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- 361: Review Of 1984
- 1984 By George Orwell, 1949 Main Characters Winston Smith - The 39 year old protagonist of the novel whose rebellion against Big Brother and the Party and love for Julia is completely wiped out by O'Brian at the Ministry of Love. Julia - Member of the Junior Anti-Sex league who becomes Winston's secret lover and fellow rebel. O'Brian - Member of the Inner-Party who learns that Winston has rebellious tendencies and sets a trap for him over the course of 7 years and ultimately destroys him. Big Brother - Mysterious omnipresent figurehead who is the embodiment of all the ideals of the party. Minor Characters Emmanuel Goldstein - Leader of the rebels and designated enemy of the citizens. Mr. Charrington - Secret Member of the ... which is part of the country Oceania. The world is divided into three countries that include the entire globe: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. Oceania, and both of the others, is a totalitarian society led by Big Brother, which censors everyone's behavior, even their thoughts. Winston is disgusted with his oppressed life and secretly longs to join the fabled Brotherhood, a supposed group of underground rebels intent on overthrowing the ...
- 362: Money And Information
- ... occupation that is legal’. He specifies that the term legal occupation is necessary because without it the term ‘occupational crime’ could conceivably include all crimes. Occupational crime can include INFORMATIONAL MOTIVE “It’s as if big companies and their suck-up lawyers think that computing belongs to them, and they can retail it with price stickers, as if it were boxes of laundry soap! But pricing ‘information’ is like trying to ... email interview). Hacking as a form of anti-bureaucratic rebellion can take both macro and micro forms (Taylor1999: 62). On a macro-level Steve Hardin argues, ‘most law-abiding people fantasise about breaking the law big-time and getting away with it. We ‘ordinary folk’ are intrigued by the little guy who beats the big corporations or governments’ (Hardin: email interview). The anti-authoritarian outlook of hackers that is needed as part of their ‘free information’ ethos tends to encourage little empathy with governmental agencies. "The public perception of ...
- 363: Business
- ... Gender Bias.---Receiver (Plumber) Semantic is a word that will ahve different meanings to different people. Example WordProcessing to some people that might mean type writer. To me it means Computer typing. Emotions play a big part on what kinda feed back you get when talk to someone. If a CEO, comes into a busniess meeting and starts yelling and gives everyone a real big attitude. The people who have to come up with ideas aren’t going to say much. If they have an idea they will probably won’t say it at all. That also falls into Attitudes ... it gives a employee someone to talk to too about personal problems. Here’s some steps 1. Avoid being judgmental. 2. accept what is said. 3. Be patient. This will help a company in a big way. You want to create a climate that encourages upward communication. Have the people below at the bottom give ideas and partisapate in some meets. High Tech communication is a big part on keeping ...
- 364: Snowboarding
- ... boards have a high camber for quick edge to edge turns, while a freestyle board would have a low camber for an easier slide. Sidecut is what makes a snowboard a snowboard, instead of one big ski. The side cut is the imaginary radius of a circle that you can draw on the side of the board. It measures the difference of the length between the tip, center, and tail. A ... edges of the board. Various shapes and components are used for specific styles of riding. There are 4 main styles of riding, with specific families of boards for each: Alpine/Carving/Race, Freestyle, Freeride, and Big Mountain/Longboard. Racing, Carving, or Alpine boards (the three names are equally as common) are very distinguishable from other boards. They are usually thick (between base and top sheet), skinny, and have very low tails ... the center, and soft at the tip and tail to absorb landings. A halfpipe board would have an equally distributed flex, so that the board can contour to the curve of the pipe better. A Big Mountain or Long Board is ridden be experts who do a lot of hiking around in the backcountry of the very large mountains. They are like long, wide, Freestyle boards, so that they can ...
- 365: Upton Sinclair
- At the turn of the century America was in the face of economic downfall. Laissez Faire Industrialism had been in place and citizens were at the disposal of big business. Poor working conditions and poverty were the norm in a time where Socialism was an irrelevant ideology. Big business was making the government rich. But according to Upton Sinclair and his "Conditions at the Slaughterhouse," unsafe and repulsive sanitary conditions were at play, putting thousands of carnivorous Americans and factory workers in danger ... and provide for the people of America in times of poverty and despair. Yet thousands of Americans went home each day broken and famished only to pay taxes to a government unwilling to compete with big business. As these laborers flocked to the slaughterhouse every morning they were just as susceptible to harm as the pigs themselves. They were used for the sole reason to generate immense profits with little ...
- 366: 1984
- ... the past; and print up new revised editions, which is being constantly redone. Winston is aware of the untruths, because he makes them true. This makes him very upset with the government of Oceania, where Big Brother, a larger than life figure, controls the people. Big brother is the figurehead of a government that has total control. The Big brother political system uses propaganda and puts fear in its citizens to keep the general population in line. His dissatisfaction increases to a point where he rebels against the government in small ways. Winston' ...
- 367: Creative Story: Fast Eddie
- ... man-made disaster, including this Civil War of 2009. Most people think that the "UnderNet" planned and orchestrated the civil war. The first outbreaks were over resources. Fuel and water that was going to the big cities at the expense of the rural communities. 'The greatest good for the greatest amount of people' we were all told. Now, after three years of civil war, life is very hard. This brings us ... around. In the center of the room were what seemed to be four padded columns with a seat going around each. The back wall was lined with electronic equipment and six large cases about as big as a washing machine. I recognized the columns. I had seen a special on super computers on TV. This room had four of them. The large electronic cases in the back were data storage. Huge ... and a half ago. It listed off boring statistics of power consumption and allocation of resources. It was true that the cities were getting the lions share of resources. Everything was being diverted to the big cities. It even spoke of cutting off resources to the central part of Wyoming because of lack of justification. I remembered the TV news stories about ranchers attacking convoys of trucks travelling through Wyoming. ...
- 368: The Ironies Of 1984
- ... the history books, the Ministry of Love discourages love, and the Ministry of Peace is actually quite violent. The final example of verbal Irony can be seen in the name of the leader of Oceania, "Big Brother." The concept of a big brother is one whom is older and wiser and helps the "littler siblings"-this not the case with 1984's Big Brother. The Big Brother in this novel completely watches over every move a person makes keeping them controlled with fear. The next type of irony is Situation irony, which is when a character or ...
- 369: Catcher In The Rye 2
- ... wish for it manifested itself into the one thing he would like. In his subconscious wishes for control and help he said: "Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around - nobody big, I mean - except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff - I mean ... I know it's crazy." The children represent all of his problems running rampid in his twisted game of life, which "old Spencer" warned him of in the beginning of the novel. The absence of "big" people portray no one being in charge, and the image of him being the lone "big" person, express him as being souly in control. The playing in the rye field next to a crazy ...
- 370: Theodore Roosevelt
- ... used every advantage he held in his power to maintain the nation’s status as the “great” one. However the fame and glory of Teddy Roosevelt focuses on his domestic policies. Appearing to destroy the Big Businessmen became the idol of every American. A fighter in the war, the president continued to fight for the American cause. He seemingly had achieved his dreams of American greatness on the foreign front, now ... to the public’s whims to make America great on the domestic front. Teddy and the Trusts seemed to be his most renowned accomplishment fir the Americans at home. The president appeared to cut down Big Business and destroy the powerful influence of robber barrens. Leading forty lawsuits against the millionaires, he truthfully did not rigorously campaign against the wealthy elite. Publicly he was the “Big Business Buster,” taking on Morgan with Northern Securities in a symbolic battle of clashing Titans. TR was showing the nation that no man was above the law. In the power game, no one was ...
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