Critical Analysis on Malaysian Flight 370

A more recent and common topic on the news lately is that of the missing Malaysian flight 370. Even after weeks of searching, there has been no conclusive evidence of where the flight is or what exactly caused it. On the internet there have been many speculations of the location and possible causes but many were proved invalid. This investigation has already had some invalid information that was thought to be real. Tracking these articles starting from the investigation can lead to an accurate timeline of information.

The first article, “Real-time flight trackers seek missing Malaysian Flight 370, find only holes,” was published during the beginning of the investigation. It gave information on how the plane was tracked to be heading toward Vietnam, but the tracking equipment on the plane were turned off. The article states that this had been the only given true information of the missing plane. The second article, “Timing of Report by Flight’s Pilot Focuses Inquiry,” was published about a week ago, when large and invalid speculations were occurring. This article was true, it was stated that the pilots of the plane shut off the tracking equipment before saying, “All right, good night.” Perhaps this clues that the pilots were in on the disappearance of the plane. If the tracking equipment were turned off, they would have known that it was, and maybe they would have sounded distressed. But the only line that came that came out of the pilot was, “All right, good night,” in no way distressed. The third and most recent article called, “Help from above: satellite signals can confirm a plane’s identity,” was published about three days ago and states that satellites can help on the discovery of this missing flight. Every plane that passes the satellite is held to a certain id number where the satellite can track. The only difficult part is that rewinding the past id number traces will disrupt any current ones.

Even in the most technological era in history, the whole world can’t find one flight. I believed that with our advanced equipment, we could trace this flight. But through reading many articles and by watching programs specified on this topic, it is actually harder than I thought, a LOT harder. With the possible calculated area that the plane could have traveled or gone to, trying to find this one flight in this vast area, is like trying to find one person in the whole United States. This exact situation makes me speculate the most superficial ideas of where this plane could be. I actually still think that aliens or some space related thing caused this, yeah I know pretty superficial thinking, I know! But it’s my instinct to speculate what could have happened.

Literary Essay on the topic of Communism in "Animal Farm," by George Orwell

In the book “Animal Farm” by George Orwell, even though the characters are mostly animals, there is a sense of hierarchy. The animals riot and drive the farmer off the farm and have to decide how to keep the farm at a stable condition. The animals make it clear that humans are scum, and anything on the farm that pertained to humans the animals threw out. The animals rename the farm to, “Animal Farm” and prosper until the winter comes. When winter arrives, the animals have to decide how to deal with supplies until the winter ends. The book presents the leadership of communism. It presents a hint of tyrannical leadership. George Orwell writes replicates communism in a book about hardships on a farm using an allegory. George Orwell picks out the important parts of communism and implants them into the book. He does this to explain the hardships of communism in the Soviet Union, and how communism is a horrible way of governing a country. Orwell then used his information on communism and made the characters in the book replicate the attributes of the political party.

           

            There are many moments in the book where the author obviously states a topic on communism. The lead pig Napoleon, commands all the other animals to do tasks for him. He acts like the communist Lenin who oppressed the people of the Soviet Union. Napoleon sets different curfews to restrict the freedom of the other animals. An example of forced command is when Napoleon told the animals to learn how to read, “The pigs now revealed that during the past three months they taught themselves to read and write from an old spelling book…” (Page 21). Also, Napoleon posed a set of commandments which the animals had to abide to,
1. Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. 
2. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. 
3. No animal shall wear clothes. 
4. No animal shall sleep in a bed. 
5. No animal shall drink alcohol. 
6. No animal shall kill any other animal. 
7. All animals are equal.

There were punishments if an animal were to not follow the commandments. Although the animal’s pledge was not to be human-like, Napoleon gets caught-up too much in his power, that he turns to human ways. Lenin promised his country not to be a tyrant, but throughout his immense power, he became one of the world’s largest tyrants in history. Napoleon is also the name of a French commander that ruled Europe in the late 1700’s, the name implies a leadership role, a commander. George Orwell uses these notes to expose his allegory of communism.

            Communism was a mode of government that contains no classes, no currency, in which the whole country is ruled by the government, or one higher individual. The country usually is ruled in tyranny, the citizens don’t receive many rights and freedoms, and those are also regulated by the ruler. There are technically two types of communism. These are two basic ‘concepts’ that have different impacts on a nation. The Marxist theory includes distribution of resources based on need. If the country needs something, the government will provide the people of the country. The country will be based only on need, and will conserve resources. Jobs and private businesses are limited. In Leninism, the object of conserving resources is identical, but private businesses are not existent. George Orwell wanted his readers to be aware of the tyrannical government.

            Different characters mirror different people that actually took place in the communist government in Soviet Russia. Napoleon obviously mirrors the ruler, Vladimir Lenin, who ruled Soviet Russia in the 1920’s. The puppies represent the security of the nation, or of the government. Old Major, the ruler of the farm before Napoleon, represents the leadership before communism. He forced the two pigs Snowball and Napoleon to promise that they would leave the farm better than he left it. But that wasn’t what Napoleon wanted to do. He wanted all the power, he could not share it with Snowball, and so he drove him out of the farm. Snowball is like Leon Trotsky, a failed communist that was deported out of the country. He was friends with Lenin, but the communist party decided that he was not worthy of leadership or even citizenship. These similarities can furthermore add on to the fact that ‘Animal Farm’ is indeed an allegory of communism.

           

            George Orwell through the short book of animals taking over and leading a farm is an allegory of communism. Many details hidden throughout the text point to the fact of communist leadership. Napoleon a pig, rules over all. He commands all animals to do tasks for the farm, and he set up commandments for the animals to follow. George Orwell wanted to show his readers what communism can do, it can ruin countries and it can ruin societies.

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