Who are you? Who are you as a person? A friend? We all struggle with the idea of identity. And in Peter Houghton’s case‚ he tried figuring out his. Nineteen Minutes tells the tragic story of parents’ and students’ worst nightmare: school shootings. Following an array of characters‚ the book shows the emotions and thoughts that run through their heads–pulling you to think deeper into each situation. At Sterlington High School‚ Peter Houghton killed ten students and injured nine others. We learn that

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    A Marxist Analysis of Nineteen Eighty-Four When reading George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four from a Marxist perspective‚ one can see various classic Marxist themes in the narrative. It describes a society called Oceania which lacks equality among its citizens‚ who are oppressed by their dictator leader known as Big Brother and are stuck in very defined social classes. The main character‚ Winston shows potential for resistance against this injustice‚ yet he never manages to spark a revolution

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    NO ROOM AT THE TOP I. POINT OF VIEW The point of view of the Lewis Latimer was chosen because he is the Supervisor of the Special Test Operations. Mr. Latimer has a better understanding about the problem as well as the possible solutions to address them. II. ANALYSIS OF THE CASE SITUATION A. Macro Environment Analysis Technology. Electronic calculators are highly dependent in a rapidly changing environment of electronic technology. B. Industry Environment Analysis Customers. Because

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    Paragraph Response Rebellion against higher authority has a big influence on the thoughts and actions of the two main characters in George Orwell’s novel‚ “Nineteen Eighty-Four”. The main characters‚ Winston and Julia‚ both get pleasure in rebelling because of the harsh oppression that their government institutes. Winston and Julia both rebel‚ but to different extents. Winston risks everything in his life while rebelling‚ because he is desperate to know why the government‚ also known as ’The Party’

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