view from one source because each girl from the set was affected in a different way. By collecting all the different point of views the reader can analyze all the different aspects of Miss Brodie’s character. Muriel Spark also uses a similar brainwashing technique used by Miss Brodie. Spark can give the reader any opinion she wishes them to believe. The narrator tells the story in such a way that all the characters’ opinions on Miss Brodie are exposed. Throughout the story‚ the narrator bases and
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Journeys are more important than the arrival A journey‚ in simple terms is the act of travelling from one place to another. A journey is an event of everyday life. Children journey through childhood‚ high school students journey through acne and adolescence and adults usually journey through parenthood. So it’s clear to assume that journeys come in many shapes and sizes. This makes them more important than the destination because goals are shared and sought after by all people but the process
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most addictive and frequently used substances‚ like sugar‚ coffee‚ rice‚ water and wine. He encouraged movies and songs promoting negative messages about money. Satan then caused these songs and movies to be repeated millions of times‚ effectively brainwashing the masses. After all‚ the science and operating principle of mind programming is repetition. The mind‚ because of repetition‚ becomes hard wired with these detrimental thoughts. As a result‚ the mind is hard wired with these false narratives‚
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Literature has the great power to educate and inspire people to change their lives and often gives them the ability to undermine authority and stand up for their beliefs. In Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sije‚ the main character is living in a re-education camp during the cultural revolution in China‚ when he stumbles upon a suitcase of forbidden Western novels. He shares these stories with his two friends and they are greatly influenced by the revolutionary tales and are exposed
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depriving his people of independent thought with propaganda in the form of devices such as the radio‚ loud-speaker‚ books‚ and the press. Hitler’s first plan was to move the masses and then strip away their traditional customs and morals‚ thus brainwashing the people into following his ideals which included racism‚ anti-Semitism‚ and anti-Bolshevism. This can be compared to the propaganda used to control people in the Brave New World society. Similar to Nazi propaganda‚ the civilization used their
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powerful enough to convince many that “it is sweet... to die for your country”(Owen). Spoken by famous British poet Wilfred Owen‚ a WWI soldier who sarcastically expressed the constant false interpretations of war‚ this quote illustrates the simple brainwashing statements that are frequently told to generations of young men in hopes of convincing them to travel down the unfortunate path of war with false assumptions. With similar views‚ Erich Maria Remarque published the novel All Quiet on the Western
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peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” -George Orwell (Freedom Quotes) to make the people believe that there is no good in freedom‚ but ignorance and war will bring them peace and strength. And it works. They conquer the country through brainwashing the people that what they do is the best way. Even though I agree with Orwell that there
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Mills showed how so many women want to advance in life but cannot all because of the simplistic thinking of many men. This thinking can (and has) led to the brainwashing of women into thinking that their only purpose in life was to take care of the domestics of a household and the children while the husband goes out and earns the money. Not only is that thinking outdated‚ it also dehumanizes women. The thinking
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The process in which a person gains control over one’s own mind and subsequently influence their own thinking‚ attitude‚ behavior‚ emotions or decision making is known as mind control. This term has various other aliases which are brainwashing‚ coercive persuasion‚ thought control‚ thought reform and systematic manipulation of psychological and social influence. When a person adapts this technique with full perfection he is able to make anyone do things according to the manipulator’s will. It is
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So what do a pumpkin and a cushion have in common? Well to Thoreau they portrayed his Transcendentalist beliefs when he said “I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself‚ than be crowded on a velvet cushion”‚ a quote that actually touches on two key Transcendentalist principles. The most obviously expressed precept is that one should live their lives simply with “simple food‚ simple clothing‚ simple housing‚ just the bare necessities of life and nature‚ the “perfect” concoction
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