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- 7831: 1984 Big Brother Is Watching Y
- ... bound your actions. The people of Oceania are divided into two classes, the members of the Party and the proletariat. The Party members are like machines that do the jobs of the government. In this world, never has anyone thought any different of his or her place in society. Due to this authority that attempts to control the human train of thought, paranoia among the people became common. Nobody would talk ... trying to see five! But the only way Winston can truly see five fingers is if he believes it. That means Winston would have to change his integration, or his explanation for the way the world operates. A change in integration can be devastating to one s soul. Remarks on the Psychological Appeal of Totalitarianism brings this idea to clarity, One feels like a traitor to one s most cherished ideas ... few that did not continue with the experiment, felt that the experiment made such a deep impression on him that he became convinced that social sciences and psychology, are much more important in today s world. One can only imagine the inner conflicts that were running through his head. After the experiment, he described the mood, I did want to stop at that time. I turned around and looked at [ ...
- 7832: Poet's Use of Mockery As Diction in Poem
- ... choice, "Reading the Roll of Honor. `Poor young chap, ' I'd say - ` I used to know his father well; Yes, we've lost heavily in this last scrap.' " of casual language attempts to make the war seem carefree and nonchalant. The word "chap" conveys an casual attitude towards the heroes as people. It seems to elevate the status of the majors to a false superior position. "Scrap" makes it seems as if the soldier's death occurred on a playground, not a battlefield. It seems to trivialize war in general. "And when the war is done and the youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die - in bed." The poet's last lines give the reader an insight into the true wishes of the soldier. The ...
- 7833: Unbroken
- ... the moon trying to exercise the demons in his mind. Too intelligent, too spiritual for his own peace. A shaman, unstuck in time. A stroke of genius and a slap in the face of this world. Always restless, searching for answers. Impulsive and inspired, writing down his thoughts. Funny stories about Elvis and his followers, the Elvi, or dirty poetry. Painting his visions on sheets that hang from the eaves or ... I say to him are like sour notes played too often. I'm out of tune. He always sings along. Our waltz is better than most, I suppose. We know the steps by heart. The world moves quickly around us and our quiet drunken pace, but we don't care. Our minds move quickly despite this world's petty distractions. It's us and them, and we're the only two sane people left. He makes me nervous, still. His dreams are bigger than both of us. When we speak the ...
- 7834: Walking The Tight Rope
- ... Due to a great deal of misinformation and a changing economy, their numbers are growing, even as they are being wiped off the planet everyday. Herein lies one of the greatest challenges facing the Black world in the 21st century: how do we combat the dominant public image of young Black men that has largely been produced by mass media? Tupac Shakur's life and death is a microcosm of the ... REALNESS is --Tupac Shakur From Hit "Em Up If you spent any time at all around Tupac, you saw how easy it was for him to let a raised middle finger lead him through the world. Whether he was proclaiming to me in an interview that he stays perpetually strapped and high on marijuana, or spiritedly waving a bottle of malt liquor for the camera on the "California Love, Part II ... cannot afford to be minstrels for dollars or our own dreams of stardom. His death was the lamentable loss of a gifted, misguided, young poet who spoke with insight and energy to his hip-hop world, but who committed the unpardonable sin of using his immense poetic talents to degrade and debase the very people who needed his positive words--his fans . . . Kenneth Carroll is Washington coordinator of the WritersCorps ...
- 7835: The Influence of Personal Experiences In Emily Dickinson's Poetry
- ... have been aroused by the same feeling as in the line Of Course - I Prayed - / And did God Care? of one of her poems. Unable to accept Heaven, she was left only with this brief world, which, without Heaven, seemed somewhat of a dreadful place to her. She wrote in a letter once a prayer for forgiveness for trying to enjoy life too much. Knew I how to pray, she wrote ... more permanent separation, death. Death was only one more thing that Emily knew of which kept people apart. The deaths of her friends and family forced her to acknowledge the loneliness and separateness of this world. The fact of death led her to question once again ...the nature of this Being Who had authored our fate... (Wolff 84). She found it hard to believe that she was to worship and love ... her poetry. Through her verses we can understand and relate to her much more easily. Without them, her withdrawal from society would have kept her unknown. Once she wrote: This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me - The simple News that Nature told - With tender Majesty Her Message is committed To Hands I cannot see - For love of Her - Sweet - countrymen - Judge tenderly - of Me It ...
