Essays on Indoctrination

Marjane Satrapi’s magnum opus tells us the story of an Iranian upper-middle-class girl (Schjeldahl), who is forced to relinquish her childhood with the onset of the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Personally, I think “Persepolis” tackles a range of complex issues: personal and national identity crises, political continuity versus revolutionary change, and the struggle of collective fundamentalism against individual self-preservation. The psychological, political and cultural themes coalesce to deliver a crude and compelling message. At the end of the novel I was left with the impression that the Iranian people were tragically blinded; first, by a naïve and ...

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Essay The political frame is a complex and multilayered concept that has to be adjusted when applying to a specific organization or a professional field. While it can easily be confused with the politicians and governmental policies, the political frame is more about the distribution of power, critical decisions, and compromise. At the same time, there are universal rules and concepts of the political frame that can be implemented within the domain of all organizations. In order to organize, structure, and develop something it is essential to take into account the interests of power players as well as the ...

Although China is known to be the home of the world's ancient and most continuous culture, it has experienced many institutional changes since the Communist regime came into power in 1949. In China, foundation of hierarchy and family, social set up was based on relational norms that were expounded by Confucius and Tang Dynasty's legal codes. Such an institutionalized relational kind of logic has shaped the society whereby the order is based on the social obligation to the authorities and family as opposed to the protection of individuals. The country’s history has been marked by two intertwined social ...

Article Analysis

The cries of the goblin merchants give the story its haunting quality. Lizzie is more sensible than Laura, so she is more protective when it comes to heeding the cries, and she ends up protecting Laura.

Repeating Lizzie’s warnings over and over again provides an “aural lesson” for the reader, as well as for Laura.

There is some disagreement as to whether the nature of the cries is local in context or provides a larger comment about the class war. Rossetti’s poem is somewhere between the sounds of the streets around her and the literary evocations of that city that transform sounds into words. London had a reputation for being filled with a huge array of noises ...

According to the structural-functionalist perspective, educational institutions must provide their students with effective instructions, socialization opportunities, custodial care, sort individuals into statuses based on their academic achievements and fields of study (Mooney, Know & Schacht, 2014, p. 243-244). The failure of educational institutions to successfully perform its functions is determine by various social issues such as poverty, unemployment, and delinquency. However, an ineffective education system can also cause those issues by promoting inequality among students based on their social status or family background, gender, and race and ethnicity. Social status and family background are the most important predictors of academic ...

Geography in the Canadian North

My ideal career path would be me being employed as a flight attendant with Air Canada. Employment for my intended career as a flight attendant is available in the Canadian North, specifically in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta, where there are positions available. In the north, a Canadian flight attendants salary would be approximately $24,451 to $73, 406 annually. Flight attendants in Canada are represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, or the Canadian Flight Attendants Union. An ideal airline to work for in the Canadian North would be one that shows up top in employee and customer ...

In reading Henry Mintzberg’s article, Organization design: fashion of fit? (1980), I was pleased that it was so easy to follow, that his concepts included examples that I could understand, and it was well organized. Mintzberg was clear, to the point, and engaging in his writing. Even though the article was published in the Harvard Business Review, it was written at a level that the average college student could understand, even a non-business major.

Mintzberg begins by tackling the assumption that too many people make: all organizations are alike. Indeed, they are not. He also clearly points out that ...

In response to the 9/11 terrorist attack on the world trade center and the pentagon, the then president, George W Bush, developed a new organizational structure to ensure that the security of the American homeland was beefed up, he intended to achieve this by creating the office of the Homeland Security. In order for the Department of homeland security be able to provide for safe and secure environments, extensive researches are regularly done so to improve on our homeland security. In this paper, I will critically analysis and compare two reports that have been designed to improve on our homeland ...

Question 1: Visionary Company

According to Jerry Porras and Jim Collins visionary companies demonstrate a set of characteristics which are a departure from what is the popular myth. Ordinarily, it would be expected that visionary companies would be characterised by the following: presence of a great idea, charismatic and determined leaders, maximization of profits, focus on beating the competitors and the tendency to hire chief executive officers externally.

Contrary to that, Porras and Collins opine that visionary companies are essentially characterised by a number of factors briefly discussed. They insist that visionary companies are premier institutions in their area of specialization. As such, visionary companies usually lead ...

The art of extreme persuasion is a mind negotiation skill characterized by creative skills and influenced by exceptional talents. Many a time, extreme persuasion is commonly associated with the act of promoting religious beliefs and obtaining devotees using deceptive psychological techniques commonly known as mind control games (Laurent, 2011). For instance, different cults have managed to promote their belief systems using extreme persuasion techniques.

