How and why does "1984" use language as a method of influence? I need some help my essay is due this friday (22.05.09)

You'll want to
read this essay: ( ).  http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm.  Orwell believed
(quite correctly, I think) that language not only reflects reality, but creates reality.   The
language that we use to describe something bears no intrinsic realtionship to the thing we think
it represents.  This may not be all that important when we talk about...

I have to write a 10-12 page report on Albert Speer. Any suggestions on what to write about or good sources?

Albert Speer
is known as the only man high up in the Nazi hierarchy who seemed to have admitted and
apologized for the wrongs he had done.  I would suggest that you base your report on that
idea.

Speer is perhaps best known for his book Inside the Third
Reich .  I would start with that as a source.  In it, he talks about all of the work
he did for Hitler and...

I'm doing a debate on whether racism still exists in the US today and I am arguing that it does. So, what would be some good points/examples that...

This is
an important topic. I agree with you that racism exists today, but it would be important to say
that we have made some great strides in this area. To make this statement shows that you are a
balanced person in your opinions. Now, here are some examples that racism exists
today. 

First, the Trevon Martin case might be a...

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Is it important to differentiate between "author" and "speaker" when reading poetry? why or why not?

The
difference between author and speaker in poetry is, in fact, essential to the creative writing
process authors use. Authors don't generally create poems as themselves--even highly personal,
lyric poems.  Authors naturally create a persona and write from a persona's point of view.  The
persona may be similar or different from the writer, but either way it is a persona. 

Most of the time, the creation of a persona is a necessity, and natural to the writing
process.  Poems are highly artificial, even though spontaneity in appearance may be the goal. 
Endless decisions go into the writing of a poem.  The writer starts with the countless material
that could go into a poem, narrows it down and rearranges the raw material into a work of art. 
This must be done from an extremely narrow point of view, or the poem will never end.  This
narrow, limited point of view is the persona.  The persona may be one, narrow part of the
writer's personality, but it is still only one part.  Of course, the persona may not reflect the
writer at all, either, but instead be an exploration unrelated to the writer's own
personality.

Often, this is obvious, and you probably differentiate between
the author and writer more than you think.  You wouldn't read the anonymous
Beowulf  and assume the writer really witnessed the story, would you?  The
poem is a creation, a work of art. 

No one assumes T. S. Eliot is the speaker
of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."  Prufrock is the speaker of his love song. 
The narrative is fictional, not autobiographical (though, of course, it may contain
autobiographical elements). 

One can't read poetry and assume everything in
it is actual or real, autobiographical.  Most isn't.  Poems are highly artificial artistic
creations. 

Perhaps, the intensely lyrical (personal) romantic poets might
provide you with a starting place if you want to study poetry in which little separation exists
between the author and speaker.  Perhaps.  Certainly Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey"
purports to be autobiographical, and may come as close to being so as any poem.  Yet, it is a
highly polished work of art fully "arranged" by the artist.  Strictly speaking, one
would say Wordsworth is the speaker of his poem.  Yet, as a critic, you should possess a healthy
skepticism regarding the poem.  The order of events, the interpretation of events, the slant the
events are given, etc., should not necessarily be accepted as anything other than a work of
art.  In other words, the acceptance of an author as the speaker doesn't mean everything in the
poem is real or actual.   

Finally, the failure to recognize that a writer is
not necessarily the speaker in a poem can lead to misinterpretation.  You ask if it's important
to differentiate.  Yes.  If there is no difference, the freedom to explore an idea a writer
doesn't agree with is taken away from that writer.   Sophisticated literature reveals human
existence, but it can't do that if every idea that appears in a work of art is attributed to the
writer by readers.   

How does "The Luck of Roaring Camp" by Bret Harte demonstrate the use of local color?

 

The local color writer paints a picture of a particular area or period by using
picturesque characteristics or peculiarities. Its purpose is to capture a feeling and evoke that
feeling in the reader.  The subject of the stories usually conveyed a theme of universality
through their characters and plot lines.

was a California local colorist.
His stories came from his firsthand knowledge of living around the mining camps while working on
newspaper articles.  He saw the life styles of the miners and the women that were on the fringes
of their lives.

Self-educated, Harte drew from literary sources including the
Bible and the great English writers to serve as a guide and influence on his writing. His
writing brought the Gold Rush to the other half of the United States and possible enticed more
than his share of men searching for Eldorado.

performs as a perfect example
of local color.  The men are caricatures of stereotypical men.  The one woman in...

How did World War I change Western governments and societies (particularly in politics, economies, and the way people lived)?

had a
massive impact on Western society. It drastically impacted the economies and lifestyles of many
people throughout Europe and the Americas. One of the biggest results was a sense of nihilistic
existentialism, which led many young peoplethose who had served in the war and those who had
lost friends in the warto act more impulsively, leading to the Flapper lifestyles and the
Roaring 20s.

Additionally, the Industrial complex that had been built up to
provide resources during the war continued along during this time period, promoting wealth and
spending, but without much regulation. This led to two major developmentsone of which was the
eventual Great Depression. The second development, however, was a wealth of monopolies
developing in various industries. Both of these things prompted the government to step in and
become more involved in industry and business, which was uncommon prior to that time. Anti-trust
and anti-monopoly laws were created, and Roosevelt...

What are some different passages that reveal what the villagers fear and most want in "The Scarlet Letter"?

The first
two chapters of " " have the longest
passages describing the villagers of Boston. In
the first chapter, Hawthorne
paints a picture of a town that sincerely wants to be is a utopia,
but it has
found it must built both a prison and a cemetery.Thus, both sin, which the
Puritans
feared and death, which was inevitable, were active in the village.
In the second chapter, the
reason for the Puritans fear of sin is revealed
during the...