Leon Spinks

Two Is Better Than One “But what is a kite on the ground? … It is nothing” (Bradbury 370). In the allegory “The Golden Kite, the Silver Wind” by Ray Bradbury, two cities caught in a dispute over superiority eventually come to the realization that they would be stronger working together. They would rebuild their walls every day, and this rivalry was tearing the two cities apart. Bradbury uses symbolism to show that one without the other is nothing. The conflict of the story is that the two…

In the power struggle that followed the death of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin, one of Lenin’s lieutenants, seized power. According to the BBC article “Stalin - Purges and Praises,” Stalin began to murder or exile anyone in the government, military or Communist Party whom he suspected of disloyalty. Stalin’s first purge demonstrates his mounting paranoia and distrust toward his colleagues, and makes it clear that his concern was more on his own safety than the well-being of the…

a. Animal Farm is an allegory because of its hidden political undertones. The Manor Farm represents Russia under the Czar and the Animal Farm represents Russia under the USSR. Most of the animals represent people or different groups of people. Napoleon represents Stalin, Snowball represents Trotsky, the sheep represent the common people just following blindly, and Boxer represents the worker. The main feeling expressed in this allegorical story is negative feelings for communism and…

“Rikki-tikki had a right to be proud of himself; but he did not grow too proud...." (Kipling, 4).This is a sentence in Kipling’s book Rikki-tikki-tavi. It is meant to be for the time nthat Rikki beat Nag and Nagaina, two vicious cobras, that were mistreating and eating most other animals in the garden. After this, Rikki should feel proud of himself because the snakes are very wise, have very impressive physical abilities, and Rikki did not have much help from other animals. The first reason…

Old Major Rhetorical Analysis In Animal Farm by George Orwell, Old Major brings all the creatures of the farm in to convince them man is to blame for their misery. As all of the animals they settle in, they sit anxious to hear the thoughts of the respected pig. Old major goes on to persuade his audience to join the revolution using ethos, logos, pathos, an asyndeton, and a polysyndeton. Old Major used ethos to give himself credibility by saying, “I feel it my duty to pass on to you such…

“Get out of my class right now!” yelled Mr. Wolf as the five pigs ran out of the classroom crying. Mr. Wolf is the math and science teacher at Onkiers School For Pigs. He is very tall and scary, and he wears a super nice suit every day to school. Most of the pigs at school are scared of him. Even some of the other teacher are probably scared of him. *30 minutes earlier (before class)* “Hey guys lets bring our phones to class so we can play games with them, Mr.Wolf won’t catch us.”…

In Senator Ellison DuRant Smith of South Carolina’s speech, A Congressional Address, he is predominantly trying to persuade the other senators to “shut the door” to immigration as he refers to their breed as “the breed of a dog” and describes them as “dumb, driven cattle” yet the irony behind all this nonsense is that America was born by immigrants and to this day is still mostly ran by immigrants. Senator Smith approaches immigration in a negative way as he states,”...regard to the salvation…

best way a government should be ran, and like the Russian Revolution they both ended up being the worst way to run a government. The last way Communism is shown is that they both start off with a leader who had a partner and took power from Snowball (Leon Trotsky) and snowballs partner Napolean (Joseph Stalin) ended up taking control from snowball and started to abuse his power making the higher class better and giving the pigs more power. The…

In the book “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, a recurring theme is manipulation and deception. Another place this theme occurs is in the world of politics and the effect of politicians themselves. Three good examples of this are Donald Trump, Marion Barry, and Edward Koch. Throughout the book, the pigs lie and confuse the other animals to better their own lives, just as these politicians have done. Napoleon, the leader pig, makes sure to instill fear so everything happens perfectly to his liking.…

Power is defined as a controlling entity that can not be escaped by those who are less superior. In George Orwell's Animal Farm, there is an evident theme shown throughout particular instances of how “power can significantly corrupt individuals” in the novel. From this political satire, Orwell’s main character Napoleon undergoes the destructive damages he creates upon this theme. Animal Farm is a short story reflecting past events that occurred during the Russian Revolution in 1917 in which a…