George B. McClellan

In ways Animal farm and Chicken Run are different but are alike at the same time because both stories have the same plot which is being neglected by owners. One farm stays and realizes the mistakes they have made. And the other goes over a fence to live a better life with their families. They both meet their goals but is one farm actually happy about the decision they choose? The reason why Animal Farm failed was because they were not in control of the situation they were not supervisors or…

The book “Animal Farm” by George Orwell is an allegory of the Russian Revolution of 1917 though most know it as a story which that explains Communism. The story starts with a barnyard of animals feeling abused by their owners and wanting their lives to be different, not long after we hear about that we meet an older boar on the farm named “Old Major” who tells the animals about a dream he had where unless the animals rebel most of them will die within the year. Shortly after Old Major dies and…

Through these books: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley the issue of social control is shown throughout but the approach differ from each book, with the society of The Hunger Games being aware of the inequality or control and the world of Brave New World are not aware of the inequality or the controlling that is happening because they are happy. In The Hunger Games poverty is used to control the Districts and Katniss is fully aware of the poverty she herself…

pressured by the native people of Africa to shoot an elephant. He does not want to look like an idiot in front of them, so he lets the pressure get the best of him. He shoots the elephant, even though he did not want to make that choice. On page 1323, George Orwell writes: “But I did not want to shoot the elephant.” In this case, he let peer pressure make him do something he didn’t want to do.…

ELO, The second Beatles ELO or Electric Light Orchestra’s music is known by the way they were able to emulate the Beatles music proving an outlet for people who crave the sound of the Beatles. They were harassed by England’s media for replicating the Beatles sound, though are praised everywhere else as an ambitious band able to live up to the Beatles reputation. ELO, to others were not just a band copying the Beatles. They are a second Beatles that encourage people to look within their memories…

The dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell is a glimpse into the future if our society is not careful. This book illustrates a totalitarian government, and how this world could end up if we transfer everything especially documents to computers. This book is similar to a 1995 movie titled “The Net” that was directed by Irwin Winkler. In this movie a hacker named Angela Bennett discovers that her identity had been changed. She discovered her name was changed while she was on vacation to Ruth Marx.…

let in the water” (Orwell 11). The novel 1984 also shows us several examples on what loyalty is to Big Brother and what morals are in their society. For Example, “At this moment the entire group of people broke into a deep, slow, rhythmical chant of ‘B-B!”. “It was a refrain that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion. Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis” (Orwell 21). This quote represents the cult like…

One of the most important symbols in Animal Farm is personification. Personification is used all around on Animal Farm, making all the animals talk and giving them human characteristics. By personifying the animals, Orwell was able to satirize some of the most serious political figures of the era. A well-respected pig, Old Major, like Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx, is idealistic about the workers coming together and living a communist lifestyle instead of being satisfied with hard labor that…

In H.L. Mencken’s writing, he explains how “the average man does not want to be free, but wants to be safe.” BUt freedom is not only more important, but necessary for safety of the individual and the society. THroughout history there are many example of societies and even nations that attempted the idea of “public safety” over individual freedom. In ideology, it sounds as if it would work, but if you take the deffinition of that idea, it is communism, which has shown to fail. The biggest…

In the mid to late 1700s, William Cooper and Elizabeth Fenimore married and had twelve children, James Fenimore Cooper being the eleventh child born into the family. James was born on September 15 in 1789 in New Jersey, but shortly after he was born, He and his family moved from New Jersey to New York because of his father’s work. William Cooper was a federalist congressman which caused him to travel with his family from time to time. James received a good, rich education when he was young, and…