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    Good Thing Orwell The first article‚ Search Engine Agendas by Gary Anthes is based on how the internet can redirect your political views by giving pleasant or unpleasant‚ information or news on a platform you’re searching up. The author‚ Gary Anthes‚ is a technology writer and editor based in Arlington‚ Virginia therefore he is able to speak about this topic because of the research he implements into his written article. Right away in the first paragraph‚ Gary gives a summary of the main ideas of

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    life forms‚ humans would travel to an immense scale in order to gain complete control. Both George Orwell and Rachel Carson question the extent of human control and the negative impacts placed on various repressed lives. Eric Blair‚ also known as George Orwell‚ was a notable author who was prominent for his opposition against human injustice and the totalitarian systems. Before becoming a writer‚ Orwell was a youthful imperial policeman in India during the control of the British Raj. Throughout

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    In the novel “1984” the writer George Orwell uses rhetorical devices to build the main character’s role. Orwell throughout the novel uses multiple devices to develop Winston’s character. Although on pages 30 and 31‚ Orwell uses two rhetorical devices to develop Winston’s character‚ oxymoron and symbolism. “War is peace freedom is slavery ignorance is strength.” (Page 30) This is an oxymoron because those phrases make use of contradictory words. If you switch the phrases around‚ you will still be

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    exist. It turned into its opposite‚ which is a dystopia. It is an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad. Utopias become dystopia because perfect world is not that perfect like everybody expected. The “1984” by George Orwell show how the government can really works. This problem is not only in

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    St thomas high school | Control in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four | | | Olivia Magwood | 2/16/2010 | In many oligarchies‚ where the power of a society rests in the hands of a small elite group‚ the government claims absolute power and control over the population. Such is the case in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four‚ where the Party maintains control over Oceania and its people. The Party implements various tactics to influence the population‚ specifically through the control

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    George Orwell writes Shooting an Elephant with his experiences in Burma; so story is in Burma‚ Myanmar. Both Orwell uses his own experiences in past and he lives in the significant era of British in history‚ we see high rise at historical background in the story. Orwell prefers to indirect way to express his emotions using symbols. One of the main symbols is an elephant. The elephant symbolizes British Empire. The reason that Orwell chooses the elephant‚ the empire is powerful like an elephant. When

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    When people first read George Orwell’s critically acclaimed novel 1984‚ people wondered if there was a society that actually existed similar to the society in 1984. A lifestyle that didn’t allow people to have an opinion‚ freedom and kept them from knowing the truth. To some‚ 1984 seemed like an exaggeration and maybe it was but George Orwell was definitely on to something. 1984 follows the life of Winston Smith in the party-ruled city of Oceania. Winston is constantly under surveillance and lives

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    George Orwell’s Animal Farm … Led by the pigs‚ the animals overthrow the humans in order to end their misery and finally achieve true equality. They create a set of commandments called Animalism as a guide to govern Animal Farm. These commandments can be summarized by two main ideas: Man is the source of all evil and all animals are equal to one another. However‚ the gradual erosion of the animals’ rights from within their very ranks brings up doubt about whether true equality was achieved. Since

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    Dystopian America Shaina Spears St Georges Technical High School Abstract The dystopian novel‚ 1984 by George Orwell gives readers an insight into a frightening society‚ where authority figures are constantly watching you‚ waiting for you to make a mistake‚ and subsequently murdering you. My fear is that his predictions of future society will come true in America. The government is invading our privacy rights by controlling our cell phones unknowingly‚ through the National

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    The government ends up controlling everything hence a dictatorship government. “Syme had vanished… Syme had ceased to exist‚ he had never existed”(Orwell 147). This is what happened after the inner party had killed Syme‚ a man who worked in Research Department‚ just because he was too wise and intelligent and they could not risk all the information that he had going into the public. They erased all

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