Saint Patrick´s Day

by Natalie Cook

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ANIMAL RIGHTS

 

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Inequalities seen between Men and Women in society

by Jessica Schofield

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GEORGE ORWELL  vs  ALDOUS HUXLEY

What should we fear more, 
"Nineteen Eighty-Four" or "Brave New World"? 

 

What do these novels have in common?

Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist.

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

The novel opens in the World State city of London in AF (After Ford) 632 (AD 2540 in the Gregorian calendar), where citizens are engineered through artificial wombs and childhood indoctrination programmes into predetermined classes (or castes) based on intelligence and labour. Lenina Crowne, a hatchery worker, is popular and sexually desirable, but Bernard Marx, a psychologist, is not. He is shorter in stature than the average member of his high caste, which gives him an inferiority complex. His work with sleep-learning allows him to understand, and disapprove of, his society's methods of keeping its citizens peaceful, which includes their constant consumption of a soothing, happiness-producing drug called soma. Courting disaster, Bernard is vocal and arrogant about his criticisms, and his boss contemplates exiling him to Iceland because of his nonconformity. His only friend is Helmholtz Watson, a gifted writer who finds it difficult to use his talents creatively in their pain-free society.

Nineteen Eighty-Four  is a dystopian novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published in June 1949. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of government over-reach, totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of all persons and behaviours within society.

The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda. Great Britain, known as Airstrip One, has become a province of a superstate named Oceania that is ruled by the Party who employ the Thought Police to persecute individuality and independent thinking. Big Brother, the leader of the Party, enjoys an intense cult of personality despite the fact that he may not exist. The protagonist, Winston Smith, is a diligent and skillful rank-and-file worker and Party member who secretly hates the Party and dreams of rebellion. He enters a forbidden relationship with a co-worker, Julia.

George Orwell (1903-1950)

Nineteen Eighty-Four has become a classic literary example of political and dystopian fiction. Many terms used in the novel have entered common usage, including Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak, Room 101, telescreen, 2 + 2 = 5, prole, and memory hole. Nineteen Eighty-Four also popularised the adjective "Orwellian", connoting things such as official deception, secret surveillance, brazenly misleading terminology, and manipulation of recorded history by a totalitarian or authoritarian state.

                               

"Amusing ourselves to death", by Stuart MacMillen

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EGYPTIAN  MUMMIFICATION, by Jessica Schofield

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NARRATIVE ESSAYS  -  2nd BACHILLERATO

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STRANGE SPORTS

by Luis Molinero, Arturo Marcos and Javier Ulibarri

Academic Course 2018 / 2019

1st Bach D

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British vs American Vocabulary

Here are some of the main differences in vocabulary between British and American English. This document is intended as a guide only. Bear in mind that there can be differences in the choice of specific terms depending on dialect and region within both the USA and the UK.

                     

anti-clockwise counter-clockwise articulated lorry trailer truck autumn autumn, fall barrister attorney bill (restaurant) bill, check biscuit cookie block of flats apartment building bonnet (car) hood bonnet (clothing) hat boot trunk car park parking lot caravan trailer chemist's shop drugstore, pharmacy chest of drawers dresser, chest of drawers, bureau chips fries, French fries cinema, the movies, the clothes peg clothespin coffin coffin, casket crisps potato chips crossroads intersection; crossroads (rural) cupboard cupboard (in kitchen); closet (for clothes etc) diversion detour drawing-pin thumbtack drink-driving drunk driving driving licence driver's license dual carriageway divided highway dummy (for baby) pacifier dustbin garbage can, trash can dustman garbage collector engine engine, motor estate agent real estate agent estate car station wagon film film, movie flat apartment, flat, studio flat tyre flat tire flyover overpass gear-lever gearshift gearbox (car) transmission Girl Guide Girl Scout ground floor ground/first floor handbag handbag, purse, shoulder bag high street main street holiday vacation hood (car) convertible top jam jam, preserves jug jug, pitcher juggernaut 18-wheeler lift elevator lorry truck, semi, tractor mad crazy, insane main road highway maize corn maths math motorbike motorcycle motorway highway, freeway, expressway,  interstate highway, interstate nappy diaper naughts-and- crosses tic-tack-toe pants, underpants underpants, drawers pavement sidewalk pet hate pet peeve petrol gas, gasoline Plough, the Big Dipper, the pocket money allowance post mail postbox mailbox postcode zip code postman mailman, mail carrier, letter carrier pub bar public toilet rest room, public bathroom railway railroad return (ticket) round-trip reverse charge collect call ring road beltway, freeway/highway loop road surface pavement, blacktop roundabout traffic circle, roundabout rubber eraser rubbish garbage, trash rubbish-bin garbage can, trashcan saloon (car) sedan shop shop, store silencer (car) muffler single (ticket) one-way solicitor lawyer, attorney spanner wrench sweets candy taxi taxi, taxi cab tea towel dish towel telly (informal), TV television, TV third-party insurance liability insurance timetable schedule tin can toll motorway toll road, turnpike torch flashlight trousers pants, trousers tube  (train) subway underground  (train) subway vest undershirt waistcoat vest wallet wallet, billfold wellington boots rubber boots, rain boots whisky whisky/whiskey windscreen windshield zip zipper