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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

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."

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The writer of this in-depth paper focuses on assorted dystopian themed novels and the impact these works of writing have on the reader. This paper analyzes novels such as "Brave New World," "Fahrenheit 451" and "1984" all written about dystopian societies while comparing them to more upbeat novels depicting perfect utopian societies. Ray Bradbury's novel "Brave New World" describes the individuality that is stripped from its people who are forced to live brainwashed and segregated without them even knowing of it; the people of this futuristic world see it as utopia whereas the reader can clearly see it's in fact dystopia. George Orwell's "1984" presents a world to the reader where there is no chance for a utopia whereas the citizens see this world as a utopia due to telescreens, propaganda and brainwashing that leads to a society of no desires or thoughts. The writer also details the plots and characters of both dystopian and utopian themed novels as well as the motivating factors which inspired the authors' creativity.

From the Paper
"George Orwell presents a world to the reader where there is no chance for a utopia whereas the citizens see this world as a utopia due to telescreens, propaganda's and brainwashing that leads to a society of no desires or thoughts. Citizens are not allowed to have personal thoughts or feelings due to the telescreens that destroys the individual mind. Telescreens is a designs that is a two way interacting television set that the Party uses to keep people from thinking. The telescreens are monitored by a force called the Thought Police. "Thought police plugged in on any individual wire, in the assumption that every sound you made was over heard." We see how this is forced greatly on the people when Winston has to hide himself from telescreens just to write down some of his thoughts. Huge posters with big eyes reminds the people that Big Brother is watching them."

Tags:literature, literary, george, orwell, analysis, perception, society, ray, bradbury

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The paper argues that "The Corporation" often relies too much on a singular political depiction of how corporations work, but the facts proving how these institutions destroy and maim life in the name of profit is factual and true. The paper asserts that the idea of representing the corporation as a psychopathological organization further defines the way and manner in which Americans are brainwashed into fulfilling bottom line profit margins that reduce their humanity.

Tags:abbott, film, corporate

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The paper discusses the rigid routines for students or inmates to enter or leave the premises, the restriction of contact with the outside, the principal and teachers who are like the wardens that watch over the students placed in lines to go to lunch, the training of children to obey and conform like prisoners and the wearing of uniforms. The paper questions whether public schools are a cover up to training kids to be brainwashed at a young age, and argues that with such a lack of individuality and a reduction of freedom, it is no wonder that seven thousand students drop out of school every day.

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"Imagine sitting in a room confined for hours on end and you had no input in decision making for yourself and anyone else around you. The freedom you thought you were entitled to you was totally abridged and stripped away from you. Everyone around you wore the same attire and walked the same line you had to every single day. You could not get up and eat a meal until a scheduled time set by authorities and your individual autonomy was completely lost. Care to guess where you are right now? If you guessed a common public school or state penitentiary, you are correct to an extent either way. From the list above, it is surely convincing that the protocols and regulations carried out in public school are strikingly similar to the ones conducted in prisons.
"A similarity that public schools and penitentiaries have is that they both rigid routines of when the students or inmates get in and get out. In a school, you have the same classes, starting and ending at the same times, with a set lunch time every day. And in a prison, you have set meal times and set exercise times every day. Both routines are controlled by bells. A school bell dismisses classes and lunches, and a prison bell opens cell doors and signally meal times. These routines instill students and prisoners to be preconditioned to ask for permission to do or get something and to get up when the bell is heard."

Tags:wardens, teachers, principals, uniforms, conformity, restrictions, freedom

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The writer, a black woman growing up in the city of New Orleans, reveals that while the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s eradicated constitutional hate, an implied and quiet prejudice still exists and continues to subvert the nation. The writer focuses on her city, New Orleans, and its Mayor Ray Nagin who has condoned the rampant prejudice that has been pervading the city and has failed to rebuild the city for all its citizens. The writer specifically discusses the misrepresentations in the media that have brainwashed the country into equating black to crime, especially in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The writer then relates that she has been witness to racial issues that have plagued herself, her family, her friends and acquaintances who have been forced to struggle with financial, educational, and general social advancement opportunities in an America that still doesn't know the meaning of true equality.

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"Many people in America don't realize that while the civil rights movement of the 1960's eradicated constitutional hate, an implied and quiet prejudice still exists and continues to subvert our nation. This fact is most evident when leaders like New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin who " grabbed headlines by claiming Katrina was God's punishment to blacks for their allegedly profligate ways." (Hutchinson, 2006). In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Nagin called for a return to a "Chocolate City" once more, a reference to the 1975 funk song by Parliament which "celebrates black empowerment and lists Afro-American mayors of major US cities." (Stevens, 2006) However, in the same speech, he attacked the Mexican immigrants who came to New Orleans for rebuilding labor efforts. Nagin, who has strong ties to the white community because of his politics, and blacks because of his heritage has been criticized for his lack of support for the poor blacks."

Tags:Ray, Nagin, Hurricane, Katrina, blacks, equality, media

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In this article, the writer provides a description of sniper convict Lee Boyd Malvo and application of both Differential Association and Learning Theory to his case as youth brainwashed into criminal behavior by a father substitute.

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"Lee Boyd Malvo, also known as John Lee Malvo or Malik Malvo was years-old when convicted in the series of sniper shootings taking place in the Washington D C area. He was born in Jamaica but left in his early teens moving to another Caribbean island before arriving in the United States. At age he was arrested with an Army veteran named John Allen Muhammad the man with whom he was first accused and later convicted of undertaking a ..."

Tags:Lee Boyd malvo, sniper shootings, Differential Association, Learning Theory

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This paper explains that the movie "Purgatory" proves that it is better to possess free will, even if it is the will to sin, rather than to be made into a clockwork orange as a paradigm of virtue. The author relates that Blackjack Britton gang fleeing a posse rides into Refuge, a town of second chances where the people make every effort to be virtuous. The paper points out that Refuge is a clockwork orange in reverse because moral choice has been taken away. The paper concludes that Alex's brainwashed paradigm of virtue and the Refuge paradigm were broken apart by the free will choice to do something for oneself.

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"It is only when Sonny, who is in love with Rose and sacrifices himself for her, makes them realize their identities, that they in turn realize they do have a choice and take action. Sonny is surprised to find Hickok with his gun belt on coming out to stand with him in the classic gunfight scene: "What the hell," he says." "That's exactly what it is," Forest replies, "Hope you're ready to meet it." Alex's self-realization, even in the midst of his performance after the Ludovico Technique, is the same slow sign that there is still a spark of free will there."

Tags:gang, gunfight, ripper, virtuous, love

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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.

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"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

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"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 ..."