William Shakespeare‚ took place in the 1500’s. The play is about two feuding families‚ the Capulets and Montagues‚ daughter and son who fall in love at first sight. In the end‚ Romeo and Juliet take their lives because their love was destroyed by their families hatred towards each other. In this story‚ Shakespeare uses a proliferate amount of irony to show that love is a strong bond that can bring peace and defeat enemy feuding. Shakespeare’s play is full of irony: dramatic‚ situational‚ and verbal.
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George Orwell Antisemitism in Britain There are about 400‚000 known Jews in Britain‚ and in addition some thousands or‚ at most‚ scores of thousands of Jewish refugees who have entered the country from 1934 onwards. The Jewish population is almost entirely concentrated in half a dozen big towns and is mostly employed in the food‚ clothing and furniture trades. A few of the big monopolies‚ such as the ICI‚ one or two leading newspapers and at least one big chain of department stores are Jewish-owned
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English 2 Honors 11 August 2014 Existing Themes of 1984 and the Relevant World The world created by George Orwell in the book 1984 is an extreme vision of a totalitarian government in a dystopian society. The use of propaganda‚ surveillance‚ and strict conformities keep the citizens in check. George Orwell’s Oceania is a complete representation of a totalitarian society. A dystopian society is a futuristic‚ imagined universe in which oppressive societal control and illusion of a perfect society
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friends acted. “Sue says she wishes she had listened to him more carefully in the years preceding the shooting. She wonders what questions she could have asked that might have encouraged her son to open up about whatever he was feeling‚”(Strasser). People assumed causes for the disaster such as violent movies‚ violent games‚ bullying‚ and gangs. Since the Columbine disaster more and more school shootings have happened. “The hallways erupted in screaming‚ terror-stricken pandemonium as students realised
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Animal Farm was written by George Orwell to convey his opinion of certain political structures and their very simple but fatal flaws. It is the story of a rebellion fueled by endless hope and idealistic dreams of freedom and equality. It is also a mocking commentary upon the lives of men and their generic lust for power and prosperity. Within the story each of the characters has certain metaphorical representations to the political system’s of reality. Boxer a pseudonym of the working class; Mr Jones
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where he became one of six vice presidents‚ and was one of three possible people to take the President’s chair. Within the essay “The Company Man” written by Goodman‚ demonstrates a critically detached attitude towards Phil using repetition‚ and situational irony. While the story progresses the author makes it very clear that the protagonist had a choice through the repetitive use of certain phrases explaining the narrator’s attitude. The beginning started with the phrase‚
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Eddy the Elephant Eddy the Elephant was a very young and very eccentric Elephant. He was wild‚ fast paced‚ and crazy. He was tough; he did not think he was afraid of anything! No Cheetah‚ Lion‚ or Tiger could scare him. Until one day Eddy had to go to the doctor. This terrified tough Eddy. Maybe it was the needles‚ or maybe it was the sickness in the air. However‚ something sure did make Eddy afraid of the doctor. One beautiful day Eddy and his friends Kody Kangaroo‚ and Fred Flamingo were
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In “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway‚ a couple indirectly talks about whether or not they should have an abortion. Both of the partners are very vague in talking about their opinion on the situation. In Hills like White Elephants‚ Hemingway uses symbolism of the hills‚ it and white elephants to help explain the couple’s opinion on the baby and the situation. Instead of calling the unborn child a baby or saying the Jig is getting an abortion‚ Hawthorne uses “it” to explicate the unimportance
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who worked in a pizza parlor together. They were involved in sports in middle school but not in high school. Dylan and Eric were part of a group of kids that dressed Goth. Other kids considered them “uncool”. They had been planning the Columbine shooting for almost a year. We sometimes try to look for someone to blame. In this case more than one person could have contributed to these actions. Dylan and Eric’s parents could have payed more attention to how they were acting‚ looked in their room
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1984 Analysis (#2) In 1984‚ George Orwell writes about a hypothetical society ruled by a totalitarian government that seeks out to ensure a uniformly mind-setted population. Winton Smith‚ the protagonist of the story‚ happens to be a member of the outer-party‚ the party in which is victimized by the government’s control. Restricted and monitored with every distinct action throughout an ordinary day‚ Winston is mentally as well as physically conditioned to meet the standardized conditions set by
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