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    At the start of the book Ed is simply existing. He’s not living, “I cook. I eat. I wash but rarely iron. I live in the past and believe that Cindy Crawford is by far the best supermodel. That’s my life.” (p.20) This is a sentence that I feel really shows who Ed is at the beginning. He more or less does the same thing every day in sort of a monotone way. Throughout the cards and difficulties that Ed goes through, we really start to see a person emerging out of Ed. We see someone who is feeling and

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    Animal Cruelty Investigator What I Knew Being an Animal Cruelty Investigator has been something that has interested me for a long time since I came across the show “Animal Cops.” I know a few things about this career. First, I know that it can be at times a very dangerous job not just because of the mistreated animals, but because of the crazy people too. From encountering an abused animal that only knows a life of punishment and horrible training they can be skittish and scared causing them to

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    Donald Trump 2016 President of the United States. Well not quite yet. Trump in his campaign for presidency uses multiple rhetorical techniques to boost his popularity. He has uses biased language and scapegoating to boost his political campaign just as like Squealer boosts himself to power. Throughout the book Squealer, continuously uses biased language, in his rhetoric, which leads to him control the animals. Squealer says that Snowball was Jones's secret agent the whole time and the Battle of

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    How Is Islamic State a Modern Day Animal Farm? Although alluding to a completely different nation in a different time period, George Orwell’s animals in Animal Farm also have their similarities with ISIS, a modern day terrorist organization. George Orwell alluded to Stalin’s USSR(Soviet Union) seventy years ago with this work, but similar allusions can be made to today’s ISIS. ISIS is a modern day Animal Farm because Animal Farm’s and ISIS’s leader are very similar, they use a certain ideology

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    Legs are used for movement, they can also be used for other things if you are good with them. If somebody has no legs, they can use prosthetics. Not many people would think of a leg more than that, but George Orwell used legs for more than that in his book ​ Animal Farm​ . Orwell based this book off of the Russian Revolution in the early 20th century. The book uses animals to get across Orwell’s point about how totalitarianism does not work. “Four legs good, two legs bad.”(Orwell 14) is a motto that

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    Taking place on an English farm initially known as Manor Farm, the story begins at night, when Mr. Jones makes his way to bed. As the animals gather together, an elderly boar, Old Major, tells his tale of a strange dream he had, in which humankind cease to exist. He brings forth the idea of Rebellion, stating that animals will one day overthrow the human race, and lays out the foundation of what will later be known as ‘Principles of Animalism’. He passes soon after, and though the date of the Rebellion

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    Chapter 3 1. The animals are having a hard time to work, since the tools used for farming are designed for humans not for animals. 2. Each animal did a certain job, the horses rake the fields and the pigs direct the animals on what to do. 3. Now the animals were able to eat their food with pleasure since they produced it by themselves and with their own effort. 4. On Sundays, there was no work, breakfast is an hour later and a ceremony is held, a green flag with a hoof and a horn signifying the

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    Two years later Napoleon conquered Pilkington and Fredrick’s farm. The humans on the farms were treated like the animals and starving to death. The animals that were working on the farm have left because they no longer wanted to live under Napoleon’s rule, or died from starvation and cruelty. Napoleon is mad because the animals are gone, the humans are dying and no work is getting done on the farm. Since no one was working and Napoleon was starving he ordered the dogs to kill Squealer for food. Napoleon

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    The topic is burmese pythons. Pythons are not a great pet.only people that have had a different kind of snake and are experised. Some people get them as starters and they get to big they can get upto 23 feet and 200 pounds. People are letting them out and not caring what will happen next. The main things about a burmese pythons is that not good pet,not for most people,they can get really big over time. The text Burmese Python: Not the Ideal Pet says" have resorted to the worst possible solution

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    With great power comes great responsibility, and sometimes with power and responsibility comes a leader who isn't the best leader and is corrupted. The word corruptions exact definition is dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery. With this being said, people are more likely to follow a corrupt leader then a leader who is not corrupt because corruption has order, being a bully, and a demanding leader who seems more powerful than the followers. One reason that

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