Eurasia

1. Julia and Winston have noticed each other for quite a while, and Winston watches her during the two minutes of hate and hates her for being so loyal to the party. Julia approached to Winston because she “knew [Winston was] against them”(122), the Party, and Julia also “hated the Party ”(131). She also observes him and assumes he is not a loyal member as well. Their first actual encounter came after the two minutes of hate when they run into each other and they both fall down. Later on he…

McNeill argues that some of the ideas that make up the supporting arguments of the book were misinterpreted. For example, McNeill points out that eighty percent of all humanity resided in the Eurasian continent. Therefore, it only makes sense that Eurasia was home to the most advanced societies. Then Jared Diamond should answer the question, “Why Europe is both the heart and mother of the world's most developed modern societies?” McNeill then goes further, claiming that Jared Diamond…

1984 and Nectar in a Sieve may be written by two different authors: George Orwell and Kamala Markandaya but they share the same message: Women’s place in a male-oriented society. Both authors show similar scenarios of women living, with a few differences here and there. Women are considered to be a weaker sex. As far as the women are concerned in these novels, they are made to follow the men. The women depicted in the two universes relate so much to the women in 2017. They, from the start, are…

discovered by Christopher Columbus on his voyages to the new world, and Columbus promptly brought the peppers back with him to Europe. From there, Smith traces the relatively quick global diffusion of capsicums, chronicling their spread throughout Eurasia and Africa. Smith illustrates the system that leads to the diffusion of the spice, originating with Columbus’ discovery and spreading through networks of diplomats and academics to eventually being available for consumption worldwide. Stone,…

The book, 1984, written by George Orwell and published in 1949, is a dystopian novel which portrays a super-state named Oceania and the perpetual war between the other two states, Eurasia and Eastasia, of the world. “Big Brother” is the Party leader of the Inner Party in Oceania, which persecutes individualism and independent thinking, or “thoughtcrime,” and dictates a political system that manipulates the public with omnipresent government surveillance and blatant lies. The turmoil of the time…

“You had to live- did live, from habit that became instinct- in assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and except in darkness, every moment scrutinized” (Orwell 3). Winston Smith lived in a society where every individual’s thoughts and actions were being watched by the Party. If one did have thoughts or actions defying the Party they would vanish and cease to exist in the past, present, and future. The Party had control over everything and everyone. Winston’s animosity towards the…

it can be seen through America’s actions during the old war that challenges to her power was going to aspire violence. It can be seen that the United States involvement in the cold war was undoubtedly in order to prevent Russia from taking over Eurasia and therefore becoming more powerful and a greater threat. This can be related to the way in which America views China as an uprising threat as a result of their visible economic power and great a great potential threat to American…

Honors Sophomore English Summer Assignment: Webquest Responses 1984 Webquest: 1. How are Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union reflected in 1984? Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union are reflected in 1984 by Big Brother and the Party. Stalin was revered as otherworldly, as is Big Brother; their respective regimes were “immortal” and invulnerable. This belief was partly introduced because “Soviet history books were rewritten to give [Stalin] a more prominent role in the revolution” (History). Similarly,…

Orthodox is when a person believes and acts the way his/her society wants them to. He/she never does anything wrong or goes against the government in any way. For example, Syme is extremely orthodox. He believes in everything that the Party says without even questioning it. Syme disapproved when he knows that Winston is thinking against the Party. Solipsism is the theory that the external world only exists through consciousness. This gives the Party the advantage to alter the truth. Since they…

Iran nuclear framework deal How did Iran come to be? Iran is known officially as The Islamic republic of Iran. Is one of the world’s oldest civilisation dated between 3800 to 3200 BC. Home to 78 million people Iran has the second largest population in Middle East after Egypt. Comprised of multiple ethnic and religious groups and has Farsi as its official language. As of 2015 Iran is under a distinctive political system feeding back to 1979 constitution which blends religion and democracy with a…