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    world where the government controls how they want you to look and act? In the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, government control is the main theme of this novel. Throughout the novel, Huxley explores the implications of a government that exerts complete authority over its citizens, shaping their lives from birth to death. Huxley’s motive was to represent how executive authority and dominance helps to assist in the development of characters. One aspect of governmental control in the novel is

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    Governmental Control in Dystopian Societies In this class, we have explored two forms of media that exhibit characteristics common to dystopian societies. These media include the harsh dystopian novella Anthem by Russian–American writer Ayn Rand, a book about Russian communism, and the short movie 2081, directed by Chandler Tuttle, which illustrates the idea of an oppressive futuristic American government. Both of these dystopian future societies show explicit examples of government control, some similar

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    Although the Internet has become a key resource in developing the world, the mass use of Internet has highlighted a major problem, privacy and the protection of individual, corporate, and even government

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    different from today. In Fahrenheit 451, books are a thing of the past. The government has prohibited the possession and use of books to the people. Because of this, all knowledge of the past is eradicated from the minds of the people. The people within this society don’t understand or acknowledge anything that is happening around them. Not only is the world wartorn, but it is also extremely unaware of the things the government is doing. The people fail to recognize what is happening to them, and how

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    Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, freedom is in the hands of the government, whatever they say goes or else you die. In this futuristic dystopian society, the novel Fahrenheit 451 portrays the government as power-hungry and manipulative, who controls the people from gaining knowledge through fear, intimidation, and technology. Bradbury wrote this novel as a protest against government censorship. In the government used many methods to control the people such as the mechanical hounds, burning books, and

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    Under the Government's Control Fahrenheit 451 is a polemic novel, written by Ray Bradbury, which comments on the priorities of people in the 21st century. Guy Montag, a fireman, begins to question the declared truths that he has been told throughout his life when he meets a young girl named Clarisse McClellan, who does not conform to the average mindset of the others in her era. Afterwards, Montag becomes curious about the books he burns, and wonders what makes the novels unique enough to be thought

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    The government should control the American peoples’ diet. Poor diet choices result in increased health care costs which affects every tax payer in America. Poor diet contributes to obesity which results in an increase in a plethora of diseases. The cost of these diseases has a huge economic impact on the country. The government owes it to its citizens to control these costs through diet regulation. It also owes its citizens the opportunity for optimal health. Poor diets can lead to obesity.

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    a similar manner to the military. This holds true today because both still have the same general job description- to use force, if needed, to protect citizens. • Principle number 2- The police must be under government control. - Police are still under government control. Federal government shapes the way that police work. • Principle number 3- The absence of crime will best prove the efficiency of police. - This principle means that if there is no crime, the police are doing their job. While there

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    either keeping family unit but using subliminal mind control, or forming new types of family unit that are “more beneficial to the society as whole” for the purpose of creating supporters of the regime. Life of Chaos, Life of Hope: Dystopian Literature for Young Adults is a thesis of a considerable importance, in which Lisa Newgard describes the themes reviewed in dystopian literature for young adults. Those themes include government control, social conformity and the role of communities and families

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    her van with her 1 year old daughter inside. These and many other examples are of how and when handguns can save your life. Because people need handguns to protect themselves, the government should not place more restriction on them. Gun control laws are getting stricter and stricter as time goes on. The first gun control law was “passed by Congress

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