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    The book we have read is Animal Farm written by George Orwell. The book is a fable and the main genre is drama and satire, satire because Orwell is humiliating the rule in the Russian Revolution. The theme in the book is power struggle, abuse of power and leadership. Animal Farm is a novel that shows us in a more simple and easier way how the Russian Revolution happened and developed. The oldest pig, Old Major, had a dream and tells every animal about it in a meeting. The dream was about the…

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    “Markers, Paw-Prints, Hair Dye, and Other Mistakes” I love trying new things. I’m bold. I love the rush of adrenaline you get when taking risks. I love the unknown. I’ve had this mindset for as long as I can remember; I’ve always believed that living a life without being audacious isn’t a life worth having. You need to be impulsive. Try new things without worrying about the outcome, because if you do, you won’t enjoy the little things in life nearly as much. But things can go wrong, and…

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    June 2, 1865. This very day marks the end of a long, bloody war, the Civil War. The Civil War had lasted for four years, from 1861 to 1865. Tensions were high and the country was divided over issues revolving around slavery. Four years of America’s history was spent battling this issue and attempting to declare a true winner between the divided nation. The long, gruesome four years that the Union and the Confederates had spent fighting finally came to an end. With a battered nation that suffered…

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    The pigs in the book Animal Farm were horrible leaders. Orwell, the author, introduces many poor characteristics of a bad leader when he writes about how the pigs. The pigs try and change the commandments to what they wanted them to be, make lies about different animals so that people believe him, and all the pigs wanted to do their separate thing that did not involve the other animals. Nelson Mandela was the total opposite as the pigs because he was a good leader in trying to help South Africa.…

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    Personification Of Animals

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    As humans, we are only able to understand the world around us in terms of the human experience, through human emotions, feelings, and perception. Authors will often personify other things in order to relate back to the human experience. Most likely of these cases, authors will personify animals. Sometimes this is deliberate and other times the author is personifying animals unintentionally, because that is the only way the author can perceive the animal in his or her own terms of the human…

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    Veterinarians I’ve always loved animals, I grew up around them all of my life. I have owned animals for as long as I can remember. I can still remember my first animal, a bearded dragon. Animals are my passion, and I have been caring, raising, and breeding animals for as long as I can remember. My family has owned animals from horses to a 6.5 foot Red tail boa. I can already clean and dress wounds and do many other things required of veterinarians. My mother is a veterinarian technician, based…

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    Battle For The Jug Analysis

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    College or professional, even in high school, a rivalry between two teams is always a big deal. The stakes are even higher when this rivalry comes between a city. Rochester Hills is home to two very different colleges, Oakland University and Rochester College. When the two meet it is much like the U of M versus MSU during football season. The RC versus OU hockey matches, known as the Battle of the Jug, is one of the biggest hockey series of the season. The Battle for the Jug is one of the few…

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    Animal Farm Responses: Response #1: How are the pigs and their role in the governance of Animal Farm a symbol for more educated and more intelligent members of society that are required to do little physical labour? In Animal Farm by George Orwell, the author uses the animals and the roles that they play in the story as symbols for different classes of people in a real society. The role that a particular species assumes in Animal Farm is closely related to the real characteristics of that…

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    Hyde Alternate Ending

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    basement was listening to the sex pistols on his vintage record player. His name was Steven Hyde, a brutally honest and down to earth, radical dude. As the last note from johnny rotten's mouth is growled out, “I wanna be anarchy”, Eric walks in. “Hey man”, says Hyde. Eric asked how's it hanging as he looks into hyde's tinted shades. “Its pretty chill I guess”. “ So, the gang is gonna go out tonight to a disco record burning party. “I'm there, man, might meet some chill people. “What?!”…

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    In chapter 5, page 70, Squealer uses a form of propaganda to entice fear into the other animals of the farm. Most of the animals are non-intelligent, hence, they would not know the pigs ulterior motive. “You don’t want Jones back do you?” Squealer uses a Jones as a fear/threat to convey what’s happening on the farm is for the better and if they didn’t comply with the changes, life would be back to the way it was with Jones. However, this causes confusion with the animals on account of the…

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