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The 2024-25 Milwaukee High School Sports Awards show was on Wednesday night at the Miller High Life Theater. More than 300 ...
George Orwell had a traumatic relationship with the sea. In August 1947, while he was writing Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) on ...
The winning numbers in Friday's drawing of the "New York Pick 10" game were: 1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 13, 16, 19, 24, 34, 35, 36, 38, ...
A dystopia is an imagined society characterized by poverty, squalor, oppression and often a nightmare quality. It’s the ...
On June 8, 1972, the photograph of a naked, frightened child running from a napalm attack during the Vietnam War was taken. The girl in the image, later recognised globally as the ‘Napalm Girl’, was ...
George Orwell's estate has been accused of censorship after a 'trigger warning' was added to his classic novel Nineteen ...
Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life’ on Eileen O’Shaughnessy, George Orwell’s first wife, and her under appreciated role in his work and life ...
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, his final novel, Orwell envisioned a future tri-polar world divided into competing blocks with shifting allegiances. In the short time since the US president, Donald Trump, ...
More than 75 years after the publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Orwellian phrase “Big Brother is watching you” has become so familiar to most of the Taiwanese public that even those who haven’t ...
Nineteen Eighty-Four – published 75 years ago, in summer 1949 – depicts an imagined future where the world sees its people surveilled and controlled by three totalitarian states constantly at war.
George Orwell’s 1948 classic dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four now has a companion volume, one which retells events from a different point of view, with a feminist slant.