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- 2951: 1984: The Party's Methods of Controlling People
- ... powerful ways. The Inner Party which is the government, controlled the people of Oceania by telescreens, doublethink, and propaganda. These three methods are so powerful in making the lower class believe that Oceania is at war with Eastasia. Big Brother is the Inner Party leader and, Emmanuel Goldstein is the Enemy of the Party. The first and far most compelling method in controlling the people is the use of telescreens. They ... the daily Two Minute Hate. The main focus of the telescreens is the image of Big Brother. Big Brother is always shown on the screen to make the people believe that Oceania is winning the war. Big Brother is the leader of the Inner Party, and Emmanuel Goldstein plays the role of keeping the citizens fearful that they might do or say, or even think, something harmful to the State and ... encourages and enforces doublethink. The purpose of it is to discard more and more words and meanings until rebellion is not possible because there is no word for it. To convince everyone in Oceania that war is the best state possible for them, the state developed the slogan WAR IS PEACE. Everyone sees the slogan as perfectly logical because they have become so conditioned to it. The next slogan FREEDOM ...
- 2952: James Baldwin
- ... that Baldwin chose a white person to portray himself. It was in 1960 that Baldwin returned to the United States. Upon his return to the United States, Baldwin became very active in support of the civil rights movement. He also began to write of his newfound observations of New York intellectuals and the racial and sexual tension among them in, Another Country (1962). In 1961, Baldwin received true recognition for his ... racial wake-up call to all of the races and cultures in the United States, which might find racism or ethnocentrism as a social "security blanket". It also called the African American man to the civil rights battlefield and forced the white man to look at and analyze himself through a critical looking glass. Blues for Mr. Charlie deals with the murder of a young black man, Richard, by a white shop owner, Lyle Britten. Richard is a bitter, busted musician returning home. His open expression of hatred towards whites, we learn, leads to his death. Later, the pastor, Meridian, Richard's father and civil rights leader, expresses his faith in Parnell, a friend and white liberal, to help. Parnell seems to represent Baldwin's belief in the fact that you should not let one or one thousand seeds ...
- 2953: American Indians 2
- ... 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue , and that Peter Minuet bought all of Manhattan Island from the Indians for only twenty-four dollars worth of trinkets. In high school, we were taught that in World War II, the Germans were all heartless savages, and that the best course of action to end the war was to use the atomic bomb on Japan. It is seen that the victor writes the history books. In other words, the dominant cultures and societies that conquer and overshadow lesser societies have the privilege of writing history. For example, if Germany won World War II, would the history books have mentioned the holocaust of the Jews? The problem with history is that history is defined in terms of the author s point of view. There is no scientific ...
- 2954: Comparing Events In History To
- ... was Adolf Hitler the Fascist dictator of many. What he was able to do through his public speeches was remarkable. He was able to tell millions of Germans that the reason why they lost World War I was because of the Jewish people. Many of the people went with his ideas since it was also the Great Depression all around the world. All he did was form an army and over ... end Hitler’s power reign died out and he ended up committing suicide. I think one of the main reasons why he killed himself was because he had no integrity. Near the end of the war he made bad decisions and that cost him the war and he didn’t want to face the music when he would have been arrested. The Holocaust relates to “The Crucible” especially during the naming scene. This is when all of the girls accuse ...
- 2955: Film Review: Shindler's List
- ... and was copyrighted in the USA. The movie mainly shows the Jewish persicusion and how Oskar shindler saves 1200 Jews from their death by the Nazi’s. The setting was in the midst of World War III and the Germans had invaded Poland. The Polish people were forced from their homes and into the Ghetto. The Holocaust was a vast evil engine set whirling by racism and madness. Schindler outsmarted it, in his own little corner of the war, but he seems to have had no plan, to have improvised out of impulses that remained unclear even to himself. It begins with Schindler, a tall, strong man with an intimidating physical presence. He dresses ... nothing about running a factory and finds Itzhak Stern, a Jewish accountant, to handle that side of things. Stern moves through the streets of Krakow, hiring Jews for Schindler. Because the factory is a protected war industry, a job there may guarantee longer life. The relationship between Schindler and Stern is developed slowly. At the beginning of the war, Schindler wants only to make money, and at the end he ...
