Down With Big Brother George Orwell

02/03/2010 The author’s life. GEORGE ORWELL WAS THE PEN NAME of the English author, Eric Arthur Blair. Orwell was educated in England at Eton College. After service with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927, he returned to Europe to become a writer. He lived for several years in poverty. His earliest experiences resulted in the book, Down and Out in Paris and London. By 1936, Orwell had joined the Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was critical of Communism but basically

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monde qui l’entourait et un bon exemple de phénomène serait 1984 de George Orwell. Écrit en 1949 en Angleterre et en temps d’après-guerre, les tensions mondiales étaient à leur comble : communisme; libéralisme; totalitarisme, quel moyen était le mieux pour gouverner une société? Vers quoi devions-nous pencher et de quoi aurait l’air notre monde futur sous ces types de pouvoir si populaire en ce temps. Voilà ce qu’aborde George Orwell dans son livre dystopique. En analysant le phénomène, il est possible

prisonnier politique To be sentenced to death = condamné à mort Death penalty = peine de mort To be condemned =etre condamné To mean to = censer Submissive = soumis Obedient = obéissant To reduce / cut down= réduire So that = tel que Complex = compliqué The privacy = la vie privée Hunt down = pourchasser To distrust = se méfier de qqn |To trust = faire confiance à qqn To prevent + Ving = empecher To reflect = réfléchir To question = remettre en question In a way = d’une certaine facon

 ­­> The victory of Edward III against Philippe VI of  France. The war stopped for 9 years with a humiliating peace treaty for France.           2­ The Caroline war that lasted 20 years from 1369 to 1389. Again, it was  Edward III against Charles V of France.           3­ The Lancastrian war. ­­> Henry V of England invaded Normandy in 1415 with  “Joan of Arc”.           4­ The last period of time was with the final departure of English invaders. The  conflict stopped with the victory of the kingdom of France over UK. The outcome of all 

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Congregational) and objected to the established Church of England. The Pilgrim Fathers were religious fundamentalists who wanted to reform the Church and society and make them much more pure. They believed that they could have direct communication with God and did not need Church hierarchy. In England Protestant dissenters (Puritans) were harshly persecuted. As it was impossible to reform a corrupt Church and kingdom, they left England, went to Holland then sailed for America. Plymouth Rock Pilgrim

Titre original : NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR © Éditions Gallimard, 1950, pour la traduction française. Né aux Indes en 1903, d'une famille anglo~ indienne, George Orwell, de son vrai nom Éric Blair, fit ses études à Eton. En 1922, il partit pour la Birmanie, où il entra dans la Police impériale des Indes. C'était un métier qui lui convenait mal, aussi, en 1928, lors d'un congé qu'il passait en Angleterre, il donna sa démission et voulut vivre de sa plume. Sans ressources, il vint à Paris où il mena

April 1, 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne,[1] to sell the Apple I personal computer kit. They were hand-built by Wozniak[15][16] and first shown to the public at the Homebrew Computer Club.[17] The Apple I was sold as a motherboard (with CPU, RAM, and basic textual-video chips)—less than what is today considered a complete personal computer.[18] The Apple I went on sale in July 1976 and was market-priced at $666.66 ($2,572 in 2011 dollars, adjusted for inflation.)[19][20][21][22][23][24]