Animal Farm by George Orwell
TOPIC: How does language and historical memory, and the overt manipulation of the two, help maintain authoritarian rule on Animal Farm? How might this inform the book’s particular style? Does this imply that Orwell blames the other animals (an extension of everyday people) for remaining ignorant and not thinking for themselves? Does the book imply […]
The Farm Security Administration
Rural Sociology Introduction: The Farm Security Administration The Farm Security Administration (now the Farm Service Agency) was started in 1933. Between 1935-1944, photographers and writers were hired to create documents illustrating the poverty of farmers. Many Depression-era photographers who are well-known today got their start with the FSA, including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Arthur Rothstein, […]
