1984 By George Orwell

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The United States government today, really has more power than any of us think. One of them as all may know are putting up surveillance cameras,they can be a threatening power. The novel 1984 written by George Orwell is an example of how an Oligarchy would be for the country’s people. The United States Government is possible to be close to Oceania that is led by
Big Brother if the government does not control the amount of power before it is too late.
In 1984, Big Brother has complete and utter control of the fictional country, Oceania. For example, the two way screens are their surveillance cameras, for short they call them telescreens.
In everyone’s household, they contain telescreens for each room so their every move is being watched. Thus the phrase, “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU” (Orwell 1984 pg.2) . They
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Not only do these telescreens invade the citizens’ privacy but they have to be completely careful of the words and the actions they do.
In the United States, the government has set up surveillance cameras today that are different from the telescreens in 1984. Long Beach police chief Jim Mcdonnell claims that surveillance cameras being used by his department are “not running a camera- monitoring center, but it will allow them to see what happened or is occurring on a street or an intersection”
(Winton). He also claimed that it would not be case of “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU”
Serato 2 because they are using the technology as a way to improve the safety in their city (Winton).

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