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Big Brother: Who Is He And What Does He Want
Words: 756 - Pages: 3.... anything bad about the party they will be arrested, killed or beaten and tortured into loving the Party. People of Oceania are forced into thinking and believing certain things, this is where Big Brother comes in. People are made to believe that they are always being watched by Big Brother, which they are. In every room of almost every building there is a Telescreen which allows Part members to see and hear anything that goes on in the area of the telescreen. Knowing that anything they say, think or do is being seen by the "Big Brother" people will began to believe and think what they are told is the truth, if they do not, they are tort .....
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A Critique Of "Gone To Soldiers" By Marge Piercy
Words: 497 - Pages: 2.... out what was going
to happen to each person next. I really enjoyed the profile of Louise Kahan a
female Jewish American writer, because she is independent and strong willed. An
example of her strength and belief in herself Louise did not instantly return to
her ex-husband Oscar even though they both still loved each other, because she
was strong enough to resist him and his womanizing ways. Piercy gave me a much
better understanding of the cultural and social issues of the World War two era.
I learned about the little struggles of working American women, such as the
unavailability of stockings and society's negative attitude towards .....
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Invisible Man: The Narrator
Words: 374 - Pages: 2.... of the novel, the narrator's visibility
fluctuates; this symbolizes a change. He is slowly realizing that he is
really invisible to everyone. When the narrator was speaking with Mr.
Emerson about a job, Mr. Emerson said "…I happen to know of a possible job
at Liberty Paints. My father has sent several fellows there…You should
try--" and the narrator's reply was a shut door. This shows that the
narrator knows he is not entirely visible or important to everyone. He had
then realized that he is just a player in a game.
In the end of the novel, the narrator sees that he is visible only
to certain people. Nobody cares what he does .....
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Abuse Of Power Within A Clockwork Orange
Words: 1314 - Pages: 5.... the element of
his choice and free will. When his ability of choice is robbed in an attempt
to better him, he loses his love for music in which he exclaims, "And all the
time the music got more and more gromky, like it was all a deliberate torture, O
my brothers . . . then I jumped"(131). The music that represents his freedom
to choose is now gone. He is left without any reason to live. When he realizes
that he is no longer a man because of his absence of choice, Alex decides to end
his life. The author illustrates through Alex's violent actions, how they
represent his abuse of power through his freedom of choice. Alex consist .....
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Comparison: Treatment Of War In "The Rank Stench Of Those Bodies Haunts Me Still" And "The Soldier"
Words: 1583 - Pages: 6.... they too are part of a collective.
In the next stanza, the lines "Gun-thunder leaps and thuds along the ridge; / The spouting shells dig pits in fields of death," seem to recreate the sounds of the weapons. The shells dig pits in the fields as though ready for the wounded men to fill. The poet expresses the hope that anyone he cares for could be spared this experience, and that they get back home wounded, but alive.
The lines "It's sundown in the camp; some youngster laughs, / Lifting his mug and drinking health to all / Who came unscathed from that unpitying waste:- / (Terror and ruin lurk behind his gaze.)" are deeply touching, a man trie .....
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Oedipus Rex 2
Words: 488 - Pages: 2.... be on the one who did this, whether he is alone
Or conceals his share in it with others.
Let him be free of no misery if he share my house
Or sit at my hearth and I have knowledge of it.
On myself may it fall, as I have called it down!
-Oedipus from Oedipus Rex
When Oedipus pronounces this sentence he has already unwittingly judged himself, and to the excitement of the crowd foreshadowed later events to come. This statement, is a classic example of verbal irony. In it Oedipus thinking that he is directing his pronouncement upon some bandit, or conspirator, in all actuality he is truly condemning himself. Further examples of .....
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Of Mice And Men
Words: 556 - Pages: 3.... in a state of mind that handicaps him more than his missing hand ever will. He looks down on himself as an old worthless man that’s wasting away his last few years. Not only is it the way that others think of him but also the way he thinks of himself that forces him to find solitude. The most evident case of loneliness is Curley’s wife. No matter how hard she tried she couldn’t fit in. For example, when she tried numerous times to talk to George and Lenny she was either ignored or told to leave. Because of her reputation for being a flirt none of the farmhands wanted to talk to her. It was the threat of getting in trouble with Curley t .....
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Stanley And Livingstone And Th
Words: 2207 - Pages: 9.... He was then sent around the Mediterranean and then to Great Britain. In Britain he was given the orders to find the missionary Dr. Livingstone in Africa.
David Livingstone showed his perseverance and resilience from the start where as a ten-year old he was put to work in the cotton mills near Glasgow, Scotland. Unlike the other children who often died or grew up illiterate, he taught himself by reading books until he reached medical school in 1838 where he trained to become a doctor around the age of 25.
He was also fairly religious and after he became a doctor he volunteered to be a missionary in China but instead was sent to South A .....
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Examination Of Puritan Philosophy In Bradford's "On Plymouth Plantation"
Words: 1755 - Pages: 7.... Chapter IX (nine) of "Of Plymouth
Plantation", entitled "Of Their Voyage…" , he tells of a sailor "..of a lusty,
able body.." who "would always be condemning the poor people in their sickness
and cursing them daily….he didn't let to tell them that he hoped to help cast
half of them overboard before they came to their journey's end". But, "it
pleased God before they came half-seas over, to smite this young man with a
grievous disease, of which he died in a desperate manner, and so was himself the
first that was thrown overboard". Bradford believes that the sailor died
because God was punishing him. According to Bradford, the sailor's .....
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The Fountainhead
Words: 932 - Pages: 4.... Roark, on the other
hand, is a man aspiring to achieve a level of complete and utter
independence from traditional principles. One telling passage occurs in a
scene where Keating and Roark are discussing architecture.
Keating: "How do you always manage to decide?"
Roark: "How can you let others decide for you?"
As two men on the extreme sides of conformity and independence, it is hard
for Keating to understand how someone could be so sure of himself, whereas
it is incomprehensible for Roark to believe that Keating could have so
little self-assurance and such a lack of resolve regarding the decisions he
chooses to make. .....
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