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1984 Ignorance Is Strength
Words: 593 - Pages: 3.... proles of us all.
Repression is achieved through various techniques of
dictatorship, one being controlled participation. This provides the
proles with the “appearance” of a voice. In many communist
nations, people have been given the right to vote but the communist
party is the only choice on the ballot. In a democracy, such as that
which exists in Canada and the United States, there are various
parties to choose from, but it tends to be a choice of whose
promises may be the least false. Choices are made for the good of
the party so they will be able to maintain power for a longer period
of time. The opinion .....
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Brave New World Vs. Our World
Words: 1042 - Pages: 4.... would have to be told what to do when to do it, what to believe, and allowed only to speak to your caste and no matter what always have to acknowledge the D.H.C as God. So is giving up your individual freedom really worth it all in the end?
In the Brave New World, literature and art are taken away in order to destroy individuality and freedom of thought. For as Mustapha Mond says, “It isn’t only art that’s incompatible with happiness; it’s also science. Science is dangerous; we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled” (Huxley 231). The Controller has made thinking impossible by taking away all science, art and relig .....
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Go Ask Alice 2
Words: 1015 - Pages: 4.... like her. Alice doesn’t feel happy in her family. She hates his sister and her brother more than she loves them. Tim is intolerable and her mother is constantly Peking at her. Alice gets to know Beth Baum. Beth is Jewish and her father is a doctor. Her mother nags a lot. Alice’s parents like Beth, because she is pretty nice. In the holidays Beth goes on a summer camp for six weeks and Alice stays at her grans.
One day she meets Jill Peters and she invites her for a party. Alice doesn’t like taking drugs. She wants to stop it and to go home, but her grandpa has a little heart - attack and Alice has to help her grandma .....
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Robinson Crusoe
Words: 863 - Pages: 4.... their own fortunes overnight. The concept of the Great Chain of Being becomes lost when members of the lower classes become wealthier than many of the upper class aristocrats. Now many men from the lower classes buy land and/or titles. When lower class members become landowners, the idea of Divine Right to rule over the land no longer proves valid. Defoe illustrates society’s changes through Crusoe, who battles with the notion of God’s Providence. At certain moments he thanks God for His Providence, but then later conceives that actually God did not cause the miracle but he did. For example, when the English barley sprung up from t .....
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Animal Farm Summary
Words: 727 - Pages: 3.... of Napoleon, the most outspoken pig, and Snowball, the most articulate pig, the animals continue to work the farm with success.
The animals now come up with a set of rules to run their society. They are labeled "the Seven Commandments of Animalism" and are posted on the barn wall.
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed
5. No animal shall drink alcohol
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal
The animals succeed at running the farm for a little while. They finish all of their work wit .....
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Arsenic And Old Lace
Words: 353 - Pages: 2.... the movie is when their nephew, Mortimer, finds the bodies, and is quite flustered to discover how his aunts treat it with such nonchalance.
Humor is also found in the misunderstanding between Mortimer and his Brewster family. Throughout the entire movie, Mortimer finds himself ashamed of his Brewster name. He discovers that his aunts keep twelve bodies in the basement. Mortimer also receives a visit from his lunatic brother John, who, like his aunts, murders people. While Mortimer discovers more about his insane family, he still must deal with his brother Theodore, who believes that he is President Roosevelt. Finally, Mortimer commits .....
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The Storm
Words: 706 - Pages: 3.... takes on the personification of a deep, rumbling cloud of feminine sexuality and passion waiting to explode. Throughout the story, the intensity of is symbolic of the intensity of Calixta’s passion.
At the onset of the story, Chopin subtly exposes the idea that women of the time are expected to repress their feelings of sexuality and passion. The scene is set as Calixta is attending to household chores unaware that a storm is imminent. Chopin writes, “She sat at a side window sewing furiously on a sewing machine. She was greatly occupied and did not notice the approaching storm. She unfastened her white sacque .....
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George Bernard Shaw And His Short Story About The Cremation Of The Narrator's Mother
Words: 772 - Pages: 3.... The traditional words of a burial service “ashes to ashes,
dust to dust” are not altered for the cremation, the interior chamber “looked
cool, clean, and sunny” as by a graveside, and the coffin was presented “feet
first” as in a ground burial. In selecting aspects of a traditional burial
service, Shaw's mood is revealed as ambivalent toward cremation by imposing
recalled fragments of ground burial for contrast. Strangely fascinated, he
begins to wonder exactly what happens when one is cremated. This mood of awe is
dramatized as he encounters several doors to observe in his chronological
investigation. He sees “a .....
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The Count Of Monte Cristo
Words: 1270 - Pages: 5.... parties. Royalists and the Bonapartist cut at each
others throats in order to declare that their ruler was
supreme. This situation has a profound effect on the events
of the story. Dantes' enemies used the rivalry between the
two parties in order to convince the Royalists that Edmond
is a Bonapartist, therefore it is the basis for his arrest
and inevitable captivity in the Chateau D'If..
Basic Plot:
The Count of Monte Cristo is a story about a sailor,
Edmond Dantes, who was betrayed during the prime of his
life and career by the jealousy of his friends. His
shipmate, Danglars, coveted his desi .....
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Doe Season
Words: 1199 - Pages: 5.... is set in the Pennsylvania woods. This story reveals the trials and tribulations Andy, a dynamic character, goes through to reach her final destination of womanhood. Throughout "," David Kaplan uses symbolism to carry Andy through her rite of passage into womanhood. Andy is unknowing as she ventures out on a hunting trip with her father. Early in the morning, Andy and her father are awaiting the arrival Mac and his son Charlie. The four of them are going hunting in the woods. Mac and Charlie finally arrive. After loading the car, the four of them begin their way into the woods. The woods were only several miles behind her house, but "it was .....
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