The idea for a story could come from family, personal experiences, history, or even their own creativity. ... Animal Farm, written in 1944, is a book that tells the animal fable of a farm in which the farm animals revolt against their human masters. ... Orwell criticized Germany, representing it as Pinchfield Farm, which betrayed Animal Farm by paying for lumber with counterfeit money. ... (Dickens, 341) Madame Defarge embodies this attitude, as she wants to have Charles Darnay killed, not because he has done something wrong, but because he is related to the Evrmonde family, which killed her r...

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George Orwell's Animal Farm depicts the uprising of animals on Manor Farm. ... Jones, the owner of Manor Farm, away. ... Jones was running the farm. ... What's more it reminds me of stories told by my family when they lived in communist Vietnam. ... Animal Farm is about communism. ...

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During this time, families and friends spied on each other and turned each other in. ... Peasant's farms were taken away without compensation and made into "collective farms." The idea of collective farms was to make all of the farms into one large farm to increase the efficiency of the farm. These farms were run under the supervision of the government. ... The complaints from the peasants were ignored and the "collective farm" system continued. ...

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The idea for a story could come from family, personal experiences, history, or even their own creativity. ... Animal Farm, written in 1944, is a book that tells the animal fable of a farm in which the farm animals revolt against their human masters. ... Orwell criticized Germany, representing it as Pinchfield Farm, which betrayed Animal Farm by paying for lumber with counterfeit money. ... (Dickens, 341) Madame Defarge embodies this attitude, as she wants to have Charles Darnay killed, not because he has done something wrong, but because he is related to the Evrmonde family, whi...

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• Grade Level: High School

He was born in a "Lower upper middle class family"2. ... A perfect example of his simplicity is in the book Animal Farm. ... This characteristic is also evident in Animal Farm. ... The setting is in a small farm in England. ... Again the book Animal Farm is a good example of this trait. ...

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The citizens live in what are now called communes, which he refers to as "families". These families consist of forty men and women that live and work together. ... Much like in England, the Utopian farmer did not own the land he farmed or the house he lived in. It was simply a question of who owned the place one farmed - a rich lord in England or the state in Utopia. ... It was arranged so that only half of the farm "family" was moved in a given year so that no job was left unfilled. ...

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Communism, at its most idealistic base, is a contingent of gown up responsible people that have free access to information and can therefore self govern, except for the transitional period required for the establishment of the required infrastructure. In this light, it would seem that communist coun...

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Unlike his views toward enterprises Gorbachev was hesitant about changing collective farms. Gorbachev began to urge collective farm chairmen to offer miniature long-term leases of land as well as the rehabilitation of Bukharin, who had argued for a gradual "co-operatisation" of farms instead of full-scale collectivization. ... He hesitated to take the final step due to the fear of losing the authority of the farms. ... The basic skills needed to run a small family farm has been two generations lost and none were willing resuscitate it...

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The collectivization of the farms was an integral element of ideal Socialism, but Stalin neglected to consider the fragility of the economy, and the collectivization effort resulted in famine and catastrophe. The Five-year plan envisaged that 85% of all peasant farmland would partition into cooperative farms within five years. Along with the Collectivization of farms and the devastation of the individual farmer, Stalin's agrarian revolution also included the elimination of the wealthy peasantry, the kulaks. ... "The peasant loathed the exploitation which kept him and his family perman...

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The collectivization of the farms was an integral element of ideal Socialism, but Stalin neglected to consider the fragility of the economy, and the collectivization effort resulted in famine and catastrophe. The Five-year plan envisaged that 85% of all peasant farmland would partition into cooperative farms within five years. Along with the Collectivization of farms and the devastation of the individual farmer, Stalin's agrarian revolution also included the elimination of the wealthy peasantry, the kulaks. ... "The peasant loathed the exploitation which kept him and his family perman...

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In Mexico, the educational system is controlled by the government and is offered to all students between the ages of 6 and 18 free of charge but, most students drop-out between the ages of 9-14 to work on the family farm or in the United States. ... The Mexican's are agricultural families and many are very poor. ... Both want better opportunities for their families and the ability to get a better educational....

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He soon finds out that his family has been evicted from their farm. ... Many of the poor landowners are forced to live out on the streets in horrible living conditions while their homes and farms were flattened by the tractors. ... " When Tom finds his family, he finds them in the midst of a decision: California. When the Joad family arrives in California, they aren't greeted by their dreams in reach, instead, their nightmares become their home. They stay in a work camp called Hooverville, a place with its own rules that's filled with pitched up tents that housed homeless famil...

