Dallas Winston: A vulnerable teenager or just a hoodlum? The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is a novel about a boy called Ponyboy who is involved in a rivalry between two gangs‚ the Greasers and the Socs. The Socs live in the West side of town; they look clean‚ have lots of money and drive blue Mustangs. The greasers live in the east side of town; they wear hair oil‚ t-shirts and jeans‚ and don’t have much money. Ponyboy is part of the Greasers‚ along with his two brothers Darry and Sodapop‚ his closest
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Motto of Totalitarianism George Orwell’s one of the most famous novel ‘1984’ cynically portrays the corruption of totalitarianism. Through various regulations the party set up for the people and indirectly experiencing it by Winston Smith’s‚ the main character of the novel‚ perspective relief the problems of totalitarianism. Among the systems the party set up to control and brainwash people‚ one of the most significant symbol that reveals the way of totalitarian government regulate people is INGSOC’s
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September 11 1984. There is only so much perpetual confinement a man can take. Often I wonder how much longer I’ll be able to stand it. The delusion that I could possibly still be an individual seized my absent mind. Porcelain white walls delineate me. No windows‚ no chance in hell to escape. I imagine O’Brien pinning the other prisoners’ arms to the wall‚ and slowly driving nails that are the length of their feet into their wrists. When he finishes there‚ I look to see him nailing their
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Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s speech to the allied delegates St. James’s Place‚ London‚ June 12‚ 1941 What tragedies‚ what horrors‚ what crimes has Hitler and all that Hitler stands for brought upon Europe and the world! The ruins of Warsaw‚ of Rotterdam‚ of Belgrade are monuments which will long recall to future generations the outrage of unopposed air bombing applied with calculated scientific cruelty to helpless populations. Here in London and throughout the cities of our island and in
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My name is Joseph Cavuoti‚ and I am the captain of the Winston Solar Car Team. The mission of the team was to build a solar powered car‚ and then race it at the Texas Motor Speedway in July‚ 2017. My Junior year was when I was unexpectedly given the position of Captain. I didn’t know how to lead a group of people‚ but knowing that all of them were my friends made me feel better. As a team we had to decide what the car would look like‚ how it moved‚ what solar panels to get‚ the list goes on. Each
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Winston Churchill once said “success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill had a very good point with this statement. Everyone loses and gets upset from time to time. One of the greatest life skills is to be positive even while you are losing. A big setback people have is giving up while they keep failing. Even while losing you need to think about the great outcome you can achieve. The best thing in life is to fail‚ because when you fail you learn
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In the story 1984 by George Orwell the two biggest characters in it was Winston Smith and George Orwell but they both had different opinions on what a hero was. Everybody has their own to say about what a hero really is in this life but what is a hero really? Some people say it’s someone who is admired or idealized for courage‚ outstanding achievements or qualities. A brave person who defies the system just as Winston Smith did in the story but a hero can be just a plain old person that doesn’t have
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Winston Smith is a 39-year-old member of the Outer Party of Oceania. He holds a position at the Ministry of Truth rewriting history in the Records Department. Julia is a 26-year-old member of the Outer Party of Oceania and a member of the Anti-Sex League. She holds a position at the Ministry of Truth operating a machine in the Fiction Department. Separate Winston and Julia have their own forms of rebellion but nothing that threatens the Party too much but together they represent what the Party fears
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recollection. This was the reality that took place in the book 1984 by George Orwell. How a certain individual found himself in society was a very slippery slope. The Character was Winston and throughout the book in changed back in forth between what he thought and what was happening. At the beginning of the book Winston was just somebody who lived there life with no intrest of care. But one day he had sat down at his desk and started writing.“To mark the paper was the decisive act. In small clumsy
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1940: the economy was down‚ Europe was a battleground‚ and most importantly‚ the spirits of the people were downtrodden. The United Kingdom’s military was losing more troops than they could produce. The newly appointed Prime Minister of England‚ Winston Churchill‚ delivered a speech on June‚ 4 1940 that became one of his most poignant and memorable moments while in office. Popularly recognized as “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” this speech greatly impacted the Second World War and may have been a catalyst
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