Essay on Mad Farmer Liberation Front

Animal Farm, by George Orwell was published in 1945, a crucial time in history because of Stalin’s takeover of the Soviet Union and his exploitation of the centralized communist government. This was in direct contradiction to the expected results of the Russian Revolution. Orwell felt that revolutions fail because the end result is a change of tyrants and not of government. Orwell exemplifies this failure through the goals of the revolution and their failure to meet them, the malfunction of Napoleon and Snowball’s rule together, and Napoleon’s disastrous reign.

The farm, in many ways, was very prosperous when the revolution began. The animals were given an education, “the reading and writing classes were however a great success,” which made them feel equal to the humans because they were now learning in the same way the humans did. The farm was becoming more prosperous in that, “ everyone worked according to their own capacity,” which made the farm a happier place to work in, and the more work was

One thing Wendell Berry wants these graduates, the next generation, to avoid is not to make the mistake of mislabeling things as “planetary”. One example he uses is how the environmental

Topic: Research the life of Karl Marx. What were the fundamentals of his Communist Manifesto and how do they compare to the ideas expressed by Old Major in Animal Farm.

Henry David Thoreau in his speech-turned-essay, Civil Disobedience, makes the case for individuals to be self-sufficient and independent. Thoreau’s purpose is to illustrate the importance of those qualities in everyday life and how someone should always keep these unwavering principles throughout their existence. Utilizing diction, imagery and syntax, Thoreau adopts a forthright tone to invoke independent thinking, action, and self-contemplation in the American populace.

Berry's life has been consumed by both poetry and farming. He has written over 30 works of writing, all consisting of trying to convince oblivious people of how bad our American farming is deteriorating, and explaining how harmful most livestock is to humans. He has seen

Northeastern Montana, during the early twentieth century, was plagued by a myriad of poor farming condition such as” hail, locusts, drought, and low commodity prices” according to McDonald. (McDonald, 20) The impecunious economic conditions created a support base of highly volatile and emotional of farmers that were ripe for political exploitation. Sheridan County’s farmers were desperate for dynamic political leadership that represented their best interests. Consequently, Charles E. Taylor and the Producers News were able to efficaciously fill this gap by increasing their popularity with farmers by utilizing the brilliant classist rhetoric that empowered and radicalized this community of farmers. McDonald stated that, “Taylor demonstrated

The Agrarian Standard, an essay written by Kentucky author Wendell Berry, was published in Citizenship Papers on January 1st, 2002. The book this essay was published in served as a response to 9/11 and a reflection of our country. Berry resides in Port Royal, Kentucky, where he lives with his wife Tanya. His family runs a non-profit organization focused towards practicing agrarianism: a social or political movement designed to bring about land reforms or to improve the economic status of the farmer (Merriam-Webster online dictionary.) Berry has been discussing his belief in agrarianism throughout his 45-year literary career, through poems (Sabbaths- 1979, IV), speeches (“It All Turns On Affection”), and essays such as this one.

In this essay, I will discuss how the theories of John Stuart Mill and W.E.B. Du Bois, as presented in On Liberty and The Souls of Black Folk respectively, relate to the individual’s development and necessary conditions to thrive in modern society. I will focus on the goal of self-realization and development, or in other words, an individual’s pursuit to find meaning in their lives, and close with the authors’ directions for individuals to facilitate this pursuit for themselves and others. Both were concerned that dominant opinions in a society would prevent individuals from choosing new paths in life, instead of common ones, such as attending trade school in Du Bois’ time. The pursuit of self-realization is affected by society’s prevailing sentiment toward individuals who differ from perceived norm because the majority’s mindset affects the likelihood and ability of an individual to seek self-realization. In addition, the majority opinion can dissuade the individual from deviating from the norm at all, causing social and economic stagnation. This is in part the case because self-realization often involves some deviation from the norm, which is synonymous with Mill’s concept of “plurality of paths” (Mill 69), wherein the paths are deliberately unique and novel.

The American farmer is his own landlord, and is content with a precedent of continual work, and limited governmental interference in his business. (Plotkin 392)

"Save the Planet," "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle," "Go Green." Quotes like these have become a commonality in today's age. We all are familiar with the large efforts to help preserve the environment. In "Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural Environments," Thomas E. Hill Jr. sums up his essay by stating, "The point is not to insinuate that all anti-environmentalists are defective, but to see that those who value such traits as humility, gratitude, and sensitivity to others have reason to promote the love of nature" (688; par. 4) This excerpt provides the thesis behind Hill's argument. The author found that

In “Wrath of Grapes Boycott Speech”, Cesar Chavez emphasizes that “We farm workers are closest to food production.” (690, Chavez) He highlights he is a farm worker working closest to food

This poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson is an exceptional work of his. Entirely characteristic of his poetic approach, it captures the full meaning behind the appreciation of nature, and it does so in a simple yet effective style. The poem is also, in my opinion, an effective rebuttal to the Puritan critique of the Emersonian lifestyle.

And this dissatisfaction only occurs because our “now” is seen as a monotonous blur, because we are preoccupied with hope, born of dissatisfaction, and refuse to cease running. In his poem, The Peace of Wild Things, Wendell Berry acknowledges this, and through his verse reveals this distinctly human preoccupation as a source of suffering, and his reconciliation with nature as the remedy:

George Orwell includes a strong message in his novel Animal Farm that is easily recognizable. Orwell’s Animal Farm focuses on two primary problems that were not only prominent in his WWII society, but also posed as reoccurring issues in all societies past and present. Orwell’s novel delivers a strong political message about class structure and oppression from the patriarchal society through an allegory of a farm that closely resembles the Soviet Union.