Orwell College Essays Samples For Students

. This essay on Orwell’s work in question will seek to examine the striking theme of guilt and shame as depicted by the author in his writing, as well as the painful, contradictory nature of his own feelings versus actions. Orwell, at the time of writing, was a British policeman in the country of Burma in south east Asia dominated by the rule of the British Empire, and here begins the first contradiction given his subsequent reputation as a crusader against such a political system. The essay will examine three aspects of the essay in relation to guilt and ...

Political language is designed to make lies look more charming, believable, and more appealing to us as an audience. Politicians may not admit that they’re modern English is affecting the language as a whole. What defines language? Modern Language is a language adapted by politicians to lure audiences to sound more sophisticated in the eyes of George Orwell, a famous author who wrote the essay politics and the English language, which criticizes the bad usage of the English language. Language is a reflection of the "Identity" of the nation, and an instrument of multicultural dialogue In the US. In the US, many ...

Introduction

Homage to Catalonia is a book authored by George Orwell. The author details his memoirs of the author during the Spanish civil war. The book details the first hand information of the civil war. Orwell did not arrive in Catalonia until late in 1936. Orwell spend tome fighting Franco during the winter of 1936. He made his way to the Catalan capital in 1937 before the commencement of street fighting. His return to the battlefront was interrupted by the injury from a bullet fired by a sniper.
The Marxist Party for which he fought had been suppressed which led ...

Shooting an Elephant- Response Essay

Introduction
George Orwell’s -- Shooting an Elephant provides an insight into one day experience of George Orwell as a young British policeman working for Indian Imperial Police in Burma. I was interested in Orwell’s work as it provides a look into the moral conscience of an individual deciding to either kill an elephant or let it live. The story makes me think how taking a life can be emotionally challenging for an individual, even though it can be legal and part of your job. After discovering that an elephant had gone must and finding the elephant in ...

The work of George Orwell “Nineteen Eighty-Four” represents a totalitarian universe Oceania with its own world, rules, and even language. The author believed in close interconnection between the regime in the country and the official language used by ordinary people. Thus, the writer thought that with the corruption of thought, language suffers, too. To explain his ideas, the novelist created a special language “Newspeak” for his novel “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” a language designed by the totalitarian state Oceania used to deprive people of the freedom of thought and crush in the bud the concepts of freedom, individuality, self-expression, peace, etc. ...

Cultural assimilation reflects the fusion and the interpretation of the different ethnic minority groups in the dominant culture of the society. The immigrant group is expected to assume the behavior, norms and values of eth dominant group and their challenges stem from the lack of tolerance for these groups by the majority groups that are not tolerant of the differences in the racial and ethnic of the minority groups. The minority group cannot effect any change in the society and as a result, the ethnic characteristics or beliefs of these minority eventually disappear. On the other hand cultural diversity ...

The John Orwell Sports Centre

The John Orwell Sports Centre is situated in the center of Wapping. The center facilities contain a tailor made fifty-five plus station gym which presents an astonishing view of the ever changing London skyline, an extensive selection of complimentary weights and a group workout studio scheduling daily classes.  The facility’s personal trainers are readily available to assist people in achieving their health and fitness objectives, whatever they may be (Chadwick, 2012). The facility has a well-known four court sports hall with markings for basketball, badminton, and volleyball and also has an outside Astroturf pitch for hockey and football ...

Ethos, Pathos, and Logos in Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell

The novel Shooting an Elephant by George Orwell is a persuasive rhetorical story regarding his own experiences at the time he served as a sub-divisional police officer in charge of a town in Burma during the period when Britain was exercising imperialism over other countries. As the person exercising authority on behalf of the Crown, the narrator learns of an elephant that is wreaking havoc at a market and immediately goes to the scene prepared to manage the situation. Once at the scene, he realizes that if he does not manage to kill the elephant the public will make ...

It is not easy to please everyone at all times. Sometimes the people around a person and the society places enormous pressure to conform and fit into the norms and traditions followed by them that an individual has to compromise his or her beliefs and ideals just to fit in and to be accepted. Fitting in could sometimes involve proving that a person is manly enough, subscribes to certain religious beliefs and does things that do not stand out from the rest of the community. Compromise and ‘fitting in’ is a theme that is discussed by George Orwell in ...

Summary

In the essay Prehistoric Eyes, Guy Davenport dwells on the very important subject of creativity of the early years of humanity. The author speculates about the assumptions regarding the simplicity and even backwardness of the primitive art forms and exposes them as ungrounded based on the example of the art produced by the Dogon – the primitive people of Mali and Upper Volta. Davenport emphasizes the ambiguity and complexity of art: even the most simple art forms can bear complex meanings, and a speculation about art will always be nothing more than a speculation in the eyes of the creator ( ...

