Analysis Of The Movie ' Enemy Of The State '

The film The War Room is a documentary about Bill Clinton that has very little to do with Bill Clinton himself. The primary focus of the film is devoted to the team of campaign strategists that got Clinton to the presidency. The two main players the film focuses on are James Carville--the Lead Strategist for the Clinton campaign and George Stephanopoulos the Communications Director. The film follows them and their team of campaign strategists and experts as they try to get Arkansas Governor, Bill Clinton, to the presidency. The documentary highlights many key moments in Clinton’s campaign, for example the Gennifer Flowers scandal. However, the film showcases what was happening behind closed doors in the War Room, where Clinton’s

“The Revisionaries” is a 2012 documentary meant to provide a brief view of who makes the decision that affects the American curriculum and on what grounds they are made. In Austin, Texas, fifteen people influence what is taught to the next generation of American children. Once every decade, the highly politicized Texas State Board of Education rewrites the teaching and textbook standards. Don McLeroy, a dentist, Sunday school teacher, and young-earth creationist, leads the Religious Right charge. After briefly serving on his local school board, McLeroy was elected to the Texas State Board of Education and later appointed chairman. During his time on the board, McLeroy has overseen the adoption of new science and social studies curriculum standards,

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Mass surveillance is a word that has been thrown around every so often in the last few decades, especially ever since George Orwell’s book Nineteen Eighty-Four. Although this book was released over 60 years ago, some aspects of the book are seeming to become true in the United States, and other parts of the world today. The idea of mass surveillance isn’t so taboo anymore, as there are several programs ran by sovereign countries around the world which monitor their domestic citizens, as well as citizens and leaders of other foreign countries. With all of our technological communication advances since 1949, this age of information is only going to get more severe, and more tracking and monitoring will be done. The biggest offender of doing

Orwell’s prediction of digital surveillance is one of the biggest issues that is discussed today as the increased amount of surveillance in countries, which creates a lack of privacy for the citizens. One scholar of George Orwell says, “Orwell say way ahead of his time that surveillance was a constant threat. When you’ve lost your privacy to a government that says it’s only thinking of your safety, you’ve lost something previous” (qtd. in Gelt 2). The novel starts out with the very well known quote of “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU,” (2). The concept of Big Brother is that the government is constantly watching over the people to make sure there is no attack on the Party and/or the Party’s interests. Big Brother uses resources such as surveillance helicopters (13) to peer into the rooms of the apartments

Additionally, Greenwald’s usage of qualitative data provides an insight into the problem of surveillance. For example, Greenwald uses descriptive statements about intelligence and surveillance based on observations, interviews or evaluations. For instance, Greenwald states, “those state authorities have been assisted in their assault on privacy by a

“Big Brother is watching you!” an enormous poster featuring “a man of about forty-five” that seems to gaze at the people of Oceania. The Party incessantly watches all populaces for any traces of “thought crime” or rebellion, by spying and through telescreens (1956). “In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people 's windows” (Orwell 4). The populace of Oceania are in a constant state of surveillance through technology. The technology, in the film and novel 1984, tracks Oceanians’ everyday performance. Moreover, in our society, technology is intensifying and becoming more sophisticated. Similarly to 1984 dystopian novel, contemporary technology has the power to spy on all of us and to track our everyday performance. With the advanced technology, it is easy to have some people willing to take such consequences for the benefits of the technology. The Fitbit activity wristband has numerous of privacy concerned athletes who are noting the similarity between modern use of technology and 1984’s use of technology, perceiving 1984 as a futuristic film. Despite this concern, many athletes glorify the Fitbit because of its displays one’s progress toward a particular daily activity goal, which, to some, is motivating. The Fitbit activity wristband which features standalone GPS tracking capabilities raises privacy concerns to some

For example,” Thanks to GPS technology and smartphone apps, these devices take note of what we buy, where and when we buy it, how much money we have in the bank, whom we text or email, what websites we visit, how and where we travel…”(Maass and Rajagopalan,2012). Maass displays how much information the government has on us. In addition, the book “nineteen eighty-four” their totalitarianism ruling also tracks their citizens. For instance, “ “you’re a traitor!” yelled the boy.

