...In George Orwell’s, Nineteen Eighty Four, a totalitarian society seeks “limitless” power throughout England over a poor population in which society has an isolated nature by the use of dictatorship. As the isolated nature of the characters may be the genesis of the party’s power, this is only one factor. Telescreens, CCTV, and hidden microphones are situated in the ‘1984’ society, to manipulate the minds and alter the thoughts of the general population. The undeveloped, urban life and land of ‘1984’ portrays the dangers of totalitarianism. Furthermore, the novel is set in the future, which exposes the Party, a totalitarian government, and their control on the past and thriving strength. Truly then, the setting of the novel (isolated nature) affects the development of various themes such as psychological manipulation, dangers of totalitarianism, the party’s subversiveness, historical control leading to power. The party’s way of dealing with subversive people is to make them disappear, and eventually remove them from history, therefore giving the party absolute power to change the past and the future. In 1984, ‘people simply disappear’, their ‘name was removed from the register’ and their ‘one-time existence was denied and forgotten’. In a totalitarian society, Orwell illustrates that if citizens cast criticism or dissent, they are ‘abolished’ to conserve complete control and avoid a rebellion. Orwell’s view on this political concept was constructed through his experience of...
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...world has come a long way. Considering the case of 1984, we are able to appreciate the struggle that has been done in different countries across the world. Democracy is essential in regulating government actions. Democracy is applied in making decisions concerning politics, economy and social issues. In democratic societies, people are allowed to join civil groups that advocate for human rights and equality. The citizens are supposed to have their views put into consideration before major political decisions are made. Managing democratic governments is not easy, patience is important because everybody want to be heard. In the recent past, we have seen a wave of unrest in Arab countries such as Libya and Egypt. This means that people are tired of the old way of doing governing countries like in the case of 1984. Winston experiences difficult time in dealing with government that exercises total control. Although he is not happy with the government, he has no choice. This form of government exercises total authority over her citizens. This is evident when the author says, “Party’s parading of political enemies through public squares is a demonstration of psychological manipulation” (Orwell 25). This shows the mindset of people who are supposed to act the way government demands. In today’s world the case is different. Democracy has taken over in many countries. Countries that have enjoyed political stability can appreciate the importance of democracy. Electing leaders by using ballot...
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...Totalitarian governments, by their very nature demand control over the people, encompassing all aspects of their lives, and through the use of surveillance, this control is maintained. Through the works of Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange, Tom Rob Smith in Child 44, and George Orwell in 1984, these authors take a closer look into the necessity of surveillance in the survival of any totalitarian government. To begin with, the motivation for using surveillance over the people stems from the concept of power, maintaining the power of the state is the ultimate goal, and as long as the state is maintained, any measure taken is worth it. In addition, through the use of surveillance, governments are capable of creating an environment where the...
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...actively in modern life. The problem is that the individual is perhaps not always aware how this data is used either individually or collectively once it is in the hands of authorities or businesses, which have their own particular interests at heart. This also leads us to consider the relationship between governments and citizens in this electronic era: Could the State become “Big Brother”? Would more transparency be advantageous for society? Let’s look at the assertion we are asked to consider; “In the digital age, secrecy must give way to transparency. This should be feared only by those who have something to hide.” The author thus puts forward the idea that now that we are in the age of “Big Data”, we must abandon individual privacy and the concept of confidential information as they are invalidated by technology. He adds that it is only those who have something to hide who...
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...This essay discuss the Privacy Act of 1974, the Information Privacy Law, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and other laws and provisions designed to protect an individual’s privacy. In this essay I will also discuss the importance on trust and integrity in the work environment. As communication technology expands, and the possibility of accessing that technology has grow increasingly less challenging to gain, it has become more difficult to protect personal information and the use of an individual’s personal information. Whether this information is used for business, consensus, personal, educational, or even fraudulent reasons, the Individual’s right to control his or her personal information held by others has grown into an enormous concern for most people over the age of eighteen. Additionally, considering the average age for acceptance to most internet social forums and email accounts is thirteen years old, the concern for personal information security can begin even before puberty. In this essay I will also discuss how Legislation and Law makers are have and are continuing to attempt to protect information privacy as new technologies and new institutional procedures arise. This essay will talk about but not go into great detail about how the information privacy is covered in the American Constitution, the provisions for this law, and the conditions of disclosure for this law. Because the Privacy act of 1974 does not cover in great depth email and communications traffic...
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...Citizens are perceived, whether they truly are or not, to be under constant surveillance by the authorities. There is also a strong sense of nationalism and citizens have a fear of the outside world and those that are outside their bubble. The society is generally stratified socially, economically, and politically causing a majority of inhabitants to live in a dehumanized state. For almost everyone except the protagonist, the society is a perfect utopian world. The melting away of this illusion is the journey a dystopian novel usually takes the reader. I can see these echoes of similarity between We and the many other great works of dystopian science-fiction such as Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451 and, for this discussion, Orwell‘s novel 1984. Both stories depict a post-apocalyptic world that has come into existence after a nuclear war has realigned the all of the previous geographic, political and social boundaries of the “old world”. Both stories are told by a government bureaucrat of sorts, living in a peculiar, yet glorious, futuristic society. Both describe an insipid world where the desire for consistency, social order, and reverence had crushed almost any reminisce of true humanity, individual freedom, or emotion. Consequently, the fellow citizens of these societies have become warped, brainwashed caricatures of human beings and their interactions resemble that of a...
