Animal Farm by George Orwell

All animals are equal.

But some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell

Animal Farm, 1945

Animal Farm is a classic work by George Orwell and a noted piece of literature, which, of course, may help the reader to catapult the imagination beyond the horizons of dogmatic adherence to idealistic or Utopian thoughts. It however, represents human characteristics in an analogy of animal instincts, but it really gives insight into the Russian Revolution of 1917. It also mimics the doomsday of a precipitated change, brought by a modicum of bureaucratic class called as Bolsheviks.

Written as a "fairy story" (Orwell titled the book "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story"), the subject of Animal Farm is very much aimed at an adult audience. Orwell paints a vivid picture of a violent political revolution of farm animals against the farmer who owns all, works the animal population hard, sends their offspring to slaughter, and feeds them little. Arguably not critical of revolution itself, Orwell describes an all-to-familiar corruption that undermines the goal of the revolution: in which those leading the revolution rally the masses not so much for the good of the masses, but so that the leaders can assume the role of master, complete with all of the oppressive conduct that goes with an authoritarian regime.

The characters in Animal Farm were inspired by the Russian Revolution and the events that followed - the pig Napoleon is clearly the farm's Josef Stalin - but Animal Farm was not simply a satire on the Russion Revolution. Orwell's message was intended to be broader. In his own words:

"I meant the moral to be that revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job. The turning point of the storey was supposed to be when the pigs kept the milk and apples for themselves".

-George Orwell

Food for thought, no matter what may be the intended goal of ones revolutionary plans.

-THE SEVEN COMMANDMENTS-

1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy.
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend.
3. No animal shall wear clothes.
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed.
5. No animal shall drink alcohol.
6. No animal shall kill any other animal.
7. All animals are equal.

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
(George Orwell)

Jewish People

Why do people HATES Jewish?

Here some examples: -

Perspective 1: The Jewish people had killed millions of Palestinians Muslim.
Premise 1: However, their motives is want to regain their motherland from Palestinians.

Perspective 2: Jewish people think that they are the chosen person.
Premise 2: In spite of all the challengers that they have face before, they still manage to control the worlds affairs.

Perspective 3: They blame to Muslim for their mistake.
Premise 3: The Jewish people need to shift worlds attention from their community to Muslim community. The Jewish people blame all their mistake on the Muslim in order to change the negative perception towards them.

Perspective 4: Jewish people were very proud of themselves as Jewish and they think that they do not need to listen for others opinion.
Premise 4: The Jewish do not have to listen to the world opinion because they believe that God has promise them Jerusalem as their homes.

Perspective 5: The jewish people are only good in financial matters.
Premise 5: In order to defend themselves from racism in a particular country, they have use financial knowledge as a way to defend themselves from being discriminate.

Brief of Steve Jobs' Convocation Speech(Stanford): Love and Loss

Topic: love and Loss

Conclusion/Outcome: Love what you do because that is the successful moment of your life.

Proposition 1: Steve Jobs start produce Macintosh in his parents garage when he was 20 until he is successfully build a computer company which is Apple Inc.


- Steve hired someone talented to run company with him until when he got fired because the Boards of Director sided with the talented
1. he devastated because his entire life gone.
2. Steve apologizes to David Packard and Bob Noyce because screwing up his company.

Proposition 2: Because of he still loved what he did, Steve started doing things back as the beginner where he enters the most creative moment of his life.


- After five years, Steve created a new company named NeXT and PIXAR.
1. PIXAR created the first animated feature film in the world, Toy Story.
2. APPLE bought NeXT and Steve Jobs appointed as the CEO of APPLE once again.

Proposition 3: Find what you love then love it because it will keep you going to success.


- True for work as it true for your lover.
1. it will fill large part of your life
2. you will truly satisfied when you believe a great work.

- Don’t settle when you find difficulty.
1. keep looking for the solution.
2. it’s all the matter of heart where you’ll know when you find it.

