George B. McClellan

LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) was little know at this time, but still legal, and was commonly used by John, Paul, George, and Ringo. It had an “[immense] effect on the Beatles songwriting and recording” (“Beatles and Drugs”). The first released song to mention acid was “Day Tripper,” but “over time its influence resulted in less explicit and more abstract references…

country, a town, as humans begins we have to question what’s around us and when we feel uncomfortable with someones ideas we have to change it into something we believe is right. No matter what the consequence might be, just like in the Animal Farm. In George Orwell 's Animal Farm, the animals never questioned their leaders, which lead to loss of their freedom. The only thing that had any sort of action to what they disapproval of the drunk farmer in the Animal Farm, (15-17), it’s…

The dystopian novels Fahrenheit 451, 1984 and Brave New World show Bradbury, Orwell and Huxley’s vision of modern society. The authors include ideas of fear, technology and pleasure in a way that predicts how they see today’s society. Although Orwell, Bradbury and Huxley have valid points of fear, technology and pleasure, Huxley’s vision of the future is the most accurate in modern society in his book Brave New World. Technology in today’s society is coming very close to the technology…

Former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin once said “History shows that there are no invincible armies.” In the 18th century, however, the British rule that spanned nearly a quarter of the Earth’s land, and that was comprised of the largest navy and strongest army at the time would have begged to differ. At the time, it seemed that the British army was destined to control the entire planet. About 5,600 kilometers away, a little colony of The British Empire had enough. Outrageous taxes without any say…

Thesis: The Indian Independence movement and the American revolution have their similarities and differences. Throughout world history there have been many different revolutions, some being successful and some being total failures, the two I am writing on were successful, and they changed the world as we know it forever. American Revolution: The American Revolution was much more than a revolt against British taxes and trade regulations. It marked the first time in history that a people…

Self Preserving or Society Hurting “Animal Farm”, written by the famous Eric Blair under the pen name George Orwell, portrays themes of Capitalism, along with the animals’ need for self preservation. One character that illustrates a form of preserving his life is Benjamin the donkey. Throughout the book he, although very intelligent compared to the other animals on the farm, decides to stay out of all matters debated there and instead just watch as things play out. This seemed to be very smart,…

With just a glance at George Orwell's, Animal Farm, one might not expect the book to resemble so well the horrible circumstances that created and surrounded the Russian Revolution. However, in his allegorical book he used farm animals and their rebellion against humans to mirror the tendencies of the human nature and the Russian revolution. Each of these rebellions had a cruel leader; Manor Farm rebellion's leader was the atrocious pig, Napoleon, who parallels the Russian revolution's leader,…

Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World’s” author introduces us to a futuristic technological world where science is used in order to maintain stability, and society is divided into five caste divisions consisting of Alphas, Betas, Gammas, Deltas, and Epsilons. Alphas are the highest in society while Epsilons the lowest. In the novel, the author demonstrates how society shows people’s beliefs using many characters throughout the entire story. The society was manufactured in a test tube therefore, it…

Chapter 10 which is the last chapter of animal farm. Talks about how the animals are all equal. They work hard at least for themselves. They defend their farm and take care of it. They finally build 2 windmill and the farm gets larger. New animals come to the farm. There will be no Sunday meetings. The animal farm changed its name to manor farm. Years passed by really fast. No one can remember what happened in the past except clover, Benjamin, Moses the raven and a number of the pigs, Muriel,…

When we consider the conformity and individuality of the female characters, it could be argued that Julia actively and willingly rebels, whereas Lenina is an unintentional non-conformist, though neither character’s rebellion deliberately and selflessly challenges conventions . In ‘Brave New World’, to conform to convention is to be promiscuous, whereas in ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ to conform is to be chaste, so for Lenina and Julia rebellion takes a somewhat different form . Female sexual…