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How Good Is The Truman Show?

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We believe to be the home of the free and brave, but are we really all that? I believe that in the beginning, we were. I also believe that we still have some good traits about us. We aren’t as bad as North Korea, but we aren’t as good as Iceland. Iceland is very peaceful, they don’t even have a military. America is very much a dystopia. The government watches everything we do. They could be watching me type this essay right now. I understand that they do it to protect America from terrorist and such, but watching middle school students type essays through the computer's camera is a little extra. How the government watches us is kinda like how in The Truman Show Truman is being filmed all his life. He has no idea about it, kind of like we have no idea when the government watches us. They should use their hacking system to help stop teenagers from bullying other teenagers on social media. Social media is where kids are bullied most of the time. Some kids are bullied so much they consider hurting themselves, and sometimes they even want to end their own lives. What is the American government doing about that? …show more content…

It was about how every year the people of the village pull cards of paper. Whoever gets the paper with the dot draws again with his family. Whoever gets the dot that time is stoned to death for everyone else's problems. This reminds me of American is some ways. We blame other people for our problems. Weather it's another country or the people in America. When I say people I mean when Americans blame immigrants, LGBT+ community, African Americans, and etc. I understand it’s easier to blame other people for your own problems, but that’s not

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