Little biography of Apple Inc. CEO

Steve Jobs is the Chairman, CEO and co-founder of Apple Inc., a leading manufacturer of electronic devices including the Macintosh Computer (MAC), iPod, iPhone, and the music and video software itunes. He was CEO of Pixar Animation Studios until it was acquired by Disney in 2006. Although he is known as a business and sales wizard, Steve Jobs is credited with many of the electronic inventions now patented by Apple.

Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco to Joanne Carole Schieble and Syrian Abdulfattah John Jandali and adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs. He attended the Cupertino Middle School followed by high school at Homestead H.S. in the same town of Cupertino. He spent his childhood in the South Bay area, a region that would later become known as Silicon Valley. During high school Jobs held a summer job at the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto prior to attending college. His original association with Steven Wozniak began as a result of attending lectures and working at HP.

Although he attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Steve Jobs never graduated, having only spent about six months at college. He returned to California in 1974 and began attending meetings of the Homebrew Computer Club with his friend Wozniak. At the same time he took a job at Atari to save money for a spiritual retreat to India. While working there he discovered that a popular whistle recreated the tones needed to make long distance phone calls with AT&T. Jobs convinced Wozniak to go into business with him to create "blue boxes" and sell them to people wishing to make free long distance phone calls.

Jobs ended up backpacking through India but returned to work with Atari. He continued to work with Wozniak on other projects and finally convinced him to market a computer Wozniak had built for himself. On April 1, 1976, Apple Inc. was born. Although the business started with printed circuit boards, Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs eventually created their first personal computer, the Apple I, and sold it for $666.66. They later followed it with the Apple II, a large success for their business. Apple Inc. began selling shares in December of 1980.

As the company grew, so did its merchandise and the hugely successful Macintosh was introduced to the public in 1984 and became the first personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI) through which individuals could interact with the items on the screen. As Apple grew even more, Jobs experienced tension with the board and the struggles led to Jobs leaving Apple in May of 1985.

Steve Jobs went on to create the company called NeXT in 1986. Although it began as a company designed around aesthetic interpersonal computing, it later focused more on software development. NeXT ended up playing a major role in the development of email and the world wide web.

Apple bought NeXT in 1996 and reinstated Jobs as the Chief Executive Officer. His current annual salary is $1, but he receives executive gifts from the board that give better tax advantages than does his salary. He is well known for his work ethic as well as his rumored temper, but has consistently helped to grow Apple from a company bordering on bankruptcy in the 1990s to a very successful company today. Steve Jobs has helped establish the new electronic divisions and personally helped to create the ipod, iphone, and other personal devices.

Mnemonic & Rules of 10

Mnemonic Words

Tocoso Au Rppp In Volterra

Tocoso= (To)pic, (co)ntent, (so)urce

Au= (Au)dience

Rppp= (R)hetorical funtion, (p)urpose, (p)erspective, (p)ositioning

In= (I)mpact

Volterra= (V)isual literacy


Rules of 10

-Whistle in The Night-

I. Topic
Superstition is a part of culture. Living in modern generation is not necessarily to adapt this belief.

II. Content
In Japanese culture, they believed that if people whistle during night it will lure or attract serpent to enter house.

III. Source
Generally, superstition is inherited from previous generation to present generation where they still believe or practice this idea. In Addition, for them following this practice will gives benefit and pay such a full of respect to their ancestor.

IV. Audience
- Whistler
- Social Teenagers
- Children
- Society

V. Rhetorical Function
Warning

VI. Purpose
This superstition has been created to warn the children, teenagers or whistler into behaving a good manner and discipline their mind.

VII. Perspective
This superstition try to explain that sometimes we need to follow this belief in order to discipline ourselves and behaving a good way of manner.

VIII. Positioning
Somehow, planting superstition on will lead the person to become narrow-minded type of person. In result, they will become more conservative rather than beyond in term of idea.

