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ELO, The second Beatles ELO or Electric Light Orchestra’s music is known by the way they were able to emulate the Beatles music proving an outlet for people who crave the sound of the Beatles. They were harassed by England’s media for replicating the Beatles sound, though are praised everywhere else as an ambitious band able to live up to the Beatles reputation. ELO, to others were not just a band copying the Beatles. They are a second Beatles that encourage people to look within their memories…

The dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell is a glimpse into the future if our society is not careful. This book illustrates a totalitarian government, and how this world could end up if we transfer everything especially documents to computers. This book is similar to a 1995 movie titled “The Net” that was directed by Irwin Winkler. In this movie a hacker named Angela Bennett discovers that her identity had been changed. She discovered her name was changed while she was on vacation to Ruth Marx.…

In a world where privacy is only a dream and a dream is seemingly not even private anymore; freedom is only a blur and it is only to be achieved by those who are truly free, no one. Freedom, the idea of being free, incalculable, but also non existent. Freedom does not exist, although incalculable, there is an amount to which something can be free, it is defined as what we can do, it is portrayed in our actions, but no one can do anything, there are always laws; no one is ever truly free. Nobody…

One of the most important symbols in Animal Farm is personification. Personification is used all around on Animal Farm, making all the animals talk and giving them human characteristics. By personifying the animals, Orwell was able to satirize some of the most serious political figures of the era. A well-respected pig, Old Major, like Vladimir Lenin and Karl Marx, is idealistic about the workers coming together and living a communist lifestyle instead of being satisfied with hard labor that…

In H.L. Mencken’s writing, he explains how “the average man does not want to be free, but wants to be safe.” BUt freedom is not only more important, but necessary for safety of the individual and the society. THroughout history there are many example of societies and even nations that attempted the idea of “public safety” over individual freedom. In ideology, it sounds as if it would work, but if you take the deffinition of that idea, it is communism, which has shown to fail. The biggest…

In the mid to late 1700s, William Cooper and Elizabeth Fenimore married and had twelve children, James Fenimore Cooper being the eleventh child born into the family. James was born on September 15 in 1789 in New Jersey, but shortly after he was born, He and his family moved from New Jersey to New York because of his father’s work. William Cooper was a federalist congressman which caused him to travel with his family from time to time. James received a good, rich education when he was young, and…

Pablo Picasso, he was a spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, poet and stage designer. Born in October 25 1881 in Malaga Spain, and died in April 8 1973. Some of Picasso's art is blocky and not realistic but there are some that look realistic. He is one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century, and is known for co-founding the Cubist movement. His most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avigon and Guernica, a portayal of the Bombing of…

This article is about what is boxing and who are the most famous Boxers in the world. Boxing is a martial art and combat sport that involves two people wearing boxing gloves and throw punches at each other for a certain amount of time in a boxing ring. The main point of boxing is to get more points than your opponent within the three minutes that can last about 9 to 12 rounds. After each round to get a minute to rest, get a drink of water, and then get ready for the next round. The fights are…

Muhammad Ali “float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” (Muhammad Ali). These are the famous words of Muhammad Ali, a famous African American boxer from 1960 to 1981. Ali was introduced to boxing when his bike was stolen. At only 12 years old he started sparring with a local police officer to get revenge on the thief. It was there that he discovered his talent and went on to become one of the greatest boxers of all time. Ali was popular for his outspoken and rebellious personality, as well as…

Napoleon and Squealer Napoleon is the main leader of Animal farm and even though Squealer is a pig, so that also makes him a leader however his actions and his personality shows him as more of a follower than anything else. In the story Napoleon is the mastermind that made the animals change their motivation from being free to surviving. At first Napoleon was helping the animals live a free and happy life. Even though the animals were not treated right they still craved their freedom…