Leon Kass

Elliott Meeks Jean-Claude Duvalier was a corrupt Haitian president who ruled with absolute power. He used fear to control and manipulate the entire country of Haiti. While he was president he tourcherd and killed everyone who got in his way; nothing stopped him from keeping his power. The use of fear to manipulate and stop at nothing attitude is a central theme in Card’s novel Ender's Game. Card suggests the dangers to society of having a win at all costs attitude when it comes to power. He…

“All animals are equal.” (Orwell) This statement is certainly applicable to human society, and is the basis for some peoples ideals, but in George Orwell’s Animal Farm it sums up the entire book completely in an ironic way. Communism, while innocent and appealing in thought, was proven in Russia during the 1900’s to be damaging and easily corruptible in practice. Pure communism is the sharing of wealth and abolishment of private property, where everyone works to provide for the state, and…

In Animal Farm, George Orwell, based his story on the Russian Revolution in 1917 which eventually lead to the Soviet Union. He later on published his book in England on August 1945. The animals in the story represented the people during the Soviet Union. He wanted to elucidate the things that happened during that time by revealing the truth of the Soviet Union and letting the readers know what really occurred. Many of those people who were part of the government abused the power of it, which…

My rhetorical analysis is on the Budweiser Super Bowl Commercial 2015 the commercial focus on a man with a Budweiser hat, horse, and his puppy. Which Budweiser use the puppy as pathos city the puppy attack the audience that watching heart. The commercial also use the horse as another way to thug on people pathos string. Budweiser don’t use any other rhetorical appeals other than pathos. Budweiser also use the puppy and horse combination many times in their other commercials it’s already existing…

In Aravind Adiga’s White Tiger, the narrator Balram portrays himself as an anti-hero; while accepting his status as a murderer, Balram also fights against the systemic poverty and oppression the poor of India face due to the corruption and simple negligence of the wealthy and powerful of India. Balram compares the plight of the poor with the image of the Great Indian Rooster Coop, where hundreds of chickens stand immobilized in a slaughterhouse, knowing full well of their futures. Balram…

The farm is ruled by a cruel man named Mr Jones. The animals get fed up with his cruelty and rebel. They then run the farm with Snowball and Napoleon (the farm pigs) as the leaders. Napoleon is an allegory for Stalin and Snowball is an allegory for Leon Trotsky. The actions of both characters reflect those of the Russian rulers. This essay will focus on the two characters Snowball and Napoleon and discuss the truth they reveal about human nature and The Character Napoleon who is also a pig Is…

illustrates events that symbolize the real historical happenings of the Russian Revolution at that time in his novel. Moreover, Orwell is able to clearly represent the symbolic revolution figures of the party leaders of that era: Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky represented as a fantasy of the two pigs: Napoleon and Snowball who start a revolution for liberation and equal rights. Through the novel Animal Farm, Orwell fails to convince readers that revolution is a solution for freedom of the…

Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is one of the most known novels in English literature. The story begins when Marlow, who works for a Belgian company, went on a journey to the heart of Africa as a steamship captain. Through his journey, he heard the name of Kurtz for the first time. Then the name repeated many times which made Marlow, who is our narrator in addition to another unknown narrator, interested to know about Kurtz. Kurtz works for the company as an ivory trader in the Congo which was…

Insufficient knowledge or information in a country or group can bring about prolonged and unjust control of a person or government. This is all displayed in George Orwell’s 1945 novel, Animal Farm. Animal Farm alludes the events of the Russian Revolution and Russia’s times under Joseph Stalin to animals on a farm in England. In the book, the animals of Manor Farm are inspired to start a revolution to overthrow the cruel authority of Mr. Jones, the human they work for. After their successful…

Novel Animal Farm contains the theme of totalitarian society and shows how it is possible to replace idealism by dictatorial rules. From 1936 Orwell wrote just works which were against totalitarian and for democratic socialism. In the novel Animal Farm he criticized Stalin´s rules in Russia. Due to political reasons it was not a good time to criticize Russia and therefore in 1943 – 1944 many publishers in Britain and the USA refused to publish his works. Despite this fact the novel became very…