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- 131: 1984 Orwell
- ... ignorance is strength. As long as the people do not realize what is going on, then the government will continue to have complete control over them. The head figure of this all-powerful government is Big Brother, which Winston is unsure of his existence. When he asks O'Brian if Big Brother really exists, the response was "You don't exist." Orwell by describing this terrible all powerful government that controls, what you eat, where you live, what you do, who you marry, etc. is trying ... toward their complete control over the people. Revisionism is another term used meaning changing of the past. Winston after having a dream tries to remember his childhood. As he remembers, no one had heard of big brother before the 1960s. But his job is to change history, and new history has been dated back to the 1930s with stories of Big Brother. Orwell again uses Winston to warn the reader ...
- 132: One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
- ... he engages in battle with Harding for the position of "Bull Goose Loony": "Then you tell Bull Goose Loony Harding that R. P. McMurphy is waiting to see him and that this hospital ain't big enough for the two of us. I'm accustomed to being top man. I been a bull goose catskinner for every gyppo logging operation in the Northwest and bull goose gambler all the way from ... it sounds funny with his high, breathy voice. (21-22) A further linkage of McMurphy with the heroic (male) American past is forged by the fact that he wears a pair of shorts decorated with "big white whales" which recall Melville's Moby Dick. Indeed, so that the reader does not miss the allusion, Kesey has McMurphy relate that the person who gave him the shorts was "'a co-ed at ... symbol of impenetrability which forms the book's focus over its "hero" Captain Ahab. Kesey, however, appears to associate Moby Dick with male aggressiveness/dominance as is shown in this later confrontation between McMurphy and Big Nurse: "What do you think would have happened if one of the young nurses had come in early and found a patient running round the halls without a uniform? What do you think!" The ...
- 133: ... he is crazy for doing that" but as I thought about it more it seems reasonable to a kid at that age and why wouldnt he act the way he did ? Mark Twain takes a big step to the side when he writes about one of Miss Watsons slaves. Jim is a strong black slave in about his mid-twenties. As you read about Jim and see what he's had ...
- 134: 1984 3
- ... the situation of the world at that time. Next, I will compare the methods of government and social control used in the story and the ones used in Italy, Russia, and Germany. First symbol is Big Brother, an organization running a totalitarianism control of the people. It symbolizes the Russian, Italian, and Germanys governments. At the time the book was released, Russia was ruled by Joseph Stalin. Stalin ruled Russia as ... as Stalin government, was ruled by Benito Mussolini (1922-1943). He was the founder and leader of Italian Fascism. While Germany was ruled by Hitler with his Nazi party. In the story, the government put Big Brother pictures everywhere with the saying, "Big Brother is Watching You, and also the famous propaganda, War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength. This is done by the Ministries of Truth, a department that deals with news, entertainment, ...
- 135: ... same adventures that took place in the novel. In fact, many of the characters in Lee’s novel were based upon many people in her own life. Lee’s father, a southern lawyer, was a big influence on her novel. He served as a model for the character Atticus Finch. Lee’s older sister had many of the same qualities as the character Boo Radley. Her sister was a recluse who ...
- 136: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Jesus Christ and McMurphy
- ... Kesey p. 16) a very relaxed poise. McMurphy also appears to be much like the Western hero, a risk taker; he would go to meet a challenge, ready to risk a confrontation, usually with the Big Nurse. One such occasion was when McMurphy rose to meet the Nurse's confiscation and rationing of cigarettes by breaking her window and taking the cigarettes. The Chief comments on this confrontational aspect of McMurphy's character when he says of McMurphy: He was the logger again, the swaggering gambler, the big redheaded brawling Irishman, the cowboy out of the TV set walking down the middle of the street to meet a dare. (Kesey p. 172) It was this daring aspect of his character that made him ... One example of this special portrait is that McMurphy's disappearance, contrasting Jesus' death, is what frees the Acutes. It was because of his sacrifice that the men were freed from the oppression of the Big Nurse; they became more like men and less like rabbits under the control of the wolf, Nurse Ratched. Not only did his attack on the Big Nurse and his disappearance help to reinstate the ...
- 137: Dizzy Gillespie
- ... until after the Bebop period was well on its way to extinction. Before the quick pace, explosive sound of Bebop Gillespie had to make a name for him self. In Philadelphia he played with a big band lead by Frankie Fairfax. From Philadelphia he moved to New York in 1937. In New York, one of the focal points for jazz at that time, Gillespie played with the Teddy Hill Band. He ... the position in this band because he sounded like one of his influences, Roy Elridge (Kerfeld, 428). Playing with Hills band Gillespie traveled throughout Europe. Once he returned to New York Gillespie got his first big gig, as a trumpeter in Cab Calloway's band. During 1939, a time still unequal for blacks and whites, Cab Calloway. had the highest paying black band around town (Gleason, 151). Gillespie on several occasions ... a very moderate tempo, probably around 120 - 130 on a metronome. Bebop left a fiery trail across the stage, moving along at tempos of 200 and higher. Gillespie was responsible for establishing the first Bebop big band, which combined the speed and melodic complexity of the small quintet, with the larger sixteen piece instrumentation of a big band, which included, 5 saxophones, 4 trombones, 4 or 5 trumpets, a bass, ...
- 138: Foul Play
- ... to reach a common goal. The guestion we should ask ourselves is: Why? Why do individuals give up so much to be a part of a team? The answer lies within the organization of how big-time college sport exists. Fans are drawn to big sporting events such as the Super Bowl and the World Series. College athletes want to be in that spotlight, and they sacrifice everything to gain that status. Fans are consumed by sports. USA Today, the ... best, so they have a greater chance of becomig a pro. The most tantalizing part of college athletics is the allure of becoming a professional athlete. More than winning, college athletes are drawn to the big salary contracts of professional sport. College coaches tend to use this desire to obtain a greater effort out of their athletes. For the big money, college athletes will give anything, and take anything to ...
- 139: Gateway To Heaven" - Tiananmen
- ... shock; I hadn’t realized that I was standing in front of my locker staring at it all this time. "Umm, nothing" I answered in a daze. "Well anyway, did you hear about Hu Yao bang?" "What about him?" "You mean, you don’t know?" "No, just tell me!" "Well, he died of a heart attack today." I froze: this man was one of my sister’s hero’s, he was ... not "prepared for and cared for in their burial, they will haunt the living that were supposed to take care of them." My guess is that no one wants to be haunted by Hu Yao bang, so this is why they are mourning so openly. As I continued my stroll through the somber atmosphere, I begin to notice all the different ways people mourn, the Buddhist, the Confucius, the Taoist all of them paid their respects to Hu Yao bang; I could imagine that the parades would begin soon, these mourning for Hu Yao bang’s life. I recalled his background, Hu Yao bang came from a family that had a strong commitment to ...
- 140: The Cycle of Never Ending Cause and Effect
- ... taking the generations and going back on time, there will come a point where the beginning of things will be put under observation. How did things begin? Scientists believe that our world began with the Big Bang, yet for the Big Bang to originate there must have been the Sun and the Universe itself. Then what was before the Universe? An atom? And before the atom? The word "nothing" is a common answer to these ...
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