Since the Patriot act the Government ceased public immigration hearings and also withheld "sensitive information" by either removing the information from government web sites or just not informing the public. ... The government can prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation; this directly attack our freedom of speech. ... Liberties that are annulled by a government insist that the government needed control over its citizens. This dissolution of liberties foretells that we are headed ...

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To what extent could Nazi Germany be considered a totalitarian state in the Period 1933-45? ... Bracher's approach provides a valuable insight into key aspects of Hitlarian domination - aspects that were clearly totalitarian. ... Berghahn has noted that other government departments and agencies developed their own propaganda units (the NSDAP had 14000 people on its patrol by 1934). ... Consequently several of the features identified by Friedrich, which comprise a Totalitarian State, were clearly present in the State constructed by Hitler. ... The vital concept underlying the totali...

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Not only is violence a vital part of a totalitarian regime, censorship is as well. ... In the novel, the government censors information from its population. ... It is a controlled language created by the totalitarian government as a tool to limit freedom of thought, and other concepts that pose a danger to the government such as freedom, creativity, individuality, and peace. ... Using the memory holes, it is easy to censor information that is a danger to the totalitarian regime. ... Big Brother is the symbol of the totalitarian government in the novel. ...

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Hate Crime Laws: Abolish Them In the 1980's the governments of the United States created a new sort of crime; hate crime. ... With creating the hate crime laws, the government has made the fact that a crime is more or less serious according to the thoughts of the perpetrator. ... This can make the victim of the second crime feel less important and in a way he is made less important by the government. By creating the hate crime laws the government is giving victims of hate crime more value and more protection than victims of "ordinary" crimes, while every citizen should have the sa...

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In George Orwell's novel, "1984," it shows a world of deep government control. ... A totalitarian government is in placed ruling the people by psychological manipulation, controlling "news" or information to the masses, surveillance, and even physical violence to maintain its power. ... Social aspects of a person are to help the government either by rallies or time spent in activities. ... The government uses some methods that monitor and controls society. Even though this book was written post WWII, Orwell wrote it after witnessing how Totalitarian governments (i.e. ...

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This made it look as if the Italian Government had been ignored. ... Italy was clearly a fascist state and had totalitarian characteristics. Stalinist Russia was clearly totalitarian but was not fascist. ... Fascism is a form of government headed, in most cases, by a dictator. ... Personal liberty is severely limited under a fascist government. ...

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Like in most totalitarian societies, the Gilead Government uses propaganda to manipulate the people's minds into following their ideologies and supporting the government. The propaganda methods depicted in "The Handmaid's Tale" are also similar to those used in totalitarian governments of this century. ... He's very convincing The media presents the information in such way that the government is shown as the "good guy". ... The effect of this is to unite the population against the presumed enemy and create support for a government that would try to destroy that class of so...

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However, only in Italy and Germany did fascist movements turn into parties and become major political forces that by their own efforts achieved governmental power. ... Democracy was either not deeply rooted or a system of government of short duration, and nationalist sentiment often ran high. ... This newly created system of government (corporate state in Italy), was one of strong rule and one all-powerful leader, a Superman', who was to be upheld unquestionably. ... The fascist government made great use of modern technical achievements of propaganda such as, radio, cinema, newspapers an...

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The unpopularity of the army at that time was also triggered by their refusal to surrender power to a civilian government for almost two years. ... During the early days of his presidency, Morsi issued a totalitarian constitutional declaration giving him unparalleled powers, such as the power to personally appoint the secretary general. ... This was followed by a number of other totalitarian measures, for instance, Hisham Kandil's government drafted a protest law to limit the demonstrations and pacify the people's growing discontent, which clearly goes against the very idea of revo...

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Eventually, all those resources will start to get low and people will look to someone or something to give them hope and in most cases this thing is a government but not it Tijuana. Local militias have the potential to take over and entire city and basically run their own totalitarian regime within a small city/slum. ...

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The most obvious one is the telescreens - everyone has one telescreen in the dead-center of their homes that constantly expresses a running stream of mindless propaganda, brainwashing the average man to be unable to recognize the evil nature of the totalitarian party. The telescreen also acts as a window for the government to literally watch everyone, individually, and how they act at home. ... However in "1984" it is the totalitarian state that dictates how society works and how happy and free people can be. ... There is a much more depressing feel to "1984" in the sense ...

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Because the body operates in a very democratic fashion, the "democracy of bodily functions" is a sharp contrast to how things work in a totalitarian society. ... This is the model that Offred embraces, while the constructors of Gilead may argue that the body would operate best if the individual were able to harness some kind of mind over body control, in the same way that the totalitarian system dictates over its people. ... As is the case with the body, any government which wishes to survive must also maintain homeostasis. If the government cannot control or maintain the environment of its...

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Traditionally, Hobbes is seen as a defender of absolute monarchy, a government system where the power is held  in the hands of one man, the Monarch. ... Chapman, an American philosopher states in his study that Rousseau was a totalitarian (Rousseau, Totalitarian or Liberal Columbia University Press, 1956). ... And finally, Jacob Talmon, an Israeli historian, said that Rousseau was a follower of totalitarian democracy, which was a legacy of the French Revolution. ... Saddam Hussein, who was a dictator and a totalitarian, succeeded in maintaining peace inside his country. ... Once inv...

