Dudley George

Disagreements over the ability of the American colonies to govern themselves and the unjust taxes lead to the war between the colonies and the British from 1765 to 1783. According to historians beliefs, there is one reason as to the motivation for the colonial elites and the ordinary citizens to participate in the American Revolution. This is true on the account of both groups vying for independence from Britain. Although the ordinary citizens such as women who are fighting for equal rights,…

The theory suggests that audience are passive and cannot resist the media message. Walter Lippman (1922) -through what was later termed the Agenda Setting theory by Max McCombs and Donald Shaw- observed that people see a world shaped primarily by the media. During the world war, Harold Lasswell proposed the theory of propaganda and noted how people whose world is shaped by the media become victims of propagandist messages which influences audiences’ behaviour prominently. The media message can…

Essay Draft 1 by Andy – Dissecting The Dark Mountain Manifesto’s Intentions The human race is blamed by itself for the destruction of our common home; and it is constantly to be seen and identified as nothing but something evil, useless, and powerless – or at least according to the Dark Mountain Project manifesto. The text encourages its readers to pick up their pens and paintbrushes to fight against the common world, where allegedly the greater proportion of humanity is in sheer denial of…

Rajiv Goswami Writing II Rebellion, Freud, and Sex In 1984 In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell’s use of language helps convey the qualities of a bildungsroman, showcased by a narrator’s rise in self-confidence in the face of the Party. The Party’s repression propagandized as a utopia is what the narrator, Winston, resolves to fight. The narrator’s resistance to the erosion of his individuality by said state is developed by Orwell as a main motif. Winston is initially shown to be…

Prompt “The American Revolution was inevitable”. Explain the key causes of the American Revolution and support, modify or refute this contention using specific evidence. The American Revolution was a colonial revolt against the Great Britain, that took place from 1765 to 1783. The American Revolution was more than just a revolt against the cruel Britain’s treatment and the taxes, it marked the first time people fought for their independence in the name of popular sovereignty and…

“INTROVERTS AND EXTROVERTS AROUND THE WORLD, ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?” “NO.” “OH, OKAY.” Simon Ratcliffe Pd: 5 11-20-2017 What are introverts and extraverts? What are introverts and extraverts? Introverts and extroverts are very different from each other, as Carl Jung the popularizer of the 2 terms introverted and extroverted says”The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” The terms of introvert, extrovert, and…

In the classic novel “Brave New World” by the 20th century English author, Aldous Huxley, Huxley questions the values and goals of 1931 London through the use of irony and satire to portray a futuristic version of the world in which the social trends of Great Britain and the United States are taken to extremes. The world Huxley writes about, since the setting is still on Earth but an unknown amount of time in the future, is still able to resonate with readers today. Within Brave New World,…

Introduction As the Fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad is such an inspiring person. He is very dedicated and passionate in doing his responsibility as the Prime Minister from the year 1981 until 2003. When Mahathir’s residency as Prime Minister, Malaysia encountered a time of fast modernisation and monetary development, and his administration launched an arrangement of strong foundation ventures. Mahathir was a predominant political figure, winning five sequential…

Listen my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere…(Henry Longfellow, “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere”). Whenever you hear the name Paul Revere most people automatically think of his midnight ride and how he warned his fellow rebels of the incoming British and how he rode from town to town yelling “The British are coming! The British are coming!” Which, by the way, he didn’t yell “The British are coming!” he yelled “The Regulars are coming!” British soldiers were…

George Orwell, in his immensely popular allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945), satirizes the political situation in pre-war Europe; especially the communist regime of the Soviet Union, whose dictator was Joseph Stalin. Alluding to the biblical story of The Ten Commandments, whose inscriptions were the law of God; the animals, once they take charge of the farm, they write their own commandments (the Seven Commandments), which are laws they should respect. The most striking one at the beginning…