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- 1471: 1984 7
- ... magazines, on televisions, on people themselves and even communication. People express themselves through their clothing, while in the book, everyone wears the same thing. There is no freedom of expression whatsoever. In both magazines and television, people express their opinion all the time with no fear of being vapourized or the fear of the consequences the community of Oceania has to face. Today, people will protest against the government for what ...
- 1472: 1984 6
- ... Party, and works for The Ministry. He is kind of a rebel in his own sort of way. Winston keeps and writes in a journal that the government has outlawed. He stays away from his television that the government watches him through. I can t really get into a good book, but this book was an interesting one. It was almost at first to far out there for me to enjoy ...
- 1473: 1984 10
- ... to control people. Devices called Telescreens are setup everywhere for the use of your entertainment and the party s. They are objects that not only allow you to watch them and hear them like a television but in return you yourself are watched and heard by the party. Other ways in which privacy is taken away is by the use of little sound devices called Bugs. In one scene Winston and ...
- 1474: Tuesdays With Morrie
- ... the last fifteen years he has lost touch with his greatest teacher and one of his best friends of all time, Morrie Schwartz. One night this great sports writer of Detroit, Mitch Albom, was watching television and noticed a special on Night line that was about his old friend Morrie. He sadly found out that Morrie was dying of ALS and was trying to touch the world with his advice. "You ...
- 1475: The Stars Are My Destination
- ... starts out as a nobody and works himself up the social ladder. At the time of writing his novel, the generation back then was not ready for his graphic content during his day writing for television. To write was his own version of psychotherapy. So, out of frustration, I went back to science fiction in order to keep my cool. 2 And so he wrote and wrote and wrote. He figured ...
- 1476: The Ice Storm Book Vs. Movie C
- ... you this comedy about a family I knew when I was growing up. No answering machines. And no call waiting. No Caller I.D. No compact disc recorders or laser discs or holography or cable television or MTV. No multiplex cinemas or word processors or laser printers or modems (3). It s much longer than that, but the jist of it captures the period of the sixties, which is a completely ...
- 1477: The Brady Bunch
- ... After Cindy calls him Baby Talk though Peter sticks up for Billy and tells her not to tease him because she remembers how bad it felt to be teased herself. I am sure that this television program has some effect on its audience. I would like to hope that people take the advice that is given in the show and act accordingly. There are lessons to be learned at fictional character ...
- 1478: To Judge A Book By Its Cover
- ... ideologies, rape, sex, illegal acts, how-to books showing bomb construction--the list is endless. How can impressionable minds of children be exposed to such mature material? Now is the time to start rating books. Television programs, video games, movies, even music is filtered by some rating system. The movie rating system has been in place for decades; the book rating system can be just as simple. A restriction sticker or ...
- 1479: The Display Of Peer Pressures
- ... t then you're just not cool!" The tobacco industry pushes minors to buy their cigarettes even though it is illegal for most of the consumers to even have a pack of Camels. Today's television programs are 85% sex or relationship related acknowledging such affairs. The most current pressure though is the threat of war and with today's technologies and weapon knowledge, the nations youth will be at the ...
- 1480: The American Dream 2
- ... revealed, and all shall see it together, If a person want to be an obnoxious punk, that person can be that too. Isn't America great? Every time a person sits in front of the television and just vegetate, they are making a choice. Every time a person eats a Twinkie - they are making a choice. Every time a person does something constructive or something destructive. They are making a choice ...
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