The Accuracy of Postman’s Prediction As technology continues to advance in research and complexity, the fear of security increases with it. With recent reports of the NSA and big corporations spying on Americans and customers, one can believe that society is becoming Orwellian. Orwell’s society in 1984 depicts a society ruled by fear, through surveillance and torture. On the other hand, Huxley’s society in Brave New World is kept in line through happiness, entertainment, and the advancement of…
The time and location of the origin of the cult of Dionysus is unclear. It is clear that he came as a foreigner but there are different theories as to from where. Thrace and Phrygia are traditionally viewed as his birthplace before he migrated to Greece. Nilsson, however, proposes that Dionysus originated in three different regions: Thrace, Phrgia, and Greece itself, each time in different forms.1 Because the cult of Dionysus was so well received in the mainland of Greece, Nilson makes the…
On August 27, 2014, six men were arrested for conducting a human trafficking ring in Northeastern Minnesota and Northwestern Wisconsin. (The Associated Press par 1). Of these men, only one, Ronald Provost of Foxboro, is native to Wisconsin; he was charged with child enticement (The Associated Press par 2). The other five men were arrested for prostitution (The Associated Press par 3). Human Trafficking, according to the advisers of the Do Something campaign, is using force to make people do…
German and more Eastern European history. During the post War period of 1944-1949 a huge part of East Prussia’s population has been destroyed by Soviets. In 1944 when the war turned against Germany, this land was invaded by the Red Army in a mass of orgy rape, pillage and indiscriminate killing directed against the civilians. When East Prussia and its people tried to escape from the approaching disaster, it formed part of the largest migration of humanity in history. The lady, one of the…
The New Era was a great time of business. The 1920’s saw an economy prosper due to consumerism, leisure expansion, and the establishment of a middle class. In contrast, just prior to the 1920’s America was still in the industrial age, where the unemployment rate peaked at 20 percent, and bankruptcy rates were threatening farmers by increasing tenfold. The reading states that before President Harding’s death, he was able to implement high tariffs protecting business in America, supporting costs…
1. Josef Stalin and the Soviet Union are shown as leaders who destroy individuality to better control the citizens of Oceania in the novel 1984 by George Orwell. The character Big Brother and the Thought Police have a method to enforce the people of Oceania to possess the desired thoughts and emotions. The people of Oceania cannot think beyond the greatness of Big Brother and cannot feel any other emotions besides their love and loyalty to Big Brother, as well a hate for Goldstein and the…
he causes by imagining various events and scents of his life which is similar to the purpose and cause of masturbation. 8. “The result was that the scheduled execution of one of the most abominable criminals of the age degenerated into the largest orgy the world had ever seen since the second century before Christ.” (Suskind…
parodies its commercialization, while Burgess attacks the mob mentality of religious people and Vonnegut explores the meaninglessness of religious practice. In Survivor, ‘the good people of Tender Branson Enterprises’ take the shameless commercialization of religion to hilarious extremes. This is illustrated by the tacky merchandizing of Tender’s religious fame such as ‘the Bible Diet…the book Money-Making Secrets of the Bible…The Tender Branson Dashboard Statuette.’ Tender himself is acutely…
control their hormones. The production and release of hormones is a natural physiologic occurrence for all humans. “Later serving in another division, he witnessed the same disruptive effects of women in combat: ‘Enlisted troops participated in orgies in secluded areas while senior enlisted and even officers were all too willing to lose their composure over female subordinates,’” (Neumayr). Witnessing sexual encounters in secluded areas of a base would most definitely make sense. Not only…
“Brave New World” by Aldes Huxley depicts the possibly grim future that has yet to occur in, which the World State gains absolute control over powerful technologies. This controls the behaviours and actions of its people in order to preserve its own stability and power. This was achieved through the clever use of genetic engineering; brainwashing; recreational sex; and drugs. At the beginning of the story, all of the members of the World State are seen as mindless and emotionless, happy…