life in Britain today has drawn across the civilized amenities of life before the war” (Rankin 189). Orwell fabricated a fictional reality that pretends to be a description of what would happen in 1984. The novel is functioning today as a sample of fiction but is formed by not only one but three worlds. One is the one where Orwell once lived and the world of today. Another is the world created by Orwell‚ which is the world for the fictional characters that live in that world. The third is the fictional
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Sylvia McCleary 10/29/2014 English Comp 121 Compare and Contrast Essay Final Draft Aldous Huxley’s Book vs. George Orwell’s Book: Infinite Distraction or Government Oppression? By: Sylvia McCleary Imagine a world where people are developed in factories‚ or a world where people just disappear for breaking the “mold”. This compare and contrast essay on Aldous Huxley and George Orwell’s philosophies and prose. Both authors created fictional worlds; Orwell’s focuses on government oppression
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In “Shooting an Elephant‚” George Orwell presents a story in which he reluctantly kills an elephant. Orwell is a British police officer who is always teased by the Burmese‚ who see him as a representative of the British Empire but fail to realize that Orwell also opposes English occupation of Burma. One day‚ Orwell is called to investigate an accident in the marketplace involving a rampant elephant. Orwell borrows a rifle‚ which could bring down the elephant‚ from his friend. He hopes
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In George Orwell’s “Shooting an Elephant”‚ Orwell mentions how he was hated and harassed by the people of Burma. Essentially‚ because of the fact that he was part of the British colony that oppressed the Burmese. From the beginning‚ Orwell did not concur with British Imperialism‚ he states “I had already made up my mind that imperialism was an evil thing and the sooner I chucked up my job and got out of it the better” (Orwell. 134). In addition‚ Orwell detested his job‚ he had to watch the prisoners
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”Nineteen Eighty-Four” – Pages 1-40 If there is any doubt of the persistent power of literature it should be banished by the novel “1984” by George Orwell. There is much that reasonant for most of us in Orwell’s dystopia in the face of Edward Snowden’s revelations about the NSA; the totalitarian State of Oceania‚ its menacing Big Brother‚ the history-erasing Ministry of Truth and the sinister Thought Police with their everpresent telescreens. Eventhough the novel “1984” was read by its readers
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1 CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN SCHOOLS IN SOUTH ASIA Submitted to the Committee on the Rights of the Child Day of General Discussion on Violence Against Children 28 September 2001 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3 I. INTRODUCTION 4 II. HOW CHILDREN ARE AFFECTED BY CORPORAL 5 PUNISHMENT 2.1 Risk for the Child’s Physical and Psychological Health 5 2.2 Impact on Retention and Learning Achievements 6 III. LEGAL FRAMEWORK 7 3.1 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the
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“Capital Punishment should be banned.” Discuss. Should Capital Punishment be prohibited by the law? The purpose of the execution of criminals is to condemn‚ deter crime and suppress political dissent. Most countries practice Capital Punishment for those who commit murder‚ drug trafficking‚ treason (act of a traitor)‚ espionage (practice of spying) or are as part of military justice. Some countries impose Capital Punishment on sexual crimes. Specifically speaking‚ rape‚ adultery‚ sodomy or incest
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Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel by George Orwell published in 1949. It is a dystopian andsatirical novel set in Oceania‚ where society is tyrannized by The Party and its totalitarianideology.[1] The Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war‚ omnipresent government surveillance‚ and public mind control‚ dictated by a political systemeuphemistically named English Socialism (Ingsoc) under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes all individualism and independent
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Capital Punishment Capital punishment should be introduced into Australia for unspeakable crimes My first decision for supporting the death penalty is it’s correlation to the crime rate in a country where it exists. the United Nations currently has one hundred and eighty nine countries in its membership and among them one hundred and eight is already joining the list of the countries to abolish capital punishment and the United States is not part of it and we should not be. Is banning capital
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1984 1984 is mostly a political piece of literature written by George Orwell. Published in 1949 in New York‚ the story follows Winston Smith. Winston Smith is a small political figure in the ruling party in London‚ the Ruling party is very controlling and does not tolerate rebellious thoughts or actions in their society. Throughout the story elements of fiction are easily detected because it is something that hasn’t happened but can happen. This story is a soft science fiction because it focuses
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