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Friday, February 4, 2011

1984 Essays - Liza, Victoria, and Kelsea

Hey ladies,

I know you three have topics that do not fit into any particular group in our class. Please feel free to post your ideas, questions, key passages, and/or resources here. I'll keep track of your conversation and participate in it myself.

Mrs. Robinson

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

1984 Essays - Politics

If you are writing about how Orwell was influenced by political elements inNazi Germany and Stalinist Russia, please use this space to post your ideas, helpful resources, key passages, and/or questions.

1984 Essays - Themes: Danger of Permanent Totalitarianism

If you are writing about the Danger of Permanent Totalitarianism in 1984, please use this space to post your ideas, helpful resources, key passages, and/or questions.

1984 Essays - Themes: Individuality vs. Tyranny

If you are writing about Individuality vs. Tyranny in 1984, please use this space to post your ideas, helpful resources, key passages, and/or questions.

1984 Essays - Themes: Destruction of Human Values

If you are focusing on the theme of Destruction of Human Values in 1984, please use this space to post your ideas, helpful resources, key passages, and/or questions.

1984 Essays - Themes: Subjective vs. Objective Reality

If you are writing about the theme of Subjective vs. Objective Reality in 1984, please use this space to post your ideas, helpful resources, key passages, and/or questions.

1984 Essays - Themes: Alienation and Isolation

If you are focusing on the theme of Alienation and Isolation in 1984, please use this space to post your ideas, helpful resources, key passages, and/or questions.

1984 Essays: Holocaust Denial

If you are writing about a connection between those who deny the Holocaust ever happened and the treatment of history in the world of 1984, please use this space to post your ideas, helpful resources, key passages, and/or questions.

1984 Essays: Mind Control

For those of you looking for techniques the Party uses to control the population's minds in 1984, use this space to post ideas, helpful resources, key passages you are considering using in your essay, and/or questions.

1984 Essays: Existentialism

For those of you working on comparing Winston and Daru as existentialist heroes, please use this space to post ideas, helpful resources, key passages from 1984 or "The Guest" that you are considering using, and/or questions.