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kids one by one on June 20, 2001. Her oldest child was 7 and her youngest was 6 months old at the time of their deaths. Months later, she was convicted of capital murder in Harris County. She was sentenced to life in prison and a possibility of prole after 40 years. She than filed an appeal, she than pleaded not guilty for reasons of insanity. She was then moved to a mental hospital where she was treated for postpartum psychosis and bipolar disorder. She was roomed with another mother who…

What type of metamorphosis has the Eugenics movement endure in the 21st century? The Eugenics movement started in the 1920’s where it gained a large popularity among the elites of society during that era. Out of this elites, Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin, was the person that coined the term “Eugenics.” Eugenics comes from the Greek words meaning “good birth.” This movement involves applying the principles of heredity for the enhancement of the human race by various forms of…

Living in a Utopian Dystopia Dreaming of a world, where everything is okay. Dreaming of living in a world where everyone can trust one another, where mothers and fathers stay around to see their children grow up. Where you can do whatever you want and not get told you are wrong. Now, it sounds perfect doesn 't it? Think harder. You think everything is okay for you, but what about for someone else? Winston Smith experienced living in a dystopia while his “friend” O’Brien was running a Utopia for…

Andrew Lee Kay DeCasper Enc1102 29 October 2014 1984: Big Brother is watching you Eric Arthur Blair was born the 25th of June 1903 in Motihari, Bengal Presidency, British India. After growing up to a semi-wealthy family with his father, a British colonial civil servant, Eric travelled around and then joined the Indian Imperial Police in Burma (http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/orwell_george.shtml). After Blair’s resignation in 1927 he decided to focus on becoming a writer. Before his…

Describe the setting: The setting of George Orwell’s 1984 is set in the future of Oceania. Oceania is a country, which is in a continuous state of war. In Oceania the living conditions of the country are extremely poor and the buildings are in ruins. The clothes given are poorly made, people are paid in small wages, and the food served out are restricted and artificially made. Also telescreens are placed in almost every room to visually and audibly monitor behaviour. What happens in…

Celebrities Hide from Their True Lives The world is full of diverse minds, which is why there are millions of different opinions and why not everyone is pleased by the same ideas. Even though people like to pretend there is a place in this world with a perfect government, laws, and social conditions, it is impossible to have that utopia (“Utopia”). A utopia always deteriorates into a dystopia, a place of unhappy and afraid people that are not treated properly (“Dystopia”). The story of 1984…

Thus, together, they find something that they party cannot take away from them, and that is their love for each other. This manifestation of love drives them to risk getting caught in order to seek out and join the Brotherhood, a mysterious organization whose existence is founded upon destroying The Party. The man they suspect as a leader is a higher official named O’Brien, who upon meeting the lovers, gives them a book written by Emmanuel Goldstein, the principle enemy of The Party. It is…

mother Winston came to his conclusion that being ‘human’ was what would beat the Party, “What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself. The proles, it suddenly occurred to him, had remained in this condition. They were not loyal to party or a country or an idea, they were loyal to one another.” (Orwell 165) When Winston understood this, he made the decision that it was more important to…

He turned a little sideways in his chair to drink his mug of coffee. At the table on his left the man with the strident voice was still talking remorselessly away. A young woman who was perhaps his secretary, and who was sitting with her back to Winston, was listening to him and seemed to be eagerly agreeing with everything that he said. From time to time Winston caught some such remark as 'I think you're so right, I do so agree with you', uttered in a youthful and rather silly feminine voice.…

Individual vs Society Kimisha Peterson Ottawa University Introduction In the debate between the individual vs society there are many aspects to consider. In many literary works there is an emphasis put on the individual rather than the society as a whole, but even though the emphasis is on individual rights these rights are also for the common good. The line between the individual and society is very thin and can easily be crossed, but that’s why this debate is so convoluted. A…