Four Horsemen

There are more than 4.7 million refugees that have fled from the war in Syria, 783 million people that don’t have access to clean water, and famine levels are at an all time high. If only there was a way to keep the media focused on these crises. Oh wait, there is! The answer is art. This powerful tool of expression definately has the ability to create change because it can raise awareness, change the way people think, and also encourage people to act. Art has the ability to raise awareness…

English Midterm Essay Adolf Hitler used fear tactics to control people. Control can be damaging in a society and no society really makes progress with control and oppression being their driving force. Government oppression is a common theme in both Ayn Rand’s Anthem and George Orwell 's 1984. Anthem is set in a society where only the word “WE,” can be used. “I,” in this society, it is known as the Unspeakable Word. The main character, Equality, while he tries to fit in with his society, he…

“Like money, power is indifferent in its usefulness to the person who possesses it” (Wilson). In George Orwell’s, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and William Shakespeare 's, Macbeth, the desire to gain power and the fear of losing it, results in not only corruption but a malicious use of psychological manipulation and the demise of many. In George Orwell’s, Nineteen Eighty-Four, a fictional totalitarian society based on that of Nazi Germany and the USSR in the 1940’s, seeks limitless power over an…

Life is filled with ups and downs, positivity and negativity, joy and happiness. Life feels like a cycle of continuous jubilations followed by pains and sorrows. The Buddha however, found a way out of this seemingly endless trap, a way to cease Dukkah or suffering, known as the Middle Path. The Middle Path is generally referred to as the Noble Eightfold Path composed of eight virtuous characteristics/subdivisions. It’s a path leading to the realization of Ultimate Reality and perfection, in…

The wisdom that Buddha offers throughout his teachings allows for a depth of insight on suffering and morality in our lives. We are given a greater perception of who we are and where we stand in life. He forces us to face our true motives and decide if we are content with these. If not, he offers advice to help make us stronger and wiser individuals. Buddhism is a relevant philosophy today and in past societies for three important reasons. First, the Buddhist way of teaching the law of karma…

In 1984 George Orwell exposes the government goals for the country and what they are willing to do to achieve it. Orwell explains the only thing holding the government back of their absolute power is the human nature of thinking. They struggle to control some aspect of the individuality, such as curiosity, thinking, and knowledge. Of course, there are some that are completely unaware of their brainwashing, but in some cases, most are still in contact with their self-individualism. The government…

George Orwell based the Thought Police off the Narodnvi Kommissariat Vnutrennikh Del or NKVD, who arrested citizens of the Soviet Union who had rebellious actions or statements (Willans). George Orwell prophesied the use of horrific techniques to implement governmental control in his novel, 1984, regarding a totalitarian government that prohibits any ideas outside their own, through the use of the Thought Police’s predictive analytic technology, audio detection software, and constant…

What if a person were to wake up and live in a society like 1984 or like the society seen in the movie Divergent? It would feel like a complete nightmare compared to what the people of the United States of America are used to living in. Although, some people may think differently on the way the American government is heading, it is obvious that the modern day American government is nothing like the two dystopian societies shown through 1984 and Divergent. Both two societies have a major rulings…

George Orwell’s novel 1984 presents a prophetic vision of a society at the hands of a leader in power known as “Big Brother”. Big Brother manages to keep the people of Airstrip One under his command, through close surveillance and prevents rebellions with methods of torture such as in Winston’s Smith’s case. In comparison, Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley, describes a futuristic society where individuals are controlled and conditioned at an age of infancy. These individuals are given a…

Eyes all Over Imagine having every thought, every spoken word, the entire world completely stalked by someone watching on the other side of a digitized screen. There is no such thing as freedom in 1984 by George Orwell. The entire population is brainwashed into thinking that the world is some sort of perfect heaven, when in reality, it is just a hopeless dark hole. They also think that they are protected and looked out for in the best interest by Big Brother. This whole image of Big Brother is…