Nicholas Brothers

Ame’s Room Ame’s room is only a distorted optical ilusion. This room was invented by American opthalmolegist Adelbert Ames Jr. in 1934, and constructed in 1935. There are several illusions to this room. The room appears to look cubic from a certain point of view. The next illusion presented in this room is how when you move from side to side the people standing on either corner of the room seem to grow bigger or shrink. This room is set up to look as if it were a perfectly normal room. However,…

The musical Into the Woods, by Stephen Sondheim (music and lyrics) and James Lapine (book) is a compilation of fairytales with a unique twist of life’s hard lessons after getting what you “wished” for. The play’s main story line is composed of well-known fairytales such as: Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Jack and the bean stock. These fairytales are all intertwined in order to help the protagonist (the baker) collect all the ingredients the witch has asked for in order for…

betray the people under its rule for its own ends. The party uses the concept of Big Brother to maintain power. There is absolute control over daily life, constant rationing, vaporizing of individuals who don't conform…

Why is understanding their notions of duty and honor important to understanding the people of Japan? The easiest way to understand the people of a country’s is to analyze their ancient stories and proverbs. Even though in modern times they are told as fairy tales to small children, it is my belief that they hold essential values in explaining traditions and behaviors of a population. A quick look at stories in Japan about education will make it clear that education begins with teaching the…

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is a dystopian fiction novel written in 1984. This totalitarian society was created by the government in order to gain control and oppress the citizens in Gilead. This novel follows the journey of the main character, Offred, before and after Gilead was created. Before Gilead was created June, whose name was changed to Offred after becoming a handmaid, had a husband, child, and job. Once the government took control everything was taken away. She was then…

In George Orwell’s novel 1984, he shows their society ruled by Big Brother. Big brother is a totalitarian state which uses a surveillance to maintain power. Similar to 1984’s government Big Brother, the American government uses various technology to spy and monitor its citizens to prevent rebellion and terrorist attack. Surveillance is a big key to their success, they use many methods to spy on its citizens. A major Surveillance tool they use is the Telescreen. The Telescreen is both a…

of Oceania at all times, he hates the fact that he has no contact with the world outside of Oceania except the vision of war captives being brought into Oceania, and more than anything he has an pure disdain for Big Brother. As he repeatedly writes in his journal: “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” [3]. D-503 distastes the concept of “freedom” and describes it as: “an unorganized primitive state”[4]. One the other hand, Winston Smith pleads for freedom. Throughout the novel most of Winston’s time is…

"The figures in fairy tales are not ambivalent-not good and bad at the same time, as we all are in reality. But since polarization dominates the child's mind, it also dominates fairy tales" (Bettelheim 9). The purpose of a fairytale is to teach morals in a memorable way. One way to ensure that it is memorable is to include dark, scary characters. The appearance of the characters is essential. Beauty is an important characteristic in fairytales and the bad characters are indicated by being ugly…

“BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” (Orwell 4) This is one of George Orwell’s famous quotes from the book, 1984. Orwell wrote this book to give awareness about totalitarianism and communism. Hitler was able to captured millions of people to follow his lead by his false hopes for them.This gives an example of the ways the people in the book were living at Airstrip One, Oceania Mainland, with fear and imitation. Hitler came from nothing, but was able to persuade millions to Germans to follow his Nazi…

Story-2 How the Tooth Fairy Got Her Job Long time ago in the fairy world there were six magical fairies. But the fairies living in the fairy land did not know what their jobs were, as they were talented in their own ways. So unanimously they decided to have a contest to decide the jobs accordingly. The six fairies were- Blue, Brown, Grey, Green, Gold, Silver, and White. The first competition was for the Water Kingdom. The fairy that could dive to the deepest part of the ocean and come back with…