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Winston Smith
528 Words - 2 Pages.... and any expression of individuality. He has illegally purchased a diary in which to write his criminal thoughts, and has become fixated on a powerful Party member named O'Brien, whom Winston believes is a secret member of the Brotherhood, the legendary group that works to overthrow the Party.
Winston works in the Ministry of Truth, where he alters historical records to fit the needs of the Party. He has noticed a co-worker, a beautiful dark-haired girl, staring at him; he worries that she is an informant who will turn him in for his thoughtcrime. He worries about the Party's control of history: it claims Oceania has always been allied with Eastasia in a war against Eurasia, ....
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The Crucible
1724 Words - 7 Pages.... and mystical ideas controlled society. Part of the reason why the Salem Witch Trials happened was that people could be easily convinced that mystical forces were present. The other reason was radicals like Abby Williams wanted to change the status quo. The people in power like Danforth were afraid to admit their own mistakes when controlling their power. Puppets like Mary Warren were used to persuade the leading figures. With the absence of one of these crucial characters the Salem Witch Trials would be altered immensely.
Abby Williams was the radical in society. Abby wanted to change how religion controlled society. Since she believed the society she lived in was h ....
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Great Expectations - The Book Verses The Movie
3445 Words - 13 Pages.... than he was. He was a very kind and sensitive character. His sister, Mrs. Georgiana Maria Gargery (called Mrs. Joe), was " not a good looking woman" (Dickens) and was very abusive towards Pip and Joe Gargery, the husband of Mrs. Joe. Joe was the Village Blacksmith and was very fond of Pip.
The story begins with Pip at a graveyard visiting the tombstones of the parents he has never met when suddenly a convict, later identified as Abel Magwitch, threatens to kill Pip if he doesn't bring him a file and wittles (food) the next morning. Pip did steal what the convict wanted, with much fear of his sister, and brought it to the convict the next morning, ....
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The Difference Between W.E.B DuBois And Booker T. Washington's Philosophies
312 Words - 2 Pages.... and set up a federal work plan for returning veterans in the United States.
Nevertheless, Washington was the most prominent African-American in the country, and a number of Presidents, as well as business leaders relied on Washington as an advisor. Other African-American leaders and intellectuals such as the most notably W.E.B. DuBois, resented Washington's message of political accommodation in favor of economic progress and distrusted his reliance on wealthy white Northerners for assistance. Leaders such as DuBois resented Washington's willingness to use his political and economic influence in controlling ways that led them to refer to the "Tuskegee Machine".
W.E.B. ....
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Mark Twain And Huckleberry Fin
1277 Words - 5 Pages.... years old, his family moved to Hannibal, Missouri, a small town on the west bank of the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River and the towns along it were used as the setting in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In his novel, he used the familiar dialect he was exposed to. He stated at the beginning of the novel, “the Missouri Negro dialect; the extremist form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary Pike County dialect... are used to wit...”. In Huckleberry Finn, as they traveled down the Mississippi River, the values of Huck and Jim were contrasted against those of the people living in the southern United States. Huck (the narrator and one of the main ....
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Humans And Their Ability To Make Mistakes
1350 Words - 5 Pages.... why humans err, despite the
fact that we have eyes and ears to sense with.
Before I can establish causes for error, I shall define the terms
"error" and "mistake". In the context of this essay, they will simply mean that
a human obtained a result different from the expected, correct one. Whether it
in be adding two numbers, or calling someone by the wrong name, these are all
errors that a computer would not make. An error can also be interpreted as being
a wrong physical move. If a person is walking in the woods and trips on a branch,
it is because the person erred in the sense of watching the path followed.
There is no doubt in anyone's mind that humans make mis ....
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Transcendentalism Leaves Of Gr
2061 Words - 8 Pages.... themes. First, the idea of the Holy Trinity of father-son-holy spirit is taken from a heavenly, theological realm and brought into the present. Second, there is the idea of the Adamic myth of America, whereupon mankind has found a temporal Garden of Eden in which to recreate himself and the world around him. The final theme is that of the perfect order of the cosmos as the stage for which these things can happen. Whitman makes the case that each individual, each "leaf of grass" has its own place within nature.
Up until the time of Whitman, the prevailing religious dogma of America had been one of strict adherence to traditional values and beliefs. Approaching the turn ....
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Alicia My Story, Book Summary
1345 Words - 5 Pages.... share a house with
several other families which had also been driven out of there homes. The only source of
income in this situation was to sell things at the marketplace, and even there, Jews were
forbidden. Alicia went anyway and sold what she could for food and money.
One day her brother Bunio disappeared from the ghetto. Alicia and her family
found out later that he had been taken to a work camp, but that they could send food
packages to him. Shortly after this, Alicia was taken into custody by German officials and
put on a train to another work camp. Alicia managed to escape from this train by jumping
through a small window. She found her way to a river ....
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