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Uses And Abuses Of Information
Number of Words: 2261 / Number of Pages: 9
... 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 Russia of the 1940s. I want to compare and contrast Orwell’s vision of the future and control of information to the world of today ...
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Racism In Wright's Black Boy
Number of Words: 800 / Number of Pages: 3
... Instead he
assumed that the white man was the black boy's father. When Wright learned that
this was not true, and that the boy was beaten because of his race, he was un
able to rationalize it. Even as he got older he didn't see the color of people.
In one instance Richard and a friend are standing outside a shop when some white
people pass by, Richard doesn't move to accomodate the white people because he
simple didn't notice that they were white.
As a child, Wright ultimately learned to fear white people. However, he
still did not understand the social differences between the races. W ...
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Heart Of Darkness: Ignorance And Racism
Number of Words: 1003 / Number of Pages: 4
... that back in the eighteen hundreds society conformed to it.
Conrad probably would have been criticized as being soft hearted rather than a
racist back in his time.
Conrad constantly referred to the natives, in his book, as black savages,
niggers, brutes, and "them", displaying ignorance toward the African history
and racism towards the African people. Conrad wrote, "Black figures strolled
out listlessly... the beaten nigger groaned somewhere" (Conrad 28). "They
passed me with six inches, without a glance, with the complete, deathlike
indifference of unhappy savages" (Conrad 19). Achebe, also, ...
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Lord Of The Flies - Character
Number of Words: 1193 / Number of Pages: 5
... only boys whose last name is learned. I think the author does this to make Jack stand out. He is a very important character because throughout this whole novel, Golding depicts this island and savagery to everyday life. Jack is the perfect character to play this role due to his temperament and power hungry acts. Jack is solely concerned with hunting, and cannot see the necessity of other things that can keep them alive. Fire, an important necessity, is carelessly abused and treated by Jack. His whole existence and survival depend on fire yet his mail goal is to hunt and kill. His controlling ...
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Catcher In The Rye: Holden And His "Phony" Family
Number of Words: 1276 / Number of Pages: 5
... Holden begins to refer to
his parents as distant and generalizes both his father and mother
frequently throughout his chronicle. One example is: "…my parents would
have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything personal about them.
They're quite touchy about anything like that, especially my father.
They're nice and all – I'm not saying that – but they're also touchy as
hell" (Salinger 1). Holden's father is a lawyer and therefore he considers
him "phony" because he views his father's occupation unswervingly as a
parallel of his father's personality. For example, when Holden is talking ...
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Things Fall Apart 3
Number of Words: 990 / Number of Pages: 4
... by the introduction of Christian missionaries who pacify the Ibo people and ultimately cause the death of Okonkwo. I believe Okonkwo is the last and final source of chaos that is finally muted to bring civility to the people.
The Ibo people live a very peaceful but ignorant life. At first glance their lifestyle may seem to be normal but when examining the depths of it we can clearly see why it would seem to be chaotic. When I use the term chaos or anarchy I don’t mean it in the literal sense but in comparison to the modern world or in particular England. Anarchy or chaos in my usage is meant to b ...
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Hosea
Number of Words: 3153 / Number of Pages: 12
... and they have a son.
God informs Hosea to name the child Jezreel because he is going to punish the
house of Jehu for the massacre at Jezreel. Later they have a daughter and God
tells Hosea to name her Lo-Ruhama which means, not loved, in Hebrew. Once again
Hosea and Gomer have a son that God tells Hosea to name Lo-Ammi which means, not
my people, in Hebrew. Chapter one ends with God describing how the two nations,
Israel and Judah, be reunited under one appointed leader and one God.
Chapter two describes God's feelings towards the nation Israel. He does
this by comparing the nation Israel to Hosea ...
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Steinbeck's "In Dubious Battle": The Power Struggle Between Owners And Workers
Number of Words: 835 / Number of Pages: 4
... the quality of their life in fear of losing the little they have.
After they decided that they could know longer live under the horrid
conditions that the owners put them under they executed their power to
strike.
Since power is the ability of its holder to exact compliance or
obedience of other individuals to his will on what so ever basis the
strikers became a power. The owners no longer had absolute power over the
strikers. The unification of the strikers increased their power, which
commanded recognition from the growers. In recognition of sending a
representative like Mr. Bolter into the camp ...
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Summary Of Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife
Number of Words: 377 / Number of Pages: 2
... help for the baby to live. When he saw his daughter he said; " Why
didn't you tell me she was this way?" (pg.337). One day Wen Fu went to a
restaurant with some friends. There, he became friends with the waitress
and the relation between them became much stronger than only a simple
friendship. Later on, they had intimate relations and she got pregnant.
When Wen Fu found out that she was going to have a baby, his intentions
were to push her down the stairs so she could have a miscarriage, but he
was wrong. She not only had a miscarriage but she died immediately. He
obviously didn't care ...
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Lord Of The Flies: Golding's Reality - Fact Or Fiction
Number of Words: 1847 / Number of Pages: 7
... devil.
Lord of the Flies is a story of a group of boys from different
backgrounds that become stranded on an isolated and uncharted island when
their plane crashes. As the boys try to unite to try to become rescued
they begin to separate and a tribe of savage hunters is formed. After a
while the boys lose all sense of civilized behavior. This is when you
realize that the boys have lost all manners and civility that had been
instilled as they where raised, thus showing the savage beast in the heart
of all men. This book shows how easy it is for man to revert back to the
evil that is deep in ...
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