- 2956: An Analysis of Much Ado About Nothing
- ... Sicily, at the estate of the governor of Messina, Leonato. Don Pedro, Prince of Arragon, Don John, his brother, Borachio his servant, Benedick, a young lord, and Claudio his best friend are all returning from war, and have been invited to stay with Leonato for a month. Shakespeare's antagonist Don John, bears much resemblance to Don John of Austria, the illegitimate son of Charles V, half-brother to the King ... attempts to bring himself fame. Shakespeare was known to draw parallels between his characters and actual historical figures, in an attempt to produce a sort abstract history of the times (Richmond 49). Upon returning from war, Claudio saw a young woman named Hero that he had seen before going to fight, and felt a strong attraction to her. Claudio expressed to Benedick his attraction to Hero, Leonato's daughter, and Benedick ... declaration of his bachelorism, and is contrasted to Claudio in his uncertainty, and need to confide in and look for approval from others. Claudio only saw Hero for a brief moment upon returning from the war, and immediately desires her. In the play, The only conversation Claudio and Hero had was at their wedding when he denounced her and made public her accusation of promiscuity. This shows that his attraction ...
- 2957: 1984: Summary
- ... league. The public continued having sex as it was the will of the Party that people must reproduce. The degradation of sex also kept the married and unmarried alike brimming with energy for hate week, war marches and other fascist public activities which the people had to attend. A specific example of the degradation of sex in Winston's life was the account he made in his journal of his wife ... was doing was immoral. His troubling conscience drove him to record his feelings in his illegal journal as part of his personal rebellion. The ultimate deception that the Party perpetrated on the people was the war the Party staged against it's own citizens using a created villain named Goldstein.( It's interesting that this Jewish name was given to a villain in this novel written in 1947 by a Party modelled after Hitler's fascist Germany ). To keep it's economy going Oceania had to be in a constant state of war thus the Party's creation of Goldstein. This character broadcasted "criminal" thoughts for two minutes each day and enraged the citizens to the point that they gladly went to war. The Partys goal was ...
- 2958: Gulliver's Travels and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: Similarities
- ... by this great fish he discovered the other two of his companions, Adolfus and Gustvus. Munchausen and Gulliver were very much alike. Both were on their adventures to do well. Munchausen wanted to stop the war with the Turks. He promised to help Sally. Gulliver was a surgeon, he did not help people in the same way as Munchausen, but he did help people. Munchausen's companions were very unrealistic in ... the strongest man in the world; Adolfus could see great distances, and had very good aim; and Gustvus had very good hearing and powerful lungs. With the help of his magical friends, Munchausen stopped the war. This was related to Gulliver in a few different ways. Throughout Gulliver's travels he met many different people. First in Lilliput he was in a land of small people. These people were only about ... isn't real, only in stories.' ‘Go away I am trying to die.'” (Gilliam ). Sally then followed Munchausen to the town gates, telling him that he had to help stop the Turks and win the war. Munchausen tried to shoot a canon ball at the Turks, instead of it going off at the Turks, it caught Munchausen and he “flew” on it. As he was “ flying” he saw the angel ...
- 2959: The Old Ball Game
- ... to be there during every summer night. The annual fall classic, the World Series, catches the attention of the entire country. Like the New York Yankees, baseball has become a part of America. After World War II, many countries were completely demolished physically and mentally. Among these countries was Japan. Countless numbers of Japanese people were dead, and land, buildings, and entire cities were destroyed. For the first time in Japan ... baseball. The history of Japanese baseball dates back to the middle 1800's. They "adopted baseball from the U.S. as early as 1873" (Constable 23), but the spark for baseball ignited during the post war occupational years. A foreign student from Japan explains, "The thousands of American troops stationed in Japan after the war kindled the passion for baseball that was lacking before the war" (Akutsu). The American soldiers showed the Japanese the American ways of baseball, and the popularity of Japanese baseball has skyrocketed from that time ...
- 2960: Auschwitz 2
- ... world s largest and most feared empires. It could have easily overthrown the Roman Empire and was the most worthy adversary of the British Empire. The most overwhelming and terrifying aspect of the Second World War has got to be the ghettos, concentration camps and of course the death camps. The camp that stands out in everybody s mind has got to be Auschwitz. Out of the 6.8 million killed ... later on the experiments in the basement of Block 11 and later in Gas Chamber and Crematorium 1, Hoess said: At the time I did not think about the problem of killing Soviet prisoners of war. It was an order and I had to execute it. However, I will say frankly that killing that group of people by gas relieved my anxieties. It would soon be necessary to start the mass ... concentration camp in remembrance of its victims. By 1994, about 22 million visitors-700,000 annually-had passed through the iron gates that bear the cynical motto Arbeit macht frei (work makes one free). German war interests required the maximization of economic benefits from this cold-blooded murder. Before the bodies were burned the victim's hair was cut off and fillings and false teeth made of precious metals were ...
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