causes. Hygiene‚ simple and complex medicines‚ and functions of parts of the body are also covered. The Canon agrees with Aristotle (and disagrees with Hippocrates) that tuberculosis was contagious‚ a fact which was not universally accepted in Europe until centuries later. It also describes the symptoms and complications of diabetes. Both forms of facial paralysis were described in-depth. The Canon of Medicine discussed how to effectively test new medicines: • The drug must be free from any extraneous
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Work : Essays : Politics and the English Language (May 1945) Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way‚ but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it. Our civilization is decadent and our language -- so the argument runs -- must inevitably share in the general collapse. It follows that any struggle against the abuse of language is a sentimental archaism‚ like preferring candles to electric light or
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topos – a location in time and space’. So‚ instead of frustrating ourselves by imagining a utopia which never comes‚ our humanities have been writing dystopian fictions since the ancient times. One of them is Nineteen-eighty-four written by George Orwell. This work has been the main inspiration for most of contemporary dystopian fictions or novels. Also‚ the second one‚ ‘the Snow Piercer’ directed by Bong Jun Ho is the seminal dystopian film
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“Animal Farm”‚ by George Orwell‚ is an allegorical novella based on the Russian Revolution. It is a story where animals on the farm begin a revolution in order to be treated equally. They exile the farmer to be free of his control so that the working class animals could benefit from their labour. However‚ the pigs took over the farm and‚ before too long‚ the farm returned to its original form‚ controlled by a “human-like” dictator. “Animal Farm” foregrounds many different themes associated with the
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In the article ‘Shooting an Elephant’ by George Orwell‚ the word ‘hollowness’ is an abstract noun because it is intangible and encompasses human states of mind. In my opinion‚ the word ‘hollowness’ has two meanings. Firstly‚ it refers to absence of certain components of an object‚ making the object vacant or empty. Secondly‚ it can mean one’s emotion: the feeling one has after he or she worked vainly. The writer worked as a police officer under the British Empire in Burma‚ where he was hated by
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In this essay‚ I will be discussing my personal opinion on Animal Farm by George Orwell. In this novel a community of farm animals revolt against their farmer‚ Mr. Jones. They take ownership of the property where they attempt to farm themselves and embark on a huge project to build a windmill in order to cut down labour. The farm animals led by Napoleon take on a slogan: “four legs good‚ two legs bad‚” but as their rebellion becomes corrupted and the pigs power overcomes them this motto is no longer
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as they please on their own accord. Throughout the books progression we see how these children live up to the standards set upon them by the situation that they find themselves in. A fantastic quote that can be held in relation to the book is from George Orwell’s A Collection of Essays‚ saying‚ “Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.” The rules and stigmas along with social norms of life change depending upon the situation that we find ourselves
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Animal Farm is an allegorical novella by George Orwell‚ also known as Eric Blare. The events correspond and represent the Russian Revolution and when Joseph Stalin was ruling the Soviet Union in the 1900s. The characters of the pigs in Animal Farm would represent Stalin and his helpers and the other animals would represent his followers/believers. The pigs become leaders by manipulating and controlling other animals to form a dictatorship of the now followers‚ through acts of lying and influencing
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In the story Animal Farm by George Orwell uses allegory to show a communist society shifting to dictatorship and showing how it upsets people along they way. The author uses allegory to support his story by using farm animals going through a rough time finding out how their " government works" and settling the situation. The story starts off with the animals upset with the farm owner due to them being treated unfairly. The animals have these seven commandments they go by " whatever
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allowed Cuba to flourish‚ making it an important stage in the Cold War. Cuba withdrew from the war after the Cuban Missile Crisis‚ but it remains communist to this day. Although some say it is not the same‚ communist Cuba resembles the government in George Orwell’s 1984‚ because of its authoritarian policies and history. In both Cuba and 1984‚
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