In the article “Hollywood’s Love Affair with Surveillance”, the author Willie Osterweil reveals the love affair that Hollywood has with the idea that big brother is always watching. That is highly evident in countless movies, for example Robocop. Where the government seeks the public approval of the American people to pass a new nationwide surveillance bill, which would allow unmanned drones to observe everyone in America for increased security. In Robocop, the main character is a robot with the…
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Villain or Hero? “You can't have 100% security and then also have 100% privacy and zero inconvenience. Society had to make choices” said President Obama. It has become a given in society that it is on the government’s agenda to procure its nation’s safety in exchange of the privacy or freedom of the people. Edward Snowden, a paladin of social justice, has now come to light with outstanding facts as for what specifically it is that the National Security Agency (NSA) is able and willing to do for…
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Clouded Vision Clausewitz said “The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.” The plots leading to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were neither speedy, nor secret. Over the better part of a decade, Al-Qaeda made clear its anti-American intent, capabilities, and created a highly centralized and bureaucratic organization with regular communications, training camps, and detailed plans to attack the United States. As the attacks unfolded in New York and Washington…
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SPEIRS Andrew The Individual and the Stereotype: From Lavater to the War on Terror Abstract This paper examines the technologies of surveillance and biometrics and the resultant slippage between the individual, the type and the stereotype. The stereotype emerges from between the general and the individual as a coherent, simplified, easily readable idea. There have been many attempts to find a particular characteristic that is unique to an individual that enables absolute identification.…
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rough estimation of the time and duration of the user’s sleep (O’brien, 2010). It basically stalks tweets’ daily routine that is similar to having a surveillance to monitor the person’s schedule at home. Apparently, this application is giving stalkers a great chance for stalking tweets at the right timing. Also, its is putting every tweet under surveillance. Zukerman (2010) argues SleepingTime.org allows for stalking Tweeter addicts even more effectively. With holding such a ultimate stalker application…
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held in Iran, and the U.S. seemed powerless to do anything about it. Although President Carter was re-nominated by the Democratic Party for a second term, there was little chance he could win. Hollywood could not have created a better leading man than Ronald Reagan for America in the 1980s. In fact, Hollywood did help mold him, first as a film actor, then as president of the Screen Actors Guild, and then as governor of California. Reagan was an unabashed conservative and fervent patriot. Even if people…
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2.3.1 Media Agenda-Setting Studies The Agenda-Setting theory presented by Maxwell McCombs and Donald Shaw (McCombs, 2004; McQuail & Windahl, 1993) was based on their studies of the role of the media during the 1968, 1972, 1976 presidential elections in the USA. Basically, the theory argues that mass media news, both print and electronic, have a great influence on public opinion in terms of what the public considers important or salient in their society, by choosing what events to cover, how much…
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CHC2De Review World War One Causes Nationalism: a feeling of deep loyalty to one’s people and homeland Extreme nationalist movement People would go to war just to promote support of their homelands Especially intense in Serbia Austria-Hungary took Bosnia, where many Serbians lived Serbians were angered, and the “Black Hand” terrorist group was formed to unite Serbians Members threatened to kill Archduke Ferdinand if he entered Bosnia Austrians were also expressing nationalism, and strongly…
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Department of English Spring 2014 Course Descriptions 89S. Imagining War. Instructor M. Maiwald. WF 8:30-9:45 In this course, we will consider how the experience of war has been represented in American fiction, non-fiction, and film. We will investigate how attitudes toward war have evolved throughout American history: our timeline begins with the Civil War—the traumatic event that birthed the modern American state—and ends with the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. In particular…
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