...Oct. 2015. Lakoff tells of George Orwell’s 1984 and how he used to love the book, but now since he has more knowledge of the mind and how it works his opinion has changed. George Lakoff is Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and Senior Fellow at the Rockridge Institute. This paper seems reliable from the credential he has and how he voices his opinion with facts to back it up. The uses of this article helps show by the authors facts and opinion how Orwell didn't know much about the brain. That how Orwell describes how the mind is working within the citizens is inaccurate, because the lack of knowledge in the time period the book was wrote. This sources is good to compare with the knowledge we have now about the brain and how realistic was Orwell's version of mind control compared to what mind...
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...However, they are on your trail. Once you get caught, there is no hope. This was what life was like for the inhabitants of 1984 and V for Vendetta. It was an existence full of ironic satirical tragedies, fruitless hope and rebellion. The people that are living in George Orwell’s 1984 and Wachowski brothers’ V for Vendetta are both the victims of a dystopian society. The society of 1984 and V for Vendetta heavily influenced by the possible alternate future in which Germany and the Soviet Union wins WWII and the conquered Great Britain is forced to become a fascist or a communist state. The government is shown to be playing a manipulative puppet-master role to the people in both societies. The two governments have gained absolute power over their people due to psychological motivation by the use of propaganda. Humanity is often criticized to be nothing more than evolved Neanderthals, striving for our own survival. These two novels show that human will turn a blind eye to any wrong-doing if there is a benefit for them. It analyzes how extreme human greed can be and how humans have great amounts of weakness. Both the text 1984 and V for Vendetta is a satire that ridicules the enemy leaders of World War II, exaggerates government manipulation, and criticizes humanity. The two satires ridicule the World War II leaders and the tactics involved. The society in 1984 is a ridiculed society that support communism; this is similar to the Stalin Russia in WWII. “… the Russian Communists came...
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...For my Independent Literary Response Project I have chosen to compare the following two texts; George Orwell’s, “1984” and” Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”. These texts were chosen because upon researching them I developed a great deal of interest in the plots, and upon starting to read them I was immediately submerged in the capturing storyline. I very much like science fiction novel and ideals involving the topics of seemingly impossible or unimaginable scenarios, and both of the works that I chose have a certain aspect of science fiction to them. “The Road” is book solely about a young boy and his father living in an apocalyptic word that is run by gangs, rapists, cannibals and families clinging on the edge of life. Almost no life exists anymore, the conditions people face each day are unforgiving: abandoned houses, rotting corpses, raging fires and near to nothing as food goes....
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...Pig’s blood, killer clowns, children killing adults, are all elements that can be connected to one author and one author only; Stephen King, the king of horror. King combines science fiction, paranormal activity, and thrillers to convey various themes in his novels, he is one of today’s most best-selling authors. Born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine; when he was young his parents Donald and Nellie King had split up leading to King moving back and forth from Indiana to Connecticut and finally Maine. Where he had graduated from Lisbon Falls High School in 1966 and then later attended the University of Maine at Orono. Having graduated from the University of Maine, he began teaching while simultaneously establishing a name in the writing world using a pseudonym, Richard Bachman, the name in which he wrote his first successful novel Carrie (1974). More popular novels soon followed, Children of the corn (1984), The Shining(1977), and It.(1986); in many of his works it is clear that he uses many biblical and religious concepts. While each of these novels focuses on a...
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...It is often easy to become comfortable with our personal truths and develop a closed minded approach to any other alternatives presented, but “1984” by George Orwell has provided me with inspiration to consider an alternative to my values and realize the possibility that the only propaganda we recognize is poorly constructed propaganda and that, even with proper research and thorough considerations of ideas, we can still hold personal truths that are incorrect or perceived as immoral by other individuals. By human nature, we are inclined to accept the information that is the status quo that is provided to us by authoritative figures but it can be a very important step for humans to reanalyze their strongly held truths and consider alternatives that they may have been...
