George Massenburg

on the farm. Throughout history there have been many great and despicable leaders but one way or the other they were all corrupt. As John Dalberg-Acton once said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. In Animal Farm, by George Orwell, the farm animals are being treated with great disrespect and are being taking advantage of. The animal’s respected leader, Old Major, addresses the situation and sets a spark for the animals to rebel against their cruel master, Mr.…

Music In The 1960’s The 1960’s were a time of change in society, fashion, politics, attitudes, and especially music. During these times, many different social influences impacted popular music, and songs began to include social consciousness and political statements. Events like the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, and the progression of the Civil Rights Movement all inflicted change in music. During the 1960’s, many genres of music emerged, like Motown and R&B,…

Animal Farm is a fairy tale story written by George Orwell and focuses on a group of animals living on an English farm around the turn of the 20th century. The story begins with Old Major, an elderly pig, speaking to his fellow animals about his dream of animalism. He calls for animal freedom and equality, but above all else the end of humanity’s dominion over farm animals everywhere. When Old Major passes away, the animals of the farm take it upon themselves to begin preparing for revolution.…

Frequently, popular novels are adapted into motion pictures. A novel that I have recently read that has been made into a motion picture is Warm Bodies. Warm Bodies is a story about a world where a plague divided the planet’s population into two different species, Humans and Zombies. The tale takes place in some city with a zombie named R and a human girl named Julie. One day R saw Julie and had a sudden urge to save her.. Which he did. The story continues from there as these two encounter many…

In the two stories “Judeo-Christian Creation” and the “Creation Story” they are similar and different in many ways. The “Judeo-Christian Creation” is different because animals aren’t a big role in it, nor are they rulers whatsoever. There is only one ruler and that’s god. He made all the land and all the animals. The “creation story” is different because animals play a big role in how the humans survived. A woman fell from the skyworld and a turtle saved her. She needed soil to create land,…

. Parsons is proud of his daughter for reporting him of thought crime. Parsons exclaims that he doesn’t “bear her any grudge for it” (Orwell 233), but he was “in fact proud of her” (233). Parsons feels this way because he is extremely loyal to the Party and believes in anything they do. This displays the Party’s ability to manipulate Oceana’s population. The Party forces people’s loyalty to be directed at Big Brother and the Party rather than one’s own family. The Party is creating a society in…

In Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan swift Lemuel Gulliver; our protagonist goes on an adventurous study to become a ship doctor. His passion was to sail the seas and enjoy life and everything it had to offer. This came to an abrupt stop when his ship was destroyed in a horrible storm. Which luckily he survived and was washed up on a near by island called Lilliput. Encountering a very awkward seen of tiny people that only reached heights of six inches. My first impression of the people of…

Every year there is a new movie or book comes out having to do with some type of supernatural being. This begs the question, why are supernatural beings always the topic of choice? Some possibilities are simple, such as wanting to believe there is more out there rather that just normal human beings. Del Toro and Hogans, Vampires Never Die, talks about the history of vampires and all the things a vampires are capable of as well as how that we humans crave characteristics of vampires. Other…

impact than others but all of them are there for the same purpose, to lead the American people. The president that stands out to me the most is our first leader of the country, George Washington. Washington's ability to lead our military and our country are the two reasons why I think he is our greatest president. George Wahington had more military skill than any other president is history. He learned the art of war during the French and Indian War (Weston 4). Before he was even president the…

Avrial Turner Professor Jeremy Proctor Twentieth Century Fiction 1 October 2015 Essay One: Heroes Carl Jung was the first to recognize that there are universal patterns in the whole of literature regardless of culture or period of time. Since his first hypothesis, many have come along and refined it such as Joseph Campbell who applied the theory to mythological stories identifying many archetypes of plot and character development. One of these archetypes is the hero archetype and the…