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74War is Peace, Mr. President?
"War is Peace.Freedom is Slavery.Ignorance is Strength." These are the three slogans of Ingsoc in George Orwell's novel "1984". President Obama, who has caught the opportunity when receiving the Nobel...
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70Spain's culture and history
Spain’s culture and history has always been a bit of a mystery to foreigners, hence the reasons why it has been the subject of so many great books. Having read Ernest Hemingway’s “From whom the bell...
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78An Editorial on Selfishness.
By dib-yadadamean In a comment a fellow Hubber, James Watkins, recently brought up George Orwell’s novel ‘1984‘, which started me thinking about just how selfish we, as people, are. Being selfish...
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67Doublethink-1984
Doublethink Doublethink was first proposed in “1984” by George Orwell. Many people reading the book find this to be a very confusing issue. The first time I read the...
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75Spiritual Socialism
I recall when I was in high school reading a book titled "1984" by George Orwell. Though I can't remember minute details of the book, the general message is easily remembered. The main premise of the book was...
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62A Reading List to Understand the Future
1. Abolition of Man (1943) by: C.S. Lewis In this short book Lewis describes how teaching young children that words are relative, evolves into a much more worrisome view of the world that eventually leads...
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62The Palindrome - an unbeatable book list
Many of you will be aware that a palindrome is a word, line, verse, number, sentence, etc, reading the same backward as it does forward. Like racecar or madam. But what is 'The Palindrome'? Well really it...
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68Brown Badman Balls: The Thought Police
THE STATE WISHES TO ESTABLISH ITSELF LEGISLATIVELY AS THE 'PARENT' OF OUR CHILDREN!!! As a home educating parent, there have been a number of concerns which I have been hesitant to rush into writing a hub...
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61Banned Books: Moral superiority, or fear of ideas?
We are nearing the end of Banned Books Week (September 26 – October 3). In honor of our censored brethren, let’s take a moment to reflect. When I was ten years old, my mother went on a quest. She...
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69One Nation Under the Groove: Modern Media as the Tower of Babel
"As our proliferating technologies have created a whole series of new environments, men have become aware of the arts as "anti-environments" or "counter-environments" that provide us with the means of...
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