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...HISTORICAL PROJECT 2570 bc The Great pyramid of giza completed The Pharaohs built the pyramids and today archaeologists still argue about how they achieved this feat. Ancient records show there were managers for each of the four faces of the Great Pyramid, responsible for overseeing their completion. We know there was some degree of planning, execution and control involved in managing this project. 208 BC Construction of the Great Wall of China Later still, another of the Seven Wonders of the World was built. Since the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC), construction of the Great Wall had been a large project. According to historical data, the labor force was organized into three groups: soldiers, common people and criminals. The Emperor Qin Shihuang ordered millions of people to finish this project. 1917 The Gantt chart Developed by Henry Gantt (1861-1919) One of the forefathers of project management, Henry Gantt is best-known for creating his self-named scheduling diagram, the Gantt chart. It was a radical idea and an innovation of worldwide importance in the 1920s. One of its first uses was on the Hoover Dam project started in 1931. Gantt charts are still in use today and form an important part of the project managers' toolkit. 1956 The American Association of Cost Engineers (now AACE International) Formed Early practitioners of project management and the associated specialties of planning and scheduling, cost estimating, cost and schedule control formed the AACE...
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...illustrate the diversity of the twentieth-century novelist's interests. Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975), the author the novels The Soul of Kindness and Blaming, is a refined stylist whose swift flashes of dialogue and reflection and deft sketches of the wider background give vitality to her portrayals of well-to-do family life in commuter land. Some of her later novels are In a Summer Season (1961), and The Wedding Group (1968.) Elizabeth Taylor has humour and compassion as well as disciplined artistry, and has logically been compared with Jane Austen. So has Barbara Pym (1913-1980) who tasted fame, sadly enough, only at the end of her life (her real name was Mary Crampton). Another restrained and perceptive artist, she is a master of J f ingenuous and candid dialogue and reflection which are resonant with comic overtones. Critics I called her "modern Jane Austin. Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958) were reprinted in the late 1970s when Philip Larkin and David Cecil drew attention to the quality of her neglected work. Later novels, The Sweet Dove Died (1978) and Quartet in Autumn (1978), are no less engaging in their blend of pathos and comedy. One might well put beside these two English writers the Irish writer Mary Lavin (1912-1996), whose short stories focus on the ups and downs of family life with quiet pathos and humour. Her novels, The House in Clewes Street (1945) and Mary O'Grady (1950), are family histories presented with psychological sensitivity...
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...[pic] A Review Project in Creative Writing IV Mariel Guerra Alog Batangas Province High School for Culture and Arts Ms. Babyruth Vicencio August 27,2010 I. Introduction This review explains the structure and features of a novel entitled as Soledad’s Sister which has been written by Jose Dalisay. It follows a format in order to present the work of literature clearly and logically. Jose Dalisay, known as Butch Dalisay is a Filipino columnist, poet, writer, teacher and playwright. He has authored more than 15 books since 1984.He teaches English and has some administrative duties as a director of the University of the Philippines Institute of Creative Writing. Soledad’s Sister was his second novel after Killing Time in A Warm Place with the help of a David T.K. Wong fellowship at the University of East and Anglia and a Rockefeller grant in Bellagio, Italy. Soledad’s Sister is the story of a Filipina woman who suffered abuses in foreign countries. It is about the reuniting task of two sisters (Aurora and Soledad Cabahug) and the grieving family which falls to SPO2 Walter G. Zamora, a Filipino cop in the novel,the absurdity of everyday life in the face of countless deaths as the consequence of resilience and other doomed choices people make and the story that deals on the physical world of a man and his personal encounters with man in general and himself. It tackles domestic issues, the current life of...
