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    In Animal Farm by George Orwell there are two key chapters that can be compared. In chapter two it is the morning after the rebellion and the animals are overjoyed. “They woke at dawn” shows the beginning of a new day‚ this creates a sense of hope and represents the start of their new life without humans. However in chapter seven it is the night of the slaughters and the reader can see the caparison between the time of day when Orwell says “gilded by the level rays of the sun” This shows the sun

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    George Orwell depicts Winston Smith as a typical individual readers can relate to the most. Though the readers aren’t physically going through what Winston went through‚ the reader can imagine the society the way the protagonist saw it. Winston shows that he is a loyal party member by working in the Ministry of Truth‚ where he changes historical records in correspondence to Big Brother’s wishes‚ regardless if the information was right or wrong. At the same time‚ Winston has an internal conflict for

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    George Orwell is well known‚ even though he died in 1950. He was British and an ex-cop. George Orwell is a very prominent author. He is known for a few of his books‚ written for a variety of purposes. However‚ this specific essay‚ “Shooting an Elephant”‚ is written to inform of us. He phrases this essay more as a narrative‚ which makes it not rhetorically effective. George Orwell uses great imagery and his syntax makes it simple for even high schoolers to read through his works. Orwell sent this

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    tomorrow’s peril” (1999)‚ George Orwell‚ in 1984‚ describes a form of government which is akin to the tyrannies of today‚ a nation in which the masses are ill-educated and free speech is punishable. The elites do this to preserve their short-term status‚ dooming society to disaster in the long term. 1984 is a book that in many ways represented the fears of the time‚ in which the “threats” of socialism were omnipresent on the headlines of western media. But‚ where Orwell thought to be portraying the

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    English Language”‚ I automatically thought of Pastor Eddie Long. I know your thinking‚ “What in the world is he talking about?”‚ but Orwell and Pastor Long are alike in many ways. They both spoke out against a topic very critically‚ Orwell against bad language and Pastor Long against homosexuality‚ but still ended up involving themselves in the activity. George Orwell had a strong stance against the state of the English language. He talked harshly about the English language but was he guilty of the

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    George Orwell’s essay ‘Why I Write?’ is a detailed account of his way towards becoming a writer. He takes the reader on a journey from his first poems and stories to the pieces of writing that make him famous to finally explain the four reasons of writing. Orwell experiments with ‘a mere description of what I was doing and the things I saw’ and naturalistic books before he becomes a political writer. Why a political writer? Well‚ it is the age he lives in that forces him into it. His working

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    Kyle 1984 by George Orwell 1984 By George Orwell Offers the unique perspective of a man during the year 1984‚ where a totalitarian government controls everything with omnipresent government surveillance and public manipulation. The book becomes even more relevant today‚ as in some cases governments around the world creep very slowly toward the Totalitarianism of George Orwell’s created government without even knowing. Orwell incorporates many deep subtexts into his novel

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    George Orwell was born in 1903 in india‚ son to a british colonial official. A year after his birth‚ Orwell‚ his mother and his sister moved to England. His father stayed and worked India and rarely visited the family. Orwell did not really get to know his father until he retired from his work in 1912. And even after that‚ they never formed a strong bond. 1922 did he travel to Burma and was employed in the british police force. He later volunteered to fight on the government side in the spanish war

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    The Hanging of Angélique‚ The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal‚ written by Afua Cooper‚ is the story of not just Marie-Joseph Angélique‚ a black slave in 18th century Montréal accused‚ tried and hanged for arson‚ but gives insight into the entire African slave trade and brings to the forefront the thousands of African slaves here in Canada‚ a fact that has been “bulldozed and ploughed over” (P 7)1‚ while we ridicule our southern neighbours for their involvement in

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    Kingston‚ George Orwell and Langston Hugh’s learn more about themselves and their beliefs. Maxine Hong Kingston learns about her Aunt and the secret her family has kept from her and whether it’s a life lesson her mother is trying to give her or the actual truth. Like Maxine Hong Kinston‚ M. Scott Momaday revisits his home land‚ Oklahoma‚ discovering and connecting his grandmother’s history to the stories of his ancestors‚ the Kiowa tribe. On the search to their identities‚ George Orwell and Langston

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