IX. Impact
-Youth
-General public
-Concern parents

X. Visual Literacy
none

View on superstition

Superstition is a notion and beliefs towards certain situation along with action that need to be follow or it will cause a bad luck. It does exist from generation to another generation normally it will be inherit to a group of culture or tribe from their descendants. Typically, first perception that will pop-up through our mind when we speak about superstition, it will be related to conservative mindset of people. In my personal angle, superstition can be practice as long as it doesn't cross the line. Sometimes, we need to bare in mind of why do superstition still be followed, this is because they want to keep or protect their heritage. In certain country, who still follow such extreme superstition boundary are being push in order to fulfill their value and sometimes even more violent where it's how to show their virtue. Generally, most of superstitions are being followed to bring good luck in a particular situation. For instance, in Chinese society their have lots of superstition to be followed in order to bring Ong(luck). For your information, there is no concept of luck in Islam other than actions pre-determined by God (Allah) and that God alone has power over all things(Divine Decree). It is stated in the Qur'an (Sura: Adh-Dhariyat The Wind that Scatter verse:22) that one's sustenance is pre-determined in heaven when the Lord says:

"And in the heaven is your provision and that which you are promised."

However, one should supplicate towards God to better one's life rather than hold faith in un-Islamic acts such as using "lucky charms". In spite, superstition might have varies meaning in term of definition to every culture where it also can be called Taboo, this might be the high rank of superstition because taboo always related to rustic area or ethnic, the person who practice the conventional way of living. In my personal view, taboo its more extreme and even scary and dangerous for us but for them it's culture or norm that need to be pursue. Wrapping up, superstiton is a part of making culture. It's the way of living to every culture that can't be denied.

This is few example of famous superstition that still practice by people nowadays:

Horseshoe is keep as a talisman, a horseshoe is said to bring good luck. Many believe that to hang it with the ends pointing upwards is good luck as it acts as a storage container of sorts for any good luck that happens to be floating by, whereas to hang it with the ends pointing down, is bad luck as all the good luck will fall out.

The four-leaf clover is an uncommon variation of the common, three-leaved clover. According to tradition, such leaves bring good luck to their finders, especially if found accidentally. According to legend, each leaf represents something: the first is for hope, the second is for faith, the third is for love, and the fourth is for luck.

The furcula is commonly referred to as a wishbone or merry thought because of the tradition that when two people hold the two sides of the bone and pull it apart, the one who gets the larger part will have a wish granted. Today the wishbone, once removed from the turkey or chicken, is first dried and then held between the little fingers of two opposing "wishers". Once the wish has been made the bone is pulled by each person. The wisher who breaks off a larger section of bone is assumed to have his wish granted. Alternately, the winner of this contest may choose to transfer the fragment of the wishbone, along with the wish, to a person of his choosing. Because this is commonly a Thanksgiving tradition, this bone is also called the Thanksgiving bone.

what do think its trying to say? superstition, taboo, belief, mindset or mentality? I'll be pleased to look forward your opinion.

Who is Socrates

Socrates also pronounce in Greek Sōkrátēs (469 BC–399 BC), was a classical Greek philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes. Many would claim that Plato's dialogues are the most comprehensive accounts of Socrates to survive from antiquity. For the rest of his life, Socrates devoted himself to free-wheeling discussion with the aristocratic young citizens of Athens, insistently questioning their unwarranted confidence in the truth of popular opinions, even though he often offered them no clear alternative teaching. Unlike the professional Sophists of the time, Socrates pointedly declined to accept payment for his work with students, but despite of this lofty disdain for material success, many of them were fanatically loyal to him. Our best sources of information about Socrates's philosophical views are the early dialogues of his student Plato, who attempted there to provide a faithful picture of the methods and teachings of the master.

Socrates Quotes:

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."Socrates

"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."Socrates

"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."Socrates

For more informations please click on hyperlink below:

http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/People/Socrates/
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/socrates/