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Refusing support from friends and family, and almost completely penniless, Orwell set out on a 2 ½ year descent into destitution which resulted in a somewhat autobiographical "Down and Out in Paris and London" which was published in 1933 under the pen name George Orwell, which he took as a way of escaping his social class position he was born into. ... In 1943, Orwell began "Animal Farm" which was a parable about the "gramophone mind" of Soviet Communism (Sheldon 365). ... He was able to write about the dangers of communism and totalitarianism in his fictional books "Animal Farm", which...

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For example, most farms were destroyed, industrial work had almost ceased and transportation was barely functional. ... These were smaller farms working together for output. Each commune was a combination of smaller farm collectives. ... When the government needed more people for the communes, they extracted children from their families and forced them to stay in separate dormitories away from the homes and people they knew. This is unfair because the children are forced to be away from their families at such a young age. ...

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Instead of having more family owned businesses larger corporate firms began to take over which also harmed the labor force. ... Farmers were another group that had a great after effect of industrialization, because majority of the farmers had little to no other experience in working other than on their farms, therefore because of industrialization they had to learn how to do other things. ... Which made their pay and their labor no better, therefore people who fell in this class group struggled to make a living for their families. ... Due to all Americans needing work the factories became ove...

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Stalin's father Vissarion was an abusive hard drinking man who eventually failed as an independent artisan and left his family to work in a factory in Tiflis which was the capital of Georgia when Stalin was five years old. ... Production of industrial machinery and farm equipment became more important, and production of cloth...

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In the country farmers were taken from their farms to join the army and because of this the production of crops decreased, along with farmers being taken train drivers, factory workers and people of other important trades so food and produce couldn't be brought to the cites or to the war fronts on time if at all. ... The living conditions of working class Russian family at the time was extremely poor with run down and unhygienic living conditions a serve shortage of food and the money to pay for any food that became available. ... Finally the farmers of Russia got their land that they cou...

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Along with this loss of territory came increasing population densities as displaced families sought new land to farm. ... Living conditions were harsh with several hundred workers forced to live in a single large hut with open sides and no separation of men and women or even family units really possible. ...

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The State decided, in 1982, to create a responsibility contract with the farmers for a duration of 15 years: the farmers weren't landowner but were allowed to farm and to do what they wanted with it. ... It's now possible to create individual firms, thus increased the number of small private family firms in the industry and in the trading sector. ... Chinese families invest in the education of their children and this action participates in the development of the country. ... An other injustice is the attribution of the key positions to the leader's family. ...

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Most of them lived in poverty/poor farmers that could not even provide food for their families. ... The fact that, the peasants worked long hours often 13-14 a day for wages that wasn't enough neither to buy food for their families nor even to pay their rent. ... Since the 1917 revolution Russia had grown into a well -rounded country in reaching this goal, The Russian Government controls virtually the entire economy now; placing heavy emphasis on development of manufacturing industries and the increase of farm output. ...

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Before I bought the book, I thought it would be a funny criticism of totalitarian regime like in the Animal Farm. ... Before revolution the proles in Russia suffer from poverty and the pressure of the Czar on the society while the Czar and his family lived in luxury. ...

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" One which combined all the small farms of a village into on large unit. ... One by one, the old Bolsheviks were arrested, some shot, others forced to confess to ridiculous charges after torture in order to be saved or to save their families. ...

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New laws introduced included the confiscation of the land belonging to landlords and giving it to individual families. ... The end of the collective farming had the greatest impact on the lives of the Chinese when the new leaders revised the regulations, giving the farms back to the individuals. ...

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Although the institution was put into place for all children, only the rich, upper middle class citizens could afford to send their children to school without reprisal from their labor obligations in the family workplace. ... Out of these 20,000, 16,000 changed their minds when they reached military camps, 1300 went to non-combat units, 1200 gained furloughs to do farm work, and 100 did Quaker relief work in Europe. 500 suffered court-martial, and out of these, 450 went to prison. ...

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During the 1960's America was ripped apart by a war in a far off country in Asia. Seeing an enemy that was hoping to gain power and eventually rule the world and the nation stared war against communism in the face. The US was faced with the decision, to watch as its friends in other countries faded into the depths of communism, or to come along side and help its international friends put a stop to communism. The USA sent many soldiers to fight against the enemy, never quite realizing what it was truly sending them against. From the US viewpoint, it was thought that the War in Vietnam ...

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• Grade Level: High School