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Episode 13: George Orwell's Animal Farm

Oral Presentations

Chris Wood

Science, Comedy, Education

5.0868 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2020

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The Ladies and gentlemen welcome to oral presentations episode 13. I'm impressed I've made it this

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far episode 13 we're doing animal farm by George Orwell we're gonna break up

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we've had a couple pretty heavy science episodes. I was going to give myself a break from that and in high school it was always easier for me to learn history and English.

0:42.0

So I was like, all right, well, let's kind of do both and we'll do

0:46.2

George Orwell Animal Farm. Now I had read this book when I was younger. I'll explain why I picked this topic. I read this book when I was younger and if you don't know anything about this book the book Animal Farm is 120 pages and it's written almost like an Aesop's fable. Like the book itself and what the

1:08.8

story is it's about animals taking over a farm and how that plays out.

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So the first time I read this in high school,

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I read it and was just like, that's a pretty cool story about animals.

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Like I didn't really get any of like that I heard in class

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like I mean something about Russia I don't know but like this book was always in my head is like that's like a I don't know what's going on there like I completely missed it the first time around

1:38.5

although I don't I don't want to be too hard on myself that's also how I watch movies like some people watch movies and they

1:44.3

understand what things are supposed to mean in a grander scheme like that there's a

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movie arrival that came out a couple years ago where Amy Adams talks to aliens.

1:53.7

Like aliens come to Earth and they're like, yeah, can we get Amy Adams to try to talk

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to these people?

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And she shows up.

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And then, but that whole movie to me was just watching some lady try to talk to aliens.

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I was like, this is so interesting.

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What's going on? Are they going to dance together? What's going on? But then I went and found out,

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I watched a film breakdown of it and that movie is supposed to be about like having the courage to live

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your life knowing that a future may be terribly like the idea of like making a

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choice if you know there's going to be a horrible future do you still have the courage

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