ONE. INIZIO. Amongst the fallen it walks. A dense haze of dust renders the consequences indiscernible. Sirens resonate across the terrain‚ the summer breeze purifying the air. The indiscernible becomes the discernible‚ allowing it to enter the consequences. It passes through the fallen‚ gathering each man. Sandstone slips from her grasp and obliterates into a cloud which she splutters at and bats away with a bound hand. Hands sift through the charred wood‚ still ripe
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Doublethink Nineteen Eight-Four ‚ by George Orwell‚ is a story about a man named Winston Smith‚ a member of the Outer party‚ who lives in London‚ in a time when it is totalitarian society‚ which is led by Big Brother‚ who is constantly watching and surveillance its people. Big Brother controls and sensors everyones thoughts and behavior. They achieve this by public mind control‚ which is known as Doublethink. Doublethink is a term coined by Orwell‚ it means “the power of holding two contradictory
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Participating in this game gave me a deeper understanding of 1984. When it was first introduced to us in class‚ I thought it sounded interesting but I didn’t think it would be such a learning experiences. By the end it was clear that this game greatly helped me to comprehend the paranoia and distrust the Party Members feel in Oceania. The word I think best sums up this game is paranoia. If I caught myself not following a rule‚ for example writing with pencil in government‚ I would look around and
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names are even more useful than real names‚ especially towards writers. Authors use pen names because they want to conceal their gender‚ their pen name defied proper etiquette‚ and they want to hide their true identity. From Eric Blair‚ the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four‚ to Charles Dodgson‚ the writer of the fantasy world Alice in Wonderland‚ these authors used a pen name for these purposes. Moving right along‚ many people responds negatively towards a book depending on who exactly wrote it. A common
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| The Struggle Within | Jodi Picoult’s: The Pact | By Rayna Crawford | | | | “I can’t imagine loving someone so much you’d do anything they asked. Even if that happened to be murder.” (384) Murder is never acceptable‚ but in Jodi Picoult’s novel The Pact‚ Picoult explores ‘murder/suicide’ from a different point of view‚ love. Jodi Picoult discusses what happens when one is faced with an evil that is unfathomable and how one reacts doing things one did not considered before
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The novel showcases the role of technology in human life when the characters in the novel begin to praise a computer named EPICAC. Vonnegut later stated that the novel was heavily influenced by George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. He also called playwright George Bernard Shaw‚ “a hero of his” and attempted to mimic Robert Louis Stevenson’s stories . Throughout the 1900’s‚ the world of literature noticed an influx in postmodern
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If there were a school shooting how would you react? If you were a police officer and you got a radio call that said there were shots fired at the school what would you think? 19 minutes is about several children on there way to school thinking its going to be a normal day. They have a terrifying‚ dangerous‚ and unexpected surprise coming their way. The book 19 minutes tells the story of several kids on their way to school. Further in the book a policeman gets a call that says there have been
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Family Family is defined as unconditional love‚ unconditional help and less selfishness. Authors Jodi Picoult and Kim Edwards prove that this is not always true. Picoult the author of My Sisters Keeper argues that when an individual is affected by illness‚ family will do whatever it takes to save them because when a family falls apart one’s life shortly follows. Edwards argues a similar case in her novel The Memory Keepers Daughter that all it takes is one selfish act to change the direction of
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groundbreaking linguists and sociolinguists of the likes of Noam Chomsky‚ Ferdinand de Saussure and Benjamin Lee Whorf‚ this paper traces the origins of Orwell’s Problem by depicting the fictional sociolinguistic scenario presented in the classic Nineteen Eightyfour. A syntactic‚ morphological and semantic description of Orwell’s fictitious language‚ ‘Newspeak’ (which is here addressed from a deterministic perspective)‚ is followed by an analysis of the main social institutions found in the novel. Thereupon
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1984: Government’s Attempt to Control The Mind and Bodies of Its Citizens The novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is an American classic which explores the human mind when it comes to power‚ corruption‚ control‚ and the ultimate utopian society. Orwell indirectly proposes that power given to the government will ultimately become corrupt and they will attempt to force all to conform to their one set standard. He also sets forth the idea that the corrupted government will attempt to
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