Cults apply different strategies during indoctrination and the majority of such techniques lack physical traces and thus making them difficult to prosecute or prove using legal systems. The first type entails though reform whereby manipulate and extraordinary ...

I chose this question because, despite critical thinking being encouraged in most instances, the issue of ethics should be given consideration. While analyzing an idea critically, it is important to consider if the thought is ethically acceptable.

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Paul, Richard. "Ethics Without Indoctrination." The Critical Thinking Community (2010): 1-3. http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/ethics-without-indoctrination/494 In this journal article done by Richard Paul, the main idea is incorporating critical thinking in educational systems in an ethical manner. This work was first published in 1988 originally by Educational Leadership. Richard has been a lecturer in re-known universities and has written more articles on critical ...

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The article Teach me, but don’t disagree with me, authored by Jodi Fisler, and John Foubert explores the critical social and political issue faced by students in the higher education environment. Fisler and Foubert explained the aspect of political indoctrination that is prevalent in most colleges in the US. Through the use of the website of Students for Academic Freedom (SAF), a renowned organization aimed at fighting political indoctrination in the higher education system, the article manages to clearly explain the existing political environment in colleges, between students and their lecturers in regard to alleged liberal indoctrination. The current ...

Al Qaeda Recruitment in U.S. Prison Al Qaeda Recruitment in U.S. Prison Al Qaeda is an international Islamic and militant group founded by Osama bin Laden. The group strictly operates under sharia law and calls for global jihad. This group is considered to be a terrorist organization by several countries including the United Nations Security Council. After the September 11, attack which is attributed to Al-Qaeda activities, the U.S. government launched a war against terrorism. This move has dampen the activities of Al-Qaeda however it seems that their recruitment process has been more active especially being prominent internationally (Joscelyn, ...

The majority of the respondents were of the view that the media is primarily to blame for the rising cases of school shootings. This responsibility by the media was attributed to the glorification of these school shootings by the media (Clemons, McBeth, p. 208). This is because any school shooting gets national publication. School shootings may be isolated and rare, but the media makes sure that these incidents receive national attention and thus, blow them completely out of proportion. The majority of the respondents also felt that the content being aired by the media was to blame for ...

Terrorism has become a worldwide menace and a threat to many stable countries. The United States of America has been a major target of terrorism activities both from within and outside its states. What are the driving forces of terrorist activities? According to Randy Borum (2003), terrorism evolves in the society, and is nurtured over time to the point of full-grown international network. He analyses the key processes through which an idea evolves, and consequently affects the behavioral patterns of the participants. He points out that it begins as social and economic deprivation of certain individuals leading to inequality and resentment. The ...

Individual vs. Society: Tracing Huck’s Educational Trajectory in Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

I Mark Twain described Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as “a book of mine where a sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision and conscience suffers a defeat." The book enacts a struggle betwixt Huck’s conscience, a receptacle of societal ideology, norms, custom and law and his ‘innate goodness of nature,’ wherein the contending factions are equally strong and metamorphose Huck’s experiences from simply being ‘playful adventures,’ akin to that of his comrade Tom, into an understanding of ‘nature’s goodness.’ In delineating this transfiguration, Twain sets about the painstaking task of foregrounding the qualities of Huck, that undergo a refinement/education and mark ...

History

Napoleon was a betrayer of the revolution who was overcame by personal ambition that he forgot the main principle of the revolution which was liberty and equality. The French revolution began in 1789 when the peasants felt irritated and betrayed and decided to take action against the oppressive government. After ten years of war, Napoleon Bonaparte began his liberation for France however, his liberation turned to be a dictatorial government which he aimed to rule over Europe. The French revolution was meant to bring equality to the people. However its turn to dictatorship by one general napoleon Bonaparte was ...

For many years, transgender people often faced discrimination when accessing public accommodations particularly bathroom facilities in schools, offices and restaurants where most of them became victims of verbal and physical violence. For transgender people, finding a safe access to bathroom is a continuous struggle in which they believe that deprivation of its access denied them of full public life involvement. A student may not be able to finish school due to inadequate safe bathroom access or a transgender employee may quit or be fired from their jobs due to bathroom discrimination in the workplace. Bathroom issues and safety are the most common ...

In the 2006 documentary Jesus Camp, directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady point their cameras at the Kids on Fire School of Ministry, a Missouri-based charismatic evangelical Christian camp for children. The purpose of the documentary is simply to show the goings-on of the children and the camp itself, attempting to be fair and objective in its leanings. There is little to no commentary on the actions of the church leaders or the kids themselves, simply showing the footage as is. That being said, this objective viewpoint demonstrates the ugliness and insularity that belies charismatic Christians and the Bible Belt’ ...

