tyranny‚ surveillance control‚ rewriting history‚ and truth manipulation‚ we may extract important lessons and take proactive steps to protect our democratic ideals and individual liberties. The novel possesses an important focus on the dangers of totalitarianism‚ surveillance‚ and misinformation. It demands civil liberties‚ the separation of power‚ and checks and
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Ender’s Game: A Simulation to Justify All Means Ender’s Game is author Orson Scott Card’s best-known work. The novel has sold over one million copies and is published worldwide (Whyte). The novel won the Hugo and Nebula award in 1986; science fiction’s most prestigious writing awards (University of Utah). In summary‚ the plot of the novel is a story about a young child‚ Ender Wiggin‚ taken away from his family by the International Fleet (a world order devoted to protecting the planet from space
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← What’s in a Name?Sherlock Holmes in Real Life → Persuasive Essay Rough Draft Posted on March 26‚ 2013 by Maya Evanitsky Here is an interesting editorial discussing the restrictions Congress has put forth on firearms dealers: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/03/21/gun-sellers-inventory-tracing-nra-editorials-debates/2007619/ Now‚ onto the main event! The Mental Illness Stigma Imagine if our society blamed people for being diagnosed with cancer‚ claiming it was their life choices that
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African History Class (Nov 7th 2013) Legacy of Colonialism: Political Consequences -Nation building: problem of ethnicity. Since 1997- DRC civil war‚ ethnic warfare. 1. Struggle of distribution 2. Struggle of domination. (How to distribute resources). (Who would control the state?) Ethnicity between 1960’s-1980’s there was a deliberation to repress ethnicity by Africa leaders. 1990’s –rise of politicized ethnicity (ethnic political parties). They struggle for the interests
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suggestions‚ had already caused a scandal in American movies. Although subliminal persuasion does not appear in Brave New World‚ Huxley wishes aloud that he had included it‚ since the unconscious power of the suggestions seems perfect for the cheery authoritarianism of the
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Cummings‚ also known as E.E. Cummings was a very avant-garde poet that defies the rule of the english language. During the first World War‚ Cummings was arrested for three months under false grounds. His experience in jail inspired the thought of authoritarianism and modernism. Cummings’ was also influenced by Gertrude Stein’s syncytial and Amy Lowell’s imagistic experiment‚ inspired his work of using incorrect grammar‚ spelling‚ and poetry structure. Humans tend to cynical about facing problems in life
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Philip Zimbardo’s infamous study: the Stanford Prison Experiment is another positive example of circumstantial determinants overriding personality. The Stanford Prison Experiment is an experiment designed to determine the effect of a medley of situational variables on the behavior of subjects roleplaying prisoners and guards in a simulated prison environment. In his subsequent novel‚ The Lucifer Effect‚ Zimbardo stated that originally‚ the experiment intended to discern “what people bring into a
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individual to the state and strictly controls all aspects of life by coercive measures. A Totalitarian state aims to establish complete: - political -social/economic - and cultural control over their people. Fascism is a type of right-wing totalitarianism which places importance on the subordination of individuals to advance the interests of the state. It is important for totalitarian states to have a charismatic leader. This makes it easier for the party he stands for to gain power. The Nazis
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Migrant mother‚ Nipomo‚ California 1936 is a great picture captured by Dorothea Lange. The picture in black & white and the woman about like thirty years old with her three children. Black & white is showing countless artwork and showing past phase. The woman with her three children; the two children with both arms by turned their face showing they are starved. Other children on her lap it is a baby and he/she do not know about anything. The mother looks tense and waiting for somebody such as happiness
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Contents INTRODUCTION 2 TYPES OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS AND MODERN EXAMPLES 3 MONARCHY 3 THEOCRACY 3 MILITARY 4 DEMOCRACY 4 AUTHORITARIANISM OR SINGLE PARTY SYSTEM 5 THE FUNCTIONS OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS 6 EXAMPLES OF TWO CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL SYSTEMS 8 CHINA – Communist Single-Party Authoritarian State 8 SRI LANKA –Democratic Socialist Republican State 9 CONCLUSION 10 REFERENCES 11 BIBLIOGRAPHY 11 INTRODUCTION The revolution and uprising in many Middle Eastern countries recently
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