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Animal Farm is a satirical allegorical novella, in the form of a beast fable, [1] by George Orwell, first published in England on 17 August 1945. [2] [3] It tells the story of a group of anthropomorphic farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy.
After Orwell's death in 1950, his widow Sonia Orwell sold the film rights to Animal Farm to film executives Carleton Alsop and Farris Farr. Unbeknownst to her, they were actually undercover agents for the Central Intelligence Agency's Office of Policy Coordination, which was funding anti-communist art for E. Howard Hunt's Psychological Warfare Workshop.
The horse goes jazzy with the trumpet, and the two chicks do the jitterbug, and after the dance sequence, Old MacDonald asks the audience to sing along with the bouncing ball to "Old MacDonald Had a Farm". Each animal sung is sung in every verse, and the boys and girls alternate, then the animals form a conga line.
Animals are common subjects in African masks. Animal masks typically embody the spirit of animals, so that the mask-wearer becomes a medium to speak to animals themselves (e.g. to ask wild beasts to stay away from the village); in many cases, nevertheless, an animal is also (sometimes mainly) a symbol of specific virtues.
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A sex offender who police said tried to "financially and emotionally manipulate" his victims has been jailed for 25 years. Stephen Gallagher, of Normandy Avenue in Colchester, was found guilty by ...
Harvest Moon: Animal Parade (牧場物語わくわくアニマルマーチ, Bokujō Monogatari: Waku Waku Animaru Māchi, Farm Story: Exciting Animal March) is a farming simulation role-playing game by Marvelous Entertainment released for Nintendo's Wii console.
The comedy and tragedy masks are a pair of masks, one crying and one laughing, that have widely come to represent the performing arts. Originating in the theatre of ancient Greece , the masks were said to help audience members far from the stage to understand what emotions the characters were feeling.