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Ministry Of Truth Winston Smith
1,883 words1984: The Quintessential Negative Utopia (Or How to become really depressed about the future of the human condition in 267 pages or less. ) 1984 is George Orwell's arguably his most famous novel, and it remains one of the most powerful warnings ever made against the dangers of a totalitarian society. George Orwell was primarily a political novelist as a result of his life experiences. In Spain, Germany, and Russia, Orwell had seen for himself the peril of absolute political authority in an age o...
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Ho Chi Minh Tet Offensive
1,316 wordsThe Tet offensive was certainly the decisive campaign of the war, but lost in these set of battles was the real underlying reason why the grossly underestimated NLF and North Vietnamese army could actually succeed in this undermanned set of attacks. I think the real success of this campaign was not the effectiveness and the planning of the NLF and NV army, but the lack of preparation of the US forces. The NLF and NV army have received too much credit on this suicide mission. The credit should ac...
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People Of Oceania Totalitarian Society
1,351 words... mmonplace today. But we have not sacrificed old words to replace them. Today the names of agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, North Atlantic Trade Organization, and the Central intelligence Agency have become mere initials (FBI, NATO, CIA). The chief concern of todays readers is directed to the feasibility of the society of Oceanian itself. Can that happen here? The technology of Ingsoc is already here with us today. Indeed, we have surpassed it. The internal mental mechani...
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The Righteous Reign How King Asoka Institutionalized Buddhism
1,377 wordsHow King Asoka Institutionalized Buddhism Buddhism and Jainism in Ancient and Medieval India Dhamma sadhu, kim cu dhamme ti? Apasinave, back kane, daya, dane, same, scale. -- Dhamma is good, but what constitutes Dhamma? (It includes) little evil, much good, kindness, generosity, truthfulness and purity. In the third century BC there lived a king described by the historian H. G. Wells as a ruler who stood out amidst the tens of thousands of names of monarchs that crowd the columns of history... a...
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King Henry Iv Part 1 Hal
1,443 wordsShakespeare gives the reader the opportunity to view the timeless duplicity of a politician in Prince Hal of Henry IV, Part 1 . Instead of presenting a rather common hero, Shakespeare sharpens the both sides of the sword and makes Hal a deceitful prince. In order to portray accurately the treachery and fickleness of Hal, Shakespeare must provide Hal with models to follow, rivals to defeat, and a populace to convince. Although Hal would not have to grovel for votes from England's populace ...
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South Carolina Religious Toleration
1,241 wordsGeorge the Second, by the grace of God, of Great Britain, King, Defender of the Faith, I write to thee from the heart of South Carolina, Charleston to impart my knowledge of the region. My travels have been long and arduous. I arrived by way of a freight ship bearing finished goods for the colony on the twenty-eighth day of March, in the twenty-third year of thy reign. All that province, territory, or tract of ground, called South Carolina, lying and being within our dominions of America is well...
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Causes Morality And Demise Of American Civil Defense
1,627 wordsAn Examination of the Causes, Morality, and Demise of American Civil Defense While there are conflicting and overlapping reasons as to why civil defense became an important issue in America in the 1950 s and 1960 s, the fact remains that Americans became obsessed with civil protection and the threat of thermonuclear war. This took the form of general preparation for an attack, such as the construction of bomb shelters, stockpiling of food supplies, perfecting emergency drills in schools and home...
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Life In America Mind And Soul
1,137 wordsThe Industrial Culture of America: Assimilation of an Automaton Populace (vs. the rich cultural, freedom of expression of Europe) Introduction For those interested in hearing a broad educated well-traveled viewpoint, I've written this essay to explain why I am dissatisfied and unfulfilled with life in America, feeling like a fish out of water, and find areas like Europe much more fulfilling and satisfying. The following lists only some of my complaints and the factors at stake. The industrial cu...
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The Battle Of Algiers Terrorism Torture Ethics
1,524 wordsThe Battle of Algiers The Battle of Algiers, directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, produced in 1966 depicts the 1950 s Algerian war of independence with chilling authenticity. Cast almost entirely with nonprofessional actors, and filmed in documentary neo realist style in the serpentine alleys, stairways and archways of Algiers Muslim Kasbah. Pontecorvo used newsreel film stock, telephoto close-ups, and a percussive, hard-driving musical score to create a swiftly moving political thriller (Hornaday). It...
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Handmaids Tale Human Race
1,236 wordsHuman beings are emotional creatures. Their feelings steer them in one direction or the next, and greatly determine who they are, and what they do. It is the human environment that triggers these feelings, and these feelings that in turn influence the human environment. They can be either positive or negative in nature, and are central to society and government. Since the government controls a great deal of what we are exposed to, they can control our emotions to some extent. Someone living in a...
