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War 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...

7 comments    america obama war
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Spain'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...

0 comments    travel books history
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An 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...

26 comments    politics big brother selfish
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Doublethink-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...

0 comments    memory reality democracy
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Spiritual 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...

19 comments    religion god jesus
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A 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...

0 comments    george orwell brave new world
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The 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...

5 comments    books literature fiction
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Brown 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...

2 comments    children government child
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Banned 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...

20 comments    censorship alice in wonderland
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One 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...

2 comments    finance politics religion
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