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...technocratic purgatory, Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four describes a hell beyond Huxley's worst fears. Compare and contrast the two novels as visions of a future that has gone dramatically wrong. Brave New World and 1984 were both written by men who had experienced war on the grand scale of the twentieth century. Disillusioned and alarmed by what they saw in society, each author produced a powerful satire and an alarming vision of future possibilities. Although the two books are very different, they address many of the same issues in their contrasting ways. Huxley's novel sets out a world in which society is kept carefully balanced, with the means of reproduction just as closely controlled as the means of production. Human beings and the goods they make are tailored to one another: people are created in order to fulfil particular purposes, and are encouraged to consume so as to maintain the cycle. The society presented in 1984 is less comfortably balanced. The population is kept content with a rather meagre lot because of the constant war, which, as is explicitly stated in the Book, is a convenient means of maintaining the status quo, and the Party keeps a very close watch on those members of society who are deemed capable of disrupting it. Although set in Orwell's future, 1984 does not put great emphasis on technological advance—indeed, within the society of Oceania, there is effectively none any more, because the methods required for proper scientific enquiry are antithetical to the...
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...“Secrets are so 20th century”. At least that’s what a Time Magazine headline proclaimed in a 2013 cover story on “The Surveillance Society.” The emergence of ubiquitous surveillance technology, best exemplified by CCTV, presents a pressing ethical dilemma, namely is increased security worth the loss of privacy? This ethical dilemma is difficult to resolve because it requires a balancing a fundamental need, the need for security, against the less tangible benefits of privacy. The value society attaches to security varies depending on how threatened people feel. The less tangible benefits of privacy are most appreciated when they are lost. The ethical dilemma is made even more difficult to resolve by issues related to control of surveillance...
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...“Inappropriate genetic testing can threaten individual autonomy, privacy, and confidentiality and lead to various types of genetic stigmatization and discrimination without any commensurate benefit for the individual tested,” (Brandt; Rauf, 2004). When Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) tested their employees without the employees knowing about it, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) stepped in and cited that BNSF violated the employee’s equal rights through discrimination and the employee’s rights of privacy. These actions “raise serious concerns that such testing could pose a significant threat to workers' privacy, autonomy, and dignity. Thus, defining the ethically, legally, and socially appropriate and inappropriate uses of genetic testing in the workplace,” (DEHS, 2001) presents a major breach in a workers legal right to privacy. One hundred and twenty-five BNSF employees filed on-the-job injury claims citing carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) for “years of repetitive activity such as wielding a wrench or operating a jackhammer,” (Lehrer, 2001; UNK, 2001). While investigating these claims, BNSF medical doctor required further testing of 20 employees (UNK, 2001). The medical company pulled blood for genetic testing without telling the BNSF employees what kind of test that they were performing, (Mahanna, 2001; Schafer, 2001; BNSF, 2002; Lehrer, 2001; Lewin, 2002). One employee refused to submit to the tests and BNSF threatened to terminate his job (Lewin;...
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...Cost Club Senior Regional Staff This handout is intended to explain the five key regulatory areas Cost Club must adhere to. Following is a list of those areas: Employee Privacy, Employee Unions, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), and Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Employee Privacy Federal Law – General Privacy Laws * Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994 – 18 U.S. Code 2721. This law limits disclosures of personal information maintained by the Department of Motor Vehicles. * Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 – 18 U.S. Code sections 2510-2522, 2701-2711, 3121, 1367. This law amends the federal wiretap law to cover different types of electronic communications i.e. e-mail, radio-paging devices, cell phones, private communications carriers, and computer transmissions and extends ban on interception to the communications of wire or electronic communication services and restricts access to stored wired and electronic communication/transaction records. * Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) – 20 U.S. Code section 1232g. This law restricts the disclosure of educational records. * Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) – 15 U.S. Code sections 1681-1681u. This law promotes accuracy, fairness, and privacy of information gathered by credit bureaus and sold to creditors, employers, and other businesses. * Fair Debt Collection Practices Act – 15 U.S. Code sections 1692-1692p...
