George Carlin

All revolutions have had large impacts on how humans live today, whether they are about lack of food or cruel injustice and inequality. Earth has had many mishaps when it came to disagreements and fights for freedom, and history has proven time and time again that it has the tendency to repeat itself. Some say that the French Revolution had more significance than the American Revolution, but these people do not realize that all wars- whether civil or revolutionary- are huge contenders to how…

The main character for the novel A Clockwork Orange is Alex. Alex is a fifteen year old boy who lives in a dystopian society controlled by a totalitarian states who controls its population through violence, experiments and machines. The main character is not revealed at first but as the novel progresses, the audience learns that Alex is the main character because of the experiences and hardships that the reader learn from this character. At first, Alex seems to be just another delinquent citizen…

and in this case the main characters, George and Lennie’, dream. The dream consisted of George and Lennie owning their own ranch with rabbits for Lennie and extra acres of land for others who wanted to share it with them. Characters like Candy and Crooks dream of having their own farms too. Many can argue that death is the main reason that the dream failed and that is not totally true. The dream failed because of the society around them. In the book, George and Lennie’s dream of owning a farm…

The two protagonists differ from one another as Winston struggles to maintain his identity because of his restricted freedom, whereas Holden lacks identity as he is given too much freedom. The lack of identity essentially defines both characters also allowing the readers to sympathise with the character’s narratives. We sympathise with Holden because the amount of freedom he has, causes him to rely on an inanimate object to help him feel better, which leads to him ostracising himself from others…

important date and was a very different battle. It was the clear victory that convinced the French to side with the Americans forever changing history and the course of the war. This battle had many impacts on the American people and gave General George Washington the belief that they could win their independence with the help of European allies. The Americans winning in the battle was a signal to the Europeans that the colonists of Patriots were capable of defeating the British on their own.…

Privacy issues that Americans face today. In the book 1984 George Orwell predicted the privacy issues that Americans face today, with his concerns that the government is keeping an eye on the public, whether this was through a Telescreen in the novel or modern day televisions and Iphones. The telescreens used in the book 1984 were always on no matter where the owner was. At the grocery store or at work it was always on. The citizens still watched the telescreen like an actual T.V. but the…

Elad Jeselsohn Peace Without War? Over the course of the history of the world, there have been times of peace and as well as times of war. There have been places of war and places of peace. That is true on the national level. Yet, on the personal level, to achieve one hundred percent peace in all aspects of one’s life is almost impossible. Throughout the majority of the book 1984, whenever Winston…

The Battle of the Words Conformist…? Nonconformist…? What are you? In the novel Animal Farm by George Orwell (which is based off the Russian Revolution) a pig who was the main leader of the farm basically told the other animals what to do. The animals that followed Napoleon (the leader) and the rules were conformists and the ones that didn’t were nonconformist. A horse named Boxer was strong and also was a conformist. He was the hardest worker on the farm. But I am comparing him to a…

The governments in Fahrenheit 451 and in our real life society suppress knowledge because they want the people they have control over to think that the government that they’re living with is an okay government so the citizens won’t revolt and rebel. They also would like to keep the ones living in their nation stupid so they can manipulate the occupants to their will whenever they want without question or even the people’s differing opinions. In Fahrenheit 451, knowledge is suppressed to the…

James Madison was born in 1751 and in the state of virginia in the town of Montpelier where he would live his entire life. He was born into a wealthy family but grew up skinny and sickly. But even with all this happening he studied even when it endangered his own life studying. When he was 29 he served in the continental congress. When he was 36 in 1787 he kept a written record of the constitutional convention. In 1787-1788 James Madison helped write the federalist papers. In 1801-1809 He…