In the world we live in, vast impersonal forces are making for the centralization of power and a regimented society" (Huxley, Education for Freedom, para. 2). ... This has created a society that accepts information as the Great Truth, but as Aldous Huxley has demonstrated in his essay, "Propaganda in a Dictatorship," in order to discover the truth in media, one must critique everything that is read, not fall to instinct, and "have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts" (para. 8). ... Obama's words also exhibit many characteristics seen in Huxley's ...

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My grandfather was a great man, but I had to watch the spark in his eyes die, as his mind crumbled and he succumbed to Alzheimer's disease. Ironically, Nathan Jay Friedman lived a healthy life, swimming nearly every day, taking vitamin supplements, washing his hands to the verge of obsession "yet died of an incurable genetic curse. He was always very interested in scientific developments, and must have known of the potential of stem cells. Had he lived just a few years more, these omnipotent cells may have been able to cure his debilitating disease. What are these stem cells, and how...

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