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    “Exterminate”: Imperialism and Racial Purity in Doctor Who Remembrance of the Daleks, a four-episode serial in the twenty-fifth season of the classic science fiction show Doctor Who, pits the Doctor against one of his deadliest foes: the Daleks. For the purposes of this response, I will focus on the fourth and final episode, which depicts this alien race, despite having the somewhat comical appearance of oversized pepper shakers, as a hyperbolic analogy for the ideologies of imperialism and…

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    Big brother is a power that forced fear and protection over all of Oceania. The party which is the inner works behind big brother helps keep everybody in a straight line and not stray away from what the party says is so. Big brother has been made the face of fear and tyranny and has enforced a lot of unfair laws on the people of Oceania. Some people think that in 1984 big brothers surveillance is as advanced as some of our technological appliances today. In today's modern world of technology I…

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    different, these two people both work for the government. These governments are controlling, and basically brainwash people. Winston and Montag rebel against their oppressive governments in with the help of a few friends. Winston, in 1984, works for “Big Brother”, which is another name for the government. Winston has a deep hatred for the government and seems to be the only person to know what the government is doing. Winston meets a young woman name Julia, she works for the government just…

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    John Kowac Interview

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    drinking a bottle of water and laying out a couple of awards he has won. What is your career? Well, I do work and do studies on the big bang but mainly I am a professor the Astronomy and Physics Department at Harvard University. What type of work have you done on astronomy? Well, me and my team of radio astronomers had found the imprint of gravitational waves from the Big Bang.…

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    Vietnam War Veterans

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    She adds that the veterans tend to write fictional stories because it allows them to not sound very political. Risquez states that her article is trying to emphasize the dissent among Vietnam War Veterans. She cites the movie The Big Lebowski as a good example of the social turmoil between veterans and the counterculture citizens during that era. She explains how the two main characters, Walter and the Dude, represent the two sides since Walter is a veteran and the Dude is a counterculture…

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    the past.” The quote represents the grasp that the Party has over the people, controlling the past, the present, and the future, taking away and dominating everything the people have to live for. They are free yet they are not in many ways because “Big Brother Is Always Watching…

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    This is accompanied by the movie's attempt in criticising the media's crooked ways in a desperate search for the next big hit, aiding politicans in delivering messages the public and voters want to hear and devaluing real issues. Sadly, the movie fails in bringing that message across in a satirical, convincive manner, as it awkwardly tries to be a political satire and…

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    Hate-Based Society Essay

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    minds. In a way, Winston is right. A society based off hatred and cruel punishments is not going to survive with the system they have; it would only be a matter of time before everyone begins to break the laws of Oceania and defy the Party as well as Big Brother. Our world has a history of hate-based crimes and hate-based developing societies. For example, Nazi Germany in 1930’s rose with direct hatred toward Jews or anyone who did not fit the stereotypical idea for Adolf Hitler’s “Master…

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    been many different types that have been created. Not only have there been governments with the rule of the people, there are also governments that are run by one leader or dictator. In the story 1984 the government is run by an organization called Big Brother. This government is like a dictatorship as they are able to watch over and listen to everything you say and do. In the movie Divergent the people are divided up into 5 different factions that are controlled by the government. However the…

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    In a totalitarian society where love, compassion, and intimacy are not permitted- two people manage to find each other. In George Orwell’s novel 1984, Winston and Julia are an unlikely match who would likely be incompatible in a normal, “free”society. While they are united in their passionate hatred for their society’s government (known as “the party”), they are complete opposites in their vision to overthrow or rebellion of it. Winston has a different view on the party than other people, he…

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