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The decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes
This proposed policy is reminiscent of the police state in George Orwell's 1984 ... Palm Beach County should not be allowed to turn into 1939 Nazi Germany.
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Tech Time Warp of the Week: Apple's (Other) 1984 Advertising Masterpiece
remembers Apple’s remarkable George Orwell-inspired 1984 Super Bowl ad. It’s still talked about as one of the greatest Super Bowl ads of all time. But buried in the company’s marketing vault is another landmark video from the same year, and it may be even 5/24/13 from Wired Read more »
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Fading Remains Of George Orwell's Burma
"The remaining whiff of Orwell, whose five years at various stations in Burma as an officer of the Imperial Police Force ended here in 1927, is a spacious two-story wooden house with fireplaces and a once-elegant staircase." The New York Times 05/23/13 5/24/13 from ArtsJournal Read more »
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Prototype BBC radio rewrites scripts on the fly to reflect local conditions
portable wireless set, but it conceals some real computing power. Perhaps the fact that it resembles something that George Orwell might have owned is apt because what it does sounds a bit Orwellian – it can sense what's going on around it and rewrite a radio from Gizmag Read more »
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Pro/con: Does AP ban of offensive words hurt free speech?
from around the web “The decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes,” George Orwell wrote in “Politics and the English Language,” a prescient 1946 essay that anticipated the political correctness that would befall the English from Duluth News Tribune Read more »
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Animal Farm Novel Sheet
Animal Farm Author: George Orwell Genre: Fiction Setting: A farm in England during the Russian revolution. Characters: Major (pig) respected by all Snowball (pig) good speaker (Trotsky) Napoleon (pig) leader (Stalin) Squealer (pig) persuasive Boxer (horse) from EssayClub.com Read more »
