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This summarizes three articles: "Killing the Indian in the Child" is part of "Stolen from Our Embrace", and deals with the brainwashing and abuse in residential schools.

Tags:child, abuse, brainwashing

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This paper discusses how several prominent twentieth century figures, such as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, represent the skillful tactics of the most effective totalitarian regimes. In particular, the paper examines how Hitler harnessed the power of propaganda in order to brainwash his citizens into submission; all the while blaming a scapegoat in order to curb opposition of his own regime within the minds of the average German citizens. The paper also looks at how Soviet Russia's Joseph Stalin utilized the extreme tactic of installing fear through absolute ruthlessness to remain in power for half a century. It concludes that these tactics prove some of the most efficient used within the context of a totalitarian regime, and thus the most feared and respected within the study of world politics.

From the Paper
"Several efficient styles of rule within the context of totalitarianism are defined in the notorious Main Kampf, or "My Struggle," written by Adolf Hitler while he was serving a five year prison sentence in Germany. The work was originally intended as a pure autobiography, but ended up being a "mixture of autobiography, political ideas, and an explanation of the techniques of propaganda," (Spartacus Educational 1). In fact, utilizing the power of propaganda was the most prominent feature in the work which provided Hitler effective ruling techniques. The work itself was one of propaganda, for the autobiographical representation of Hitler was largely manipulated to provide readers with a positive twist, (Spartacus Educational 1). He also used the work to describe Germany as the head of the Aryan race, and therefore the most superior of all nations. "

Tags:brainwash, fear, Main, Kampf, propaganda

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This paper reviews and reports the opinions of experts and journalists who have analyzed the issue of media manipulation of the news. This is not a paper that is predicting a "big brother" conspiracy that is trying to take over America or brainwash all the TV-watching, Internet surfing and newspaper-reading citizens. But there are many issues that the average American should be aware of when trying to read, hear, watch and digest "news" as presented by the media today, and this paper addresses those concerns.

From the Paper
"It's very clear from reading through research material on today's media that most Americans get their evening news through half-hour TV programs specializing in dramatic, entertaining video and "sound bites" from politicians, entertainers, and the "man in the street."
Those news shows - from cable, local, and network productions - are often more concerned with ratings (which drive the profitability of television) than with full coverage. That is not a positive trend in American life, and this paper addresses that dynamic as well.
The significance of media manipulation can be seen even more dramatically with a look back at the way television journalism was presented to the public in the recent past. Reporters had guts, and went after government; that is depicted in a new movie, "Good Night and Good Luck," written and directed by actor George Clooney. The movie features the professional life of former CBS television interviewer, Edward R. Murrow, who boldly took on U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy at a time when McCarthy was attacking many well-known people with baseless accusations that they were "communists." An article in the Los Angeles Times (Goldstein, 2005) refers to Murrow as "a real hero" who, like other journalists in his era, "once pursued greatness, not just ratings and ad linage."

Tags:government, politics, labels, framing, television, internet, newspaper

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In this article, the writer looks at extremism in the US and how it has developed as a result of religious and radical beliefs. Specifically, the writer begins with a discussion of right-wing history and then follows by studying modern extremism. Hate propaganda from William Pierce is viewed and the various criminal acts provided in the literature are discussed. The paper also views eco-terrorism, animal rights groups and finally Black Hebrew Israelites. The writer concludes that extremist groups follow religious conspiracy theories that brainwash their followers into taking arms and resisting federal norms.

Outline:
Abstract
Introduction
A Brief History of Right-Wing Extremism in the United States
Modern Right-Wing Resurgence
William Pierse's Blueprint for Revolution
Criminal Behavior Among Right-Wing Extremists
Eco-Terrorism and Animal Rights
Black Hebrew Israelites
Summary

From the Paper
" Religion and conspiracy theories influence right-wing extremist groups. Followers feel they are losing economic status because sinister forces are conspiring to swindle them out of the American dream. They are patriotic and have a passion for firearms. An example is the Idaho-based Aryan Nations, which is similar to the Ku Klux Klan. A few incidents within the United States brought extremism to the forefront. The Brady Bill brought proposed gun control legislation, which the extremists used to gain public support. Another issue was the killing of a white supremacist leader's son and pregnant wife by FBI snipers. Third, the events of Waco Texas where families were burned or shot to death under David Koresh's Branch Davidian complex when seized by the ATF."

Tags:firearms, extremist, violent, race

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"Animal Farm" by George Orwell is a political satire used to illustrate the condition of the government in Russia during the reign of Stalin. This paper describes how Orwell's pigs, symbolizing the political figureheads in Russia at that time, use language to brainwash the "lesser" animals into going along with their self-serving plans. The paper makes use of quotations from the text to support its points.

