George Massenburg

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…

Essay Draft 1 by Andy – Dissecting The Dark Mountain Manifesto’s Intentions The human race is blamed by itself for the destruction of our common home; and it is constantly to be seen and identified as nothing but something evil, useless, and powerless – or at least according to the Dark Mountain Project manifesto. The text encourages its readers to pick up their pens and paintbrushes to fight against the common world, where allegedly the greater proportion of humanity is in sheer denial of…

Rajiv Goswami Writing II Rebellion, Freud, and Sex In 1984 In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell’s use of language helps convey the qualities of a bildungsroman, showcased by a narrator’s rise in self-confidence in the face of the Party. The Party’s repression propagandized as a utopia is what the narrator, Winston, resolves to fight. The narrator’s resistance to the erosion of his individuality by said state is developed by Orwell as a main motif. Winston is initially shown to be…

Prompt “The American Revolution was inevitable”. Explain the key causes of the American Revolution and support, modify or refute this contention using specific evidence. The American Revolution was a colonial revolt against the Great Britain, that took place from 1765 to 1783. The American Revolution was more than just a revolt against the cruel Britain’s treatment and the taxes, it marked the first time people fought for their independence in the name of popular sovereignty and…

“INTROVERTS AND EXTROVERTS AROUND THE WORLD, ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?” “NO.” “OH, OKAY.” Simon Ratcliffe Pd: 5 11-20-2017 What are introverts and extraverts? What are introverts and extraverts? Introverts and extroverts are very different from each other, as Carl Jung the popularizer of the 2 terms introverted and extroverted says”The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” The terms of introvert, extrovert, and…