...George Orwell’s novel, Animal Farm by the means of why government is necessary. The concept of the necessity of government is brought up in the beginning of the novel when Mr. Jones is ran out of his farm due to nationalist uprising brought upon by Old Majors speech and song. When the animals rebelled against Mr. Jones there was no standing army to put them down. There wasn’t any laws or rules for the animals to follow so this led to anarchy due to no government or authority to enforce them. The novel Animal Farm demonstrates a lot of ideologies and themes that are similar to our politics today. In Animal Farm we see a repetitive theme of the consequences...
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...the United States. Around nine billion land animals are farmed and slaughtered to satisfy consumer demand in the United States each year, and according to the ASPCA, 99% of these animals are raised on factory farms. Factory farming is one of the main causes of climate change, water pollution, and leads to widespread health problems leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths per year. The regulations that are being enacted do not do enough. Public opinion is not on factory farming’s side, and despite rapid production and demand for meat and dairy products, the average farmer is...
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...George Orwell who wrote for political purpose was for people to see history a little clearer. Not many people have a chance to read an allegory which for “Animal Farm’ is the Russian Revolution. In the three publications, the author’s political and artistic use was to understand rules according to the article “Politics and the English Language”. These thought provoking book, “Animal Farm”, as dependent on the revolution where these animals almost impersonate the dictators and working people which makes you understand the story a little better. As for Orwell’s point of view, it was to see if the audience can comprehend what is really behind these hard working animals. On the surface George Orwell’s novel “Animal Farm” is about a group of neglected...
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...Animal Farm is a novel that appears at first glance like a children's book metaphor to represent Russia, but it's much broader than that, it's the mistakes of all men with absolute power. Animal Farm is a historical novel that illustrates the idea that absolute power corrupts absolutely and with corruption comes lack of equality among the people. George Orwell uses: metaphors, fables, satire, illusion, and characterization to convey the ideas that men make mistakes with too much power. Animal Farm, like a metaphor, conveys a deeper level of meaning beneath the children’s story about animals on a farm. One main point Orwell was trying to show his audience is too much power can corrupt any government. This can be viewed through the character Napoleon. As the story progresses, the pigs gradually obtain more power, which they used to take advantage of the less intelligent animals on the farm. When the animals were weeding the turnip field, "They worked diligently, hardly raising their faces from the ground, and not knowing whether to be more frightened of the pigs or of the human visitors" (Orwell, p.52). This shows how Orwell was trying to warn the audience that no matter what the person's intentions are, power can corrupt anyone. Animal Farm can also be a fable that is used to teach lessons on morality. One lesson can be that greed brings out the worst in everyone. For example, the pigs were driven by their own personal interests until they became just as bad as their enemies...
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...mistreated or be manipulated easily because they are unaware of what is right and wrong. George Orwell’s book Animal Farm talks about how the political obtuseness contributes to political persecution. People’s ignorance contributes to their political and social oppression because the leader will not support the people, abuse their authorities, and brainwash the working class. First, the governor will not treat the uneducated commoners properly nor treat them fairly. In the book Animal Farm, most of the farm animals were illiterate. The pigs, who could read and write, became the leader of the revolution and the farm. Napoleon, Squealer, and even Snowball mistreated the animals as “one...
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...Orwell and Martel’s Messages Through Animals A tiger in a life raft and tyrannical pigs can give readers a very strong message about their lives. Animal Farm was written as a warning about governmental collapse and tyrants taking advantage of power. Through the story of the rise of evil pigs in the hierarchy of a new system of government in the farm, it portrays a clear message about tyrannical government. Life of Pi also tries to get the reader’s attention, though it tries to urge the reader into having faith in religion rather than warn them. With animals and numbers, the story of a boy stuck at sea guides the reader into understanding the power that religion can give to those who have faith. Both Animal Farm and Life of Pi use the beast...
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...George Orwell’s classic novel Animal Farm is about miserable animals on a farm who rebel against their evil owner, Jones, and the pigs gain power, but only to be back where they were and worse. On the surface, Orwell wrote Animal Farm in response to show how others abuse power to the individuals who cannot rebel however, under the surface he refers back to the Russian Revolutionary War. The author’s use of anthropomorphism and common diction lead us to believe he intended the novel to be read by the “everyday man” or lay person. Orwell wrote the text in order to show how, when someone has power, it can be absolute corrupted absolutely. The author uses a detached narrative point of view as they unfold in the story; the text is in third person limited. While he uses several stylistic devices in Animal Farm to achieve his purpose, although the two that impacts his purpose is symbolism and irony. Ultimately, the tone in the narrative shifts from one of hope to one of despair as Orwell leaves his tragic tale of the animals rebellion....