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...is that every time we are facing a problem, we should really pay attention and take the message of it. There will always be sort of a lesson in every single difficulty. Not only shall we find in our daily lives, but we could also find it while reading literary works, watching movies and suchlike. Reading literary works has interesting adventure in which an extra attention is needed to figure it out. For some people, reading novel or short story is more than just about looking for the beautiful story or the greatnesses of the story. Yet, there are some people who only read novel without a deep understanding. Usually the readers will be facing some questions which have something to do with the author’s intention making story. Common question coming out automatically after reading novel or short story is such what is the author trying to tell us in the story or what the moral lessons of the story is. According to Nurgiyantoro (1995:66) to know of what the author feels like to convey in the story is the main task of reading fiction work, it is either Novel or Short story. As a matter of fact, there are a lot of advantages gained by reading fiction. According to Nurgiyantoro (1995:3) Fiction talks about various problems of life in terms of interaction with environment, ourselves, and our interaction with god. Fiction is the result of dialogue, contemplation, and author reactions of environment and life. Although it is fictitious, it is not true if fiction considered as the...
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...OMM615 Strategic Marketing, Advertising & Public Relations Ashford University Instructor: Debra McKoskey-Reisert 8 April 2014 to 19 May 2014 Week 2 Assignment: Integrated Marketing Communications Word Count: 1,296 20 April 2014 Assignment Brief (Due by 11:59pm MT, Day 7, Monday) IMC Tactics Select a Fortune 500 company and research their IMC. In a three- to four- page paper (not including the title and reference pages), analyze at least three- to- four IMC tactics (Chapter 3) and discuss whether or not the tactics are effective, and why. Your paper should be formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center, and it must include citations and references for the text and at least two scholarly sources from the Ashford University Library. Introduction Successful companies carefully plan their marketing communications. Apple is widely regarded as one of the most effective marketers. The company enjoys a positive corporate image and strong brand names (including its Mac, iPod, iPad, iPhone and iTunes). Apple devotes a lot of resources to develop this corporate and brand equity. It carefully considers each tactic within the marketing communications mix to assess the potential contribution each tactic can make towards achieving the marketing goals of the company. This paper analyzes the integrated marketing communications (IMC) tactics used most intensively by Apple and highlights why they have been so effective. ...
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...“Canada is an unknown territory for the people who live in it, and I’m not talking about the fact that you may not have taken a trip to the Arctic or to Newfoundland, you may not have explored as the travel folders have it – This Great Land of Ours. I’m talking about Canada as a state of mind, as the space you inhabit not just with your body but with your head. It’s that kind of space in which we find ourselves lost. What a lost person needs is a map of the territory, with his own position marked on it so he can see where he is in relation to everything else. Literature is not only a mirror; it is also a map, a geography of the mid. Our literature is one such map, if we can learn to read it as our literature, as the product of who and where we have been. We need such a map desperately; we need to know about here, because here is where we live. For the members of a country or culture, shared knowledge of their place, their here, is not a luxury but a necessity. Without that knowledge we will not survive.” Margaret Atwood, Survival As Atwood’s statement demonstrates, Canadian literature is concerned with place and displacement, and with the development of an effective identifying relationship between self and environs. Canada’s literature whether written in English or French reflects three main parts of Canadian experience. First, Canadian writers often emphasize the effects of climate and geography on the life and work of their people. Second, frontier’s...
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...Michael Jiang February 10, 2014 A Darkly Tragic Novel: The Chocolate War Robert Cormier’s The Chocolate War gives readers a dark tale that leaves them on the edge of their seats. Ever since its debut in 1974, it has angered and shocked parents, transfixed students, and has been banned in many schools throughout the nation. Robert Cormier was born on January 17, 1925 in Leominster, Maryland and died on November 2, 2000 due to complications from a blood clot in Boston, Maryland. Cormier was the son of Lucien Joseph, a factory worker, and Irma Margaret Cormier; and attended Fitchburg State College, he graduated in 1944. He married Constance B. Senay on November 6, 1948 and had 4 children. Young Adult Banned Books tells us that Cormier was acclaimed for “his powerful and disturbing novels for young adult readers” (Young, 8). He has written many novels for young adults including the sequel to The Chocolate War (Beyond the Chocolate War, 1985). Cormier wrote The Chocolate War based on a true life experience “in which his son was the only person in his class to refuse to sell chocolates for a high school fund raiser” (Young, 9). The Chocolate War was published by Pantheon in New York, New York in 1974. The Chocolate War tells the story of “a young boy's struggle against the conformity imposed on him by the restrictive atmosphere of an all-male Catholic prep school as well as by the demands of the Vigils, a secret group that the school does not officially condone but...
