In this essay I will be talking about how children are affected by television. Although many parents these days do not want their children to watch television, there are a lot of educational shows available today. Many parents may not want their children to watch modern television, and I would have to tell those parents that there are some shows out there these days that are very educational and they are aimed towards the young. Watching the educational cartoons can be very helpful for a child’s mind. There can be positive results emotionally, physically, and psychologically.
Lobbyists could be used to get voters demands to Congress after elections, but now most lobbyists are paid by large corruptions to influence lawmakers. A great example of their influence is the recently introduced bill, called SOPA. It was aimed to make major reforms to Internet piracy. They proposed to accomplish this by censoring any site that had been accused of copyright infringement. Any site with user generated content; Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and many more could quickly be blocked.
In the second reading, “Children and Television: Is SpongeBob Bad for Your Child”, I support that they are indeed bad television shows influencing the minds Of young children. By watching certain television shows children can be easily Persuaded to reenact the things they say on TV, (such as words they may hear or Things they may see.) I feel that it was a good idea for Ms. Eckerd to point out How shows can have a major influence on children and their brain development. In the third reading, “London Riots: Blaming Social Media”, I Pamela Brown Rutledge I support the fact that the condemnation of social media accelerates Behaviors because it creates social modeling –people see that other people are Involved and they’re encouraged. I support the fact that it has a big influence on Terrorism and riots as well.
Justify through textual evidence. The dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell stresses on the totalitarian regime of Big Brother and the Inner Party. In Orwell’s novel, 1984, he warns us about the mind control of Big Brother and how the power of the government is continuously rising over the lives of citizens by spying and using fear to diminish their freedom and ‘rectifying’ the past. There are three sacred principles of ingsoc, these are newspeak, doublethink, and mutability of the past. One of the issues raised in 1984 is the idea that history is mutable or changeable, that truth is what the Party deems it to be, and that the truths found in history are the bases of the principles of the future.
Social conditioning is used very regularly to brainwash the mind into thinking what the higher power wants them to think and behave. Once someone is conditioned, they lose their thoughts and feelings on that situation. Following up on Huxley’s Brave New World, “Alpha children wear grey. We are much better than Gammas and Deltas. They’re too stupid to read and write.” These people, once conditioned to follow the previous quote will lose their avility to think.
1984 v. 2014 The NSA is watching you. In June of 2013, Edward Snowden, an intelligence contractor for the National Security Agency, revealed just how much Americans were being spied on by their government. He told of a few programs that allowed the NSA to collect information from cables that phone and internet signals ran through, sending shockwaves throughout the country (Smith). This brought many Americans to ask the question, “Are we living in 1984?” 1984 is a book by George Orwell that depicts the life of Winston Smith and his struggle to deal with the strict government of Oceania. This government watches and controls its citizens through telescreens, endless war, Doublethink, and Newspeak.
Idiot Nation In Michael Moore’s writing of “Idiot Nation”, he states that, obviously enough, we live in a nation of idiots. He argues that the education system is failing and the causes as to why he believes that. These including the wrong people being in charge, lack of funding, and also a lack of care for the education system. He supports this by using specific examples, asking questions that need to be asked, and saying things that others are too afraid to say. He also succeeds at appealing to his targeted audience through a loose, but serious, form of humor.
Freedom has many definitions depending on the user and circumstance. Freedom in a first class country would be different from freedom to a person in a third world country. By dictionary definition it is the state of being free not under physical restraint. It is the excemtion from external control and the right to determine ones action without restrain. To me freedom is the right to make your own choices, in the abcence of pressure and enforcement from others.
* Humanistic psychology helped remove some of the stigma attached to therapy and made it more acceptable for normal, healthy individuals to explore their abilities and potential through therapy * One of the greatest strengths of humanistic psychology is that it emphasizes individual choice and responsibility. Humanistic psychology satisfies most people's idea of what being human means because it values personal ideals and self-fulfillment. Finally, humanistic psychology provides researchers with a flexible framework for observing human behavior because it considers a person in the context of his environment and in conjunction with his personal perceptions and feelings. IV.
Indeed, throughout the text, Orwell plants both subtle and overt warnings to the reader. What do you think are some of the larger issues at hand here? Some of the larger issues at hand were that Orwell was warning about a society that is completely controlled by government. In 1984 the government controls everything. It puts forth situations which allow them to put forth certain measure that takes away the rights of the citizen for them to gain greater control of