- 7836: MEDIA
- ... to make them rise, and they go for this young bride-to-be with some cheap journalism, which really was extremely hurtful. The British media, especially papers like The Sun and The News of The World are just sensational publications and use their power to sell papers only. There should be a regulation body in place to ensure that someone's private life remains just that - private. To study the effect ... general public to see the strikers as deviant and ‘₯ anti ‘¦ the state because they looked deviant and aggressive as they marched through the streets. Many aspects of the media influence the way we see the world and what we believe in different ways either indirectly or subtlety, advertising however has one main aim to sell a product. Advertising in the media is often shocking and ‘₯up-front‘¦ in the way in ... But the stories in the papers are not stories of the editors, or articles by journalists but rather the words and scandal from the mouths of the owners of the media, the Murdochs of this world. One of the best examples of media influence was in the 1992 general election. The majority of newspapers supported the Tory‘¦s in the election, but it was the Sun who backed the Tory‘¦ ...
- 7837: The Catcher In The Rye: Connection to the Title
- ... This title greatly explains the main character, Holden Caulfield, and his feelings towards life and human nature. In society he has found enormous corruption, vulgarity, harm and havoc. He knows that the children of the world are ruined by the corruption of adults around them and, he states later in the novel, his new purpose in life will be to help save the children from this vulgarity. Holden wants to be ... Caulfield. He sees himself as the savior of children, of innocence and basic human dignity. What ultimately drives Holden mad is the realization that he cannot single-handedly eliminate the corruption and vulgarity of the world. When he understands that he must redefine his purpose in life and shift the focus of his good intentions to those areas where he can accomplish good, he is able to pull himself out of ... set forth a new path in life. Holden is torn between the desire on the one hand to grow up and to "adjust" and on the other hand to stay a child, living in a world of security and innocence. He has perceived adulthood as a fallen condition characterized by evil, falsity and betrayal and so has tried to evade it by dreaming of retreating to the woods, living in ...
- 7838: Stopping By Woods On A Snowy E
- ... the persona of the poem) has chosen a life different from that of Bob. Bob has chosen the city life of materialistic things while the author has decided to take in the beauty of the world. His life has reached its winter, it s end, and he is stopping To watch the woods fill up with snow, perhaps for the last time. He understands that he may not have much time ... Before I built a wall I d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. The author is not afraid of the outside world and he is not afraid of his neighbor. However, the freedom that breaks down the wall every spring is halted. The wall, though it serves no function is reconstructed every spring and only manages to ... live. Listen to your thoughts and the truth. For the truth will set you free, and we will not be here for eternity. So, discover these basic freedoms and the beauty that lies in the world. Do not be like Bob or the man who refuses to take down his walls and let himself out and others in.
- 7839: T.S. Eliot's "The Wasted Land"
- ... to communicate a thing. Other author's had an influence on Eliot as well, like Henry James and Joseph Conrad. All of these poet's had the common themes of estrangement from people and the world, isolationism, and the feeling that they were failing to articulate their thoughts (Bergonzi 7, 50, Cuddy 30, Mack 1743, Martin 41, Unger 8) . Henry James influence on Eliot's poetry is evident in the Jamesian ... was trying to convey (Bergonzi 11, Mack 1743, Martin 20-22, 110, Ricks 9, Unger 18). T. S. Eliot's use of estrangement in poems is his way of expressing feelings between himself and the world. His inability to give himself to, or to possess others is an example of the greater problem of isolation. The isolation theme is prevalent throughout the Waste Land, with many of his characters entwined. This ... Essays on T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land. G. K. Hall & Co., 1991. Kenner, Hugh, ed. T. S. Eliot: A Collection of Critical Essays. Prentice Hall Inc., 1962. Mack, Maynard. ed. The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces Sixth Edition. W. W. Norton and Company, 1992: 1743 - 1770. Martin, Graham. ed. Eliot in perspective. Humanities Press, 1970. Ricks, Christopher. T. S. Eliot and Prejudice. University of California Press, 1988. Unger, Leonard. ...
- 7840: Amazing Quran
- ... know." They chose, as it happened, a non-Muslim who is a professor of embryology at the University of Toronto. His name is Keith Moore, and he is the author of textbooks on embryology - a world expert on the subject. They invited him to Riyadh and said, "This is what the Qur'an says about your subject. Is it true? What can you tell us?" While he was in Riyadh, they ... and walked away. At such a sight, some of the Jews who were watching said disbelievingly, "This is the Devil. The Devil helped him!" Now this story is rehearsed often in churches all over the world, and people cry big tears over it, saying, "Oh, if I had been there, I would not have been as stupid as the Jews!" Yet ironically, these people do exactly what the Jews did when ... revelation. All they have to do is organize themselves, treat the Muslims nicely for a few years and then say, "Now what does your holy book say about who are your best friends in the world - the Jews or the Christians? Look what we Jews have done for you!" That is all they have to do to disprove the Qur'an's authenticity, yet they have not done it in ...
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