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    20 November 2014 Winston and his Comrades 1984 , a novel by George Orwell is about Winston Smith , a member of the Outer Party in London , Oceania. The Outer Party is the people who work in the party’s government , in the four ministries. This novel explains how everyone in the party is always being watched through telescreens by the Thought Police. Throughout this novel , Winston shares a lot of his emotions and thoughts through writing in his journal. In Part I Winston has a few…

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    People say that Winston Churchill was strong and a great leader and I believe them. He was one of the best British prime ministers ever and he did not like giving up he always wanted to fight. Great Britain was alone in the battle with the Nazis. Hitler wanted to destroy Great Britain. The first thing that he did was try to get rid of the Royal Air Force and to get many soldiers in England. When is was nice outside Germany's air weapon was attacking Great Britain. British aircrafts and airfields…

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    Thoughtcrime In 1984

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    The main character Winston Smith in “1984” resembles a divergent character, separating his path and goals away from societies’. This is clearly shown from the moment he committed a thought crime, a specific type of crime recognized sometime in the future by the Thought Police. Winston begins to talk to himself stating, “The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed—would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper—the essential crime that contained all others…

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    This essay will use primary and secondary sources to justify war. The primary sources used will be a speech from the Queen of the Celts, Boudicea, and one from Great Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The two secondary sources will come from scholarly, peer reviewed sources. They will be used to back up the primary sources. These two speeches took place at different times in history. However, both show the justifications that these leaders used to encourage their people to fight with…

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    and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”(Churchill, Winston) Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill is known as one of the greatest war time heroes of the twentieth century. He was also a British officer, author, historian, artist, and the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He had a strong influence in not just the United Kingdom, but all over the world. People have been inspired by his books, and his work in the army. Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born on November 30,…

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    Special Relationship

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    Being a newly formed nation, America did not share the same intelligence institutions as its counterpart, Britain, and therefore relied on the British for their, for a lack of a better term, brains and geographical advantages. The American department of state policy outline in the creation of the Atlantic Alliance that the United Kingdom should ‘retain control of her outlying possessions’ so that certain territories such as Malaysia would not ‘fall into less friendly hands.’ The phrase ‘less…

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    Soon after the other Axis powers declared war on the United States, and we were in the war. The Prime Minister of Great Britain, Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, was happy that we had finally joined the war. After the war ended, America finally made Hawaii a state in 1959. Some of the rumors that floated were facts, on November 30, 1941 the headlines on the Hilo Tribune Herald were…

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    Air Power Influence

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    Air power influenced each member of the Allies and Axis powers uniquely through the context in which they viewed the effects of air power in World War I (WWI), the development of theories and technology in the interwar years, and the geopolitical situation facing the nations at the outset of World War II (WWII). These situations and experiences created a perception of the capabilities of air power that drove the creation and employment of the nations’ air arm. In turn, each belligerents’…

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    Winston Groom, born in Washington, D.C. March 23, 1943, is a southern non-fiction writer and Novelist. “Winston Groom’s strong sense of place thrived on the day-to-day replenishment of Southern life and Southern people. Groom believes that Southerners make good storytellers because they are surrounded by families and friends who like to relate life 's experiences” (“Winston Groom…” np). With the help of friends and family, Winston Groom was able to write books and have confidence in his work due…

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    It all started with a letter. Tiny scrawls on a bottom of a page from the United States President Harry Truman was what spurred former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill into action to compose what are now arguably known as the most important speeches in the World War Two era. Churchill had already been a prominent figure during these testing times, but his speeches in 1946 raised his name to a higher atmosphere. These speeches no doubt resonated throughout the entire world, eliciting a…

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