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Anti-communist historian Richard Pipesi highlights the success in the Bolsheviks using terror 1918 to preserve a totalitarian dictatorship Bolsheviks ' were successful in using terror to preserve power during their time in power, simply because apart from terror they only had popular support'. ... The event has significance in that it was the first time the government used terror with such intensity, rather than reform. ... The event presented the government as using terror ineffectively to preserve autocracy, in that era due to the numerous revolutionary groups; such force only ba...

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The inefficiency of only taxing the lower estates showed in the government's budget. ... By the 1795, the government had passed into the hands of the five-main directory. ... One such coup succeeded and Napoleon Bonaparte formed a Consulate government with significant ease. ... Local governments became highly centralised. ... Thus what began as a protest against tyranny, ended in a totalitarian state and a despotism of a vigorous type. ...

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We have everything we could have ever wanted: prosperity, family, shelter, food, privacy and under normal circumstances, a non-totalitarian government that gives us many freedoms as well as good, honest people. ... The government could suspect a person of unlawful sexual dealings and they would send dispatch an undercover cop pretending to be "just one of the customers". ... He was then turned in by his own daughter for supposedly saying things against the government system in his sleep showing that he had an inner hate against Big Brother. ... Dishonesty from the government in wars past has a...

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These governments believed that having total power would engender a perfect society. Many of the ideas that these governments thought would contribute to its success were the cause of its failure. ... Throughout the novel, Huxley uses Bernard Marx, a young man who has been deformed by the government, to underline the idea that a Utopian society cannot exist. ... There is no marriage, no violence or no sadness which may result in an unstable society which would threaten the totalitarian government. ... One factor is the totalitarian state that rules every aspect of people's lives. ...

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The Allied powers soon recognized the provisional government; it was considered the 'legal successor' to the Czarist government. ... Thus a Dual Power was established by the revolution, namely the Provisional Government and the government of the Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. ... A huge armed demonstration was held against the Provisional Government in Petrograd, on July 17, 1917. ... However Kerensky's new coalition Government soon grew unpopular. ... Thus a war was declared between totalitarian dictatorship and democratic socialism, between Marxism and ...

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Totalitarian governments take away one's individual choice and thus, suppress and suffocate the soul. The setting in A Clockwork Orange is a general parallax to a totalitarian and oppressive government. Alex, the main character, is the representative of the common man, and his struggle in this type of government. ... The minister says: "The government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penalogical theories. ...

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Aldous Huxley's vision of the future is a world in which totalitarian regimes dominate the realm of real world politics. ... A government bureau, the Predestinators, decides a prospective citizen's role in the hierarchy. ... This is the justification for totalitarian government. The reasoning is that government, not individuals, knows best. ...

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This was Hitler's chance for power and eventually, a totalitarian state. For Hitler to achieve this totalitarian state, he needed the obedience of the German race, and especially young Germans to maintain his power. ... Teachers enforced National Socialism in order to protect themselves from the intruding government. ... The old lecture books were censored by government officials and/or superceded with new books. ...

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As such this essay will discuss different subsets of legitimacy judging whether they are mutually exclusive or complementary whilst avoiding the conflation of 'more legitimacy' with 'better government'. ... Lipset's belief that legitimacy "involves the capacity of the system to engender and maintain the belief that the existing political institutions are the most appropriate ones for the society"1 may appear inadequate for the reason stated above regarding totalitarian states. This conferral of legitimacy on totalitarian regimes (provided that the populatio...

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The novel 1984 epitomizes, if not exaggerates, the horrors of a totalitarian collectivism, where a government can claim that a contradiction, such as two and two makes five, is true, and the hive mind will believe it. ... Doublethink, the infamous Newspeak word for "reality control," is in itself an example of government oppression, where reality exists how the Party says it exists and nothing more. ... With the Low, or the proles, constantly occupied with survival, they will always be apathetic towards politics, revolution, or government, because nothing takes more precedence than living for ...

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STUDIES OF CHANGE: The Chinese Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution in China was the result of years of discontent among China's people at their outdated government and society, but what were the efficacious, particular motives and conditions for cultural revolutionary Mao Tse-Tung to bring about such major reforms? ... Jerome Ch'en, notable Chinese historian and professor and director of Asia Pacific Studies at the York University in Toronto, identifies that "Mao was born during a time of great social and cultural change," in which Chinese scholars, government of...

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Unfortunately, many confuse the governments of Russia and formerly China as Communist countries. The official and proper name for these governments is socialism. ... Also, the kind of democracy practiced in Utopia is not accepted in the totalitarian Soviet states. ... It is perfectly correct to call More's Utopia a communist society, but it is not to be confused or even compared with the socialist forms of government that most think of as representing communism in the modern world. ... It has crept into most governments and lands and has remained there ever since. ...

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