...Anti-hero in Modernist Fiction”, “Weak, ineffectual, pale, humiliated, self-doubting, inept, occasionally abject characters — often afflicted with self-conscious and paralyzing irony, yet at times capable of unexpected resilience and fortitude”(Neimneh 78). The resilience shown by Winston keeps the reader rooting for him even when he is captured for his thought crime. This hope, further developed as Winston defies O’Brien as he is being tortured, is short lived when the reader is awakened to Winston’s failure in the end. According to Tim Adams, educator from TED Ed, “All too often though the anti-hero is killed or brainwashed to return to conformity with the masses”(TED Ed). In accordance with the anti-hero archetype, Winston is brainwashed and later killed. When Winston is caught for his thought crime, he is taken to the Ministry of Love, where he is tortured and brainwashed back into conformity. Orwell writes, “But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother” (Winston 298). The brainwashing of Winston is a powerful statement created by Orwell to warn the reader of how the Party abuses their power to control the minds of the civilians. In an excerpt of an article from Magill’s Survey of World Literature it...
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...High school students, as well as their parents and teachers, believe acceptance into college is crucial for a successful future. We are taught from an early age that college is the gateway to a happy and beneficial life. Despite popular opinions, college admission is extremely stressful and expensive. Students are forcibly brainwashed into the idea that only through college can they advance their chosen career path. Choosing not to partake in it can diminish their reputation as well as obliterate any chance of getting a high paying job. A contradicting thought would be to believe that college helps students discover their passion, and in turn, advance it. However, this belief does not account for the heavy price attached to the enlightenment...
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...In Toni Morrison’s the novel “The Bluest Eye”, it provided a comprehensive understanding of how whiteness is the preferred beauty standards, which misleads the lives of African American women and children. Morrison is a master at examining the relationships between the races and genders. She also talks about the struggle between civilization and nature, despite the fact that if it is myth. Morrison has a unique way in her writing that causes the reader to get visual through her narrating stories. Morrison’s novel, The Bluest Eye demonstrates her creative techniques to express the struggles of how African American girl’s deals with society’s concepts of beauty, self-hatred, self-worth, and family. As many individuals may know that beauty is...
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...When he began to read a lot of books it “opened [his] eyes gradually, then wider and wider, to how the whole world’s white men had indeed acted like devils, pillaging, and raping and bleeding and draining the whole world’s non-white people” (194). All this time when he was illiterate, he was easily influenced to believe the white men’s narration on how history had happened. By understanding of what each text is saying, Malcolm X is engaged into the texts and views white men in a negative perspective. “Book after book [showed him] how the white man had brought upon the world’s black, brown, red, and yellow peoples every variety of the suffering of exploitation,” (194) which contrasts to what Malcolm X and most peoples believe into in America. The dominant narration in American history texts shows Americans are the heroes, victims, and the protagonists, but what most people do not know that there are horrific actions Americans have done that have put aside and ignore in history texts. By reading a lot of books, Malcolm X is able to grasp the entire American history that has been ignored and come to formulate his perception...
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...School Education According to the Oxford English Dictionary one of the definitions of the word "education" is: "The systematic instruction, schooling or training given to the young in preparation for the work of life; by extension, similar instruction or training obtained in adult age”. Also, the whole course of scholastic instruction which a person has received. I think the instruction or kind of life it prepares, as classical, legal, medical, technical, commercial, or maybe even art education. Although this is an accurate description of what an actual education may be, there is a great deal more to the process of becoming educated than the actual instruction and schooling one may receive. The educational system consists of 12 grades of study over 12 years of primary and secondary education before graduating and becoming eligible for college admission. After pre-kindergarten and kindergarten, there are five years in primary school known as elementary school. After completing five grades, the student will enter middle school and then high school to get the high school diploma. I think the most important years of schooling are the primary education, because that is where the young students learn the basic things that they need for the rest of their schooling years. Like for example in English class the students learn basic grammar, spelling, and vocabulary, they also learn how to read and write. The school system needs to get rid of a lot of electives they have like for example...
