Brainwashed

over the cuckoo's nest it’s not wheat it cuts and collects it cuts everyone down into the same thing, making everyone be a way that society can enjoy. So we have these two societies that have strict control over their people (One is a group of brainwashed communists and the other group is a bunch of medicated mental patients) and both of these societies do everything they can to perfect their people “I shall save you, I shall make you perfect.”…

In the government controlled society of 1984 the concept of marriage has changed drastically to suit The Party’s needs. The traditional concept of marriage and love is the complete opposite in this novel, people only marry to reproduce and not out of love. The Party has taken the ability of happiness with other people away from citizens so that the only happiness they know is devotion towards The Party. “Having sex for enjoyment. Also, even having sex in the hope to create a family of your own.…

identity. Amir’s background and his belief system play a key role in this perspective on the Jews and Westerners. Early in the play, Amir clarifies to his nephew why he won’t take the case of the Imam through describing his experience of being brainwashed by his mother to hate his Jewish school…

Mr. Covey, Frederick Douglass learned through his experience that although he was physically enchained and enslaved, that mentally, he was free. Frederick Douglass gained intelligence through his conflict with Mr. Covey, That the slaves were brainwashed to think that had to be slaves. Although they were slaves they could still learn how to read and write. He should through the conflict with Covey that nobody meanly owned. He showed the other slaves that they didn’t have to be whipped just so…

past. Angela Wilson provides evidence to support her claim by using her own personal quotes and using different articles and specific facts that prove that she is right about how colonization ruined Indigenous people's traditions and culture and brainwashed them into believing that there way of doing things were worthless. What stood out to me from the article was when she talked about how Indigenous communities are having a language loss crisis. It stated how some languages are already extinct…

the documentary that I realized that women are the main reason to this problem, because of how the media portrays them. Women are constantly criticizing, shaming, making fun of, marginalizing and denigrating other women, because the media have brainwashed them to feel inferior, to be uncomfortable with our bodies, and to compete against each other in order to feel better about ourselves. The media have taken control through different platforms such as news, articles, Hollywood movies and TV…

affect? Why does it exist? Surely it must be of some benefit to the insane people who started a war? When two states equally demand power, they resort to a choice that should not even exist- sacrificing manpower for fame and land. Young males, brainwashed by their schoolteachers to join the army and support their fatherland, suffer this bitter torture between life and mostly death.It is clear-cut that Erich Remarque, a veteran himself in combat during World War I, endeavors to show us that the…

that led to Montag’s growth as a character. Clarisse asks Montag “is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?” (Bradbury 6). Montag instantaneously responds using the information fed into his brain, as if he was brainwashed, he says most certainly…

however, she finds out herself that she is not the revolutionary. Later, she says, “Many friends have asked me why, after all I went through, I did not hate Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution in those years. The answer is simple: We were all brainwashed.” (Jiang, E.1) She starts to support his…

The allegory of the cave is a very symbolic passage with so much meaning behind it. It is such a popular philosophical piece and is still greatly talked about today. The allegory of the cave talks about how knowledge, education, and imagination affects us as a whole society. We are shown that everyone lives in a different kind of world, whether it be by choice or force. We either live in the darkness, the ignorance of not wanting to open our mind up to other beliefs, or the light, the world…