Indoctrination

Eitzen, Dirk. "Introduction: The Problem of Entertaining Violence." Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind 7, no. 1 (2013): 1-11. Eitzen’s (2013)m evaluation of the modern tendency for the viwer to become dissociated with the act of villence being potrayed in film and TV, which defines the effect of villence in the desensitization process. Eitzen (2013) relies heavily on studies done on video game usage and film industry entertainment that suggest that the reality of violent actions is…

Newspapers kept up their interest in the welfare of Indians in British colonies. The Abhyudaya asked Indians living abroad to return to India, it opined that, “This will raise their status in the eyes of foreigners and will also enable the people of India to develop the vast resources of the country.” The nationalist movement was concerned both with entering colonial institutions, gradually occupying the state in order to change it from within, and with autonomous activism, mobilizing an…

Mao Zedong's Great Proletariat Revolution, more commonly known as the Cultural Revolution, was one of the most bloody power struggles in history. After the Great Leap Forward, an attempt by Mao to rapidly modernize China, failed, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders tried to push Mao into a figurehead role. To prevent this from happening, Mao and his allies, most notably his wife Jiang Qing and army commander Lin Biao, declared bourgeois bureaucrats had infiltrated the government. From 1966 to…

“Celebrate Easter- It is bestowed by God.” Whether the report was accurate is not said in the documents, however, it does show that children soon were not just used for farming at that point, but rather were tools for reports of traitors. As the indoctrination continued, these children did not keep any loyalty to their family, but instead the party. This would include children disowning their parents in order to stay in the Communist Youth Party or join the Red Army. While this might be…

Dystopia (noun) — an imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is a book that introduces a dystopian society, founded on concerns about where the world was heading in 1953. Fears of how censorship and anti-intellectualism are affecting the world. The year is 2023, and there are no longer mass book burnings, but Bradbury’s concerns are still prominent today. Anti-intellectualism controls much of the censorship in society,…

In “Meditation Three” Rene’ starts out with an attempt to contemplate the existence of God by closing his eyes and meditate. He his struck by the very thoughts that every individual does at the initiation of this process. He starts out by purging his thoughts but upon realizing the impossibility of his action he starts objectifying them. The injection of god happens when he contemplates that deception might occur of evidentiary matters. Yet he profoundly asserts himself in a moment of…

might not be authoritarian as in Maus. It is present implicitly through the crowd’s judgments of the artist 's performance and the artist’s manipulation of its emotions. There is a firm connection between what individuals are exposed to and their indoctrination along with other groups. This combination develops conformity and rebellion between two groups-the manipulated and the manipulator. Accordingly, exposure to different kinds of pressure, galvanized by manipulation of the…

nations to western ideals, which in this case is democracy, although the system itself is clearly not flawless and may not solve the all issues it claims to solve. An issues facing the United Nations is the blatant bias expressed by attempted indoctrination of western ideals, to those nations who may believe in alternate ideals. This is a direct offense against the nationalism of other nations as it is an attempt to rob them of their own identity by implementing their own western ideals. This…

Propaganda in Animal Farm 1) What is propaganda and how is it connected to characterisation? Commonly used as a form of promotion or indoctrination, propaganda in its simplest form is the intentional distribution of information, ideas and fabricated rumours to benefit or demoralise the opposing or supported parties. Throughout the history of mankind propaganda was commonly utilized as a weapon of persuasion in dire times such as World Wars I and II, the Cold War in addition to the ongoing…

Imagine growing up learning a specific religion and it’s the only thing you’ve known throughout your life. Now imagine having that said religion stripped away from you and being forced to learn a new one. Christianity and slavery is almost rarely discussed within the black community. It is almost a taboo to even mention them hand to hand with each other. But what most african americans fail to realise is that most black christians today are christian today because of slavery and slave trade.…