Indoctrination

According to Barry Schwartz and his writing, “The Debasing of Education: Turning Play into Work,” there are two main types of learning, performance-oriented and mastery-oriented (Schwartz, Barry). Depending on the subject and what I was learning, I have been both. When I was taking my high school classes, most of the time my learning was performance-oriented. I did not really care about how well I learned something as long as for the time being I could regurgitate the information well enough to…

The Symbols of Oppression in The Handmaid’s Tale Imagine living in a world where a free society is forced to undergo a radical change towards an unequal treatment of the sexes and an adoption of a radical religion. The transition of this change would be nearly flawless, it would lead to the resocialization of the social classes and enforce new gender roles, but it would also infringe on the natural rights of women. For some, this would be hard to imagine, but in the novel The Handmaid’s Tale it…

Feinberg in his prominent work titled “A Child’s Right to an Open Future?” claims that parents should “sent [child] out into the adult world with as many open opportunities as possible, thus maximizing the chances for self-fulfillment” (Feinberg, 1980, p. 134-135). This right impose limits on parents’ influence on children, including limitation of their influence in regard to choice of culture and religion. Thus, Feinberg believes that parents violate children’s right to an open future if they…

million before Hitler made membership mandatory, so at least 5.4 million people joined willingly mostly due to the appeal of it. However, not everybody thought that this was a great organization. “Meinecke read from the report: ‘Eleven years of Nazi indoctrination to a susceptible age in the Hitler Youth has done its work… The Hitler Youth is not a boy scout or girl guide organization… It is a compulsory Nazi formation which has consciously sought to breed hate, treachery and cruelty into the…

Communism is a political and economic system meant to eliminate the capitalist inspired class system where the elite class benefits by exploiting the working class. While all communist regimes have undergone a violent Stalinist or Maoist phase in their initial attempts at a socialist government, their paths have later diverged; some states, such as China, Cuba, and the Soviet Union, have democratized and opened their doors to foreign influence and trade, while others, such as North Korea, remain…

same instrument, private life came to an end’”(Luegenbiehl 295). Like how the atomic bomb serves as a deterrent for military action from other countries, the telescreen acts as a deterrent for behavior which suggests defiance. This is a form of indoctrination. In this way, Big Brother is able to manipulate people into being obedient. Rather than choosing the right course of action based on preference, a person’s will is the same as that of the…

The young generation has grown increasingly complacent about current women’s status in society due to constant indoctrination from the media boasting that what an equal place the world has transformed into and what an anachronism feminism has become (Maddison 132). The scale of “SlumWalk” attracted attention from teenage girls, and reminded them that women are unfairly…

Short answer The self as defined by Mead is an interaction between the two parts of oneself, the "I" and "Me". The "I" acts based of experiences (e.g. what actions people like, what actions will make people proud) and the "me" represents that understanding of society that the "I" draws from to act (our idea of society in miniature). Thus, the "me"'s idea of society's attitudes towards different actions is reliant upon its experience within society, and the "I"'s actions are reliant upon…

Oceania- infiltrates the security of the family through The Junior Spies- brainwashed children in Oceania in charge of finding people suspicious of anti-government thoughts and actions, including their own parents (Orwell 28). By portraying the indoctrination and molding the most innocent of society-children- in accordance with Communist principles into informers, Orwell emphasizes the importance of the youth to a totalitarian government, as the exploitation of the innocent signals complete…

Gabe Elkinson John Capute War & Peace 11 April 2024 War: the Hate-Induced Paradox of Evil “I will never forget Saturday October 7th. I will never forget what they did to my people.” I asked him if he thinks Israel and Palestine can ever achieve peace. He told me, “I believe that Israel will never be on friendly terms with Palestine[e]. Since Hamas now controls Palestine, Israel will never be on good terms with terrorists. For me personally, the Palestinians will be the worst people until my last…