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    nearing completion‚ an ideological reform movement is just a prelude to China. However‚ the scenes and predictions of the novel are still surprising to many readers‚ especially those who are still living in a totalitarian state today. The author is George Orwell; he mentioned a word many times in his book: "doublethink." It is not just in the novel that

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    are enveloped in their own free will. George Orwell’s well known dystopian fiction novel‚ 1984‚ and Minority Report directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Philip Dick are often placed side by side in comparison. Both fictional written adventures that broadcast the journey protagonist Winston Smith and John Anderton take to come to the conclusion that the idea of free will is virtually non-existent in their society. Winston Smith‚ the protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopian novel. He lives in

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    "Shooting an Elephant‚" by George Orwell is a first person view on living and working as a European police officer in Moulmein‚ Lower Burma. There was a bit of tension between the locals and the foreign law enforcement since the British had taken over the country‚ so Orwell was not thought fondly of. The climax of this essay was when a otherwise tame elephant starts rampaging because is had gone into "must" a term used on page 118 that means in heat. The owner loses track of the animal in the

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    George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were two important men who affected our nations independence and the beginning years of our country. They helped form this nation into a free and sovereign country. Yet‚ they were different in many aspects they shared a few common features. Both Washington and Jefferson grew up in the southern state of Virginia and like most owned land to grow and harvest crops. In growing up they came from two different class levels of living. The Jefferson family was

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    In George Orwell’s 1984‚ the world has been portrayed in a poverty-stricken dystopian society with three different nations waging a perpetual war. In the movie The Matrix directed by Lana Wachowski‚ the world is machine controlled. Humans are kept in a deep sleep‚ without realizing that their reality is false. They are similar because both depict the absolute control that a government has over its own people and the control over reality. They are different in that Winston’s true reality was eventually

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    refers to an issue regarding to asymmetric information possessed by the buyer and the seller of an product which produced to the market such as cars . The lemons problem was put forward in a 1970 research paper‚ "The Market for Lemons‚" written by George Akerlof‚ an economist and professor at the University of California‚ Berkeley. it is a corner stone of informational economics since then. The tag phrase identifying the problem came from the original example of used cars that Akerlof used to explain

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    susceptible to manipulation by corrupt officials and leaders. Many leaders use education as a method of spreading their opinions‚ which ultimately can result in biased beliefs. An example of this use of education is evident in the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell. The pigs in Animal Farm use education to assert their control over the other animals by uniting the animals with it‚ by using it to appear compassionate to the other animals‚ and by using education as a means of gathering further power

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    to own. Unlike woman‚ they show more interest in fashion‚ men usually are attracted to car or maybe motorcycle. Mans also spend most of their earnings onto cars. George Best‚ a former Irish professional football player‚ showed his interest in cars. “I spent a lot of money on birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered” stated George Best in a magazine interview. Louis C. K.‚ a famous stand-up comedian also had interest cars‚ “Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about”

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    1984 George Orwell‚ author of 1984‚ describes a world where anonymity is dead. He goes on to tell the reader that this idea of a world could possibly exist in the real world. This idea haunts readers throughout Orwell ’s novel. Orwell hopes that readers will leave 1984 believing the possibility of this world is real; enough to question government and tread cautiously into the future. Orwell intends to portray Oceania realistically enough to convince contemporary readers that such a society has‚

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    Audience Analysis The target audience for this summary and response writing exercise over George Orwell ’s Shooting An Elephant would be the other individuals and the instructor of this online English Composition course. The majority of my core audience‚ minus the instructor‚ should be my fellow college students taking this course. Other than stating that the others who will be reading this piece vary in age‚ ethnicity‚ and overall life experience; I would be hard pressed to further describe my

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