Big Day Out

If it’s not okay for me to hear and you have to apologize for them then it shouldn’t be okay for you either. I find myself not listening to music I would listen to if you weren’t in the car and I don’t like that. Maybe that song I listened to that day is just a black guy singing about sex but honestly he never says the word sex so it’s really left to your imagination. Also half the songs you listen to could be interpreted the same way like Good for You or Like a Wrecking Ball and many more. I’m…

the real world starts to be recreated in TV more and more accurately. On another hand, as years passed, this realism chase also brought out how problematic it is to suggest that television ’reflects’ reality. Does it reflects how we live our lives or does is construct a reality to be followed? Television uses the principles of realism in Reality Shows like Big Brother as claims to 'reflect ' reality. Realism in texts is often marked as being…

novel 1984 the rats symbolize Winston's fears and the reason he loved Big Brother, Big Brother way to survive, manipulate and dominate the people and the power. In other words Big Brother IS the rat,. It is the Party’s way of discovering the peoples rat and use it against them causing fear, and dominance over them. winstons fear that led him to subdue to the party and changed his hatred to love were the rats, big brother know everybodies fear to control their mind. after being taken to…

In Orwell’s novel, 1984 he shows us a world in which mind control, manipulation, and how the power of the government can lead to controlling the lives of citizens by spying and using fear to diminish their freedom. In many ways, our world is already like the fictitious one Orwell wrote almost 70 years ago. A totalitarian government is a modern autocratic government in which the state involves itself in all facets of society, including the daily life of its citizens. One person or an elite few…

Museum of Natural History posted an essay as an online resource, Profile: Georges Lemaître, Father of the Big Bang. An excerpt from Cosmic Horizons: Astronomy at the Cutting Edge. It was edited by Steven Soter and Neil deGrasse Tyson. The profile begins with a simple explanation of the expanding universe and how Georges Lemaître published his mathematical findings that today we know as the Big Bang theory. Soter and deGrasse Tyson provide some of Lemaître’s life details. He was a Belgian…

cabinets, we have a big white whirlpool fridge, also a white whirlpool microwave, and a white toaster. We were making apple crisp with a big white whirlpool oven. Ciara asked me, “Skylar, could you make the dry mix for the apple crisp?” I answered back with a positive attitude, “Yes, of course.” So I was getting the ingredients out for the dry mix, I noticed that we didn’t have cinnamon. I nervously walked outside to my mom whom is 37 years old. I walked over…

Long live the Numbers! Long live the WellDoer”[1]. He loves everything about his life in the One State, he loves the Table of Hours which plans every second of his day, he loves the fact that he is isolated from the rest of the world by a wall known as the Green Wall which surrounds the One State, he loves that he lives in a transparent glass apartment which can easily be monitored from outside, he loves and respects…

harmonies, commercialized big bands and it had limited room for improvisation; most of the bands at the time were limited in uniqueness. Such a borderline bland music scene proved fertile ground for Bebop, but what started as a musical form unknown, or at least not meant to be known, by the public, played in afterhours of nightclubs, was revolutionized by the alto-sax player, Charlie Parker. Despite his short life, his contributions to jazz and bebop persist to this day. Charlie Christopher…

Throughout our day in age, the Government has had a watchful eye on bystanders in society. Due to the Government watching and monitoring people, it comes to mind that our society is slowly becoming that of George Orwell’s book, 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…

Perhaps one of the greatest novels of our time, 1984 has stood out as a tale that not only serves as a warning to those who would passively watch as injustice was done, but also accurately portrays the ugly sides of human nature. Endowed with many literary themes that arise throughout the novel, the most common and overwhelming theme is “man vs. institution” or “man vs. society” . In the accurate portrayal and address of these many themes, 1984 serves to teach us that while institutions and the…