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Squealer Speech Analysis The book Animal Farm is an allegory novel written by George Orwell on August 17th, 1945. The book depicts the events leading up to the Russian Revolution and the era of the Stalinist Soviet Union. The characters in this novel try to form a sustainable democracy/society in which animals can live a peaceful life without the threat of human beings. The main leaders who take action in this book are Napoleon and Snowball who are both pigs. Another character Squealer (who…

constant struggle of people attached to their electronic devices becoming closer to social isolation. On public transportation, realistically, the number of times we would talk to a stranger daily is none. In the article, “Hello Stranger,” Elizabeth W. Dum and Michael Norton argue with the conducted social experiment to show the difference in experience between acting sociable or isolated. The results given proves that the way people act in public transportation is nothing more than a norm…

A Game of Risk On March 13, 1456, when Pope Callitxus the Third issued the papal bull of Inter Caetera to Portugal. This issue reinstated the two earlier bulls of Dum Diversas and Romanus Pontifex which recognized Portugal's rights to territories it had discovered along the West African coast as well as the enslavement of infidels and non-Christians captured there. So what does this really mean to the explorers who will forever be altering the course of history for the Indigenous peoples?…

Steinbeck continuously adds and builds upon the hatred the reader grows for Curley’s wife. He does this by presenting her to the reader by making her look bothersome and obnoxious when she misbehaves with the other ranch men and perpetually decides on new ways on how to playfully and coyly make conversation. Such as when she says, “I’m looking for Curley,”. Not only is this tedious of her, but it shows her in a different light. One where she knows that is unbefitting in her surroundings but…

Assignment #3 1. Babes in Toyland A hilarious family-friendly musical featuring the clumsy toymakers Stannie Dum and Oliver Dee (Laurel and Hardy) that help save the fairytale characters of Toyland. Li’l Abner The ladies flock towards main character Li’l Abner, originally from the comic strip; it is decided that the women will race to decide who becomes Li’l Abner’s wife. Buck Privates Slicker and Herbie (Abbott & Costello) bring their comedic antics to the military as they accidently…

I had just returned from a 4 hour flight from Texas. I was there to visit my uncle’s family. My two year old cousin was diagnosed with Autism. Raised to be a bilingual, he was able to speak both English and Urdu/Hindi by the time he was two. After talking to his parents I learned that he had demonstrated some signs of speech and language impediment. While this change alarmed his parents, everyone else thought he was craving for attention. However, over the next few months his behavior regressed.…

Hallowed Affliction The author of a medieval lay takes on the challenge of convincing an audience to open their minds to the mystical and suspend disbelief. The medieval lay, a poetic work usually put to music, often asks people to actively take away the themes, criticisms, and messages from magical and mythical stories. In its written form, the lay retains its song-like quality and utilizes a plethora of poetic devices in order to convey its meaning. Sir Orfeo, written by an unknown author,…

campaign for civil right’s is ongoing. However, white Americans take a jaundiced eye towards these issues, and prefer to label them a “black problem.” But on the contrary it is an American problem. So let us not whistle and play twiddle-dee twiddle-dum with our thumbs. Dr. King had a “dream” for an equal America, and it is up to us, the future generation, to continue the work that lies in store to ensure that his dream becomes an everlasting…

Intertextuality and Body-Mind Duality No matter how modern society might insist upon the ideas of copyright and intellectual property, no person’s work is truly his or her own. Texts ancient and new, contemporary or separated by centuries, invariably influence and build upon each other. In Ab Urbe Condita, Livy’s depiction of the Carthaginian leader Hannibal interacts with the depiction of the Roman conspirator Catiline featured in Bellum Catilinae, a work by the historian Sallust, a…

History is about the past, the people, their achievements and setbacks. This research paper addresses the rejecting of Africa 's pre-colonial history. The analysis revolves around ignorance, arrogance, libel, and division. It is a study of the fifteenth-century religious and nineteenth-century philosophical views responsible for the suppressing Africa’s pre-colonial history. Long before the ancient ruins were buried by the desert sand and the vegetation Europeans found a subtly way to bury…