From the Paper
"The pigs, meant to mirror the actions of Trotsky and Stalin, twist the concept of Animalism, meant to represent the Socialist ideal, into something that could be manipulated and used to their advantage. Even before Snowball (Trotsky) had been banished from the farm due to false allegations of treason, the treachery had already begun; what with the insistence of the pigs that they needed more food than the other animals to do their all-important jobs of "supervising" and "organizing," as Squealer explains in this passage, "Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organization of this farm depend on us (pg. 52).""

Tags:communism, Trotsky, Snowball

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The paper refers to Jib Fowles' work "15 Basic Appeals of Advertising" that shows how advertisements are making emotional appeals to their audience, are becoming increasingly abhorrent and are based on an manipulative use of audience appeal. The paper also looks at the ideas of Allan Bloom who implies that pop culture is manipulating and destroying the inspiration, the passion, and the artistic drive of today's youth. The paper explains Bloom's belief that pop culture has arisen from our culture of salesmanship by its appeal to the irrational and subconscious instincts of youth.

From the Paper
"Society has given rise to a culture of manipulation. The messages that cultural movements or cultural languages such as advertising give rise to is, to put it bluntly, a veritable brainwashing of American society for the sake of profit, with a particular emphasis on American youth. The manipulation is rooted in a systemized attempt to capture the minds or imagination of America, in order to influence them to ascribe to certain values which are not based on morality, but on sales and product appeal."

Tags:pop, culture, youth, emotions, appeals

From the Paper
"Aldous Huxley, in "Brave New World", argues that the members of his fictional society have been literally and overtly brainwashed in terms of education/socialization/social control. As this study will argue, the United States of the 1990s is also a society which practices socialization and social control in order to force its members to conform as it desires, but the methods and forces at work in the United States are far more subtle and covert than we find in Huxley's fictional society of the Brave New World.

In Brave New World members of the different classes are not brainwashed "equally," but they nevertheless share in a process which convinces them that they are precisely where they are supposed to be and that all members of other classes are also precisely where they are supposed to be."

From the Paper
"Since the 1960s cults of one kind or another have regularly made headlines with outrageous, bizarre, and even lethal behavior and their number has increased enormously in the past four decades. Writers of all kinds--scholars, journalists, psychologists, and social critics--have frequently pointed out that cults have existed throughout recorded history and that the distinction between an established religion and a cult is often no more than a question of size, socialization, wealth, power, or longevity. But others hold that the sheer number of contemporary cults and the increasing levels of abuse, crime and suicide among many of them are phenomena that distinguish postindustrial society's cult behaviors from those of other eras. While it is difficult to cite any one or two principal causes of the expansion of the cult phenomenon in the present day, there are ..."

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This paper provides a review of the various types of psychological techniques used by the Nazis during the Second World War, including propaganda and brainwashing. The paper explains that a key factor for the Germans' support of Hitler was the use of psychological methods that helped keep them convinced of the viability of the military campaigns, as well as the infallibility of their deranged leader. The paper provides a discussion of the Nazis' perception of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung and analyzes how the Nazis used their works and how they applied them to their own endeavors. The paper concludes that the Nazis were more heavily influenced by the propaganda and crowd control techniques offered by Gustave LeBon.

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Review and Discussion
Conclusion

From the Paper
"In his essay, "How to Make Enemies and Influence People: Anatomy of the Anti-Pluralist, Totalitarian Mindset," Montuori (2005) asks, "Why is it easy to get people to do the bidding of their leaders? How was it possible for a sophisticated, educated population like Germany's to follow blindly the dictates of a maniacal leader, and to embark on the horrors of the Nazi regime?" (18). The answers to these questions have been the source of much investigation since the end of World War II."

Tags:Hitler, Freud, Jung, propaganda, brainwashing

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This paper analyzes how Alex is sent to Borstal and punished, after which he is returned to society essentially no better than before. Alex is given a choice and chooses the brainwashing that allows him to be returned to society, supposedly a better person. The writer explains that Burgess affirms in this novel, is the power of the human spirit and the belief that we have to respect that spirit even when it is anti-social.

From the Paper
"Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange looks to the near future and extrapolates from his own time to one where many young people have become urban marauders, taking out their frustrations in violence and living completely amoral lives. Alex tells his own story as well, doing so in the cynical pseudo-language of his generation. Burgess uses the issue of "free will" and the way human beings prize it as a way of taking the reader from his or her contemporary world to the fictional world of the future."

Tags:society, borstal, brainwashing, Ludovico