A Big Family

This year, I’ve read To Kill a Mockingbird, The Most Dangerous Game, Station Eleven, Harrison Bergeron, and 1984. All of these stories show many of my beliefs, but 1984 best shows them. 1984 best shows my beliefs because of its warnings about surveillance and power-hungriness. George Orwell wrote 1984 to warn the world about dangers he foresaw. One warning expressed through 1984 is the use of devices called “telescreens” to keep track of everyone’s actions. He warns that surveillance voids basic…

Throughout time access to information has been controlled by many different organisations. This controlling of information can sometimes be used for ulterior motives, which members of society may not be aware of. This fear of manipulation is displayed throughout many forms of text, from different time periods. By analysing George Orwell’s 1984, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and Fifteen Minutes of Shame I have been able to compare…

Basically almost everything is held by gravity in space. Some astronomers believe some galaxies as held by black holes. But is that really the case? The short period of growth of the universe started of as the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago. After the Big Bang the universe started to cool of, starting protons and neutrons, hydrogen, helium, lithium and more. Stars, planets, galaxies started to form during the process. According to the European Space Agency's Herschel Telescope…

“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us,” these words of Machiavelli pertains to Anthony Burgess’ thoughts on the importance of free will. In the daunting novel, A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess uses the story to tell the audience that free will is a right to everyone and the government can’t take that away. The novel is set in an English town in the 1960’s. A Clockwork Orange is a blunt novel about Alex, a…

Who would have thought of someone proposing like this in a live TV show? When it comes to proposals, men are surprising women in an instant. They don't announce or letting them know in advance. They can strike any time they want, because proposing is always the unexpected one. It can be at the mall, church, beach, playground or so, it doesn't matter at all. What really matters is that the love of one man could be good enough for a woman to get convinced in loving him as well. This is what…

Differences between 1984 and North Korea In 1984 the location of the story is held in London, Oceania. Oceania is a superstate combined of multiple countries formed as one. Oceania is controlled by a totalitarian dictatorship. All surrounding superstate are also under totalitarian dictatorships. The Party, the formal name of Oceania’s government, has created a society built on the basis of control and eqaulity. As we find out later, the purpose of all the lies, and brainwashing is solely for…

novel 1984, the party uses propaganda, and manipulation of individual’s emotions in order to control the people; ultimately, proving how the oppressive government strips society of their freedom to think and act with their own minds. In the novel, Big Brother posters serve as a means of propaganda in order to infix the idea that “every sound” is “overheard” and “every movement scrutinized,” which demonstrates the government's attempt to eliminate any means of secrecy, thus regulating and…

Oceania is a perfect example of a totalitarian regime, in which the Party controls every action of every citizen, from what they wear, to where they work, to limiting their love. If somebody falls out of line, or seems like they are not loyal, they will be killed, and every record of them will be destroyed. The Party also holds the right to change history if what they predicted in the past isn’t true anymore. We have real life examples as to how much this type of society can damage our world,…

1984. In the book, 1984, the protagonist, Winston Smith, is forced to live in a Totalitarian society where the Party, the Government in the book, monitors everything that one does, where one goes, and to make sure that one believes in the words of Big Brother. This has become a controversial topic due to the fact that it appears that our society is headed in a direction of a Totalitarian society. In the novel, 1984, Winston Smith, a member of the a low-ranking member the Party in London,…

For my concert report I attended the Mile High Jazz Festival presented by Flesher Hinton Co. on February 16, 2017. The event took place in Macky Auditorium at the University of Colorado Boulder at 7:30 pm. The concert consisted of a student ensemble and then after a short intermission a faculty ensemble. I decided for this report to select the most impactful song from each ensemble and write about their musical components. The student ensemble consisted of: a piano, a bass, drums, a guitar, 4…