Cory Doctorow

Little did the citizens of San Francisco know, every movement they made, was recorded by The Department of Homeland Security. In Little Brother by Cory Doctorow writes a fictional story about the terrorist attacks on the city of San Francisco. Post the attacks, The Department Homeland of Security heavily enforces setting up high tech cameras, restricted internet access, and extensive surveillance of citizens. After pinpointing a seventeen year old boy named Marcus to the attacks, The DHS captured him and his three friends; Daryl, Vanessa, and Jolu. Finally, being released the friends realized that Daryl was missing and he was still at the prison. Marcus and his two friends had a plan to fight back against the security system, and get their friend Daryl back from the DHS. Citizens eventually found out that they are being watched. Marcus and his friend, Jolu create a computer network called the “Xnet”, where the government cannot see what you search or…

Cory Doctorow’s article, “Why I Won’t Buy an iPad (and Think You Shouldn’t, Either),” is a review on the iPad. Doctorow is a successful writer and has been surrounded by technology for his entire career. He uses his former knowledge of technology, facts about Apple, and appeals to the consumer to reinforce the idea that the iPad limits the content that can be used and created with it. Doctorow created this article to persuade the consumers into not buying the iPad by telling then how limited the…

In the novel, Little Brother, Marcus proves to be clever and quick-thinking. Firstly, Marcus is very clever. In the fifth chapter of the book, Marcus realized someone had been in his room when he found a bug planted in his laptop. He was smart enough to understand the possibility that there is also a camera watching him. Marcus says, “Knowing how to turn a toilet paper roll and three bucks’ worth of parts into a camera detector is just good sense” (Doctorow 85). Overall, this quotation proves…

according to Google, “the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people”. Without privacy, there would be no freedom. Everyone, everywhere, every second of every day, could be observed by other people in the world. To some, this may seem like a fine idea. It would be a way to make sure that the intentions of potential terrorists or other criminals were prevented. But is this more efficient way of catching criminals worth it if means that any life could be held…

Another Place, Another time is a story by Cory Doctorow who published the story at the age of 17, he now is an online blogger. The opening of the story is about a young boy named Gilbert, who is very interested by the concept of time. He lives with his father in the summer and Ms. Curie, the housekeeper all year round ( his mother passed away while giving birth to him) and in winter his father heads back to the sea for the rest of the year. Gilbert loves to play outside with his friends, the…

The Department of Homeland Security is to blame for mass increased security measures as Marcus and others set out to ensure privacy and civil rights through altering the majority of the city’s technologies’ information by setting up an underground Internet called the Xnet. The story of Little Brother by Cory Doctorow follows Marcus, also known as W1n5t0n, his fellow Xnetters experiencing a major culture shock after a terrorist attack on the San Francisco Bay area revealing many similarities to…

Robinson’s “Richard Cory”, as well as Paul Simon’s remake of that poem into a song also titled “Richard Cory”. The poem and the song are essentially about a rich man named Richard Cory, who is admired yet envied by the people of his town. Little do they know that later on, the man will take his own life, even though he was sought out to have the ideal life image. The two works of art are based off of the same story line, but vary in other individual aspects. Each work of art differs in the…

The Poem “Richard Cory” by Edwin Arlington Robinson from 1869 to 1935 uses an admirational and superficial tone, a third person limited point of view, and the main theme to never judge a book by it’s cover to show a complex attitude towards Richard Cory’s suicide. The author uses a formal and superficial tone to describe who Richard Cory was and his importance to the town. A formal tone is portrayed by the author when said “He was a gentleman from sole to crown”. The author uses more…

prolific poems are Richard Cory, Miniver Cheevy, and Luke Havergal, and their dark themes of isolation and failure brilliantly display why Edwin Arlington Robinson is the best poet of the Modernist Era. Richard Cory is Robinson’s most famous piece of work,…

Edwin Arlington Robinson described a man that appeared to have it all in the poem, “Richard Cory.” The subject was revered by the town’s people and known as a man of great assets and his satisfactory lifestyle. The poem is ended abruptly when Richard Cory shoots himself in the head, taking his own life. The moral of the story is that money and materialistic things offer some level of security and stability, but not necessarily happiness. Though his outward appearance was polished and he seemed…