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So what have we learned this time?
From our reading of Orwell and our outside research, what lessons can we take away for use as future citizens of our democracy? Please refer to the evaluation criteria on our Wikispace and post your comments by Friday, March 27.
12 comments:
From reading this story and doing further research on related topics, I have learned a lot of new information that will help me in real life situations.
One thing I learned is not to let someone take total control, like Napoleon did. I believe if the animals would've gotten together earlier in the story and rebelled against him, that they would've had a chance. Instead Snowball did that by himself and was chased off of the farm. Its better to protest in groups.
Another thing I learned from the research and from the story was that dictator ships tend to happen in places that have been suffering or changing a lot.
Izzy
I think we can take a lot away from reading Animal Farm and learning the history that supports the story. First, I think Americans need to be more involved with the politics of our nation. Doing so, it would prevent what happened in Animal Farm from happening to us. We would notice what the politicians were doing to the country and hopefully do something about it unlike the characters in Animal Farm.
Second, we have to privilege to vote, so why don’t many people use this opportunity to choose who runs the country? If more people voted for who they wanted to run the country, it would never turn into a dictatorship like it did in Animal Farm. Doing these things, future citizens would have nothing to worry about.
Hungry Garfield.
Well there are many lessons to be learned from his writings and from history itself. And yea im the first one to post, crazy isnt it. Well any way one lesson ive learned is to pay attention to the fine detail and not just listen to what the government says. Because who knows how much is truth, or lie. It is so easy to be led on by propaganda. Almost everything around us is propaganda and its pretty hard deciding which company,person, or group of people to follow. And animal farm does pretty good at getting that point across. I've also learned that you should think before you act. That s one thing that the animals, other than the pigs, didnt do. The lesser animals were basically blind sided by the turn in events. But there are many lessons to be learned throughout history and people. All-in-all this was a good book that actually held some good information hidden throughout its pages.
The frame of government set up in the story, Animal Farm by George Orwell, is immensely different from the democracy that we have in the Untied States today. Although, Orwell mainly established socialistic and communistic ideas in the book, Animal Farm, and not specific ideas of a democracy, we can still attain lessons and advice from this story.
There are a few good things that we can take into consideration for our own government. One thing that was shown in this book was having a participatory government with numerous individuals. He showed this in the beginning of the book when the animals created the “Seven Commandments” and ultimately the ideas of having a socialist government.
It is good to have many different people with many opinions running something together. Many people also have different morals, so we can try to achieve pleasing people, but also setting boundaries and doing what is justified averagely among political figures. A mix of various people controlling a government definitely has its advantages. It gives beliefs possessed by others a chance to be expressed and taken into action.
Another lesson we can take from this book is that we are so fortunate to be living in the place that we do. Personally, I think that living in a society like the one in Animal Farm would be awful in comparison to what we have here. We learn from this story that other countries’ citizens have to go through things everyday that we would find to be completely unjust. We are so lucky.
Different lessons and principles from this book can be obtained according to the conceptions of the reader. The lessons I addressed stood out to me more than anything else. We really need to appreciate what we have as Americans.
-JustMagnificent :D
I think this story has a lot of lessons that people could benefit from. They would benefit from it a lot. I think one lesson would be you better be educated when someone is ruling over you. I learned from my research that when people are less educated, it is easier to manipulate them. Another lesson I think is the one that you should always remember that power can make people greedy. So when you notice things going wrong, you should be able to tell what is wrong and what is going on. This comes back to the educated people. Also I learned that propaganda is a very powerful thing. I think that it can help many leaders with many good and bad things. One example would be Hitler. He use a lot of propaganda in his speeches and ceremonies. That is why he had a lot of followers and believers. Another thing I learned would have to be that you better be loyal to the leader or consequences could happen, like being killed or something like that. All of these are good lessons that you can learn from this story and research.
-BullWinkle
From reading this story we learned a lot of lessons about are society, and how it can easily be changed.
Uneducated people can easily be manipulated and taken for granted. You have to realize when people are trying to trick you into something you don't want. You have to keep your eyes open and your head high, and ignore the ones who lie to you like Napoleon was in the story. Socialism can easily be changed into a dictatorship. We learned that very easily from the story. If your a smarter person you have to lead the less educated ones so people don't take advantage of them.
CharismaticEnigma ;)
I think that we should learn to be involved in our government. The fact that they didn't realize exactly how the government worked, was the main reason that they didn't do anything when they changed the laws.
This shows us a very important thing about government. It shows us that we need to be involved. Well, not necessarily involved, but we need to pay attention to it. We should know how it works. We need to pay attention to it, to make sure that they are sticking to the ways that it is supposed to handled.
But perhaps the most important thing that we need to do, is voice your opinion/speak out, when we see something that is not being done right.
You can't just sit back and expect somebody else to take care of it for you. Even if they do something about it most of the time, you need to make sure that something gets done. You need to push the fact that it needs fixed.
So the main thing that I took from the story is that we need to pay attention to our government.
ZygomaticGoggles
Well there are many lessons to be learned from his writings and from history itself. One major lesson I’ve learned is to pay attention to the fine detail and not just listen to what the government says. Because who knows how much is truth, or lie. It is so easy to be led on by propaganda. Almost everything around us is propaganda and its pretty hard deciding which company, person, or group of people to follow. And would following these people, benefit ourselves or the companies. And animal farm does pretty good at getting that point across. I've also learned that you should think before you act. Because without thinking we could be led into a trap, just like the animals. That s one thing that the animals, other than the pigs, didnt do. The lesser animals were basically blind sided by the turn in events. But there are many lessons to be learned throughout history and people. All-in-all this was a good book that actually held some good information hidden throughout its pages. Randydr16
Government is royally messed up in the head. It doesn't surprise anyone that they'll wake up in the morning and learn about some law that's being discussed over that could end something that we used to live by and worked well or learning that we'll be under a threat from something. Better yet, our crumbling economy and how we're not doing anything about it, Oh boy, who wants to hear that one for the 60th time!? I've got more common sense then the entire democratic wing of the capitol to know that we're screwed up so much that it'll make your head spin left and right! I already have the knowledge that our government is on the one way path to destruction. Oh, and you can quote me on that!!!
-DarkNeon1
In the story one of the animals took over the farm. People can also take over things like government structure . I think people should not try to take over the government. The animals shouldn't have took over the farm.
Zachery
wI have learned a lot from reading Animal Farm. I think we should always remember the orginal goals and laws we set for our country. If we abide by these then we should become a strong and loyal democracy.
You should also always keep the people that are in power in check. Make sure they do not get out of control and go power hungry. If this happens it almost always turns out disasterous.
-AcuteMan
Reading Animal Farm really made me think about the government in the future. I never took the time to think about what could possibly happen in my future involving the government and politics. I feel as if everyone needs to know what is going on with the government basically at all times. If we all pay attention to the current events surrounding us, we potentially could avoid some disagreements. The research we did on this book made me realize that not everything is going to be perfect and not everyone is going to like what is happening. Obviously you can't please everyone all at once and you will have different view points with everything but I think that it would be possible to get around some tension by keeping others involved, not just letting one person take over as Napoleon did in Animal Farm.
If more people take interest in politics and government then we might be able to have more say in what is going on. Maybe not in the whole country, but you could definitely make a difference in your community.
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