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1984
Number of Words: 1025 / Number of Pages: 4
... observing the people. Both Stalin & "The Party" believed in total control over their "party members". The objectives of the Spies, the Ministry of Truth, Thought Police, and the telescreens in Oceania are mirrored in Stalin’s Russia by the actions of the KGB, and all the technologies they used to monitor people. Another way was by altering all forms of media. The Ministry of Truth worked to change the past in all forms of media, making Big Brother appear to have always been right. Stalin had books rewritten, histories revamped, and paintings altered to feature his presence. Although unlimite ...
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The Roles Of I-330 And O-90
Number of Words: 1117 / Number of Pages: 5
... spends his time with a woman referred to as O-90, or O. O-90 is D-503’s only girlfriend at the beginning of the story although O has two boyfriends. It is not until later on in the story, when D-503 comes to have another girlfriend, I-330, that his life begins to change drastically.
O is important to the story because she represents a woman of the old days. She is in rebellion against the OneState that D-503 loves, although she is too peaceful and naďve to resort to violence. She is described as looking like her name, short, round, and with the circle of her mouth always open. O’s ...
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Patterns - Symbolism
Number of Words: 1093 / Number of Pages: 4
... "Flutter[ing] in the breeze," (23). This creates a sense of freedom and flexibility. The woman in the poem, presumably Amy, wishes to be like the moving flowers, carefree and jaunty. In the second stanza of the poem, the woman begins to describe the water in the marble fountain. The, "…plashing of waterdrops," (28) and, "…plopping of the waterdrops," (54) describe liquid in motion. The fact that she notices such little details in a fountain shows how intent the woman is on being free and able to move about as she pleases. The unconstrained movement of the flowers and the ...
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I Aint Got Time To Bleed
Number of Words: 578 / Number of Pages: 3
... He started working for regional promotions down South then moved around into all different territories in the United States. Then Vince McMahon lured him to the WWF up north. A few months after Jesse went with the WWF most of the regional promotions were put out of business by the WWF. The end of Jesse's career came soon after he was hospitalized with pulmonary emboli. After that Vince McMahon asked Jesse to be the first heel(bad guy) commentator in wrestling to take the side of all the heels in the matches. The end of Ventura's relationship with the WWF came when Jesse found out he was being ri ...
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Death Be Not Proud
Number of Words: 844 / Number of Pages: 4
... positive. Johnny kept fighting, determined to recuperate, even if he had to do things himself. "I watched him give himself a hypodermic injection of liver extract on the side above the hip, an awkward place to reach. I could not possibly have done on anybody, let alone myself." (p77) Johnny, had to take hypodermic injections, and were more than painful, and gave himself the shots. That shows the courage he has, to give himself painful injections that his dad wouldn’t be able to give, yet alone watch. Although he realized that eventually his life would end, he still never gave up the hope that perhap ...
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David Guterson And His Use Of The Theme Of Nature
Number of Words: 1544 / Number of Pages: 6
... an important source of income for the community.
Traditionally the Japanese laborers worked the fields and the white Americans
owned the fields. The question of the ownership of seven acres of strawberry
fields serves as the apparent motive for the murder of Carl Heine. To a local
Japanese fisherman, Kabuo (accused of murdering Carl Heine), the ownership of
this land promises a secure future and ultimately independence. “...she knew
that Kabuo wanted a strawberry field.. nothing more than that” (Snow Falling 89).
“His dream...was close to him now, his strawberry land, his happiness” (Snow
Falling ...
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The Vesus The Heart In The Sca
Number of Words: 664 / Number of Pages: 3
... laws is when a spouse
is lost and can not be found. When this occurs the
widow most likely wants to get on with her life, but
the widow can not have any type of relationship with
anyone until seven years after the incident. This
would be a constant reminder of the loss of a loved one
to the point where they would go insane. There are
some who could not bear this law and went against it.
A good example of this is the relationship between
Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale. Hester Prynne's
husband was lost at sea and thought to be dead. After
two years of mourning Hester could bear ...
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The Catcher In The Rye
Number of Words: 645 / Number of Pages: 3
... is basically the first step they take, the second step is smoking.
Teenage smoking in New Zealand is very common, 31% of teenagers in New Zealand are regular smokers, the smoking age between Holden and New Zealand teenagers is the same but now you get teenagers that start smoking below the age of 17. The schools are common places for smoking these days, they usually do it in the toilets, school hockey turf's or where teachers never do their duties. Holden smokes a lot in the book and he does it sometimes when he gets depressed.
Depression was a big problem with Holden, whenever he got depre ...
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Crime And Punishment
Number of Words: 540 / Number of Pages: 2
... crime. His
intellectual side ignores his conscience and is able to commit the
crime in a rational and orderly way. It is his dual character thta
serves as his punishment. One side of him is able to commit the
murders so the other must bear the punishment. He is torured by the
cruelty in mankind and yet he himself is able to repeat it.
Ralkolnokove justifies his crime through a philosophy that he has
come up with. The man with power is the man to rule over all others.
But this power is only given to those who dare to take it. Raskolnikov
wanted to see if he had the courag ...
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Honest Iago
Number of Words: 2158 / Number of Pages: 8
... that what Iago did was without motive? For the sake of this discussion, Coleridge intends the later.
Abbott states "in truth character is what a person is; reputation is what he is supposed to be." (Websters) Is Iago evil? No, he is not. Walter Lippmann says that "evil is not a quality of things as such. It is a quality of our relation to them." (Websters) Iago is not opposed to good (a partial definition of evil) however, he is amoral and malicious.
How does Iago see himself? "Others there are who, trimmed in forms and visages of duty, keep yet their hearts attending on themselves, and throwin ...
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