Four Horsemen

It is amazing how some things can be so alike and yet so different. That is certainly shown in “1984” by George Orwell and “One flew over the cuckoo's nest” by Ken Kesey. Although these two books are different it is amazing how some of the themes and characters overlap. In 1984 their villain/main antagonist is a concept/group and in One flew over the cuckoo's nest their villain/main antagonist is also a concept. In George Orwell’s “1984” the villain is basically the party who is basically…

Rough Draft The famous author of 1984 known as George Orwell has written about how in Oceania, Big Brother has total control over anybody and everything. People did not know that this was going to be the future of our society today. Our government has full control over us, they know where we go during the day and know how long we stay there. They keep an eye on us during every minute of the day which causes our privacy to be violated. Throughout this essay you will be reading about how…

the book Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card because it was an interesting book, it kept the reader involved, and it is a fast paced book that reminds you of the first book Ender’s Game. If i were to rate this novel out of five, it would be a four and a half because I personally like books that are fast-paced and interesting and I also liked Ender’s Game because I like the Science-Fiction genre, it interests me a lot. In conclusion, Speaker for the Dead was a good book for me and could be…

Personality is usually revealed by a person’s thoughts and actions. In the stories Call of the Wild and “To Build a Fire,” both by Jack London, and Brian’s Winter by Gary Paulsen, the main characters’ personalities are revealed by their thoughts and actions. The personalities of the main characters in each of these stories are quite similar because they think and act similarly. In Brian’s Winter, Brian believes that he and the bears have an understanding to leave each other alone, although the…

How would you feel if you had no choice how to live? No choice on who to love? In Anthem & “Harrison Bergeron”, the society's were both based on, Equality. Although, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut & Anthem by Ayn Rand are both pieces of dystopian literatures, their portrayal of technology and love, differs greatly. Technology is a thing of the past, present, and as well as the future. It changes everyday. In “Harrison Bergeron”, it's the year 2081, technology has really advanced. “Every…

The author of Animal Farm, George Orwell, had a goal in writing this novella, and that was to portray the Russian Revolution of 1917 as one that resulted in a government more oppressive than the government it overthrew. The novella was first published on the 17th of August, 1945, just 28 years after the revolution. Orwell used a variety of propaganda techniques to achieve his purpose and message in his written work, and that is to illustrate how easily people can be convinced by flawed ideas if…

Language in The Sunday Telegraphs editorial: Why Malcolm Turnbull should remain Prime Minister is used to position the audience to think highly of liberal and of Turnbull. Language is also used to outcast Labor and Bill Shortens election campaign. In the featured editorial, Why Malcolm Turnbull should remain Prime Minister, the Liberal government has been given a lot of leniency and benefit of the doubt, none of which was afforded Labor, where instead Labor has been shown to be making disastrous…

Government develops in all situations from small family levels, to full countries, as in the United States. Government reveals itself as a necessary evil that begins as a way to maintain the well-being of a group of people but slowly manifests itself as a way to benefit its leaders. The acquiring of power quickly overwhelms the moral obligation a leader has to protect those they serve. The constant growth of power of the pigs in the novel, Animal Farm shows parallels to the United States…

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.…

Quite often Hollywood exaggerates any given movie. It needs to be something interesting, dramatized, and “based” on a true story. Although in the movie The Men Who Stare at Goats, they say in the beginning, “More of this is true than you believe” (Amazon). Watching the movie, the viewer could blow it off as just a bunch of conspiracy theories blown up by Hollywood. Especially since The Men Who Stare at Goats is about a government project to make super soldiers, or as they call it in the movie,…