21 FICTION OR NEWS? Fiction or News? A Quest for Multidisciplinary Research on the Entertainment Industry and Its Effect on Journalism RUNE OTTOSEN Michael Moore used the stage at the Academy Awards this year for a political manifestation against President Bush. When receiving the award for his film “Bowling for Columbine” his opening remark was: “We are living in a fictitious society”. Moore’s point was that it is increasingly difficult to identify the borderline between fiction and reality
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Why I Like Beethoven! Why I Like Beethoven! I like Beethoven so much because he is a very great pianist and I love his music. He wrote songs for the piano‚ viola and violin. I really like his songs because they are defined with great beauty and I really like playing them. For example‚ Für Elise is a beautiful song with a soft flowing sequence but with a fast strong section as well. I also like him because he is very persistent. Even though he went deaf at only the age of 22 yet he still went
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him/her personally. In my case‚ I know find it easy to declare who I am. One could say I am just another one in a sea of faces. Talking‚ laughing‚ doing what I need to do and what I am told. I am not an assertive person because oftentimes I think negatively. I am just like any typical student and teenager. I do everything the same way I do every day. I have friends. I experience every suffering a student can imagine and I also felt all the best I did were just never enough. If one would
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1984 by George Orwell is a novel about a man‚ Winston Smith‚ living in a dystopian‚ totalitarian government. The book circulates around the negative ideal of a harsh government strictly controlling the people of a society. 1984 shares some unique similarities as well as differs greatly from actual life that many English lived during the 80’s‚ even though the book was written nearly 40 years prior and was not looking at a realistic interpretation of what the world would be like. Orwell had a specific
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life in Britain today has drawn across the civilized amenities of life before the war” (Rankin 189). Orwell fabricated a fictional reality that pretends to be a description of what would happen in 1984. The novel is functioning today as a sample of fiction but is formed by not only one but three worlds. One is the one where Orwell once lived and the world of today. Another is the world created by Orwell‚ which is the world for the fictional characters that live in that world. The third is the fictional
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I Died for Beauty‚ but was Scarce Emily Dickinson I died for Beauty -- but was scarce Adjusted in the Tomb When One who died for Truth‚ was lain In an adjoining room -- He questioned softly "Why I failed"? "For Beauty"‚ I replied -- "And I -- for Truth -- Themself are One -- We Brethren‚ are"‚ He said -- And so‚ as Kinsmen‚ met a Night -- We talked between the Rooms -- Until the Moss had reached our lips -- And covered up -- our names -- Emily Dickerson’s poetry often has similar
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Jeffery Mack English Composition 1 August 24‚ 2014 George Orwells’ “A Hanging” is a very descriptive piece. It starts off going into a detailed description of the weather‚ jail cells‚ and the inmates. The description goes so far to even mention that the man who was going to be hanged jumped over a water puddle. This shows me that even though it shouldn’t matter because he’s about to die it is just a natural instinct. When Orwell starts to describe the weather it sends out a dark uneasiness
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Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel by George Orwell published in 1949. It is a dystopian andsatirical novel set in Oceania‚ where society is tyrannized by The Party and its totalitarianideology.[1] The Oceanian province of Airstrip One is a world of perpetual war‚ omnipresent government surveillance‚ and public mind control‚ dictated by a political systemeuphemistically named English Socialism (Ingsoc) under the control of a privileged Inner Party elite that persecutes all individualism and independent
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I always wondered why my mother told us we all need to be educated and how important it is in order to survive. She always told us‚ her children‚ how this will benefit our children and our grand children. My mother is a professional nurse. Out of 10 children that my grandmother had‚ only three are educated. The rest decided not to finish school‚ some were lucky to be employed and some are not working at all and they depend on anything that is being donated to them by the family. I never understood
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essay “Shooting an Elephant‚” reminisces about a bad decision he made earlier in life‚ just like Tim. Reflecting on his experience‚ Orwell has also identified the reasons why he did it: “I could get nothing into perspective. I was young and ill-educated and I had to think out my problems in utter silence‚” Tim O’Brien also dealt with his problems alone‚ “ I felt isolated; I spent a lot of time alone.” Both Tim and George are struggling to deal with their problems and it’s eating away at them. In
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