Assignment 2.3 After reading the chapter on Collaborative Planning, please explain what a consensus meeting is and why they are useful for strategy formulation? Consensus groups are one of means of systematic approaches to strategic planning (Mohammed and Ringseis, p. 321). In a wider methodological system, it can be compared with focus groups, with one particular difference, consensus groups are more interactive and participative, and the outcome of discussion depends on participants' agreement towards its acceptance and not due to moderator's decision (book of reading, p. 46). Unlike in surveys, participants modify statements they vote on in such a way so ...

Introduction

Human beings are individualistic as well as social beings. Individuals must negotiate the delicate balance between loyalty to oneself and allegiance to groups. A careful analysis of the film, The Wave, will reveal the razor-thin line between the two concepts and how humans gradually gravitate towards undesirable ends if they are not in control of their emotional and rational capacities when participating in group rituals and activities. Essentially, individual identity can easily be lost in group psyche through indoctrination and this can result in disastrous consequences if not controlled.

The Wave – An introduction

The Wave is a German film that was first screened in ...

Introduction

My chosen discourse community for this particular ethnographic research project is the religious group known as the Members, Church of God International . The reason I selected this group of people is the fact that it met the following criteria: - The group shares a common language / vocabulary; - The group shares common behaviors, practices, and/or procedures for doing things; - The group shares common goals, beliefs, attitudes, and/or assumptions; - The group shares common ways of communicating with one another; and, - The group has a threshold for membership, or a means of recognizing who does ...

Assignment 2. The building of the mosque or cathedral of Cordoba was initiated around 600-601 and was initially planned as Christian church of Visigoth kingdom, which ruled of the territory of contemporary Spain. Although it was meant to be Christian church, due to the Islamic conquest of 8th century and eventually subordination of Visigoth kingdom to Arab prince Abd al-Rahman, the building was divided between Christian and Muslim followers and was used by followers of both religions. In the next few centuries, the building was rebuilt and expanded in order to correspond to traditional requirements of a mosque. Today, it ...

How Stalin succeeded in transforming the U.S.S.R. Stalin’s plans to achieve the modernization of the Soviet Union through rapid industrialization and the collectivization of the land transformed the Soviet Union, but came with an immense cost in human suffering. How was Stalin able to pursue such inhumane policies without risking insurrection or revolt? This paper examines five sources in order to answer that question. It will be seen that through a mixture of tyranny and terror, through propaganda designed to bolster the cult of personality, and through associating himself the legacy of Lenin, Stalin was able to achieve ...

1) - Totalitarian movements are mass organizations of atomized, isolated individuals. (Chapter 10) - It was recognized early and has frequently been asserted that in totalitarian countries propaganda and terror present two sides of the same coin (Chapter 11) - Totalitarian propaganda raised ideological scientificality and its technique of making statements in the form of predictions to a height of efficiency of method and absurdity of content because, demagogically speaking, there is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future can ...

1. As I understand it, social work is the pursuit of increased wellbeing for individuals and groups through direct and concerted intervention in a number of ways. The overall goal for someone in social work is to help combat social injustices and various inequalities in education, psychological awareness, and the like through determined effort and intervention on one's part (Agnew, 2004). This is typically performed through dedicated and complex interactions with those who require social work, and theories of human development and social systems and theory are used to investigate a client's social situation. After this analysis, strategies are decided ...

The study of human behavior is a complex phenomenon, and having a concrete answer is elusive. The problematic nature of studying human nature gets complicated when the subjects of study are numerous. Still, exploring human actions is matter of interest particularly when it concerns the transformation of ordinary men to efficient and skillful killers as demonstrated in the Jewish holocaust in Nazi Germany. Many scholars have pondered for explanations on how ordinary men would be transformed to become serial killers. This essay delves into this discussion while employing the opinion of several scholars such as Christopher Browning, Daniel Goldaheg, and Robert ...

1. For this paper, I watched the Frontline episode “A Class Divided.” In the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination, one schoolteacher, Jane Elliot opted to perform a descriptive experiment in order to see if a particular set of stimuli would bring about discriminatory activities in her students. She separated students into blue eyed and brown eyed groups, the blue eyed groups being given superior social status. She began to demean the intelligence, punctuality and other aspects of brown eyed people. Soon, the children took to this opinion of blue eyes and brown eyes, the blue eyes quickly ...

Critical approach to security is a theory which emerged in the mid 1990’s as a result of a conference held in Toronto, Canada. It is based on critical desires which challenge the traditional approach to security. It argues that the state cannot be a sufficient object of reference to security and that the definition and the sources of security and insecurity should thought of in broader terms than in the traditionalist approach to security. It is from the above challenges that the constructivist theory to security was developed. The critical approach to security proposes the formation of conceptual answers to the questions ...