names of Nineteen Eighty-Four each have a historical connection. Emmanuel Goldstein‚ the scapegoat which the Party uses to justify their surveillance activities and actions. This is an allusion to Jesus Christ from the Bible. Jesus was named “Emmanuel” at his birth; in Christian it connotates to messiah meaning “savior”. Orwell describes Emmanuel as a Jewish-like figure‚ which alludes to Jesus Christ and the Jews who were persecuted by the Nazis. This connect exemplifies the villianification of Goldstein
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A Home away from Home Getting into Bethlehem university wasn’t one of my initial options of the number of available universities at all. To be honest‚ I didn’t know we even had a university in Bethlehem‚ until my dad told me about it and even then I still wasn’t so sure about applying there... I always had that dream of going abroad to study‚ you know‚ every teenagers dream is to break free and just wander. I so wanted to leave the country and I was torn between whether I should study medicine or
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no matter where in history we are a gathering of the entire town means one of two things; it is either good news or it is bad news. The color of the box also gave away that something bad was going to happen. 3. In what ways are the characters differentiated from one another? Looking back at the story‚ can you see why Tessie Hutchinson is singled out as a "winner"? 3.She is singled out as the winner because she was the one that was saying the drawing was unfair. I feel that the story chose her
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Joseph McKelvy ENG 1123 Essay #2 Ms. Coleman Moving Away From Home At the age of eighteen I found myself faced with two choices. I could stay in my hometown try and find a job and go to school‚ or I could enlist‚ go see the world‚ have my education paid for while gaining work experience. I choose to enlist. The first step was to find a recruiter. After finding the recruiter I enlisted. I was given an itinerary to follow. The itinerary listed times‚ places and dates. Before leaving for
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make an effort on working. In addition‚ international students usually encounter in many troubles in daily life. Being away form hometown‚ students cannot eat the food they want. Fast food is always the first choice. Nevertheless‚ few students enjoy trying the local food‚ and they think it is an interesting experience. If food is not a big challenge‚ loneliness must be the biggest one. They miss their friends and relatives‚ and their life is not exciting and interesting like other people think. But
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up to the wellbeing of their family. Where is the wellbeing in that when the parent detaches from the family? A lot of things are sacrificed. Alright‚ we talk everyday on long distance phone calls but do we always get to just hangout? OFWs would miss a lot as time would pass especially seeing their son grow. Being a child of an OFW is not easy too. Growing up‚ children ask a lot of questions from necessities to trivial things about their parents. Questions like “What should I do?” or “What did
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Trying to understand the concept of other is a complex one. It is not an easy task to pinpoint exactly what it means. In some way we are all others to someone and everyone else is also other to us. If the other is constantly changing then how do we strive to know the other. And at the same time the other cannot exist without us trying to understand ourselves. I do believe that culture is important and it helps us to understand ourselves as well as the other. I do not believe that culture is
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ENGL 200 October 6‚ 2014 Video Game Violence: A Scapegoat for Disengaged Parents Today’s youth live in a time where video games are a fixture of entertainment. Video game consoles are found in almost every home‚ including a child’s bedroom. I believe that the portrayal of violence in video games is not the reason for the increase of violent acts committed by and against youth. Parents and the government should understand it is not the fault of the game itself. Modern parents should be engaged
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We get all caught up in our pleasures of vacationing‚ that we fail to see things from the perspectives of others. For relatives wanting to travel to different countries‚ saving enough money is no easy task. In the wake of the Vietnam war‚ economic hardship runs rampant in communities with run-down neighborhoods and disheveled street beggars. My Vietnamese cousin‚ Thai Minh‚ doesn’t let these difficulties deter him from traveling. Minh travels not only to search for job offers‚ but also to escape the
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live in this oppressive country any longer‚ and plans to flee‚ "escape". Truong successfully escapes his home‚ in search of a new one. Leaving on a small‚ open boat with his older brother‚ niece and nephew in 1981‚ he finds himself displaced. Without a home and treading dangerous waters‚ he speaks of the tragedies many refugees such as himself faced‚ "Half of the people who left died on the ocean". He considers himself lucky to have even survived on the boat. Mr. Nguyen spends five months living in
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