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- 1031: Judgement
- ... shell. One more maddening incident in the book that made me just furious when I read it was when people started calling Atticus Finch a nigger-lover. When I think of the Nazi Holocaust, and slavery in the U.S. in the 1800's, I just get an anger built up inside of me. I don't see how people can hate a group of people because of their religion or ...
- 1032: 1984: The Party Has Many Slogans
- ... says in the beginning, you eventually come to accept everything. Winston comes to believe that two plus two equals five. He also learns to consider the following statements as true: WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH (7,17, 26, 87, 152, 166) Everyone is under constant surveillance. There are telescreens in the houses and other buildings of every Party and Inner Party member. The following exert displayssome of ...
- 1033: George Orwell's 1984
- ... which handled all the war affairs such as where the next bomb they launched would hit and who they needed to destroy next. Big Brother had a slogan that read “WAR IS PEACE”, “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY” and “IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH”. Winston worked in the Ministry of truth where he's job was to rewrite the news on the newspaper called Times. Another character is O'Brien who helps Winston love Big ...
- 1034: The Repressive Governments of Zamiatin's We and Orwell's 1984
- ... that Newspeak alters the public's perception of reality is through the use of an intentional distortion of truth known in Oceania as Doublethink. Doublethink, immortalized in phrases such as "War is Peace", "Freedom is Slavery", and "Ignorance is Strength", serves as a foundation upon which the government of Oceania can selectively change history and reality by convincing the population that history is what Oceania says it is (Bloom 147). "Even ...
- 1035: Mark Twain and the Lost Manuscript of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- ... When the original manuscript was discovered, the literary community and America took a second look at Twain and they saw a person who was normal and had very controversial ideas about controversial issues, such as slavery, that were important during his lifetime. Works Cited Getlin, Josh. “Literary Revolution or Misplaced Obsession?; Books: The newly published version of ‘Huck Finn' contains a recently discovered first draft. Some say it gives readers insight ...
- 1036: Prejudice and The Pain and Suffering It Has Caused
- Prejudice and The Pain and Suffering It Has Caused Prejudice has caused the pain and suffering of others for many centuries. Some examples of this include the Holocaust and slavery in the United States. In to Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee racism was the cause of much agony to the blacks of a segregated South. Along with blacks, other groups of people are judged ...
- 1037: Flaws in Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
- ... free states and Jim is officially free. After waiting around a while the two begin to get money in any way they can. When it is enough Jim buys his wife and children out of slavery, and Huck takes a cut (not too much, just enough to get home). Once home Huck starts all over with his ever interesting plots (not without the help of Tom Sawyer). Time passes and over ...
- 1038: Mark Anthony's "Crypt of the Shadowking": A Fantasy
- ... home town Ireaebor and finds it has been taken over by a tyrant known as Cutter. In Caledan's absence, Cutter has passed many ridiculous laws and anyone violating any of these is forced into slavery under the Tor which the city is set upon, where Cutter is mining to find the crypt of the Shadowking, where the nightstone, an ancient artifact of great and evil power, believed to be. Caledan ...
- 1039: 1984: The Party's Methods of Controlling People
- ... 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 IS SLAVERY makes the people think that deviation from orthodox thought and expression enslaves the man who allows it. The people know how dangerous it is to question and learn. There the slogan IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH was ...
- 1040: Huck Finn's Conflict with Society
- ... that one does is sing and play the harp. Huck does not like Widow Douglas' much either, but it is better than Miss Watson's. Huck would rather be free to do as he pleases. Slavery is also hypocritical with Christianity. Slave owners would make slaves believe that God loves all people, which is contrary to the belief that slaves are inferior. The southern view of gentlemen is also hypocritical. These ...
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