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    George Orwell Courage

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    In “Shooting an Elephant”, Orwell, being a police officer, is going through some tough times. The reason being was because many of the people in the area, in which he resided, hated Europeans. In the story, Orwell is told that an elephant has gone on a rampage and is asked to deal with the situation. The elephant’s rampage had come to an end and it was peacefully eating grass “He took not the slightest notice of the crowd’s approach. He was tearing up bunches of grass, beating them against his knees

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    Loyalty, By George Orwell

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    a mutual trust, the most personal and sacred bond in human history. You must have loyalty before you can have friendship, or love. Loyalty means someone can count on you, someone can trust you to be there when in need. Loyalty is a major theme of George Orwell’s novel 1984. In a totalitarian world where loyalty, love, and any other personal feelings are outlawed by the vicious “Party,” some are still trying to find the strength to rebel. Winston, a silent rebel of the party, lives in constant fear

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    In the essay "A Hanging" By George Orwell, is about Orwell, a police officer who will come to observe a man being hanged. Right before the man were hung, the man was crying out to his God, making all the officers who were watching this happen and were apart of this uneasy and then the dog, which is a guard dog, interrupts the whole process too because it was whining. Finally, after they hang the man, everyone laughs and jokes about it. The hanging creates an entertainment and suddenly all those people

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    George Orwell Legacy

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    George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair. He was born in Motihari,India on June 25, 1903 to British parents. He is most known by his works “Animal Farm” (1945) and “Nineteen Eighty-Four” (1949). He was the son of a British Civil Servant. He was brought to England in the year 1904 and was accompanied by his older sister, Marjorie, and his mother. His father stayed in India and rarely visited, until he was released of his services in 1912 and even then they didn’t grow a strong bond. During

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    'A Hanging' is an essay written by author George Orwell and is set in a society entirely different from my own. It is set in the 1920s in Burma - a country in Southeast Asia - which deals with the very influential capital punishment. It mainly focuses on how Orwell - as a Burmese policeman - deals with the brutal consequences a young Burmese convict faces. The way in which Orwell writes the essay, grants us the opportunity to decide whether we are in favour or are against capital punishment by using

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    George Vs Orwell

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    hundred years before George Orwell's 1984., German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote: "Have courage to use your own reason!", which would become the motto of the Enlightenment era, marking the turning point in history, freedom from the traditional or divine authority. In 1932, twelve years before Orwell, English writer Aldous Huxley described a society conditioned by advanced technology. A society too passive to think at all, let alone think freely. In his futuristic novel, Orwell gave a powerful portrayal

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    of doing something against his or her wishes. In George Orwell’s essay “Shooting an Elephant,” Orwell recounts his earlier years as a sub-divisional officer in British-occupied Burma. With their bitter hatred for the white men, the native Burmese would taunt and harass them. Although Orwell sympathizes with the Burmese and against the British, their constant jeering led made him hate his job even more. The crux of this story occurs when Orwell receives a phone call to “do something about” a rampaging

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    The short story “Shooting an Elephant” by George Orwell is a memoir dealing with the relationship between two groups of people, the British Empire and their previous colony, Burma. In the story Orwell executes an Elephant, who on accounts of the local Burmese people had killed a Burmese man. Throughout the story Orwell represents the two main groups of people in very different ways. The Burmese are seen as spiteful people that are wrongly oppressed and made to rely on the British for everything.

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    1984 By George Orwell

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    1984 by George Orwell Brittany Beard Creative Writing 12/14/17 Abstract In this essay, I will use three sources to develop an answer to the question: “What relevance does Orwell’s text, 1984, written in 1948, have on today’s society?”. I will discuss today’s society’s use of words used in, 1984. The sources given are all relatable, but i have chosen these three, because I can give a better reasoning to how they are relatable. I must include Citations for all information I have provided

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    George Orwell Politics

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    various needs of individuals and to moderate conflicts between diverse interests. However, in reality there are no such ideal decision-making system; all governments have inefficiencies caused by manipulations, corruptions, and bureaucracies. George Orwell, in , has depicted the non-ideality of politics by sketching a highly controlled society in various dimensions. In this essay, I will investigate how the Party maintains its power, in two scopes; through its extensive manipulation and its inherent

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