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    likability. Newspapers and other reading materials which were only available for the upper middle classes were now accessible even to the common masses, thus promoting literature , dramatics and journalism. Even though the majority of the plays were performed for the people belonging to the upper middle classes ,yet there was some sought of motivation for the common masses as the dramas were more comprehensible to them compared to the journals and other published…

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    The force that lead to the defeat of the GMD was the Chinese liberation army who used their eight point covenant to gain the support of the masses (Chen 562). Mao’s ability to rally the masses allowed the CCP to defeat the better armed GMD in a short and bloody civil war (Karl 72). Another major key the CCP victory was the ability to use the peasantry, who viewed the CCP as their saviors, to defeat the GMD in the…

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    the government. However, both differed in one aspect as well. Winston was never able to transfer the information he obtained out to the public because he constantly believed that the government will always exist with complete control over the the masses and their is no practical way to alter this fact. He had given up and admitted that their was no hope. The majority of the rules that Winston broke stemmed from personal want, while in his mind he yearned to be a part of something bigger that he…

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    Before the introduction of Internet and mass media, control over the masses relied on both the CCP presenting themselves and their values like a religion with Mao as the figurehead sent to save all of China, and the cooperation of the masses to spread Mao’s words carry out his wishes. Ellul, a French propaganda analyst and philosopher described China’s propaganda as “using political education, or what he defined as 'brainwashing ', and huge organisations in a situation absent of mass media.…

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    main importance of total control of the masses. When the Epsilons and Gammas, the least of any…

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    demand in the society due to their wealth. An example of control exerted over the masses by the military aristocracy is Charlemagne’s control over his subjects as well as his prisoners. Charlemagne had forced everyone of his subjects into becoming christian. If a subject or prisoner was caught praying to a different God, they would be executed. Religion was one way of controlling the masses. Another way that masses would be controlled was by limiting the amount of money they got and freezing…

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    Marx, Lenin, and Engels. “No one can surpass Mao in his rich revolutionary experience.” Adding on Lin claimed Mao to be on a higher level that Marx and that “99% of the Marxist-Leninist classics which we study should consist of Mao’s writings.” The masses were surrounded by posters and speeches that told them to ‘smash the four olds: old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits; these were deemed bourgeois and capitalist. Basically, Mao controlled the education of the youth and the…

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    For a socialist such as Orwell, class distinctions mean the existence of conflict and class struggle. In Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union, the few people who comprised the ruling class had a much higher standard of living than the masses, but in these nations, and in 1984, revolt was impossible. The use of control within the lives and minds of the paroles causes the act of rebellion to become virtually impossible. The possibility of rebellion is missed due to the large focus on trivial…

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    as part of the Frankfurt School of Sociology, saw mass media being used by fascist governments as a control mechanism on society which the masses accepted. Similarly, Hill-Collins argues that controlling images are used by the elite to control African-American women and justify the many years of oppression seen since slavery. Both scholars argue that the masses have accepted the images portrayed to them, however, Hill-Collins argues that the African-American community has accepted these images…

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    Fruit Peels Essay

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    Effect of fruit peels masses on drying efficiency and specific energy under the two drying methods While, drying efficiencies in oven and microwave were (5.65 and 37.43%) of orange peels, (7.00 and 38.13%) of lemon peels, (6.76 and 39.20%) of pomegranate peels and (8.94 and 38.03%) of grapefruit peels, under the same previous conditions. This is in agreement with (Diaz et al., 2003). Concerning the effect of fruit peels masses; results explained that increasing the peels masses; the specific…

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