George Gershwin

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…

The Significance of Nature There many meaning implied to the term nature. In many cultures nature to is referred to as freedom, a place where one can escape from the world and step into a new world filled of natural beauty. In Orwell’s novel 1984 you would think of the society of Oceania as anything but beautiful, with a dictator government, surveillance all around, and yet the term nature is still very much implied. In 1984, there are many significances to the word nature including- the…

Why the Setting is Vital to the Plot in “The Most Dangerous Game” In “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, there are two reasons of how setting is vital to the plot. For instance, the island earns the name it is given by suspicious sailors, “Ship Trap Island” because of the fake channel luring ships right onto the sharp rocks. General Zaroff makes a bogus passageway guiding ships to “safety”, when really it is a trap so that he can have new “prey” to hunt. The general explains all…

George Orwell explores the privileges and normalities in our society that we take for granted in 1984. He tries to send us this message through the book in several different ways. One way he tries showing this is by showing us the loss of privacy all of the party members have in the book. The thought police monitors all of the party members 24/7 through telescreens, which are always watching and listening to everything they say or do, and even the smallest crime, such as even thinking the wrong…

I remember the very first book I ever read, it was a paper book made by my teacher. The illustrations looked as though a child had drawn them with a pack of crayons, the sentences were very short and very boring. I remember reading “Pat sat down” over and over, “Pat drinks juice.” The simplest sentences ever, and I had to read that same ridiculous book everyday. It was that small, elementary book that made me hate reading. I read as little as I possibly could, just barely enough to get through…

For Native Americans, Governors Island was a place to hunt, fish and gather nuts. They referred to the island as Pagganck which translate as Nut Island, after the island’s abundant oak and chestnut trees. It was the perfect location for local tribes to establish fishing camps. Around 1637 Wouter Van Twiller, a representative of the Dutch government purchased Governors Island from the Native Americans for two ax heads, a string of beds and a handful of nails. Twiller used the island for his…