Pinkerton English IV 3rd Hour January 19 2016 Controlling the People of Oceania People are controlled quite easily by a government. George Orwell‚ aka Eric Arthur Blair wrote the novel 1984 in 1949. This novel was written about a man named Winston who lives in Oceania which is placed in a London where government surveillance keeps people in check. Winston wishes to rebel against the party and does so by having a love affair with a woman named Julia. Winston enjoys this but he wants more so he seeks
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Packed to the rafters – Ted the old man is living with Alzheimer’s his behaviour is becoming erratic – same as willy * Each character has a different reality Willy’s reality * He believes personal accomplishment is possible * A man who knows what he wants will go after it and succeed * Someone has to be well liked – compared with modern notions‚ superficial notions – link to cosmetic surgery idea * Biff – high school football hero - Biff hasn’t lived up to that image
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Who is to blame for the Cold War? The Cold War starting in 1945 was an escalation between two super powers that were threatened by each other and determined to prove their power. It was political conflict‚ hostile tensions and a series of miscommunications between the Communist World‚ the USSR and the capitalists‚ the United States that made the Cold War a reality. Although the Cold War was caused due to certain circumstances and miscommunications between the powers‚ the United States is largely
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The Cold War developed slowly between the United States and the Soviet Union‚ as both nations were fighting for control of the postwar world. This cold war was a war of words with lots of tension. These two nations were on the same side during the war but after the war they began to grow apart and not trust each other. The United States and the Soviet Union had different beliefs as to where the world should go in terms of government and economics. This caused big problems for the two nations. These
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The blame for the Cold War cannot be placed on one person -- it developed as a series of chain reactions as a struggle for supremacy. It can be argued that the Cold War was inevitable‚ and therefore no one’s fault‚ due to the differences in the capitalist and communist ideologies. It was only the need for self-preservation that had caused the two countries to sink their differences temporarily during the Second World War. Yet many of the tensions that existed in the Cold War can be attributed to
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Phoebe The Spy By: Judith Barry Griffin The story‚ Phoebe the spy‚ is all about a 13 year old girl. Her name is Phoebe Fraunces. Her father‚ Samuel Fraunces‚ asks Phoebe to be a spy. Samuel had heard rumors that someone had a plot to kill General George Washington. All that Samuel knew was about the plot and that the killer’s name began with the letter T. So‚ Phoebe travels to General’s home. She posed as a maid. 2 very important people in the story‚ Pompey and the cook‚ greet Phoebe at the
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Female Spies of War World I During World War I there were few female spies but the most commonly and famously known ones were Marta Hari the alias of Margaretha Geertruida Zelle and Edith Cavell. Both women were on opposite ends of the spectrum‚ Marta Hari who used her charms and beautiful looks to attract men and obtain information for the Germans was an exotic dancer while Edith Cavell a nurse who was very motherly like‚ helped wounded Allied soldiers and gathered information from them. Sadly
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their children from what they see as a very dangerous world (From Journal call the new tech and world). Whether parents should spy on their kids or not has been a debatable issue for the last ten years. Some argue that parents should spy on their kids because those kids are too young to protect themselves from outside world. While others think that parents should not spy on their kids‚ because children need their own space and private time. As Roy Cooper‚ an attorney general from California‚ said
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it OK to spy on your kids? Sure‚ as a parent you would like to know what your child is doing but is spying the answer? I believe it is not ok to “spy” in general. I do however believe it is ok for you to know what your child is up to. To begin with a lot depends on your definition of “spy”. Weather you think spying on your kids is acceptable in today’s digital age or a breach of trust really depends on how you define “spying” in the first place (line 3‚ 4). Take a moment and define spy in your own
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actually enjoyed the movie Bridge of Spies‚ even though I never heard of it. It is funny how on one side we as people wanted to make sure the book was thrown at Mr. Rudolph for being a spy but we send spies out to do the same thing yet when they are caught we want them freed and return home safe and sound. Mr. Donovan was the only person who put his personal believes to the side and focused on the case through the eyes of the law. He know and wanted to address from the beginning that the evidence found
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