Brainwashed

because one person doesn’t wear the same things as everyone else, or they don’t have toned legs and a big butt. The way children talk to each other in racial slurs or even unneeded language at the age of just 10 or 12. THe children of this age are brainwashed and have no idea of it, they have no idea about how the tiny screen that they type on is being watched, or how the subliminal messages in their favorite kids shows have meaning they haven’t grown up to know about yet. Not only are our…

Love the Body You Are In Steve Maraboli quotes, “There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman [or man] being unapologetically herself [or himself]; comfortable in her [or his] perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty” (“Quotes About Body Image”). Everyone’s goal is to achieve perfection. Women will stop at nothing to achieve perfection. This perfection includes the perfect body shape, the perfect hair, and even the perfect man. This constant strive…

His argument consisted of his own personal analysis after meeting with Patty Hearst several times. He concluded that her behavior did not have to do with being brainwashed, but was because she had an “unhappy childhood, resentful of her wealthy socialite parents and disenchanted with her fiancé. ( New York Times)” He decided that overall she was “ a rebel in search of a cause.” Then when she was kidnapped she found…

Values of a Society In the book “Brave New World” Aldous Huxley depicts a world where the humans are breed in a lab and are placed into different groups depending on what chemicals were washed over the still developing, fertilized egg in the lab. No matter what group these people are put into they all are given basic guidelines to live by, those values include community, identity, and stability. In the story the reader can visualize the sense of community that the people live by, for example,…

Brainwashed. Kids get taken from their families to join the military. In Africa, thousands of kids are forced to join because they are the “perfect weapon”. The article Armed & Underage says “They are easily manipulated, intensely loyal, fearless, and most important, in endless supply.” (Gettleman). Kids get taken advantage for unreasonable duties. All they know is fighting because that is how they grow up. There is no reason that any child should be raised to fight, but be raised in a safe,…

the novel “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury, Guy Montag is a fireman whose job it is to burn books instead of putting out fires. In this dystopian world, books are illegal, and censorship is prominent. Almost no books remain. The public has been brainwashed with TV and propaganda, and cannot think for themselves. Montag however, begins to change himself after a chance meeting with Clarisse. At the beginning of the book, Montag is just like the rest of the public. He is content with his job as…

Alex Haley Interviews Malcolm X This article presents an interview conducted with Malcolm X in 1963 less than two years before he was assassinated in Harlem at the Audubon Ballroom. The interview was conducted by Alex Haley, who later was the co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X after which he wrote his own ground breaking tour de force, Roots. The interview provided an opportunity for Malcolm X, spiritual and political leader, to present his views and beliefs on his role in the civil…

should also look at every day American men and women of all colors of skin. Although there are many reasons as to why Americans may become a home grown terrorist, following the Islamic terrorist culture could cause American sympathizers to become brainwashed into becoming a domestic terrorist by reading Muslim extremist books, watching the ISIS plights on the news, and by searching and receiving terrorist…

Colliding Colliding of cultures, national, regional, ethnic, religious, and institutional involving characters in stories are often used by authors. Such collisions, can cause conflict and also reflect the moral of a story. In the novel 1984, by George Orwell, is a great example of a well-set collision in a story. Winston, the main protagonist, has many cultural collisions making him the most important and relevant character in the story. The most dominant cultural collision Winston has…

club, and the Halloween program,” it is explained that the lottery is just as common as any other event (Jackson 221). When something horrible is explained as being just as common as any other event, it should be interpreted that the people were brainwashed into thinking it was fine. There should never be a moment when a murder of a person is something so normal that it is compared to happy functions.…