Friday 20 January 2012

C1 Literary Mayhem No.12 Nineteen eighty-four by George Orwell

before you read this: Please do not forget to e-mail/bring your Kerouac translations by Thursday 26 Jan, 9:30 AM/next class!
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Dear citizens of the free world,

My name is George Orwell, the father of the term "Big Brother" and I think that "Liberty is telling people what they do not want to hear." And I have an important   to share for you to read:

We might also mention this pre-face to my other novel, The Animal Farm, please read my take on The Freedom of the Press:

IN OTHER NEWS: BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hATC_2I1wZE
BBC Television's live production of George Orwell's "1984". Produced in 1954.
Michael Radford's utterly superlative film of Orwell's famed novel may well be the greatest cinematic adaptation of a major literary source ever -- and it stands out as one of the most memorable British films of the past thirty years.  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087803/
Need to know about the Wikipedia blackout? In this occasional feature, the National Post tells you everything you need to know about the a complicated issue. Beginning midnight Wednesday, crowd-sourced knowledge database Wikipedia went dark and will be offline for 24 hours as a protest against proposed anti-piracy legislation in the United States. We give you the inside scoop on why the sixth most popular website on the planet has decided to turn itself off for a day and how you can access its pages even though it is offline. Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative/Learn_more



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