Chase's

//““1984”// [|//shot to No. 1//] //on Amazon’s best-seller list this week, after// [|//Kellyanne Conway//] //, an adviser to President Trump, described demonstrable falsehoods told by the White House press secretary Sean Spicer — regarding the size of inaugural crowds — as “alternative facts.” It was a phrase chillingly reminiscent, for many readers, of the Ministry of Truth’s efforts in “1984” at “reality control.” To Big Brother and the Party, Orwell wrote, “the very existence of external reality was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense.” Regardless of the facts, “Big Brother is omnipotent” and “the Party is infallible.””// NY Times 1/26/17

**1. Consider (think about) the following quotes from the book:**

//Big Brother is watching you.// //Double-think means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.// //Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.// //There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.// //Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.// //If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face// //—// //for ever.// //And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth.// //Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.// //The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.// //For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable — what then?//

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**2. Identify the ways the media is used in Oceania and discuss its role. Can you think of any cases where mass media have been used in similar ways in your country, past or present? Discuss when, where and how.**

The media is used throughout Oceania to take control of the minds that are viewing this material. The cases that are similar to this in our world that you could compare these to are the gun control issues and also the presidential debates. The times that these are used is when we are under attack

**3.What is power, and how is it gained and used?**

Power is the authority over someone, this is gained by proving that you are worthy of it. This is used to set laws in place to prevent chaos.

**4.What constitutes an abuse of power by the government?**

**A abuse of power is considered when someone uses there power of authority over over people to benefit them selfs in some way.**

**5.Can individuals change a society?** **Most of the time individuals do not have the power to change a society, but there are certain times where there are exceptions but for the most part I do not believe that a single individual can change a society**

**6.What are the dangers of government-controlled media?**

**The dangers of this is that the government can control what the public is going to hear by doing this they can basically control the beliefs of the people watching/keeping updated with the media.**

**7.What can citizens do if power is abused by a ruling group or government?** **The people have the right to change it over throw is as stated in the declaration of independence “it is the peoples right to alter or abolish”**

**8.How is technology changing our understanding of privacy?** **Technology is changing privacy as a whole it is making it harder and harder to have. In some cases it is actually in possible to have. Because if they suspect you are up to some thing they have the right to know.**

**9.Can changing language change thought?** **I do not believe in this because no mater how you say something it still has the same message behind it no matter how you say it.**

**10.How do governments balance the rights of individuals with the common good?**

**They choose to balance these rights by limiting what has gone wrong before this is kind of a trial an error thing. They don’t have much to base it off of.**

**11.Why do some individuals take a stand against oppression while others choose to participate in it?** **Some people take a stand because that is what they feel is right while others do not some because believe in it but also some just don’t know how to voice their opinions.**