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...Sahiba Kaur Persuasive Speech 18 November 2014 Professor Liedke Topic: God Exists God, are you there? Today I will dispel the myth that God exists. God is all knowing and powerful. He created the world and us humans are created in his image. God is love, gracious, good and merciful. People who believe in God believe they are sinners when they were born, and trust they will go to hell if they do not believe in Him. Christians will believe they will go to heaven if they believe in the Christian God, and they believe they will go to hell if they do not. Muslims believe they will go to heaven and have 72 virgins waiting for them if they kill in the name of their God, and believe they will go to hell if they do not. Thankfully, this belief is false. If God is love, then why will he send someone to Hell? People in this world need to believe in something. They want to believe someone created the whole universe, thus the manmade creation of God. In an article published by Osho International foundation, Bhagwan Rajneesh states, “The Christians say God created the world, in fact, the hypothesis of God is needed for the creation. The world is there, someone must have created it, and whoever created it, that creator is God. But do you see the implication, if the world is created then there can be no evolution, evolution means creation continues. Think of the Christian story, God created the world in six days, and on the seventh day, he rested. Since then he’s been resting. The...
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...This book, A Long Way Gone, tells a biography of Ishmael Beah. Ishmael Beah starts out as an innocent boy who is fascinated with rapping with his friends. When he is 12 years old, his village is attacked by rebels while he is performing in a rap group at school. Among the confusion, violence and the air of uncertainty of the war, Ishmael and his brother, Junior, and his friends wander from villages to villages in a desperate search of food and sanctuary. Their daily struggle for survival causes them to commit acts that they have never believed themselves capable of, such as stealing food from the younger children. Eventually, Ishmael is conscripted as a solider by the army and he becomes a killing machine who enjoys horrible violence. The...
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...Victims of sex trafficking are regularly brainwashed that the government and police are untrusting and at times they really are, or have the fear of being deported. There are cases that the police or any that’s a part of the government are not trusting because they get a percentage of the profit from the pimps. Threats of violence to the victims occur if they ever try to leave, they also tell the victims that they will abuse their families. Sex trafficking victims develop embarrassment from what they have done, self-blame from being brainwashed by the pimp, enslavement by the pimp, and hopelessness. Since all personal documentations are removed and the victims are moved by the pimp the victims often have no idea where they are, or who they are...
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...Throughout Fahrenheit 451, the government eradicates all types of disputable information through burning books. Oblivion is spread throughout the population, yet there are a few individuals who are able to escape ignorance and strive to preserve knowledge, change society and find the means of happiness. Bradbury compares the thoughts and actions between two characters, Montag and Mildred, to reveal what makes up true happiness. Montag believes that self-awareness fights against a society that is shrouded in ignorance. In that case one can only find true happiness through self-awareness. Montag begins the novel as Mildred does, oblivious. He is a fireman and enjoys burning books because it is what he is supposed to do. He does not question...
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...Propaganda Film Response 1. What are your feelings after watching this candid documentary? A: I had a mixture of feelings. First, as an American, I thought that the entire piece was trash and clearly had an agenda. Second, as a follow-up response, I thought that North Korean leaders must really be crazy if they truly believe in everything they say in the film. If the population believes in Propaganda, then it is no surprise that the Kim regime has such an iron grip over the people. I had an interesting feeling at the end of my initial defensive response. I thought that the entire “documentary” viewed America from the perspective of an outsider from an alien culture. It actually made sense that an outsider sees us as all-consuming, materialistic, and hedonistic creatures. We clearly have a lot of things wrong with society, and Propaganda is almost calling us out from a naïve perspective. 2. What kind of media techniques/effects did the filmmakers utilize to captivate/persuade the audience? A: They used more images and fewer words. Imagery and symbolism are very effective tools of propaganda because they invoke emotions and feelings that simple words cannot. For example, if we read that Hitler has killed 4 million Jews, we are reminded of the atrocities that he has committed. However, if we see the Nazi symbol, we immediately think of evil, World War II, even Japan and Pearl Harbor; the enemy / other that must be destroyed is what we think of. 3. How does North Korea view...
