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- 6481: 1984: The Control of Reality for Control of the Masses
- ... The second way the party creates an artificial reality is through artificial scarcity. There is no need for the constant warfare but if the need no longer existed for the construction of the tools of war that productivity would instead be put towards the manufacture of goods which could actually raise the standard of living. Finally the Inner Party controls the masses by creating an all powerful omnipotent being whom they ...
- 6482: An Analysis of Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
- ... it in a negative light, would find this book very subversive. It threatens and criticizes the way of living of most who pride themselves in living a modern life. Heller shows through the ridiculousness of war how misguided much of modern society has become, in spite of all our so called civilized advancement. Some will find this interesting, thought provoking and enjoy this book. Others will take it as a direct ...
- 6483: The Hobbit: Summary
- ... they refuse to give them their share and so was to begin, but when the Goblins and wargs, they join forces against their common foe. Later, the eagles join them, and they win. 47) The war ends, and Thorin dies. Everybody gets their share of the treasure and Bilbo and Gandalf return to Bilbo's home. 48) When they arrive, Bilbo finds that his house was auctioned by the other hobbits ...
- 6484: Benjamin Franklin
- ... Franklin negotiated a preliminary peace treaty with Great Britain along with John Adams and John Jay. He went back to France, and the next year he signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the American Revolutionary War. When he was in Paris, he was able to watch the world's first known hot air balloon flight. Franklin was very interested in the idea of flight, predicting that balloons would be used for ...
- 6485: Lord of the Flies: A Symbolic Microcosm of Society
- ... the island. The preeminence of the adult world to the boys and its presumed virtuosity elevate it to a much higher level than the everyday world of the island. Despite a passing reference to nuclear war early on in the novel, the outside world is very much assumed to be superior in functioning by both the boys and the reader, making it an almost divine figure in the scale of the ...
- 6486: Lord of the Flies; Creating a New Society
- ... and lack of responsibility when children must learn to live in a totally new environment without any adults. Such is the concern when a group of young school boys, who are victims of a nuclear war, are sent away to a deserted island to ensure their safety. The problem that William Golding presents to the readers of LORD OF THE FLIE S is one that suggests what might happen when a ...
- 6487: Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea": An Analysis
- ... said, "How do you feel, fish? I feel good and my left hand is better and I have food for a night and a day" (p.74) Seeing a bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war floating near him, he said, "Agua mala, you whore" (p.35) The bladder was keeping the fish away from the boat. As well as talking to the fish and the sea, he spoke to his ...
- 6488: Benjamin Franklin 2
- ... introduced him to the French government officials. When the British surrendered at Yorktown on October, 1781, Benjamin Franklin met secretly with peace negotiators from London. He convinced the British that they could not win the war and that the Colonies should have their independence. He told them what the Colonies wanted to be included in any peace treaty. The demands were simple: (1) complete independence from Great Britain, (2) the right ...
- 6489: The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn
- ... This was not the only thing that made Sam depressed these days (Paine 91). Unfortunately when Sam turned 26 years of age boats were halted go'in up and down the river cause of the war. Ya see the Yankees has been on us bout how slaves are immoral and all, and them plantation owners would'n got no notes if it warn't for their niggers (133). So as anyone ...
- 6490: Running Wild: Essay About the Novel Hiroshima
- ... soap operas. It is like a shield that is poisoning our minds into thinking that the dropping of the bomb is irrelevant, and slowly starts to pull us away until we forget it ever happened. War is inhumanity run wild on the largest scale. Until this century, people had to kill others one at a time. Until this century our savage impulses had a limit. Science changed all that. One person ...
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