Big & Rich

Technology is something we as a race and especially as Americans pride ourselves on. Technology has been something that always has a frontier, like that of space, which will always be sought after at any cost. The government is always striving to have the most up-to-date technology in order to better society as a whole, but what they don’t realize is that they will choose technology over the people that they serve. Their thirst for technological advances outweighs the importance of the people…

Huffington Post’s article authoritatively described the definition of a trophic cascade as an ecological phenomenon triggered by the addition, or removal of top predators and involving reciprocal changes in the relative populations of predator and prey through a food chain, which often results in dramatic changes in ecosystem structure and nutrient cycling (huffingtonpost.com).” For that reason, in today’s society we have witnessed numerous trophic cascades that occur all over the world,…

While characters such as Winston, Julia, and Syme are too smart for their own good making them vulnerable, while the proles are not. The proletariats, or proles, are the majority of the population of Oceania. They are separate from the inner or outer party and usually are hard working blue collared people who are heavily under educated compared to those who work in the government. They are just cogs in the inner party’s machine. An exemplary prole would be the women singing that Winston brings…

It was a cold and windy night in Big Timber Montana while Dakota was at his favorite bar watching the football game. Dakota is 31 years old and was born and raised in Montana. He grew up learning how to hunt and fish from his father when he was younger. Dakota's mother and father passed away a couple years ago, now Dakota lives by himself in a small ranch just outside the small city of Big Timber about 6 miles away from the bar. Dakota drives a beat up and rusted Ford pickup truck and works at…

I started off the interview by asking if my mom agrees or disagrees with the theory of the big bang. She did not know too much about the theory so I had to jog her memory on it. She stated that the theory itself is an amazing concept of life and how it could have created everything we know. I then had her read the article we read in class called…

a great example of a society that has total tyranny. It was Orwell’s definition of dystopia and a warning to the modern era, which had great potential because the book was written during the rise of communism. In this book, the government known as Big Brother has total control over the people of Oceania through the usage of several tools and idea. Some of these tools and ideas were telescreens, doublethink, thoughtcrime, 2 + 2 = 5, and Newspeak. 1984 is perceived to have the three main…

The telescreen also monitors their behavior everywhere they go and also remind them with a sign saying “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.” The Party also brainwash the kids encourage them to spy on their parents and report any disloyalty. The Party also tense up the citizens emotions so they can hate the Party enemies. This shows that the party manipulated people's…

“When the majority of their brothers voted against them, they abandoned their ideas as all men must.” These are the words of a totalitarian society in which technology is slow. This is the world of Anthem a place where thinking can kill you and doing things independently can make you dangerous. The world of anthem views technology as an unnecessary and unlawful transgression. The world of Anthem is technologically slow. Their latest invention has been the candle which in this world was around 3…

rebellion by eliminating all the words related to it. Even thinking rebellious thoughts is deemed to be illegal. This is called thoughtcrime, and it is the worst of all. These regulations are controlled by Big Brother, a figure that no one has ever seen. In fact, there is no proof that says Big Brother is even real, but the “thought” of questioning such matter could cause a citizen to be vaporized. Such harsh consequence results in understandable fear among the people living in this society.…

called Nineteen Eighty Four. Inside 1984, it depicts a society, with an oppressive control dominating society, refining and manipulating the past and putting them under constant surveillance. They are driven to fully submit under the authority of Big Brother. The party put the population under constant surveillance and brainwash them by sending messages and propaganda blaring through Telescreens. These telescreens cause people to live in such fear, and causes their knowledge to become so foggy…