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Handmaids Tale Handmaid Tale
1,726 wordsThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Human beings are emotional creatures. Their feelings steer them in one direction or the next, and greatly determine who they are, and what they do. It is the human environment that triggers these feelings, and these feelings that in turn influence the human environment. They can be either positive or negative in nature, and are central to society and government. Since the government controls a great deal of what we are exposed to, they can control our emoti...
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Ping Pong South Africa
1,666 wordsAnthropology/ Contemporary scientific Racism Sara Bartmann is known as Hottentot Venus. Her story is a symbol of suppression and disgrace. Her appearing was a religious thing. Sara is the short name used nowadays for a woman originally named Saartjie Bartmann. She was a Khoisan slave who at the early age of twenty was taken from Cape Town to London and then on to Paris to be shown naked in their streets and at their spectacle like a mammal creature (as her European spectators observed her to be)...
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Continental Illinois Case Part 1
1,631 wordsContinental Illinois case study Settings: Continental Illinois was one of the largest banks in the world. The bank in the seventies benefited from its aggressive strategy that was limited to taking a great number of deposits across industries as well as making a great number of loan across industries hardly assessing any risks associated with the loans. Quite often, as the case reads the bank would provide a loan at a rate below the prime rate, if the loan officers found it necessary. What shoul...
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Hank Morgan Nineteenth Century
1,155 wordsA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court is a complicated novel that fundamentally deals with the concept of the human experience. Hank Morgan is a nineteenth century mechanic who is transported back thirteen centuries to medieval Britain, during the time of King Arthur. After his initial shock, he becomes determined to civilize Camelot by introducing modern industrial technology. At an initial look Twain seems to be favoring the industrialized capitalist society that he lives in over the feud...
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Early Modern Europe 18 Th Century
2,701 wordsHistory of popular culture Functions of festivals in Early Modern Europe University level Essay History of Popular Culture What were the functions of popular festivals, etc. in Early Modern Europe? And why did the authorities, civil and ecclesiastical seek to control or suppress them? In Early Modern Europe festivals were the setting for heroes and their stories, to be celebrated by the populace. They posed a change from their everyday life. In those days people lived in remembrance of one festi...
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North Korea South Korea
728 wordsThe Japanese Colonial Legacy In Korea North and South Korea are nations that while filled with contempt for Japan have used the foundations that Japan laid during the colonial period to further industrialization. Japans colonization of Korea is critical in understanding what enabled Korea to industrialize in the period since 1961. Japans program of colonial industrialization is unique in the world. Japan was the only colonizer to locate various heavy industry is in its colonies. By 1945 the indu...
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Eternal Truth Fully Understand
1,665 wordsSoren Kierkegaard is said to be one of the founding fathers of existentialism. His style of writing, his tone and vocabulary tie him closely to another forerunner of existentialist thought: Fyodor Dostoevsky (although either of them would probably deny this vehemently). However, in the course of his writings, Kierkegaard takes quite a liberal and (dare I say it? ) individualistic stand on the side of Christianity. In the passages I have read of Kierkegaard (That Individual and Truth is Subjectiv...
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Acquires His Power Power Through Other Means Ruler
782 wordsVirtu: The Successful Leader The ruler that comes to rule as a citizen-ruler by virtu will be more successful than a ruler that comes to power by other means. According to Machiavelli, a citizen-ruler is one that comes to rule solely on the basis of his own abilities or virtu. He has done and will continue to do whatever it takes to continue his rule. There are many differences between a ruler that acquires power through virtu and a ruler that acquires power through other means such as heredity ...
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Good And Evil Number Of Times
2,695 wordsPhilosophy and Life of Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Nietzsche was born in Rocken (Saxony), Germany, on October 15, 1844. At age four, he lost his father, a Lutheran minister. Nietzsche spent his childhood in Naumburg surrounded by five females: a sister, mother, paternal grandmother, and two maiden aunts. After attending the prestigious boarding school at Port, Nietzsche studied classical philology at Bonn and Liepzig. In May 1869, at the age of 24, the brilliant scholar was awarded his doctorate...
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Cultural Pluralism True Identity
537 wordsSeparation or Assimilation? Our country, The United States of America, was essentially founded on the principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness through solidarity of human kind. In Bernard R. Boxill's article, Separation or Assimilation, he fundamentally poses the Hamletesque question: to assimilate or not to assimilate. Subsequent to the dilemma of some black cultural nationalists, whom not only argue for assimilation of the black American populace, but also believe that this as...
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