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    submission towards the General. This behavior compares those exhibited by Jane towards her stepfather observed by Holden in The Catcher in The Rye by J.D Salinger. Both characters experience abuse that induces them to become submissive.Victims become brainwashed, the fear of a counteraction prompts them to abide every command their abuser order. This concept’s name is brainwashing, it occurs when abusers isolate…

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    where everything and everyone were living in peace. However, she was unaware that she had also created life in sea. Meanwhile, the sea world was a hateful place where all beings were brainwashed to be evil. Their ruler, Comet, was the most malicious of them all. He was a shark with magical powers and had brainwashed all the creatures of the sea by encouraging them to hate one another. One hot summer afternoon, some the creatures of the land decided to go to the beach and cool off. Miley did not…

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    The use of antidepressants, such as soma, is essential to life in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Anti-depressants and other “feel-good” drugs are becoming increasingly popular in the world. I believe that this continued increase in use, as well as lack of concern for actually treating the sick, may be leading the world to become rather brave and new. The widespread prescription of antidepressants is numbing society to the actual problems at hand, people are getting crazy. Society thinks it’s…

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    Bernard In Brave New World

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    people start to think for themselves he will lose power, money, and fame. Bernard is not aware he is caught up in the brainwashed society and isn’t thinking clearly. He now realizes he made a dreadful mistake,” you can’t send me. I haven’t done anything. “ (Huxley 226), says Bernard when the controller wants to send him to an island to see how life is supposed to be in the social brainwashed world. This is an example of not thinking for himself because if he was thinking for himself he would…

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    the true merit of these dystopian works of literature today. The harsh reality, however, is that they themselves are brainwashed to the truth: dystopian societies exist, to a degree, in the world today. The United States itself, in fact, even…

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    Brave New World v.s. 1984 Have you ever felt like nothing you did had a meaning? In these novels you will see how people living in these systems were brainwashed and had no actual feelings or emotion. The two novels are fairly different, but they address the same problems in their predicted futures. Brave New World written by Aldous Huxley and 1984 written by George Orwell are based on a class system that is not of the people’s choice but in 1984, the authority has more control of the system…

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    Malcolm X Research Paper

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    He endures such pain, literally burning his flesh in order to transform it into that of a white man’s. He had suddenly joined the negro men and women who have become brainwashed into believing that white people are “superior”, and black people are “inferior”. Along with the conks seen on men, black women have also been brainwashed. They are often seen wearing green, pink, purple, red, and even platinum-blonde wigs to disguise the shame of their skin color behind a mask. Like everyone else,…

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    For starters, the book talks about the queen from another planet who is using her different powers for bad. For instance, the book says, “Queen Levana appeared then brainwashed/glamoured the crowd, all of the people just forgot that they were protesting and that they hated her”( Meyers 235). This shows that it is a crucial scene in the book because, the reader can now discover who the queen really is. In other words, this…

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    The leaders of the World Chargers Center (WC) created a new law to separate twins at birth. Later, when both of the twins turned 17, they are placed in a random biome in the world; which the WC calls the Biome Zones. Before they enter, they are brainwashed and properly trained so they know what…

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    The Veldt Technology

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    Quick I need the answer to this question let me look it up really quick. The Veldt by Ray Bradbury, and Is Google Making Us Stupid by Nicholas Carr from the Atlantic, both discuss how technology is affecting this society and mentality. Technology is advancing every day impacting and making everyone rely on it. The more technology the more society relies on it. The Veldt is a story about two children who are spoiled by their parents. "This house which clothed and fed and rocked them to sleep."…

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