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    LEGT 1710 BUSINESS AND THE LAW ASSIGNMENT 2: Semester 2‚ 2013 Length: 2000 words Worth: 20 Marks Due date: Monday 23 September 2013‚ by 5pm (See Course Outline Part A at para 4.4 for Submission Procedure) Winston operates a business‚ painting murals and other art works in offices and other commercial buildings. Over the past two years he has bought paint twice a month from Ron‚ a local paint manufacturer. Recently‚ Winston bought 100 cans of paint from Ron‚ which Winston then put in his storeroom

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    In the book Nineteen Eighty-Four the government is corrupted‚ people are being taken every day by the though police because people have thoughts about going against the government or writing in a journal about the government. In the film “V for Vendetta” the government is also corrupted. In the film V for Vendetta and the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four have a lot of similarities. Both the novel and the film are dystopias. In Nineteen Eighty-Four people are controlled by people of the inner party and

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    In Nineteen Eighty-Four‚ the Party embodies the collective mind and all members are forced to participate in communal activities. Winston‚ locked in loneliness‚ becomes a lunatic‚ a minority of one‚ the only man still capable of independent thought. He is “The Last Man in Europe” precisely because he adheres to the importance of the individual mind. Orwell shows that totalitarianism paradoxically intensifies solitude by forcing all the isolated beings into one overpowering system. “Much of Orwell’s

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    Cited: Orwell‚ James. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Fairfield‚ IA : 1st World Library‚ 2004

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    I am slow. Here is it. There must be a lot of grammar and vacabulary problems and a lot of misueses. I am poor at that. Welcome for any comments~ To write comments on Nineteen Eighty-four and Brave New World is difficult but intriguing‚ as there are so many differences as well as similarities between the two books. Nineteen Eighty-four describes a world full of hatred‚ horror and oppression‚ while Brave New World is about a world filled with love‚ enjoyment and desire. The two books are like

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    can be dangerous to totalitarian control. The critical essay “George Orwell and the Mad World: The Anti-Universe of 1984” by Ralph A. Ranald discusses the theme of controlled madness and of a reverse society in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ranald argues that Nineteen Eighty-Four is about “…religion reversed‚ law and government reversed‚ and above all‚ language reversed: not simply corrupted‚ but reversed” (Ranald 251). He refers to Winston as an “antihero” (Ranald 250)‚ and “implies the ability

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    Module A: Elective 2 Sample Response: Metropolis and Nineteen Eighty-Four Response by: Cameron Malcher The question (adapted from 2014 HSC) Rebellion and revolution are ideas which connect Metropolis and Nineteen Eighty-Four. How do these two texts from different contexts reflect changing perspectives on this idea? What it requires Both texts are connected by an exploration of rebellion and revolution that have direct relevance to the composers and their audiences. Compare and contrast the similarities

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    longer be imaginative. Orwell saw the dangers of living under totalitarian government‚ which is why he wrote Nineteen Eighty-four. George Orwell writes Nineteen Eighty-four in the year 1949 because he feared the future world would rule under totalitarianism. He warns society through Nineteen Eighty-four’s characters‚ themes‚ and control the Party has on its individuals. The characters in Nineteen Eighty-four are created to show its readers that totalitarianism can again become a serious threat and should

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    are acting as a warning to mankind and - in a world rife with political change - we would do well to heed their advice. Possibly the most powerful warnings ever issued about the danger of totalitarian governments can be found in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four where the protagonist – Winston – despises the forced oppression of the Party on the otherwise oblivious citizens of Oceania‚ yet‚ by the climax of the novel Winston is punished for his disloyalty to Big Brother and is obliged to become

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    Citizens fear the telescreens for “it was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen” (Orwell 62). All Outer Party members are required to participate in many acts like the Two Minutes Hate‚ or else they risk vaporization. The Outer Party is always one step behind the Inner Party leaving them without their mental freedom to believe what they choose. The Outer Party represents a similarity to a modern middle class because they are

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