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1984 Sexuality And The Search For Truth
1,551 wordsSexuality and the Search For Truth in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four The question of the existence of human nature has been a popular topic in modern literary works. Authors such as Shelly and Freud seem to agree that there is such a thing, however, they disagree on its attributes. Orwell also believes that human nature does exist but he takes it a step further than simply acknowledging its existence. Rather, in 1984 he uses such themes as truth and sexuality to enhance the attributes of human na...
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One Of The Most Important Central Committee
1,770 wordsNikita Khrushchev is undoubtedly one of the most important and interesting political figures of the twentieth century. Rising from a background of extreme poverty, he became an early supporter of the November 1917 bolshevik revolution. During the inter war years he joined the Communist Party, and rose steadily through its ranks; by the outbreak of World War II, he was firmly entrenched as one of the most important Soviet politicians and statesmen. He continued on in this capacity throughout the ...
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Eastern Michigan Football Eastern Michigan Game
302 wordsNo More Pre-Game Get Togethers For Greeks With fall quarter just around the corner, Eastern Michigan students are gearing up for yet another Eagles football season. This year there is not only excitement but quite a bit of resentment in the air as well. For the first year ever, sororities and fraternities will not be permitted to host their own pre-partys prior to each home Eastern Michigan football game. The Greeks will be forced to tailgate in the parking lots along with all other loyal buckey...
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19 Th Century 20 Th Century
2,017 words... ed a more aggressive stance in foreign affairs. Territorial expansion and war with Mexico followed under President James K. Polk in the 1840 s. III THE PERIOD OF NORTH-SOUTH CONFLICT A voter backlash severely changed the partys fortunes in the mid- 1850 s. The Democratic commitment to limited national power extended to the question of whether or not slavery should expand into new territories. Party leaders such as Lewis Cass and Stephen A. Douglas favored local control, or popular sovereignt...
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Marketing The American President
1,114 wordsThe American presidency has always been a type of elective kingship, our connection to a more civilized time. Americans have historically given the president the same admiration and loyalty as subjects would to a benevolent ruler. This is why character and image are so important in all presidential campaigns. Americans expect their president to uphold the ideal of a model American as well as cater to their every policy preference. A national media, targeted campaign ads, and a decline in parties...
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Animal Farm Tele Screens
2,051 words... rs existence back to 1930, before Winston was even born. By deliberately weakening peoples memories and flooding their minds with propaganda, the Party is able to replace individuals memories with its own version of the truth. It becomes nearly impossible for people to question the Partys power in the present when they accept what the Party tells them about the past that the Party arose to protect them from bloated, oppressive capitalists, and that the world was far uglier and harsher before...
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Darkness At Noon Communist Party
1,137 wordsThe Conflict Between the Individual and the State and the Grammatical Fiction in Darkness At Noon "The Party denied the free will of an individual-and at the same time exacted his willing self-sacrifice. " The obvious contradiction of the above definition of the Communist party is depicts the conflict between the individual and the State in Arthur Koestlers novel Darkness at Noon. Koestlers protagonist Nicolas Salamanovich Rubashov, devout communist and former leader of the Communist party, fall...
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Ministry Of Truth Matter Of Fact
1,095 words... w paradoxical conclusion that the prevailing mental condition in Oceania must be one of controlled insanity (1984 p. 225). Eventually it is the denial of reality which is the special feature of Ingsoc (1984 p. 205). Finally apart from the permanent surveillance of Party adherents and the distortion of reality, the mutability of the past is another crucial tenet of Ingsoc. In fact as far as the philosophy of the regime is concerned there is a significant correlation between the future, past a...
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Lower Middle Class Treaty Of Versailles
2,325 wordster> Reasons for the increasing support given to NSDAP by the German people in the period 1923 - 1936. The NSDAP (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei), who were in the early 1920 s, a small and not particularly distinctive element in the multifarious and fragmented German volkisch movement had become by 1936 the ruling organisation of German society. There were many factors influencing the German mass support to swing towards the party during 1923 - 36. In the face of econom...
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Brian Mulroney Fault Kim Campbell Lost The Election
1,961 wordsOn October 25, 1993 the Progressive Conservative party suffered the biggest political defeat in Canadian history. Under the leadership of Kim Campbell, the Progressive Conservative Party was reduced from one of the biggest majority governments in Canadian history to only two seats in the House of Commons. It is said that a lot of responsibility for this loss lies in the faulty government of Brian Mulroney. However, Kim Campbell was given the rare opportunity of running a country. For a period of...
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Nineteen Eighty Four Controls The Past
816 wordsThe dream of a just society seems to haunt the human imagination. How effectively do the texts you have studied explore the pursuit for a better world? Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel of the Utopia genre yet questions the very idea of the human desire for a utopia, presenting itself as a Distopia and a warning to society of today. The society presented by Orwell is one which haunts the every sleeping and waking moment of the people within it, as well as suppressing the human imagination...
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Mao Tse Tung Chinese Communist Party
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Control The Future Controls The Past
591 wordsPsychological control is a major theme occurring in 1984 and Orwell proves this theme is possible by giving examples of how a totalitarian government could gain psychological control using their power to control history and technology. George Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning to people of what might come in the future if people were not careful. At the time Orwell was writing the book, the Cold War had not yet escalated, and many American intellectuals supported communism. Orwell demonstrated his t...
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Threats To Democracy In Modern Part 1
1,779 wordsThreats to Democracy in Modern America The main feature of our post-industrial era is that modern societies are becoming increasingly anti-utopian. Even in as recent as 1960, the idea of punishing individual for simply having an emotional feeling, would have been thought of as utterly unacceptable by the majority of people. Yet, the ill-famed hate law is nowadays' reality and there is no public outcry against it, as people are being brainwashed that hate is necessarily evil, even though it is a ...
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Brave New World Ministry Of Love
1,807 wordsGeorge Orwell 1984 - a book report by Olivier Still -Author: George Orwell (his real name was Eric Blair), was born in India in 1903. He was educated at Eton. From 1922 to 1928 he served in Burma in the Indian Imperial Police, the following two years he lived in Paris and after that went back to England as a schoolteacher. Later he worked in a bookshop and went to Spain in 1937 to fight for the Republicans, but was wounded. During WW II he was a member of the Home Guard and worked for the BBC. I...
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William Jennings Bryan Quot And Quot
1,528 wordsIn Farmers Alliance Farmers Alliance In the 1880 s, as drought hit the wheat-growing areas of the Great Plains and prices for Southern cotton sunk to new lows, many tenant farmers fell into deep debt. This exacerbated long-held grievances against railroads, lenders, grain-elevator owners, and others with whom farmers did business. By the early 1890 s, as the depression worsened, some industrial workers shared these farm families views on labor and the trusts. By the end of the 1880 s, farmers ha...
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Interest Groups Political Parties
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2,967 wordsV Orwell's thoughts on Totalitarianism A. From life experiences B. From a writers point of view VI Conclusio Introduction Orwell observed that every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it (George Orwell). George Orwell has been a major contributor to anticommunist literature around the World War II period. Orwell lived in England during World War II, a time when the tota...
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