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    The certain questions about: “Do corporations control the government more than the government than the government control the corporations?”, and “In what ways do corporations cause social problems?”, are very wide questions and it is a different from country to country. Because, in Sweden there I am from, the government are controlling the corporations, and in Russia, the corporations are controlling the government. In this paper, I am going to use the book “Crisis in American institution” as…

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    Totalitarian Government in 1984 and North Korea A totalitarian society is control over all public and private life by the government. This government ruled society is seen in 1984. 1984 was written in 1948 which is around the same time that North Korea emerged as a country from World War II. The leadership in these countries exhibit characteristics that make up a totalitarian government by controlling all aspects of civilian life and discarding of all freedom that other countries are granted.…

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    “Big Brother is watching you,” read the posters displayed throughout Oceania, the setting of George Orwell’s novel 1984. In Orwell’s eerie prediction of the future, citizens are monitored at all times by the government and can be arrested for suspicions of having thoughts that go against the government. Although Thought Police are not patrolling the streets and Big Brother has not yet risen to power, government policies such as the Patriot Act and advancements in technology that allow for the…

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    Totalitarianism In 1984

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    controlled by a totalitarian government. The truth is usually hidden from the citizens and covered up by propaganda. In the book 1984 Big Brother is the leader of the country Oceania and has control of everything that happens, he can even see what the citizens are doing at the exact time where it is happening. The Party the Government of the country controls the people to believe this is correct and only this is correct. The Party hides the truth from the citizens. Big Brother can change and…

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    the government to potentially conduct mass surveillance for other reasons the public may not want. This is significant because King created the idea of an Orwellian surveillance network, where the government exploited the public fear of terrorism to justify its creation of communicative devices that now allow it to monitor every citizen’s actions. If King did not propagate public opinion, citizens would feel more inclined to commit crimes as they are not being monitored, and so the government…

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    Methods of Totalitarianism The novel 1984 by George Orwell explores a world of complete and total government control. Being a dystopian novel, 1984 explores a bleak world in which all thoughts are monitored and the three major world powers are in constant warfare. Oceania, the superstate in which the book takes place, is under the control of Big Brother and the four ministries that help run the government. The four ministries can control all life within Oceania. 1984 shows totalitarianism in a…

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    Every government around the world is slightly different; nevertheless, they all have one of many concerns in common: confidential information. Governments around the world, and the government described by George Orwell in 1984, are unquestionably similar in countless of ways. In both governments, there are classified documents and incidents that are mysteriously held from the public. This redacted information is held from the civilian population on grounds, that the government believes, they are…

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    move they make is monitored with surveillance technology. Today there is surveillance technology and as time goes by they are creating more. George Orwell explains how Big Brother has strict control over society just by the use of technology, in today’s society everyone is so revolved, who knows what is being exposed to our government. Surveillance/ Limitations II “ The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously any sound that winston made, above the level of a very low…

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    George Orwell’s novel, 1984 can best be analyzed using structural functionalism as this society does not allow for competition. The whole point of Big Brother is to keep the people in this society from rebelling because Big Brother is always watching through the telescreens which appear all over within the novel. The government comes up with jobs like Winston’s in order to lie to its citizens to keep them happy or at least willing to do the task at hand to keep the society going. The relation…

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    1984 cautionary tale Remember when Stalin and Hitler took over people's freedom? Now what if the government actually took full control of our minds with parties like in 1984. This may be possible sooner or later in the book 1984 talks about a cautionary tale trying to get us to wake up and not let our government have full control. We cannot trust our government fully because we will never know their real intentions like how in Korea they have a dictator and now Korean people have less freedom.…

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