As well as with the ironic concepts of love, peace,truth, and plenty all hold the opposite definition, a juxtaposition of ideas accepted through the use of doublethink. ... Throughout the book Orwell implements Newspeak to show a dystopia with an aim of oppression, but ultimately he shrouds the book with a lesson that if humans keep consciousness of their vernacular then it is not plausible for INGSOC to succeed. ...

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I feel that Emily was a prisoner of everyone else's expectations of her; her father put her upon a pedestal above everyone else and when he died she was left alone on that pedestal, as the center of everyone's criticism, an outcast in her community shrouded in the veil of a superficial prestige and wealth that really wasn't there anymore. ... This story really made me reconsider my definition of respect and how it can be a bad thing as well as good....

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I feel that Emily was a prisoner of everyone else's expectations of her; her father put her upon a pedestal above everyone else and when he died she was left alone on that pedestal, as the center of everyone's criticism, an outcast in her community shrouded in the veil of a superficial prestige and wealth that really wasn't there anymore. ... This story really made me reconsider my definition of respect and how it can be a bad thing as well as good. ...

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By definition from the website, Mixed Signals, which was created by synesthetes for synesthetes, synesthesia " refers to the fact that in some animals, a stimulus in one sense modality involuntarily elicits a sensation or experience in another sense modality.... One of the cool parts about it, though, is that it is a neurological "disorder" that is still shrouded in a fair amount of mystery. ...

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