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The book 1984 opens the eyes of many people to how our lives could change due to the corruption of the government. How everyone lived their lives could very much happen to us if we go on the path that Winston and his fellow people did. One thing that was happening in the book and happening all around us currently was the language and how it was being manipulated due to the overpowering Party members. Having the language change like it was happening to Winston and have it happen to us could…

Darkness at Noon In order to best understand peoples, cultures and their history, knowledge of worldview, or an understanding and knowledge of Reality, is of the utmost importance. Familiarity with the worldview of a people group and how it is manifested within their history, aids us in understanding and developing an accurate philosophy of history. Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler provides us with an incredible example of the worldview held by those who are under a totalitarian regime, a…

Government Censorship in Today and Tomorrow’s Society “Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.” -Heinrich Heine. Today, governments push their citizens to believe they have a voice when what they want to say is so hidden. This is truly a concern as so many individuals worldwide have no say when decisions are made for them. Currently, governments around the world take away their citizens voices, just as dystopian novels have been predicting for many years in the…

Aspects of Human Emotion and How it Fails in 1984 What makes us human? Is it the way we look or maybe the way we feel towards each other? Most people do not notice that what makes us human is the amount of sympathy and empathy we have for each other. One of which are the small gestures of compassion we have toward others. What happens when it is all questioned, like in Orwell’s book, then later thought to be wrong? Once it is deemed wrong, we as humans cannot be human. Soon we become expected to…

This is because the practice has been viewed as acceptable in some parts of society considering that it can essentially be accounted for as murder. Buddhist teachings that address this are understood as the Four Noble Truths, the Five Precepts and the Eightfold Path. Abortion deals with the Four Noble Truths since the suffering of the mother would be ended if there would have been physical and mental harm to the mother if her pregnancy would proceed. In some cases, it would have ended the…

The teaching that help decide on the decision of the bioethical issues come down to the concept of karma, the Four Noble Truths, the Noble Eightfold Path and the 5 Precepts. They use these teaching to guide themselves in the right path so that they do not emit any negative consequence, and do not go against any of the teachings. Some of the traditional Buddhist…

A full-size, technologically advanced SUV points to an upcoming Volkswagen product. Make no mistake about it: the Volkswagen T-Prime Concept GTE SUV currently on display at an auto show in China is giving the world a strong indication of an upcoming Volkswagen product, in particular a full-size SUV. What isn’t known is whether the engineering and high-tech features present in the T-Prime Concept will carry over to the production model. What seems assured is that we’ll find an overall design…

The Ideal Society That Was Not Sexual orgies, frequent drug use, and a repugnance towards babies are the key qualities of an upstanding citizen. Well, they are in fictional dystopias anyway. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984 are novels that provide examples of a perfect nation that is more horrifying than innovative, but Huxley’s story appeals to more readers by showing how even a satisfying existence in dystopia is problematic. This essay will discuss both novels…

Machiavelli's Approach to order through the lens of Disorder: The Modern World in Terms of Chaos and Order Order and disorder are two terms used to describe two different dimensions of life. They are totally opposite to each other in terms of meaning. Also, sometimes one of them becomes the cause for the emergence of the other one. Disorder, according to Cambridge Dictionary, is “a state of untidiness or lack of organization” (cambrdige). This means that anything that doesn’t have an order or…

TITLE TO BE DETERMINED “My last warm feelings for humanity died”, spoke Joseph Stalin, a megalomaniac and manipulative ruler, who also went by the name Uncle Joe (“Joseph Stalin-Psychopathology Of A Dictator”). Stalin used tactics that are similar to the ones used by Oceania’s Party in the novel 1984, by George Orwell. In this novel a totalitarian society is controlled by Big Brother, a symbolic figure for the ruling Party, who wields all power over the population. Strategies that are…