Orwell’s telescreen is like a camera. In today’s conditions, one cannot walk a hundred feet down a busy city’s sidewalk without having a least one camera record their movement. Heedless of Orwell’s warning, governmental monitoring has all ready taken hold; it is one of the “main factors leading to a situation that Orwell” described (The Warning

In 1984 they knew they were watched in every move, they even had to watch what they say and keep from saying any secrets.Orwell says “ It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen.”(Orwell,62) This shows that even in public places you had to watch what you say with the telescreens near by. In this present tense we do not have telescreens all we have now are cell phones, tablets, computers, and TV and all consists with cameras so it still has the ability to watch us.we really do not know what else they can know about us through one phone but what this article states is “ what’s the harm? The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, ruling about the use of tracking devices by the police, noted that GPS data can reveal whether a person “ is a weekly church goer, a heavy drinker, a regular at the gym, an unfaithful husband, an outpatient receiving medical treatment, an associate of particular individuals or political groups--- and not just one such fact about a person, but all such facts.”(Maass and Rajagopalan,2012) This statement implies that not only can they track you and know what you are doing through your phone they can see what type of person you

The espionage of the United States’ government is a controversial issue these days. Espionage is the gathering of information without the permission or warrant of the holder of the information. Within the rapid technological development, the variety of tools for espionage are available in the United States; it can be obtained by tracking, surveillance, wiretapping, etc. Specifically, Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking system is one of the significant topics for espionage. Recently, many people including drivers, hikers, and manufacturers often use GPS to see the directions to their destinations, to locate themselves one a trail map, or to keep track of their delivering products. However, today’s controversy with GPS device is that police also uses it to determine suspects’ locations and movements. It is the most advanced technological device to effectively track and monitor suspects and offenders using satellites. Therefore, some people argue that the use of GPS tracking should be increased and should not need warrants, while others assert that GPS devices to track suspects raise legal problems, so Supreme Court should limits police use of GPS tracking. There are many positive and negative aspects of it. According to the article “Do Police Need Warrants For GPS Tracking Devices?,” the author says that the reason for controversy of GPS tracking devices is that “Police, quite naturally, want to use new technology to get the goods on the bad guys, and citizens, quite

Orwell's eerie foresight only continues when Winston notices a Police Patrol helicopter darting from window to window, looking into people's windows. This type of surveillance in clearly illegal today, and would be noticed immediately, but in the last 50 years, satellites and unmanned drone aircraft have taken over the fictional role of the Police Patrols. Public satellites that are 10 to 15 years old currently can produce digital images with 1-meter resolution. Military satellites can supposedly produce images with 10-centimeter resolution, meaning that `Big Brother' could theoretically follow you from your house to your work to a restaurant and home again without you even knowing you were being watched. This type of surveillance is most likely being used mostly overseas, and not on Americans, but its mere existence should be a clear signal to us that our age has not avoided the surveillance pitfalls of 1984.

People are always stereotyping and racial profiling others over their skin color. In the documentary Us Against The World, Rodrick Rhodes an African American former NBA player is hired as the head coach of Cordia high school. Rhodes is welcomed in the beginning but soon discriminated by the townspeople and school board members. Cordia high school wasn’t the best at basketball but when Rhodes was hired they went 20-9 and soon won the 2016 All A’s Basketball Championship. After they won the championship Rhodes’s contract was not renewed because he was accused of recruiting players from different schools.

In the dystopia of George Orwell’s 1984, surveillance shadows citizens, stalking them from telescreens and on streets while an omniscient government scrutinizes their every move. The incessant scrutiny impedes citizens from ever being alone. The only time isolation seems possible is in sleep, and even then relaxing or showing honest emotions could lead to death. Ideas of freedom, liberty, and privacy have been eliminated, throwing society into a present-day apocalypse.

“Everything will change. Everything has changed.” A powerful statement made in the film The Patriot (2000), however, radical change is occurring right before the American populist without any realization. Mel Gibson stars, in an action-packed war story, as a widower named Benjamin Martin with seven children. Benjamin Martin (Mel Gibson), is loosely, based on several real-life players in the American Revolution, including Francis “Swamp Fox” Marion, a militia leader from South Carolina. After proving himself on the field of battle in the French and Indian War, Benjamin Martin wanted nothing more to do with such things, preferring the simple life of a farmer. But when his son Gabriel enlists in the army to defend their