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...Robert Seitter 04/01/13 TOK IA (Outline) – Chinese Fur Farms Introduction Throughout the years the constant conflict of the Chinese fur farms has been an ongoing controversial issue that spans within a great amount of areas of knowledge. Within the Chinese fur farms animals the main goal of the production process is to make a maximum profit – at the expense of the animals. Organizations such as EU, and the UN have tried to impose policies upon china for the safety of the animals but the Chinese fur farms have yet to treat the animals ethically. Many efforts by global organizations such as PETA have been made to ban fur trading with china but despite that the fur trade with china has only strengthened and become a larger, lucrative powerful monopoly. Period. 8 - Blackmon Areas of Knowledge History Human Sciences Ethics Ways of Knowing Perception Emotion Reasoning Topic A – History (Politics) What political involvement does the U.S. have with the Chinese fur trade? What policies are implemented within China & the United States that deals with the protection of animals? UN, and the EU primarily deal with political issues regarding the fur trade. Federal Fur Labeling Act Law Topic A Counterclaim Why do the UN and EU feel the need to implement laws on China regarding the ethical treatment of animals? Foreign nations have no right to urge animal cruelty laws imposing their beliefs on China. Topic B Counterclaim Topic B – Human Science (Economy) The Chinese...
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...Animal Farm George Orwell’s Animal Farm can be said to be one of the most popular parodies, dealing with politics, which has ever been written. It is shown to be against communism and shows how the author observed the disloyalty of the ethics and beliefs of revolutionary Communist Party of the Soviet Union. It describes the meaning of tyranny in general and sarcasm at the mannerisms of any ruling class, to think what they know is right and it is the best course of action for those they rule. Animal Farm was written for almost sixty years now and it still impacts the way people think mentally. Animal Farm warns of blind faith, the abuse of power, and propaganda. The story mostly tells readers how a revolution of farm animals emerged against a cruel master. They were all revolting against the unethical, greediness and a power hungry master. There is something we refer to toxic leadership. Being in the military, there are times where myself rarely make decisions. There is always somebody that out ranks me, giving a demand, and I go about following out those orders. That is where all the decisions come from, those higher ranking. Those high-ranking individuals sometime misuse their power to do unjustifiable things in my eyes. It is not something that happens all the time, but it does happen. In Animal Farm, the pigs abuse their power by changing the law to their own advantage. In the Novel, Boxer has a motto. This motto is “Napoleon is always right!” Before you know it...
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...Corruption of Pigs, Leaders and Modern Day Life Corruption is a provoking issue for many societies around the world, impacting multiple generations and at various degrees. Corruption is defined by Merriam Webster Dictionary as, ‘dishonest or illegal behavior especially by powerful people’. It is displayed by Hitler in the Holocaust, George Orwell’s book Animal Farm, and even in our modern day. George Orwell conveys a powerful message that applies to all three situations, supporting Orwell’s compelling message. Orwell’s political message about corruption of the government and leaders abuse of power is depicted in the way Hitler led Germany, the current U.S. government and George Orwell’s portrayal of the Russian Revolution in Animal Farm. There are many examples of people taking advantage of power in our country today. In a New York Times Article titled “ "Officials Push to Bolster Law on Wiretapping", author Charlie Savage informs readers of the government’s new push for an increase in surveillance. Recently, phone companies and networks have updated their software, causing it to be additionally difficult for the government to spy on them and take the customers personal information(Savage 1). As the U.S. government continues to wiretap and collect information from large phone carriers such as AT&T and Verizon(Savage 1), it will become an extreme and impactful invasion of privacy. This push will extend the laws to companies like Gmail, Facebook and Skype(Savage 2). Savage...
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...uk/commentisfree/2011/may/30/wind-farms-less-controversial-blackouts An unbiased debate on whether wind farms are really worth the cost/controversy 2. http://www.carbon-footprint-defined.com/wind-power-controversy.html An environmental investigation, questioning whether how dangerous they are to animals and their habitats and if the energy can actually be stored sustainably 3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_the_United_Kingdom Facts and figures on wind power in the UK 4. Does wind energy really work? - Clinton County Wind Watch Geographical investigation that claims wind energy doesn't work 5. http://www.bwea.com/energy/how.html A basic diagram showing how wind energy works 6. http://www.telosnet.com/wind/ A detailed history of the development of wind energy up to the present day 7. http://www.awea.org/learnabout/publications/upload/Ten_Steps.pdf 10 steps to developing a wind farm 8. http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/apr/23/us-uk-floating-wind-turbines An article informing the public on future collaborations between the us and uk on 'floating' wind turbines 9. http://www1.eere.energy.gov/tribalenergy/guide/pdfs/developingwindpower.pdf The key aspects in developing a wind farm 10. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19208400 News story on how animals are effected by off shore wind farms 11. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/davey-takes-on-osborne-over-wind-farms-8142473.html Current affairs on where our country stands with wind farms and...
