The Totalitarian democracy is where the government uses power to treat everyone equal by controlling people’s lives and not allowing any political opposition. Power is the ability to get others to do what they would not do voluntarily. It is used in authoritarian regimes. These are non-democratic countries. There may be elections and parties but they are mostly limited by one and the range of candidates is very low.
Sometimes gone without notice, multimedia such as TV, movies, CDs, DVDs, sports events, and streaming video have become competition for Nederlander. The comfort of home is a big competitor, especially since technology has made it possible to watch “Live TV”, Netflix, and having theatre-quality home entertainment systems, sport games where you can rewind for a replay, and even music at home without getting off of the couch. The National Endowment for the Arts’ latest Survey of Public Participation in the Arts did a study and theatre attendance has dropped nearly 6% and is still dropping (Teachout). Nederlander has to constantly find a way to advertise well enough to convince people how going to a movie theatre, concert, etc. is better than sitting at home on the couch.
Today it is almost the same, some people like to sit down and watch TV or play video games more than they like to sit down and read. “It's really fun. It'll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth wall installed. How long you figure before we save up and get the fourth wall torn out and a wall-TV put in. It's only two thousand dollars” (20).
That ‘70s Show Alejandra Carranza Professor: Lever May 15, 2014 Some might not agree but the media plays a big role in today’s society. More and more families own a television if not a television a laptop or video games. The affect of media is overpowering and widespread. All over the world, the media has impacted children and adults; it has been a powerful force in influencing individual’s insights. Especially if “the average American spends about 33 percent of his or her leisure time watching television” (Renzetti and Curran, 151) it gives us a picture that Americans are far by entertain by the media instead of doing something productive.
Television Corrupting Presidential Debates Over the years television has been a great medium for entertaining audiences worldwide. Only entertainment though, has been good, not presidential debates. Nowadays these crucial and historical events are being broadcasted nationwide influencing people’s decisions. Although many people may believe that television is beneficial for presidential debates, I believe that television has had a negative influence on these fundamental discussions. These television broadcasts have not only influenced presidential debates, but have set new standards for them.
For example the Mensheviks and the supporters of the Tsar would have disagreed on many terms; this may have made it hard for them to work as an organised unit. The fact that the leader of the movement only represented one of the factions also built up the tension between them. However I think that the leadership of Lenin and Trotsky was a larger contributing factor. The men were more loyal to the cause if not from belief but because their families had been taken hostage by Trotsky. Furthermore the Trotsky permitted the assassination of the Tsar; this was a good tactic as it immediately killed the cause of a large proportion of the White army.
Natasha Humphreys Hasting Comp 1010 8 March, 2012 Breaking Down the Boob Tube We are all way too familiar with the box in the living room called a TV. What most people do not pay attention to is the variety of shows on this television. Most people are creatures of habit and watch the same show, the same channel or the same genre of shows. Television programs differ in many ways and the best way to compare them is by genre. For those of us that seek adventure, TV shows offer programs that vary from actors to themes to genres and have one of two purposes: to entertain or to inform.
Stalin was more popular because of Trotsky’s “political paralysis” he couldn’t be a good public speaker. This links to my next point because they both result in Stalin’s getting more power. Stalin made an alliance with Zinoviev and Kamenev to form the triumvirate. The triumvirate’s main aim was to defeat Trotsky. Trotsky advocated a permanent revolution with Stalin didn’t want.
The television has been proven to be a major benefactor that has changed the household and family life of Americans. The television changed the life of households in America because since it is so popular, most percentage of Americans have more than one television set in their houses. The average American home has approximately at least two or three televisions. About 2% of Americans do not have televisions in their houses. Sometimes, there are more televisions in the average home than there are people.
Another way of looking at it is to look throughout history. To control the people is to instill fear in their hearts. Some leaders that controlled and banned the weapons of their people are Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and the communist party chairman of the People’s Republic of China, Mao Tse- Tung all took away the citizen’s guns to have total control of their country. These are just some examples of leaders that wanted gun control. Saying that a revolution may happen is not the scariest part of gun control, if the government did succeed to limit guns in