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...Performance treatment Tongtong Zhang I believe the play 1984 by George Orwell is representational. According to the definition of representational acting, representational style of acting provide audience an illusion of watching a representation of life. A representational set generally form a type of reality setting. We need a lot of actors, costumes and props for representational acting. For example, the scene should be happened in a hard, bare room. Therefore, the stage is set up like a room. There are tables, chairs, one telescreen, and lots of posters. All these setups are trying to convince the audience what they see is a hard, bare room where the story happened. Also, there are 12 actors to play 12 different roles. Moreover, the representational set is more suitable for a realism play. Representational acting doesn’t require interaction between actors and audiences. It is as though the audience doesn’t even exist; they are separated from the stage and the actor is unaware of the audience’s presence. In contrast of representational acting, presentational is a term which use to emphasize theatricality and acknowledges the theatre as theatre. In presentational setting there is no illusion. In presentational theatre, epic stories can be told with a minimum number of actors and a few costumes and props. There are several conflicts exist in this play and I want to talk about the central conflict first. The central conflict in a play is the main problem in the story. The...
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...current standard of being virtually connected from the main social networks Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Tumblr. In this book, focusing on the ninth threshold of social networks and the technological self, we notice the influence of technology on societal construction and deconstruction of privacy and the nature of democracy impacting humanity’s digital life. Set in an undefined future time, Eggers’s novel tells the story of Mae Holland, a young idealist who comes to work at the Circle, an immensely powerful technology company that has conquered all its competitors by creating a single log-in for people to search, shop and socialize online. The company demands transparency in all things; two if its many slogans are “secrets are lies and privacy is theft.” Anonymity is banished; everyone’s past is revealed; everyone’s present may be broadcast live in video and sound. Nothing recorded will ever be erased. The Circle’s goal is to have all aspects of human existence -from voting to love affairs -flow through its portal. Eggers explores the possibilities of fascinating possibilities of technological advances, but point out the many consequences it may encounter. The root of all the privacy controversy begins with an invention that one of the...
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...Assessment 1 Task BSBHRMSO1A Manage human resources services Procedure Review casestudybelow JKLIndustries, the for and: t. ' "' ;, ,, Determine humanresources requirements. ,.,, plansto determine Analyse strategic operational humanresources the and for of services. requirements develop and options the delivery humanresources mechanisms. a. Determine appropriate consultation b. Howwouldyouengage stakeholders? key including requirements for: c. Develop HRstrategy a approach i. recruitment ii. performancemanagement iii. remuneration benefits and iv. education training. and Document a writtenreport. in two for of and 2. Develop leasttwo options the delivery HRservices select at of alternative models the delivery HRservices. for Foreachoptiondocument: a. whatthe advantages the modelare of are b. whatthe risksto the organisation are c. whatthe coststo the organisation goals the d. howthe models support organisational with: e. howyouwouldensure options the comply i. awardand enterprise agreements instruments ii. relevant industrial relations industry codesof practice iii. relevant relations anti and EEO, industrial iv. legislation suchas OHS, discrimination. usingeithera writtenreport, to Document a presentation management as presentation a combination methods. of or PowerPoint above. for for of strategies the delivery HRservices one of the options 3. Develop a. Document...
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...“The Roles of Online Business Transactions to Business Management Students of UBLC” A Research Proposal Research Methodology RES1 Presented to Ms. Perla Mendoza In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Major in Business Management March 2014 CHAPTER I RESEARCH PROBLEM This chapter presents the introduction, background of the study, statement of the problem, conceptual framework, scope and delimitation, significance of the study and the definition of terms. 1.1 Introduction As of today, internet has become an integral tool for business. Consumers can now purchase items online without encountering any hassles. They can now negotiate into other transactions like postal services, order forms, paper checks and paying bills with the use of internet. First of all, online transaction is very convenient. It will allow the consumers to pay their bills and make transactions anytime of the day. Online transaction refers to a class of program that facilitates and manages transaction- oriented applications, typically for data entry and retrieval transactions in a number of industries, including banking, airlines, mail order, supermarkets, and manufacturers. One simple example of an online transaction is a credit card purchase of an e-book. Unlike traditional mail orders involving paper checks, order forms, postal services, and parcel shippers, someone ordering an e-book receives the goods...
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...Ethics Influences on leadership and management Tom Raes Subject: Leadership Professor: Alasdair White Date: 21/02/2013 Introduction Ethics in leadership and management is something that was something that existed in corporate culture, but pushed to one side. This gradually changed during the last few years where we have experienced multiple scandals. Even today we feel the effect of several decades of unethical behaviour in cultures, corporations and even sports. The world news is filled with stories of unethical behaviour. Acknowledging the growing importance of ethics I want to research it more in the essay below. I want to find an appropriate definition of ethics in Belgian culture. What is the impact of ethics on leadership and management? Last I want to consider if the study of management needs to emphasize more on ethics. The Belgian identity First I want to give a personal insight on the Belgian identity. What makes Belgians, Belgians? Many contacts with various cultures make Belgians tolerant and flexible. The many rules, the scepticism towards government and authority, the internal linguistic split between Flanders (Dutch speaking) and Wallonia (French speaking), and the fact that my country is too small to engage in internationally ambitious enterprises, have led to a relative lack of national pride and self-confidence. Belgium may be one of the least nationalistic cultures in the world. Belgians may be one of the few nationals who...
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