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...Food Made Visible It might sound odd to say this about something people deal with at least three times a day, but food in America has been more or less invisible, politically speaking, until very recently. At least until the early 1970s, when a bout of food price inflation and the appearance of books critical of industrial agriculture (by Wendell Berry, Francis Moore Lappé, and Barry Commoner, among others) threatened to propel the subject to the top of the national agenda, Americans have not had to think very hard about where their food comes from, or what it is doing to the planet, their bodies, and their society. Most people count this a blessing. Americans spend a smaller percentage of their income on food than any people in history—slightly less than 10 percent—and a smaller amount of their time preparing it: a mere thirty-one minutes a day on average, including clean-up. The supermarkets brim with produce summoned from every corner of the globe, a steady stream of novel food products (17,000 new ones each year) crowds the middle aisles, and in the freezer case you can find “home meal replacements” in every conceivable ethnic stripe, demanding nothing more of the eater than opening the package and waiting for the microwave to chirp. Considered in the long sweep of human history, in which getting food dominated not just daily life but economic and political life as well, having to worry about food as little as we do, or did, seems almost a kind of dream. The...
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...Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. This links to Animal Farm because it is associated with socialism and revolution. He published a book called The Communist Manifesto. Animal farm is also centred around communism. He argued that class antagonisms under capitalism between the bourgeoisie and proletariat would eventuate in the working class' conquest of political power and eventually establish a classless society, communism, a society governed by a free association of producers. Joseph Stalin was the leader of the soviet union. Central to his program was the collectivization of agriculture, in which the government would redistribute the land by taking over the estates of the "kulaks", the wealthiest peasants. But the kulaks were essentially a figment of Marxist propaganda, which links to Animal Farm because the pigs use propaganda to brainwash the animals into following their point of view (which is also metaphorical for political views). Leon Trotsky was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. His titles link in with Animal Farm because it is all associated with politics, the Government, revolution, and hierarchy (relating to leaders.) Trotsky was a key figure in the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia, second only to Vladimir Lenin in the early stages of Soviet communist rule. But he lost out to Joseph Stalin in the...
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...Introduction Animal Farm, written by George Orwell, is a novel presenting a fictional world where animals can communicate with each other and act like humans. Animal farm is a book concerned about the politics of leadership and the rise of fall of great leaders; also the events surrounding the Animal Farm are mirrored to the events that took place during the Russian Revolution. There is also a relevance and resemblance of the occurrences in the book with the operations of a business and business communication. Within the content of the book, there were many parallels identified that existed with business communication, such as the various methods used to communicate with the animals on the farm such as meetings, written communication, debates and committees. Also, the communication channels used to communicate externally between the animal farm and the outside world, such as the use of word of mouth from Mr. Whymper as the messenger and the receiver, also the pigeons was used as messengers to spread news to other farms in England. Furthermore, technology was witnessed to prevail at the end of the story, as a source of progress in Animal Farm such as installing a telephone and subscribing to magazines. Animal farm also portrayed a comparison between the leadership approaches of human with that of the pigs that controlled the farm. In Animal Farm, old Major the boar on the Manor Farm, called the animals for a meeting and made a speech, Major explained to the animals that they are...
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...An environmental issue Course title Course instructor Name Date Introduction Bio means life while diversity means variation in the various aspects of things. Biodiversity entails the extent of variation of forms of life within a given planet or species. The number of plants’ species, microorganisms, the great diversity of species’ genes, animals, the various planets’ ecosystem such as deserts and coral reefs forms part of biodiversity on earth. However politics and power have greatly influenced the shaky balance. There has been a great biodiversity loss since the human race emerged. (Miller, D. A. 2008 p.23) Biodiversity has as well affected cultural diversities and thus should be keenly dealt with. This ranges from the various types of traditional foods used by the various societies. Biodiversity loss is rendering them extinct. Physical Elements of Biodiversity Loss In the physical reality much can be read on biodiversity loss. For example, the emergence of new breeds of animals and plants can be seen being developed in any other corner of the world. People are keenly trying out new breeds as a means of curbing food shortage. For example, the genetically modified food has been termed as a way of reducing food shortages. This has impacted negatively to human health. Population decline of species, a research done in UK in 2008 clearly revealed that the population of bats was...
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