Leon Festinger

Animal Farm is a fun and interesting book and exciting movie. The main characters are Napoleon, Snowball, Squealer, Boxer, Benjamin, and Mr. Jones. The story is about a farm called Manor farm run by Mr. Jones. The animals on Manor farm think they there are being treated unfairly and they decide to rebel. One day all of the animals meet up and attack Jones and win. They changed the farms name from Manor Farm to Animal Farm. Napoleon declares himself leader and all the other pigs as first class.…

As a leader Napoleon has become more unethical and distrustful. He is becoming a tyrant over animal farm. Napoleon has now focused on being the “leader of animal farm. Napoleon cares about his own power and himself more than anything even the animal farm. Since Napoleon only cares for himself he changed the whole government based on lies and against Mr.Jones. He also does not follow his own rules. If he isn’t a dictator already, he is soon going to turn into one. He becoming more and more a…

a. How is Orwell’s Animal Farm an allegory? Be specific and provide examples from the text to support your statements. The farm is an allegory to the soviet union. The first example is in the first paragraph of the story and is talking about animals in the farms lives not remembering the times before "the rebellion" started but meant the people in the soviet union don't remember what it was like. The farm being enlargened refers to the oppressed russian people having to work for stalin. b.…

The Russian Communist Party from 1921 despite having no titular leader held Lenin up as the sole party head having emerged from the civil war as the controlling power of the Russian empire. Following Lenin’s death in 1924 a six year struggle for power followed, Lenin having left no real guidance as to who should succeed him as leader. Stalin’s rise to power, in 1924 was far from inevitable as he was one of six politburo members and had only been appointed as General Secretary, viewed by…

Napoleon is a pig from the book Animal Farm by George Orwell. Napoleon has gone through one of the largest dynamic changes in the book. He started off as a quiet pig in support of the rebellion, but his desire for power turned him into to a dictator leading a totalitarian state. He has changed by becoming more oppressive, more like humans, and corrupt throughout the book. In the beginning of the book he was described as, “a large, rather fierce looking Berkshire Boar… not much of a talker, but…

Jeff was in an innocent broccoli plant minding it’s own business in a fine garden. Suddenly a lumbering giant came striding towards the plant. Swiftly it began to strip and tear broccoli from the plant consuming Jeff in the process. It devoured every sprout on the plant and left the decimated plant to rebuild, literally from the ground up. The woodchuck lumbered away, on the search for other fodder. Jeff was fully digested and was happily ensconced in the neck muscles of the woodchuck. But…

The movie Amores Perros, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, was a nominee for best foreign film at the US Academy Awards. The film has a great depiction of life in contemporary Mexico City. The atmosphere let off by this film describes social conflict and social inequality that exists within many Latin American countries like Brazil, Mexico and Argentina. Amores Perros is organized as three distinct but interlinked stories. The title is translated as “Love’s a Bitch.” The stories each…

Ice Age: Meltdown The 2002 animated film, Ice Age: Meltdown is based off of global warming. The main characters: Manny, Sid, and Diego all came together at one point in time to create their own herd. Manny, being the leader of the pack is very lonely and depressed, being the only mammoth left on Earth. Sid the is the hyperactive, annoying sloth, whose family abandoned him long into his adulthood, and Diego is the mean and irritable tiger, who left his pack to join Manny and Sid. Manny, Sid,…

emerges as the leader of the Animal Farm after the Rebellion. He used military force to intimidate the other animals and combine his power. In his almighty talents, Napoleon proves more betrayal and deception that his opponent Snowball. Snowball, Leon Trotsky, is the pig who challenges Napoleon for control of the Animal Farm after the rebellion. He is intelligent, passionate, eloquent, less subtle and less devious than Napoleon. Snowball appears to win the loyalty of the other animals and…

Whether you’re taking on the task of a couple of feeder pigs in your backyard to feed your own family or trying to start your own small hog farm so much of success lies in the details; the little things than no one thinks to ask before they dive in feet first. Beyond the fences, the feed, and the shelter there exists a wide band of gray area between surviving with pigs and thriving with them. Here, a few of the things we’ve learned (some the hard way) and hope others don’t have to: 1. Don’t…