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Fahrenheit 451: Criticizing The Modern World
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 612.... was programmed to not think, wonder or ask why. They didn’t do anything that they weren’t supposed to do. Today, everything is happening just as The Hound is controlled. Programming is happening in our very world. Take schools for example. Consider Pavlov’s experiment with ringing bells to provoke an automatic response in dogs. He rang a bell; the dogs salivated expecting food. The school board rings a bell, and students rise to show respect for the American flag because ‘now is the designated time to be patriotic, and you will or face consequences”. The bell rings, stude .....
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Uses And Abuses Of Information
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2261.... to a television placed in the home and workplace of Party members, unlike a television it cannot be turned off and it transmits as well as receives. Winston works at the Ministry of Truth, one of four government ministries. The Ministry of Love is concerned with law and order, The Ministry of peace concerns itself with war, The Ministry of Plenty which deals with economic affairs and The Ministry of Truth which is responsible for the production of news, education, entertainment and fine arts.
Orwell is said to have based the infrastructure of Oceania on that of Stalinist Russi .....
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The Red Badge Of Courage 2
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2243.... circles, like a
vast blue demonstration. They kept marching on without purpose,
direction, or fighting. Through time Henry started to think about the
battles in a different way, a more close and experienced way, he
started to become afraid that he might run from battle when duty
calls. He felt like a servant doing whatever his superiors told him.
When the regiment finally discovers a battle-taking place, Jim
gives Henry a little packet in a yellow envelope, telling Henry that
this will be his first and last battle. The regiment managed to hold
off the re .....
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Of Mice And Men
Number of pages: 8 | Number of words: 1929.... in
the ranch where all the workers slept and lived. Steinbeck described the
bunkhouse being, " a long, rectangular building. Inside, the walls were
whitewashed and the floor unpainted." Later he says, " Against the walls
were eight bunks, five of them made up with blankets and the other three
showing their burlap ticking." So far we get the idea that the bunkhouse
was not the most beautiful place to live in, one of the only forms of
entertainment in the bunkhouse was playing cards. Steinbeck described this
setting with images of light and darkness next to each other. A .....
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Critical Review Of 1984 By Geo
Number of pages: 3 | Number of words: 604.... placed on posters and
put all over the place with the saying, "BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU." This
was used to let the people know that no matter where they go the could not
escape the watching eyes of the controling government.
The government itself was very mysterious and had several parts that were
very suspicious to the main character, Winston, who worked in one part of
the government. It was divided up into four parts. The Ministry of Truth,
where Winston worked, was incharge of education and the arts. The Ministry
of Peace, which was in command of war. The Ministry of p .....
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Steinbeck's "The Flight": Naturalism
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 321.... This
is when his animal instinct begins. When a human he has the talent of
having the art of reason. An animal does things sometimes without even
knowing it. Who in their right mind would put a spider web in their wound.
When he relizes that his time of running has come to an end he begins to
turn to his religion. He starts to “cross” his chest as a Roman Catholic
would. Then his time comes and he pretty much commits suicide.
When Pepe leaves his home his sister has already predicted his fate
and everyone knew what was going to happen to him. It is was his .....
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Marranos: A Lost People
Number of pages: 9 | Number of words: 2428.... practiced in secret.1 The Spanish made every attempt to search out and
punish these conversos. Some Jews chose not to convert and they moved to
Portugal. . Unfortunately, Portugal, in 1497, expelled the Jews from its borders
as well. Anti-semitism was growing in Western Europe and the Jews needed to
escape. The prime choice seemed to be so obvious. The Jews went to the New World.
The immigration of the Marranos to the new world might have begun with
none other than Christopher Columbus. This, of course, is not definite, but
there has been research which has shown that .....
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