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...intellectualism and deep thought are shunned, Montag begins to realize how empty life is and how little value life has anymore. He begins to read books and tries to talk about them, against the wishes of his wife and boss. Although his new habit gets him into deep trouble at the end, he defends his ideas and escapes the unnamed city where he resides. Going from being a close-minded conformist to a book-reading radical, Montag is a prime example of a dynamic character, a character that changes over the course of the story. In the beginning of the story, Guy Montag has the same mindset as everyone else, lacking emotion and understanding. His job is to burn books and the houses in which they hide, as books are illegal, which he enjoys doing. He is returning home from work one day when he meets Clarisse, a teenage girl who is extremely vivid and deep in thought. Montag, who is brainwashed not to think like Clarisse, is intrigued by her. When they arrive at her house, she explains the noise inside: “Oh, just my mother and father and uncle sitting around, talking.” (Bradbury 9), a habit Montag has never seen before in a family. He becomes jealous of her and her family for having everyday conversations that have much more meaning than any he has with his wife, Mildred, or the other firemen. Montag is unable to stop thinking about her and her ways, and as he is deep in thought one day, he asks Mildred how they met. When she is unable to answer, Montag is disturbed and realized how distant he and Mildred...
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...Original Passage "A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat. If you want a workout, you don’t lift a book you lift weights. Yet were brainwashed to believe that the more brilliant the writer, the tougher the going." "The truth is that the reader is always right. Chances are if something you’re reading doesn’t make sense, it’s not your fault it’s the writers. And if something you write doesn’t get your point across, it’s probably not the reader’s fault it’s yours. Too many readers are intimidated and humbled by what they can’t understand and in some cases that are precisely the effect the writer is after. But confusion is not complexity; it’s just confusion. A venerable tradition, dating back to the ancient Greek orators, teaches that if you don’t know what you’re talking about, just ratchet up the level of difficulty and no one will ever know." "Don’t confuse simplicity, though, with simplemindedness. A good writer can express an extremely complicated idea clearly and make the job look effortless. But such simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve because to be clear in your writing you have to be clear in your thinking. This is why the simplest and clearest writing has the greatest power to delight, surprise, inform, and move the reader. You can’t have this kind of shared understanding if writer and reader are in an adversary...
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...The Persuasion Mantra Understanding the brain is critical to being a stunning persuader. Conscious vs subconscious ??Which one makes the decisions?? * Why do people eat hot and soupy food in rainy weather? * Ask anyone in the world be it American, Asian, African, Middle East, they will all answer the same, they want hot and soupy food in rainy weather. WHY? >>>>>>People are hotwired in the same way<<<<<<< * There are 6 primary emotions that a human display * Fear * Anger * Distrust * Sadness * Happiness * Surprise If you CAN tap on to these emotions you can sell ice to Eskimos if you want to. * Why you chose what you chose, ( people ) E.g.: Why do you have a closet full of black colors? Why do you buy clothes with pattern? What kind of dress do you wear? >>>>maybe because it brought u happiness.<<<< People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them FEEL. * Watch Some Ads you see online or on TV. After watching it a few times, your brain will actually create new connections and map a new reward circuit. Every time you listen to that music, and see that Advertisement, some emotion will go through you. You are a WALKING, BREATHING electric machine. E.g Macdonalds >> You don’t know what is in the meat (E.g NUGGETS) yet you still come back for more. From young...
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...Anthem is a book written by Ayn Rand, “We strive to be like all our brothers, for all men must be alike” (Rand, 19). Every individual in the society is brainwashed and afraid of escaping. Equality 7-2521 is not summoned because of his need to learn more about the world. In Anthem, the City has numerous rules because they are set in a place to help the society function as a one. Their entire lives they are governed by bells, telling them what to do. Men are not allowed to associate with others of different positions, and they are prohibited speaking to women. However, at the yearly Time of Mating, men and women are coupled at random and expected to sleep together. Any children formulated on this night are taken and raised by the state, never...
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...to escape would be shot. After sharing the story with Simon, the soldier explained how guilty he felt and asked Simon for forgiveness. This was a question that Simon could not and did not know how to answer, so he walked out of the room. The question still harasses Simon, wondering what he should have done in that situation. In his narrative, he asked many different essayists for their thoughts, and with that he received many answers. Dith Pran, a witness and a survivor of the Cambodian killing fields, is one of many that wrote a response to Simon Wiesenthal. In his response, he says that the key to forgiveness is understanding. Pran believes that the soldiers are the ones who are forgivable. He could “never forgive or forget what the top leadership of the Khmer Rouge has done to (him), (his) family, or friends (pg. 230).” It was the leaders who brainwashed everybody and were the “brains behind a sadistic plot (pg. 231).” Pran also says that he “always felt the soldiers were trapped … they were taught to kill … More importantly that they were forced...
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