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Power is infinite. “Absolute power corrupts absolute” in the novel 1984 By George Orwell speaks of how the government rules all. Those with the power become corrupt and power hungry. The country Oceania is controlled by those who know and how to use power, but not in the best way possible. In the appendix of the novel, Orwell states on a page 309 “Newspeak was the official language of Oceania” readers can infer that Newspeak, the language that every citizen spoke in Oceania, vanished. What…

Joseph Smith played a pivotal role in the Mormon faith as its founder. His upbringing greatly influenced his achievements during the 1830s and 1840s. The Second Great Awakening, a religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States, also influenced Smith, in turn, compelling him to believe he was needed for significant religious duties. Joseph Smith’s Church of Christ had many beliefs outside the norm and practiced many ideas that were not considered acceptable by…

Can moral agents do what stands in their own self-interest and still perform with a voluntary spirit? Lori A. Brainard and Patricia D. Siplon, in their work, Toward Nonprofit Organization Reform in The Voluntary Spirit quoted Richard Bush, as he cautioned, “that one of the biggest challenges facing organizations in the sector was how to retain their “nonprofit spirit in a for profit world.” Accordingly, in your discussion board submission, you separated “a different value and mode of using…

Classical sociologists such as, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Max Weber describe economic interests as one of the motivations for social action. Adam Smith argues that economic interest is the only purpose for social action and through this societies prosper. Marx and Engels on the other hand believe that social action driven by economic interest is imposed onto society by institutions. Finally, Weber argues that history’s contingent development has caused an era where economic…

Winston smith purchases this diary, which in this place is forbidden, and he writes the words, “Down with Big Brother”, which is a crime in this Oceania, and hides it from the telescreen, which is Oceania security system at this time. A telescreen is what the guards of Oceania use to make sure everyone is being a good citizen. Winston begins a relationship with Julia, another main character of the story, and do very illegal things with each other. After some time, they fall in love. Winston and…

The famous economist, Milton Friedman, had many economic theories and he would have definitely made huge changes to the economy presented in the Hunger Games because of them. First of all, he was a capitalist, more specifically a “Laissez Faire” capitalist. This means that he would like for the governing body to have little to no regulation and intervention on the economic structure. He also had a monetarist mindset. This means that the only way he wanted the government to control the economy…

There are various characters who do not emerge at all in George Orwell’s 1984. Despite this, they still manage to affect the development and actions of the Oceania population in addition to the theme. Big Brother, the reputed ruler of the superstate Oceania, does not physically exist in the novel and there is no evidence for his mere existence. Nevertheless, the mention of his name will send the members of the Party into a state of euphoria. There are people who are exceptions to his influence,…

The fiend fire could not be stopped. The doors that would free the six-hundred workers were locked shut, imprisoning the young girls in a man-made flaming hell. The manager attempted to use the fire hose to extinguish it, but the hose was rotted and its valve was rusted shut. Running from the incinerator, many stuffed themselves into the two freight elevators, operated by Gaspar Mortillaro and Joseph Zito who both returned to the inferno over and over, saving a hundred and fifty people. Still,…

Liberal capitalism came about as a human response to the challenge of the Industrial Revolution. Under this form of capitalism, the human economy becomes a self-adjusting system of markets. This means that man adjusted its economy to incorporate the new employment of machinery in manufacture in order to continue to make a monetary profit. Polanyi expresses his belief that liberal capitalism emerged primarily out of fear; machine seemed to supersede human workers, the notion he refers to as…

Transitioning into adulthood is hard for any gender but it was especially difficult during the 1950s, a socially conservative time. As a woman in the 1950s, transitioning to adulthood was difficult and for Esther it was nearly impossible. Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar provides the opportunity to view a young woman's journey into early adulthood during a period where gender roles, double standards, and social norms severely restricted the options and opportunities available to women. Further, when…