George Gershwin

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” Animal farm is taken over by overworked and tiresome animals. Thus attempting the idea of a perfect utopian world with equality at its roots. Unfortunately, the dictatorship community comes back and the animals are forced to work while the rulers, the pigs, sit back and watch. The simple-minded animals live in fear, but do not take matters into…

Waiting for the Barbarians Essay I this essay I will talk about the characters and analyze the book in my perspective. Waiting for the Barbarians is a novel by the South African-born Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee. It was first published in 1980, chosen by Penguin for its series Great Books of the 20th Century and won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for fiction. The novel is about a city magistrate in a village of a nameless empire. The narrator, who we…

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future” (BrainyQuote). These are the words of Adolf Hitler, who is commonly considered one of the most evil man in history. The world has always wanted to understand why he was so cold-hearted, but research has not proved what caused him to be delusional. However, there are many theories…

The Great Gatsby’s narrator, Nick Carraway, states in the first pages of the book that “life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all”. In this paper, I will demonstrate that this sentence has a deeper meaning in the forthcoming events described in the novel and that Nick is not such a rational or trustworthy character as he claims to be. Paying close attention to the quote and analyzing it in detail, the narrator lets the reader know that life becomes simpler when…

The first time I went to pumpkin hollow, I was so scared. We went up to the booth to pay for our bracelets, to get into the forest, the butcher barn and the Frightmare farmhouse. After we paid for our bracelets we stood in line to get into the hayride that takes us to the forest. Whenever we got to the forest we first went to the concession stand to get hot chocolate. Once we got done drinking the hot chocolate, we went to stand in line for the forest of fright. The line was so long we had to…

George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, depicts a society under a corrupted political state. The corruption leads to a totalitarian regime. In the book society is divided in three classes. The proles, which represent the proletariat, they live in poverty and they are denied any access to information, education and they must abide by the rules that are dictated by the party. The outer party members, who are middle class. They work within the party however; they do not have any access to the wealth…

1. Where does the term „Techno“ for this music genre come from? The term „Techno“ goes back to the 1970s when Alvin Toffler published a book with the title „Future Shock“ by speaking about „Techno-rebells“ who use the most modern technology to fight the system subversively which created those technologies. Since the early 80s, the term was used in several interviews and in 1984 Cybotron from Detroit published in an „Electro“-sampler a single with the title „Techno-City“. Afterwards It took part…

Throughout the work, “White Fang” by Jack London, we find creatures coming against the edges of their world. They either succeed in surmounting the barriers in front of them, or they fail to enlarge their world and perish. Using the tools and ideas of Jacob von Uexkell, we will look at the gray-cub who becomes White Fang and see the necessary reworking of his reality as he grows and adapts. Like Uexkell’s tick, the gray cub is born blind, and only through “the necessity of learning and living…

Disagreements over the ability of the American colonies to govern themselves and the unjust taxes lead to the war between the colonies and the British from 1765 to 1783. According to historians beliefs, there is one reason as to the motivation for the colonial elites and the ordinary citizens to participate in the American Revolution. This is true on the account of both groups vying for independence from Britain. Although the ordinary citizens such as women who are fighting for equal rights,…

The theory suggests that audience are passive and cannot resist the media message. Walter Lippman (1922) -through what was later termed the Agenda Setting theory by Max McCombs and Donald Shaw- observed that people see a world shaped primarily by the media. During the world war, Harold Lasswell proposed the theory of propaganda and noted how people whose world is shaped by the media become victims of propagandist messages which influences audiences’ behaviour prominently. The media message can…