Geo 300 Instructor Peggy Lee‚ Reading Response 1 Question 1: Chapter 1 1) Identify and explain four basic causes of the environmental problems we face. a. “Population growth‚ wasteful and unsustainable resource use‚ poverty and failure to include in their market prices the harmful environmental costs of goods and services.” (p.15) 2) What is exponential growth? b. “Occurs when a quantity such as the human population increases at a fixed percentage per unit of time
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history‚ it still exists today‚ and will probably never vanish from our thinking. Some may clearly express it‚ whereas others may express racism unnoticeably‚ even to themselves. George Orwell‚ in “Shooting an Elephant”‚ tells a story of his past when he killed an elephant in order to please the Burmese crowd. At the time‚ Orwell was a white Indian Imperial Police officer who was disliked by the country’s natives due to the fact that he was European. One day‚ he heard of an elephant’s doing of ravaging
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In 1936‚ author George Orwell wrote an essay titled “Shooting an Elephant”. In the essay Orwell describes a scene of a British police officer who is stuck between having to shoot an elephant. The story takes place in Burma‚ India where then‚ they were under British imperialism. Imperialism is a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force. It humiliates the occupied people‚ reducing them to an inferior status in their own country. Analyzing Orwell’s work
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George Orwell’s "Shooting an Elephant" is an essay about a British police officer living in Lower Burma who goes through the trial and error process of making the right decisions while still trying to maintain an image and position of authority. The officer is hated by the Burmese people‚ which is clearly shown when he would play football. The Burmese were extremely unfair to the officer due to the fact he was part of the Imperialist group which was oppressing Burma. (para. 1) Although the officer
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Communist China come to mind. These draconian regimes resulted in millions of deaths and the dehumanization of people. These governments took away the rights of its citizens‚ and made live unbearable. George Orwell‚ a satirist‚ comments on oppressive governments‚ such as Hitler’s‚ Stalin’s‚ and Zedong’s. Orwell comments on these governments through many of his works‚ namely his novel 1984. 1984 focuses on a man named Winston Smith‚ who is a propagandist inside the Party‚ or the ruling government. The Party
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George Orwell Animal Farm Animal Farm by George Orwell is an animalistic adaptation of the struggle between Tolstoy and Stalin in the early 20th Century within the Soviet Union. Power and authority can be gained‚ maintained and lost all of these three things happen in the novel. The pigs on the farm Snowball‚ Napoleon & Squealer gained power by using persuasion techniques and being the smartest animals on the farm. At the start of the novel Old-Major gave a very persuading speech about how
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After reading George Orwell’s utopian polemic‚ 1984‚ I chose to discuss the role and importance of children of Oceania in said text. 1984 holds two contradictory views on children‚ the authorities and patrols see the children as a symbol of hope whereas parents detect their children as threats. Children offer hope for the strengthening of Oceania’s society regarding Big Brother’s ideals of how the society should be‚ because the children demonstrate strong loyalty only to Big Brother. Parents detect
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Oceania Have Three Classes? Must There Really Be Inequality? In order for any society to work and thrive‚ there must be inequality between the citizens or social classes that occupy it. This is what Oceania figured out in the book 1984 by George Orwell. There were three social classes in Oceania‚ wherein inequality among the classes was strongly displayed. Each of the three classes had their own role and place in society. As it is portrayed‚ the higher the class the better place in society.
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John David Merin C37 GREATWORKS After reading 1984‚ it somehow changed my view of the world. It opened my eyes to the way the world is turning into. The way 1984 presents the world is beginning to be similar to the world we view today. As I was reading the book‚ there were several times where I thought to myself that this is actually starting to happen‚ or has already happened. It’s quite scary to think that George Orwell was able to predict a world beyond his age and the way he ended the book
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George Orwell’s 1984 Introduction- This story takes place in a state called Oceania. The main characters introduced are Winston Smith who is a worker on one of the four branches of government on Oceania. This four branches are "The Ministry of Truth" where they falsificate or remove all past documents such as books‚ newspapers‚ magazines‚ records‚ tapes and anything containing information about the past and are rewritten with the "accurate" meaning of whatever the Government (known as " Big Brother")
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