While the Constitution does not specifically mention privacy, it has been historically believed, if not validated in principle and in the law, that several of the initial amendments to the Constitution, namely the Bill of Rights; protect aspects of a person’s privacy in whole or in part been part. When taken together, these rights provide a comprehensive system of privacy protections that run the range of privacy issues from choosing whether or not to have a baby to the legality of the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk collection of the metadata used by millions of American mobile ...

Response #1

Giddings, Franklin. The Relation of the Criminal to Society. Proceedings of the Academy of

Political Science in the City of New York 1(4), 1911, 559-62.

This article asserts that some of the acts that the legislature defines as crimes are not actions that can cause much harm to the society and future generations, but there are acts that are defined as crimes that pose grave dangerous. Accordingly, the author notes that if one assumes that every person who commits a crime is a criminal then it is hard to find a person who is not a criminal in the United States. In this regard, the article presents two kinds of ‘ ...

The two short stories "The Cask of the Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe and "Shooting an Elephant" by George Orwell depict psychological portraits of the protagonists’ criminal behavior. However, while both characters commit a crime, their motives, as well as the patterns of thinking and behavior are absolutely different.
Montresor, the protagonist of “The Cask of the Amontillado”, commits a murder as a revenge that is a result of his pride and jealousy to his victim Fortunato. Montresor is portrayed as a criminal, who is so absorbed with the revenge that he does not mention why exactly he retaliates. ...

Surveillance- the act of monitoring an individual, group or the general population to either protect them or know more about their activities has been in practice for centuries. The nature of surveillance however has changed with the advance in technology and the changing threat levels that people face today. With terrorism having become a real threat to countries and with it becoming a mushrooming problem that almost every country has to deal with, surveillance techniques have become all the more in demand. Surveillance of not only suspects but also private citizens has become normal in many countries. Although the government agencies ...

The novel “The Orphan Master’s Son” by Adam Johnson has touched hearts of millions of readers. It is a story that provokes everyone to think deeper about the regimes that we are exposed to and the lives that we have. It is a story that reveals the effect of regime on the lives of real people. This book provides a new approach for revealing the flaws of our society and how system may have effect on the lives of people. The author chooses North Korea as a setting for his novel in order to show the reader how ...

Labor acts as a core concept in building a society or nation since it helps people from different lifestyles to work together and achieve a particular goal. It exists in different types with some requiring more skill than the others do, while others tend to be of a higher rank. Despite these differences, it is hard for a particular labor work to exist without the other. Over the years, there have been positive and negative changes towards labor policies, which help improve the current labor structures. One of the major changes is the division of labor in a bid ...

In order to ensure peace and prosperity of a country, most governments have employed the use of stringent rules and regulations to govern people. However, some people stray away from the common perception of government and embrace anarchy. Anarchy is basically opposite of what the government stands for, anarchism is a political ideology (Carter, 1971) that holds the state undesirable and harmful while advocating for stateless institutions. The view of anarchists stray away from the commons masses and more often they tend to go extreme and cause social disturbance and unrest (Gage, 2009)as was the case of the ...

Propaganda is an indispensable tool for authoritarian governments and leaders. Propaganda is a powerful tool, and its use throughout history is a testament to its effectiveness. Through propaganda, governments tailor governmental institutions to their advantage, introducing obscurity and eliminating transparency and public accountability. A modern-day example of propaganda is the tactics used by the North Korean government. The plot of George Orwell’s Animal Farm depends heavily on propaganda, as a means of spreading fear and misinformation. In the book, Napoleon forcefully takes over power on the farm and uses brilliant propaganda to advance his interests while at the ...

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The historical connection of a photograph and its contribution to deterring criminality has its roots to the beginnings of the development of the photograph itself. With the first “technologically viable photographic technique” developed in 1839, the following year saw the potential for this technology to fight criminality was recognized. By the mid-1850s, police in the United Kingdom and in France were taking pictures of convicts to avert any possible escapes of these individuals as well as record instances of reoffending. In the late 1940s, an enterprising police superintendent proffered the possibility of allowing the police to ...

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Introduction
More research needs to be done in the English grammar; this would be more beneficial to the students and the world as a whole for communication purposes. The teachers who teach grammar in different levels in schools should be more educated in the language so that they can give the students a better understanding of the tongue. I believe that more problems may arise when people decide to question grammar. In other areas such as the mathematics, there are given rules that are defined in solving a problem, the procedures of solving a problem are clear. The same ...

Top news! Bruce Jenner is reassigning his gender! To whom you may ask? And I may ask : “Who is Bruce Jenner?”. I just know s(he) is all over the papers and TV, but have no idea who (s)he is, or what his/her achievements are. The only thing important is that he is doing a sex change operation to become a she. This is what the public is mostly served to blind their eyesight to the important things and hidden truths about many wrongdoings. Fertile ground for doublespeak (doubletalk). George Orwell said it best in his book 1984: “Doublethink ...