Undeclared

1984 by George Orwell is an interesting dystopian novel which covers the topic of what society will be like in the year 1984. According to Orwell, society will be divided into three countries, each with a controlling government somewhat like there was in the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany in the real world. Everybody in these countries are brainwashed into believing that the governments are doing what is best for them, when the governments are only doing what is best for themselves. The…

Australian’s traditional narrative of the colonisation of Australia has been long founded on the European coloniser’s stories alone. Excluding the Aboriginal voice and views of the colonisation of their land. Recent texts such as The Secret River, have been produced to disrupt this traditional ideology and contributed to the undermining of these traditional ideas of colonialism. These texts can be interpreted and read in a number of different ways. The Secret River, a postcolonial novel, by Kate…

Our society becoming Brave New World The goal of dystopian novels is to portray the future of a society if it continues on the path that it is on. Three of the most famous dystopian novels are Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, George Orwell’s 1984, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Bradbury and Orwell depict the future as the government using technology to control people. However, Huxley depicts the future as a society who finds absolute pleasure in technology. Huxley’s future is the most…

personality and her complexity, compared to Cecily’s simplicity and straightforward personality. Oscar Wilde uses both Gwendolen and Cecily to build the theme of love and marriage to show whether marriage is something of personal pleasure or if it is an undeclared social responsibility to hold a social class, and if love is something true or an offshoot of romance. Gwendolen contributes to the theme primarily through her superficial obsession with the name…

This weeks readings examined the role of social constructivism in education as a pedagogy and practice rather than simply as an educational philosophy. Beck and Kosnik’s (2007) article focuses on the role of social constructivism in preservice education and provide examples of this pedagogy put into practie. Both Elkind (2004) and Carson (2005) discuss preservice education as well as the implications of educators using a constructivist approach to teaching and learning. Elkin’s (2004) article…

of a treaty and renegotiation of a broken treaty. The different types of War mentioned in Kautilya’s Arthashastra are:- An open war which takes place at a specified time and place A secret war which is terrorizing, sudden assault, threatening. Undeclared wars which includes occult practices KA also makes a mention of different kinds of pauses:- A point which catches the attention of the readers is also a mention about the different kinds of pauses…

ISIS verse Al-Qaeda and Aum Shinrikyo—Using Chemical Weapons: In attempting to answer if ISIS’s apocalyptic views of the world paired with their willingness to acquire and use chemical weapons can prove to be evidence that the group will seek and use nuclear weapons, comparing ISIS to al Qaeda and Aum Shinrikyo is necessary. Al- Qaeda followed a similar trajectory as ISIS in their pursuit and use of chemical weapons. In 2001, a computer was found at an Al Qaeda safe house…

Government Totalitarianism in Nineteen Eighty-Four Is living in a society with minimal expression enjoyable? In the novel Nineteen Eighty- Four, by George Orwell, the protagonist, Winston Smith, lives in fear as he struggles to express his hatred towards the government. The government’s totalitarianism prevents citizens from revolting against them. The Party eliminates freedom from Outer Party members to decrease the threat of turning against the government. Furthermore, they eliminate those…

As a result of the Watergate scandal, a series of laws were passed, by Congress, to limit the president’s power. This included amending the Freedom of Information Act. The change limited the president 's power to wage undeclared war, and the laws surrounding financial disclosure, like the Ethics in Government Act. The Ethics in Government Act established the public financial disclosure requirements for senior employees of the executive branch, as well as particular employees…

In the late 1930s and early 1940s an ever growing America had many different visions for the future. President Roosevelt along with Norman Rockwell are two notable American icons that had similar but contrasting views on the image of America. In Roosevelt’s Quarantine speech he talks about how America wants peace and how the nations are declaring war on each other, even when some nations did not want anything to do with World War II. Roosevelt states “America hates war. America hopes for peace.…