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...facts that led to WWII going back to European conflicts during the 19th Century. Useful for U.S. History, World History, Government, Economics. Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. 1859. Available at The Literature Network (http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/twocities/). A comparison of London and Paris during the era of the French Revolution. Useful for World History. Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist. 1838. Available on The Literature Network (http://www.online-literature.com/dickens/olivertwist/). A view of life in London during the Industrial Revolution. Useful for World History, American History, Economics, Government. Dumas, Alexandre. The Count of Monte Cristo—Unabridged. 1844. Available at the Gutenberg Project (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1184/1184-h/1184-h.htm). This book provides significant insight into French culture, political and class rivalries that resulted from the French Revolution. Useful for World History. DiLorenzo, Thomas. The Real Lincoln. 2002. Available for purchase on Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Real-Lincoln-Abraham-Agenda-Unnecessary/dp/0761536418). An investigation of the documented history of Lincoln's rise to the presidency and his conduct of the Civil War and its consequences. DiLorenzo takes a very critical view of Lincoln. Useful for U.S. History and Government. Hayek, F.A. The Road to Serfdom. Available for purchase on Amazon.com (http://www.amazon.com/Road-Serfdom-Documents---Definitive-Collected/dp/0226320553/ref=sr_1_1...
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...Case Study 1 - Amgen Evaluate Amgen’s patenting strategy. What are its strengths, what are its weaknesses? Amgen is a multinational biopharmaceutical company, one of the world's largest biotechnology firms in the world. Amgen's first product was its breakthrough with recombinant human erythropoetin (EPO) as a treatment for anemia. It was crucial for the company to do all within its power to protect its intellectual property (IP). For this purpose Amgen's patent strategy included filling for three separate patents which would cover all its bases including the final product, starting material and the process. The first and most important patent the company filed was for the final product, recombinant human EPO. This patent is the strongest way to protect its IP as it prevents competitors producing, using, marketing, selling and importing the final product allowing exclusivity to Amgen. The drawback of this patent is the difficulty to achieve and sustain it. In order to receive a final product patent the company must prove that its product is innovative. If the final product has been described or published previously in any form this can be used as grounds to reject the request for the patent as it is considered prior art. Moreover it can be used to revoke the patent once received. Since EPO is a purified human protein most likely discovered previously in its naturally occurring form it will be very difficult for Amgen to patent it. The second patent that the company filled...
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...as he hinted at the development of a gaming technology well beyond the current state of the art. Following his death later that year, no notes or working prototype were found. Its lasting legacy includes four major game franchises: Realms of Gold, Clandestine, Solar Empires, and the Realms Beyond. REALMS OF GOLD SERIES FOLLOW the adventures of FOUR ETERNAL HEROES through INFINITE WORLDS, in the greatest INTERACTIVE experience ever forged. Realms of Gold I: Tomb of Destiny (1983) Realms of Gold II: War in the Realms (1984) Realms of Gold III: Restoration (1987) Realms of Gold IV: Foundation’s Edge (1990) Realms of Gold V: Aquator’s Realm (1993) Realms of Gold Worlds of Intrigue: High Society (1993) Realms of Gold VI: Far Latitudes (1994) Realms of Gold VII: Winter’s Crown (1998) Realms of Gold RPG, 1st Edition Rules (1999) Realms of Gold remains Black Art's seminal contribution to the medium. Begun in 1983 as a high school class project, the series extended from the earliest, crudest text adventures to state-of-the-art 3D and sprawled across multiple genres and at least four revolutions in graphics technology. It starred four heroes—a warrior, a wizard, a princess, and a half-elven thief—and chronicled their improbably extended lives spent exploring, warring, marrying and betraying through two war-torn ages of the world. Sadly, the projected end of the long campaign, mapped out by Simon in his junior year of high school, was never reached. CLANDESTINE...
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