George Massenburg

How Things Could’ve Been Different In the Dystopian Novel, “1984” by George Orwell, there are multiple assets that changes the lives of many people, in their personality and the ways of how they live. Their way of life is being destroyed due to the iron fist of a godly figure named, “Big Brother”. The methods that are being used, were odd, but at the same time, undignified. In this dystopian “society [,] itself is typically the antagonist; it is society actively working against the…

In room 303 we have studied many texts. Along with those texts came many authors. Though there have been many influential authors in the era we are studying, William Blake was very high on that list. Three of the texts that he wrote are called “The Lamb”, “The Tyger”, “Infant Sorrow”, and “The Chimney Sweeper”. From these four texts, you can get many archetypes that blake had. From the texts Lamb, Tyger, Sweeper, and Infant, the archetypes of innocence and youth, oppression, and struggles of the…

strong but also fragile commodity. In the poem ‘Men of England’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the goal was to send out a message to the English workers saying to rebel against the drones. In the novel ‘Animal Farm’ by Eric Arthur Blair, with the pen name of George Orwell, the intent was to make an allegory of the Russian revolution. As a community, we must ask ourselves a simple but also somewhat complex question to better comprehend the topic at hand. Is cruelty derived from power? Or are the…

Besides ores and metals of all kinds, there one particular resource that everybody in the Neox Sector is dying to lay hands on: Mhaan-Tiq, or commonly known as “Glow”. An odd substance of unknown Origin and power, that can be discovered no place else in the galaxy. Despite the fact that its reality was uncovered pretty much coincidentally, it started a dash for unheard of wealth, unlike anything the galaxy had ever seen. With the discovery of this new substance, scientists began experimenting…

The film, Geronimo: An American Legend, was based on Geronimo, a Chiricahua Apache from the Bedonkohe band born in 1829 in the American Southwest. He was a skilled hunter and led raids on surrounding enemy villages. He resented Mexicans because they killed his mother, wife, and three children. The American government acquired land that belonged to Apache tribes through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848. Americans who settled in this area were attacked by the Apache. In 1874 after years of…

the less impressed they’ll be; these are some examples paradoxes that we face in our everyday lives. Maybe you've never thought about as to why we think this way and the reasons why paradoxes exist but maybe you should or maybe you shouldn't. In George Orwell’s novel 1984 there are three slogans of the party which are, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. In the book this slogan is used and repeated by members…

1984 and Today’s World The modern world states in one way or another have a significant impact on the civil rights and privacy of their residents. The developed countries such as the US, China, or countries of Europe, control their residents latently: they use modern technologies in order to gain access to personal data of the person and be able to watch after every citizen. In less developed countries, the infringement of civil rights is usually manifested in the form of an open totalitarian…

Most people would be far more inexperienced when facing common conflicts without reading fables and folktales. That leads a reader to wonder: what specifically in these stories are the part that teaches valuable skills and what are they called? They go by the name theme; a universal message about life. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck contains themes indisposable to any reader. Set in a farm where the hours are long and the pay is sparse during the great depression, the characters face a…

new kind of monster pierce the ears of the youth. That monster was none other than the acclaimed "Hottest Band in the World", Kiss. Which would be absent idea without the thundering thump of the stick-wielding drummer Peter Criss. Peter Criss (George Peter John Criscuola) was born in Brooklyn, New York on December 20, 1945. He grew up listening to the jazz greats and ended up studying under his idol, Gene Krupa. He went on to play in many bands throughout the 1960's. One of the bands…

Voodoo zombies are a very interesting type of zombie it’s not your typical flesh eating zombie. Voodoo zombies are a person who has died and, has risen from the grave and is doomed to spend the rest of eternity as a slave of the living. These zombies suffer zombie powder the tool used for zombification the toxin temporarily paralyzes the human nervous system, creating a state of extreme hibernation with the vital organs functioning at minimal levels. Voodoo zombies show emotion suffering from…