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Ever been the leader of something and started taking advantage of it? This is one of the questions people would ask after reading George Orwell’s Animal farm. The book displays class conflicts and showing how some classes are more equal than other ones.This book was an allegory to the Soviet Union and the allies during World War II. People can see the well known leaders and allies in some of the characters. Orwell shows how badly the working class was treated comparing it to times in the Soviet.…

Joseph Stalin, who was directly inspired by Lenin and Marx. In the same way Stalin was the communist dictator of the Soviet Union, Napoleon was the dictator of Animal Farm. Snowball, who was power hungry and enriched in his corrupt ideology, represents Leon Trotsky, a Soviet politician who was exiled by Joseph Stalin (History.com Staff, 2009). Although these men envisioned a perfect society, their greed quickly led to their decline (Rani,…

The definition of power is the capacity to control or influence the behavior of others or the course of events. “Power is ethically neutral - it can be used for constructive or destructive purposes, self-interest or the good of others, or both at the same time. Power… triggers intense emotions - fear, envy, jealousy, greed.” We learn that in the real world, power is a very strong but also fragile commodity. In the poem ‘Men of England’ by Percy Bysshe Shelley, the goal was to send out a message…

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…

Clever Coyote By: Ziching Yang #26 This myth, Clever Coyote is a myth from the Comanche tribe. In this myth Coyote, a dog is the protagonist and the monster is the antagonist. The monster stole all the buffalo in the village. The problem is that the monster wants to eat all the buffalo in the village and Coyote found out the monster also has a little boy in captive. In this myth, the theme of the story is, “If you are clever, sometimes you can find a way to outsmart your opponent.” Another…

One pig was hung, another burnt in public. Animal trials were a very common thing in the Middle ages. If your animal hurt another human or destroyed crops it could be sent to court and tried just as a regular person would be. In the Middles ages animals were tried for many things and punished in many different ways, such as jail time or even execution. September 5, 1379, Perrinot Muet was killed by two herds of pigs who had grown aggravated, attacking Muet until he passed. The pigs who had…

Did you know that ivory-billed woodpecker was called the ghost bird because people thought that is was extinct but there were sightings of the bird. In this essay you will read about the similarities and differences of the “ghost bird” and “Animal distress calls” The similarities of both stories “The ghost bird” and “Animal distress calls” are there settings, character traits, and the stories themes. Also the differences of both stories are there conflicts, mood, and resolution. There are many…

In the Chipotle super bowl ad, there is a wave of depressing feelings being portrayed as the ad shows a farmer, who has just started a family, and seems like a nice guy that soon turns into a farmer that begins caging up all of these farm animals and injecting chemicals and other inhumane things into them. Luckily, the farmer comes to a realization towards the end as to what he has done and is able to 'save' the farm animals by undoing all the horrible things he began doing in the beginning. I…

In ways Animal farm and Chicken Run are different but are alike at the same time because both stories have the same plot which is being neglected by owners. One farm stays and realizes the mistakes they have made. And the other goes over a fence to live a better life with their families. They both meet their goals but is one farm actually happy about the decision they choose? The reason why Animal Farm failed was because they were not in control of the situation they were not supervisors or…

The book “Animal Farm” by George Orwell is an allegory of the Russian Revolution of 1917 though most know it as a story which that explains Communism. The story starts with a barnyard of animals feeling abused by their owners and wanting their lives to be different, not long after we hear about that we meet an older boar on the farm named “Old Major” who tells the animals about a dream he had where unless the animals rebel most of them will die within the year. Shortly after Old Major dies and…