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The Permanent Lie: Fiction or Fact
In both the novels, Brave New World and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag, they depict a totalitarian world. This being said, neither book has a happy ending. In Brave New World, the main character John decides to hang himself when he realizes that he gave into the totalitarian and controlling society he did not want to be…
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Future and Past both ruled and destroyed by Totalitarianism
The novels Brave New World and The Gulag Archipelago both talk about Totalitarianism and the negative impacts it has on a world and a society. Although the novels have very different plots, the overarching theme remains constant: Totalitarianism ruins people and societies. There is no reality where totalitarianism can lead to a productive and successful…
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Dear Gen Z,
Gen Z, MainStream Media has become more popular and less censored as the years go on. MainStream Media is also influenced by political views. For our generation all we have known is a world of MainStream Media and Social Media to rely on for our news. Certain sources and outlets lean left and some lean…
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Fake News: Who can we trust.
Exercise #1: Dr. Peter McCullough was the vice chief of internal medicine at Baylor University Medical Center. He was also a professor at Texas A&M University. He is most recently known for spreading misinformation about the Corona Virus and treatments for it. Since he is a cardiologists and previously well respected and accomplished physician he…
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Do Teachers actually control what they teach
Where are we going? What will become of us? Are questions that our society asks themselves everyday. They are arguably the heaviest unanswered questions there are. The novel Alexandria by Paul Kingsnorth strives to address these questions. The satire is that no one actually can answer them. Nzil is the father and El is his…
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Is social media doing more harm than good?
Growing up is hard enough, but imagine growing up and not feeling like you are in the right body. Not only are you in the wrong body, but when you try to tell someone how you feel they tell you that you are wrong. Ryan Anderson’s book “When Harry became Sally” further explores this idea.…
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Protection for or against the people.
Censorship is a major problem in many other countries like North Korea and China. In the United States we take freedom of speech very seriously and protect the rights of the people to have the freedom to do and say what they want, with certain exceptions. George Orwell’s classic 1984 shows a world where the…
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The Government is hiding information about UFOs
The topic my group and I are doing is the possibility of life on other planets and that the government may be hiding information from the public. Throughout this process we have read many first hand accounts of interactions with aliens and sightings of UFOs, some credible and some not so much. We have also…
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Chinese Psychological Warfare Threatens America
Psychological warfare is not a new concept. Governments have been making videos promoting the military asking for troops for centuries. The Chinese government took it one step farther. They put out a video convincing the people at home that the war overseas was much worse than it was. In the article “Anything We Touch Is…
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News: Lies or Truth
There have been many reports of CIA intelligence officers changing media stories to fight their narrative. Our sources tell us that William Casey, C.I.A. director under Ronald Reagan, said: “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false.” (Durden). The article “Fighting The ‘Psyopcracy’” then goes on to report,…