The Big Boss

government can form anywhere and have power over everyone if it gets the support. When Big Brother finally broke Winston Smith it was evident that no body could avoid the power of The Party. Through out the whole novel Winston Smith opposed The Party and everything that it stands for. He does not like that “[Big Brother controls] the mind” (277) of every citizen and can make them do anything for Big Brother. Big Brother has complete control of everyone’s actions except for Winston, he was…

The telescreen is used to monitor the activity of a citizen to make sure that he/she is not acting against the party or Big Brother. The telescreen helps to make one’s actions the same in public as in private. In this quote we see the importance privacy in our lives while Winston is just trying to get privacy in a small part of his. “By sitting in the alcove, and keeping…

William Herschel was not an astronomer when he discovered Uranus. He was actually a musician and teacher. He looked at the stars as a hobby. However, he used a method different than most star gazers of the time. He mapped out the stars in relation to each other, instead of the traditional grid method used at the time (Smith 2013). He started out by studying the Society papers on natural history and matter theory, after he joined the Bath Philosophical Society in 1780. He also reached out to the…

With my increased interest about space following the last essay, I choose to read the essay, “James Webb telescope will truly do what Hubble only dreamed of” by Ethan Seigal. The essay was about the capabilities of the new James Webb telescope, that is being launched in October 2018, and paying respects to the telescope Hubble as well. The author started out by listing the accomplishments made by Hubble, which was first launched in 1990, and the numerous milestones that were reached with the…

In today’s society, reality TV shows have become the most popular and viewed genre on television. Reality shows are based on people’s real life situations that people shows to the audience. People in the world are more interested in watching reality shows versus scripted shows, unless the script show is very eye catching. Cynthia M. Frisby, is an associate professor of advertising at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Columbia, and coeditor of Journalism across Cultures. Frisby…

regal thinking are illustrated by the fable, THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES by Hans Christian Andersen. One of the best-known physics examples of regal science is Aristotle’s geocentric solar system from the 4th century B.C. The strategy was simple enough and the original model was as simple as possible. It was, in fact simpler than today’s models. However, the narrative was barren. As the data became more precise, the necessary adjustments to the model became more complicated. Four hundred…

believing that ‘Big Brother’ is in their best interest. In the text, “Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” (Orwell, 1984) The party is assuming that the ignorance…

William Huggins was an amazing contribution to the rise of astronomy. When Huggins was born in Cornhill, England on February 7, 1824. A bit later in life, Huggins married Margaret Lindsey who also had an affinity for astronomy. She persuaded her husband to continue his work and together they became a dynamic duo of astronomers. Somewhere towards the middle of his life, William Huggins built an observatory on top of the roof of his own house. At this time, he lived in Tulse Hill, England. The…

concentrated in a very small volume with a fantastically high density, many orders of magnitude superior to the density of matter in the atomic nucleus . Suddenly for reasons which are built a variety of assumptions, it was what is now called the Big Bang, and of flying shards of primary clot began to form stars, galaxies and all matter around us. The explosion was accompanied by a huge bunch temperatures, as evidenced by the cosmic microwave background residual radiation discovered in 1965 by…

found themselves throughout the period about which Chandler is writing” (Sparknotes, Themes, Motifs, and Symbols). The movie The Big Sleep is a great tale and produced in classic film noir style that is full of twist and trickery as crime stories go, and the lead character shares a kinship to the anti-hero detective Sam Spade featured in The Maltese Falcon (1941) five years…