This quote shows charged language by using aggressive words like war, disciplined, hard, and bitter peace. These words show that the future holds some challenges ahead, but nothing that Americans can't handle. The next piece of evidence in President JFK’s inaugural address shows repetition: he says, “Let both sides…” (JFK 16-20). He starts paragraphs 16-19 with “Let both sides…” and says “Let both sides…” in the middle of paragraph 20. He keeps saying, “Let both sides…” to tell the audience that there is good in other countries, not just the United States.
Balwin has no sense of patriotism when talking about his "countrymen", he attacks the country calling it a "crime" because they are “destroying hundreds of thousands of lives” they are reluctant to acknowledge
“I understand the fear of war and the pain of division that afflict the continent...” (AmericanRhetoric.com). He is using Berlin as his argument to help the issues across the world, but not in a negative manner. He is using Berlin as the keystone in his argument because he believes that if peace arises in Berlin, the rest of the continent will follow
Zakaria begins the chapter with a paradox, a statement that appears to be self-contradictory or opposed to common sense but close inspection contains some degree of truth or validity. He uses paradox to state how the economy and politics is after the cold war in 1991 and how it affected the Americans and the market during that time period. He states that the economy is moving forward but the politics is troubling. Zakaria also uses diction, word choice, to bring out his point about the Americans and others on how the politics has been troubling on the violence and civil strife that is happening around the world. The audience is mostly educated middle class Americans, who is worrying about their future.
His thoughts shows he is an enemy of the captain and no one else knows so he would need to hide who he really is.
He saw but not what the eye saw”. I also found "If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, top-heavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it.".
This idea goes back at least as far as Socrates.” In the article Lukianoff and Haidt mention the Socratic Method- a method in which a person ask a series of questions leading into even more questions that (hopefully) eventually lead to an ultimate truth. This method forces a person out of their comfort zone and causes them to see an idea, or topic from multiple viewpoints. Lukianoff and Haidt (subtlety) reinforce this idea when they mention cognitive behavioral therapy. They define cognitive behavior therapy as “minimizing distorted thinking as to see the world more accurately.
Jekyll & Hyde: The Duality of Scientific Philosophies The novella “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” has many elements of science compiled inside the story. The main scientific occurrence of the story is the duality between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which is what creates the basic concept of the story. The whole story plays around with this idea of duality and also on different scientists in the novella’s perspective on science.
Ana Lucia Urizar, author of the article titled We’re Being Punished by Crippling Student Debt presents the argument of Student debt and the importance of remedying this topic otherwise face future detrimental effects. Urizar provided statistics suck as the average amount of loans in dollars the class of 2015 had taken out. Ultimately, Urizar’s main argument is that something needs to be done about the exorbitant cost of attending college because it is impeding graduates’ careers, standard of living and ability to fully engage the economy. This argument does well providing strong statistics found through credible sources such as The Wall Street Journal, however, the article failed to provide a counter-argument or different viewpoint regarding
This can be linked to American society since doublethink in America is demonstrated in big supreme court decisions. For example, after the Supreme Court passed the gay marriage law, they received criticism that “if gay marriage is a civil right, then anyone who opposes it is guilty of a civil rights violation” (Jeffress). The legalization of gay marriage would cause much of the population to forget the past laws regarding marriage, requiring them to retain new beliefs that the government imposed on them. This can be troubling to citizens since they are almost forced to think in the opposite way of what they believe in. This takes away a part of the idea of freedom of thought since they are encouraged to
Throughout the text he continues to repeat his madness. “If you still think me mad, you will think so no longer…” (line 130). This specific quote shows that he is basically blaming us that we said he was mad.
However, thoughts are always to the Party’s advantage because of a brainwashing tactic called doublethink. Doublethink is the act of holding two contradicting beliefs and simultaneously believing and not believing both, depending on what is convenient for the Party. In a book Julia and Winston read on how the Party operates, doublethink is explained like this: “Doublethink lies at the very heart of Ingsoc, since the essential act of the Party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty” (Orwell 214). Aiming to control thoughts, the Party has come up with a method in which they are always correct, no matter what the topic is. However, this will soon become superfluous.
Group think According to Janis, who coined the term; groupthink “occurs when a group makes faulty decisions because group pressures lead to a deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing, and moral judgment” (1972, p. 9) further group think often leads to a decrease in the mental efficacy perception of reality and moral judgement, as personages find themselves in a group system that seeks high cohesion and unanimity which delimits the motivation of the individual to realistically appraise alternate courses of action (Janis, 1972). A common trait of a collective experiencing this phenomenon, is an inclination to take irrational decision making in addition to members of the group being similar in background and further being insulated from external insight. Comparably the singularity of groupthink is present in the film 12 Angry Men, and appears anecdotally, early on the film, present in the expected unanimous vote of ‘guilty,’ that will send the defendant to the electric chair. Invulnerability Literature surrounding the concept of group think is greatly rooted in the writings of Janis.
Psychologist Irving Janis explained some alarmingly bad decisions made by governments and businesses coined the term "groupthink”, which he called "fiascoes.” He was particularly drawn to situations where group pressure seemed to result in a fundamental failure to think. Therefore, Janis further analyzed that it is a quick and easy way to refer to a mode of thinking people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members ' striving for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action. According to Janis, groupthink is referred as the psychological drive for consensus at any cost that suppresses disagreement and prevents the appraisal of alternatives in cohesive decision-making groups.
The reason doublethink is so powerful is that it causes confusion which “disrupts people’s stable mental framework” (Hassan). Without the stability, people become more prone to mind control because they lost a sense of their own reality which causes them to seek truth from a trusted authority. This is comparable to a student being confused on a math problem and going to the teacher, a trusted authority, for help. However, in the case of 1984, the government is the trusted authority. The government then feeds their “truth” that consists of doublethink to the public, in turn making them more confused because “the more one utilizes doublethink, the more one becomes insane.
