Brainwashing In How Stuffs Work

My thoughts on hypnosis are that its a good way to shows how powerful our brains are; it's all a matter of concentration to make it happen. I support it, and it should be continued to be used. It it used in a positive way to help others with in their mental area such as, phobias, anxiety, and anything that has to do with the mind. Hypnosis' definition is being in a stage of focusing only in what the person is told to; that's what Keith Barry did. With the two males and female, he asked them to put undivided attention to what he ask. Example with the female, she was told to put all negative thoughts into a broken piece of glass using focus,but consciousness; when she put all negative thoughts inside bottle, the bottle cracked. The mind was able

The movie not only gives us a glimpse to the potential evil and manipulative people of the world, but also helps us to understand that sometimes violence is necessary. When actions are so terrible, so negative, and so extreme that people lose sight of right and wrong, and learn to accept the unacceptable, death is the only real verdict for some. V let England know that people

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World incorporates the political ploy of brainwashing and uses it to promote the common belief. While the term “brainwashing” was coined during the Cold War era, it still carries heavy implications and often suggests harsh techniques. Subsequently, brainwashing can be seen as ridding a person of their own ideology and replacing it with a more suitable collection of thoughts. Through techniques of mass education, thought control, and depravation of critical judgment, the World Controllers in the Brave New World are brainwashing their citizens and creating a perpetual state of dependency and confusion, serving as a warning for modern civilizations.

According to Bruce Barlett, “Many conservatives live in a bubble where they watch only Fox News on television, they listen only to conservative talk radio — Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, many of the same people. When they go onto the Internet, they look at conservative websites like National Review, Newsmax, World Net Daily. And so, they are completely in a universe in which they are hearing the same exact ideas, the same arguments, the same limited amount of data repeated over and over and over again. And that’s brainwashing.” Who is brainwashing whom?

In an oppressive society, a group of individuals are expected to adapt and be controlled by a more powerful group without question. Similar to a “banking concept” of education, at times it seems the student is not expected to think for themselves. They listen to what the teacher “deposits” into their mind, and they adapt. I strongly agree that this limits comprehension and creativity and forces you to adapt to thinking like a robot. He makes a strong case with his analogy, “Four times four is sixteen……The student records, memorizes, and repeats these phrases without perceiving what four times four really means.” It’s easy to get discouraged in school when it feels like information is being thrown at you without much encouragement to fully grasp it. It’s nearly impossible to truly understand a concept when you’re forced to memorize it immediately for a test. In conclusion, teachers with this mindset should understand that to be a true educator is to encourage the student to take the time to comprehend the material

Davidson speculates that during “the ritual dressing down in [the superintendent’s] office…it wasn’t Mrs. Davidson who left feeling chastised” (Davidson 68). Through this quote, since the superintendent feels chastised, it shows that he feels punished for not being able to approve of Mrs. Davidson’s teaching style because he knows he is doing a disservice to the students in enforcing the standardized way of teaching. But, the superintendent intentionally needs to misrepresent the idea of Mrs. Davidson because he needs to uphold his end through enforcing what the school requires of him. Thus, when the authority misrepresents ideas of the overall social group, even intentionally, it leads to conflict.

The way the fascist and totalitarian regimes of the past used mass propaganda techniques to “brainwash” their people was

Around the world many religious practices incorporate mind altering methods as a means to heighten their awareness or achieve a closer connection to a divine presence. The Sufi sect of Islam achieves spiritual enlightenment by using ritualistic devotional practices and recitations of religious readings from the Quran. Native American tribes of the Plains introduced the usage of peyote in their ceremonies to help induce consciousness altering effects to commune with the spirits, and those who practice Buddhism evoke meditation as a way to free the mind from distractions and achieve a state of oneness with the world. Regardless of which method used all have in common the goal of entering a mind altering state to achieve spiritual growth.

The first lesson that many people like is how all classrooms are run by fear (Esquith, 6.) Students usually remember the first day of each grade; they are usually scared to death of the teacher. They would be scared, mainly because of the things they had recently heard about the teacher, or the way the teacher was acting. However, what Rafe tries to portray is that not only the students have fear, but the teachers also have fear. All students are afraid of change. A new teacher, a new grade, and new material they have to learn. Students are also afraid they are going to get in trouble or they are afraid of failure. Believe it or not teachers are also fearful. They are more fearful of not knowing the material they have to

Yet is this really true? No, they have been tricked into believing someone that leads to the destruction of their soul. However they have not been brain washed.

The math teacher was babbling on about how this specific formula worked and halfway through her example I noticed that she had made a mistake. I hesitated a hundred times before raising my hand. It felt almost wrong because usually no one spoke up unless they had to go to the bathroom or get a drink which we all know that was just an excuse so we didn’t have to hear the teacher talk about something we weren’t interested in at that moment. According to Freire, we were taught within the banking system of education to accept our ignorance as justifying the teacher’s existence (319). In other words, students were “trained” in a way to keep

“that an effective classroom, must create a sense of belonging, foster mutual respect and trust and that the classrooms must be absent of fear. According to Rafe, “Level 1 thinking is based on fear. Eventually we want our children to behave well not because they fear punishment but because they believe it is right” ( 15).

they needed to follow directions. The idea that teachers are authority figures and deserve to be respected is instilled in children at a very young age and is expected to be upheld. As for students raising their hands when wanting to speak or answer a question, this has also been implanted in children’s minds and is a norm in today’s society.

And there is nothing you can do about it.” This quote describes how the teachers think of their students. They use their authority and power to belittle the students.

The general psychology of fear is fear of teacher's power. Power is defined as individual's competence to take control