1984, Radioactive, And Space Oddity

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Laws and Regulations could be used in the world to be helpful in some aspects of life but can also be used for bad things in other aspects. In the texts 1984, Radioactive, and Space Oddity many things could be learned about how laws and regulations could be used in the world today. In each of these stories, there are different laws and regulations that will control the characters the way that the specific government in the story wants them to be like. In some of these texts, the government wants their people to be free and be able to do anything but in some other governments, the governments want their people to live in one specific way that the government creates for them and it's not necessarily the best way to live.

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