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"Chapter I: Ignorance is Strength", and "Chapter III: War is Peace" of "The Book" are titled with The Party's slogans; O'Brien later refers to chapters featuring a programme for deposing the inner party. Chapter II, presumably titled "Freedom is Slavery" after the remaining inner party's slogan, is not detailed in the novel.
[1] In his 1992 book The Apotheosis of Captain Cook (which deals with a similar theme of initial contact between Western and indigenous cultures ), Princeton anthropology professor Gananath Obeyesekere describes The Conquest of America as "one of the most provocative books of our time."
The Orwell Archive at University College London contains undated notes about ideas that evolved into Nineteen Eighty-Four.The notebooks have been deemed "unlikely to have been completed later than January 1944", and "there is a strong suspicion that some of the material in them dates back to the early part of the war".
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Reasons and Persons is a 1984 book by the philosopher Derek Parfit, in which the author discusses ethics, rationality and personal identity.. It is divided into four parts, dedicated to self-defeating theories, rationality and time, personal identity and responsibility toward future generations.
Officials in California are working to remove a racist term towards Native American women in more than 30 locations in California, according to the state Natural Resources Agency.. The removal of ...
In another ironic twist, Kayce sells it for the ridiculously low price of $1.25 an acre, the original price his ancestors paid. The total bill for Montana's largest (fictional) ranch is $1.1 million.
Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center is a 1984 book about feminist theory by bell hooks.The book confirmed her importance in radical feminist thought. The "margin" in the title refers to hooks' description of black women as existing on the margins and their lives hidden from mainstream American society as well as not being part of mainstream feminist theory. [1]