Leon Rooke

The Baron’s Cloak starts out with what seems like a biography of the baron. The author, Sunderland, explains the life of Baron Roman von Ungern – Sternberg. Sternberg was a Baltic German aristocrat who was born in Graz. He served as a tsarist military officer who had fought against the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War. Eventually, the baron became ruler of Mongolia (for only a short while). In the first line of Sunderland’s book, we are presented with a future “end” to the baron’s life. “On

The book Animal Farm by George Orwell two main rhetoric devices are used. The pigs especially Squealer use ethos and pathos to manipulate the animals to doing what they want. The pigs also use their power to control everyone. These pigs are like the government. They abuse their power and control the people. In this book George Orwell is making a statement about how things were during the Russian war and how the citizens were treated. When the animal government starts over using their power and doing

Abuse of Power in Animal Farm In his novella “Animal Farm”, George Orwell retells the major events that materialized in the period of the Russian Revolution using the animals as a representation of the humans. The writer’s documentation of such events is highly influenced by his perception, and is delivered through the different themes, settings, events, characters and his use of language. Orwell explores a number of different themes that he believes depict the conditions that he encountered, including

The Three Little Pigs is a quintessential story that everyone has probably read at some point; mothers have read it to their children and teachers have read it to their students. There are three pigs; the first two build their houses out of flimsy objects like sticks and straw, and the wicked wolf blows them down. However, the third pig constructs his house out of strong bricks, therefore outsmarting the wolf. After reading the text The Three Little Pigs By James Halliwell-Phillipps, it is definite

Boxer “Comrade” Horseington was born on September 8, 1932, and passed away on August 30, 1943. He was 11 years old at the time, almost to retirement, which is probably the motive for his murderer, Napoleon. He died being turned into glue in agony at the knackers after being sent there by Napoleon. He was not taught anything, being a workhorse, and that’s why he let them take him to the knackers. As mentioned before, he was a workhorse in his time and also helped build 2 windmills, almost finishing

The Russian Revolution began in 1917, with two significant revolts occurring that year. By 1924 Russia became the United Soviet Socialist Republic, and new leader Joseph Stalin leads with harsh dictatorship. His goals for industrializations included unrealistic quotas for workers, peasants were treated poorly and he created a secret police which terrorized citizens. George Orwell, angry that people in Europe admired Soviet Russia, wrote Animal Farm as a critical novel about Joseph Stalin. Many may

Revolution is a fundamental change in power or an organizational structure. A revolution requires people to come together and overthrow the government. Having equality and being able to understand one another would lead a revolution to a success. In Animal Farm by George Orwell, the revolution that the animals executed ended up being a failure due to Napoleon’s failure as a leader and due to the betrayal of the animals in the farm. Primarily, the revolution in the farm is a failure due to Napoleon’s

Lenin thought the idea of a revolution, and the planning of it was effortless and simple to carry on. He believed the attack had to be made in three key places, including Petrograd, Moscow and Baltic Fleet. He believed the Petrograd soldiers were able to obtain the Winter Palace, the General Staff Building and other important buildings adding that this would cause Alexander Kerensky to surrender. Notwithstanding, the Bolshevik Central Committee did not accept his ideas, leading to an ultimatum sent

Selena Quintanilla Pérez was a tejano music singer. Selena had the voice of an angel. Her life was filled with singing, bus trips, and gas station food. Unfortunately, Selena tragically got shot dead by her fan club president, Yolanda. Her short lifetime from beginning to end is filled with up’s and downs. Selena’s childhood was unlike most kids childhood, it was all about music. Selena was born April 16th, 1971 in Lake Jackson, Texas. Selena’s childhood was pretty much all about music. She

Animal Farm After reading this novel it opened my eyes to how things can change over time also how people can begin to worship one person and not process thoughts for themselves. In this book there was many followers and only one leader thought-out the book. George Orwell made everybody at the beginning of the book equal but towards the end things started to change. In Animal Farm, the author George Orwell uses selfishness and manipulation of the leaders and by the followers being persuaded to contribute