English Literature

Reflecting on the article made by John Feffer, it corresponds to the common misconceptions provided by the United States with regards to its campaign to maintain peace and security with efforts to protect its interests accordingly. Here, the passage that needs to be reflected revolves around the notions of what the American government has made to address these current issues at hand. The statement provided by Feffer goes
As a result, America has misidentified terrorists, seen weapons of mass destruction where they dont exist, and supported quick-draw military solutions when diplomacy would have been more appropriate (Feffer, 2007, p.2)
    Applying this concept to the idea of Orwells corruptibility of language, it can be seen that the Bushs administration clearly showcases a manifestation for this especially in its policies towards the war on Iraq. As the concept becomes clear, the idea of the post 911 environment becomes a drastic attempt by the American government to retaliate and continue to protect its interests whatever means possible even if it entails justifying what they said even if it has no basis whatsoever.
    Under the conditions pointed out by Orwell, this coincides with the perspective of how the theme in the war in Iraq serves as the use of pretentious diction wherein the process of using positive elements to denote the use of force to another is created to justify the approaches made by the state in order to appease the overall population. Seeing this, the Bushs administration took advantage of US sentiments during the aftermath of the September 11 bombings to create a good avenue to communicate and correspond to the current policies surrounding the conflict with Iraq and ultimately justified the efforts by doing so by making the campaign look like an effort to maintain global peace and security.
Spillius and Moores George Bushs war on terror
    The same idea can be applied with the article provided by Alex Spillius and Matthew Moore surrounding the application towards the war on terror. In this section, it can be seen that the common notion of how violence, policing, and justice becomes politicized and becomes rather an application of vested political interests that both shape via the consensus and use of power and control. Seeing this, the specific quote that I wish to outline involves
As a result, America has misidentified terrorists, seen weapons of mass destruction where they dont exist, and supported quick-draw military solutions when diplomacy would have been more appropriate (Spillius and Moore, 2009, p.1)
    Reflecting on this quote, the common application and relevance of this to Orwells perspective circumvents on the idea of the use of operators and pretentious diction. This common use of words such as weapons of mass destruction and quick-draw military solutions offer readers a clear perspective of how language is being shifted and used as an instrument to carryout misconceptions or allegiance to the current issue at hand. This then presupposes the common condition of adherence to the given terms because of their corresponding effort to showcase a common idea considering the issue.
    Seeing this, the common perceptions and ideas about the war on terror becomes misconstrued and relatively biased in terms of applying perspectives. The idea here becomes a matter of choosing relevant perspectives that can justifysupplement the common sides. This then means the creation of a view that is relatively synonymous to the destruction and corruption of language because common terms are now used to denote situations that are complex to be implemented or connote something that is of lesserhigher value than what it is supposed to become.
Axis of Evil
  Reacting on this photo, I do believe that this responds to the conditions of Orwell by providing key elements to the use of metaphors to highlight the same situation of the problem. Under the political sphere, these two countries correspond to the inability of the US to look deeper into the issue. The parallels that these two scenarios depict how the value of each wordings used connote the realities happening within the country. This in turn remains to be destructive due to its ability to create and false interpretations about the current issue and ineffectively gauge these processes accordingly.
   Eve of Iraqi Elections
This clipping goes to showcase how the perspective towards election becomes changed and hampered by committing acts of violence. This idea then highlights showcasing symbols of how the practice of democracy becomes tainted with violence due to the struggle for conflict. The use of this metaphor may prove to be misleading and at the same time relatively challenging to the viewer as the common idea now for the practice for election involves the acts of violence and guns. This is contrary to the original definition that highlights its relevance and value towards association with the overall practice of democracy and application of how it should be made available for the people. Thus, such attempt then corresponds to the value of fostering a new language on as to how elections is understood and should be depicted.
Apostrophe Misuse
    The common theme in this political cartoon may have been old and relatively happened a century ago, however the main point argued by the author in this section remains to be the prevalent use of apostrophes in the plural word club. Seeing this, it can be categorized as the inappropriate use of politics by the common agreed upon standards in sentence and symbols usage. This again creates confusion as it facilitates verbal false limbs wherein such changes are made that in turn redefines the concept and its application accordingly. Seeing this, the common element of meaning becomes distorted and diverted from its original purpose and intention.