ipl-logo

Scientology Persuasive Speech Analysis

710 Words3 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Effects of the church of scientology on modern society

Good evening teachers, students and anyone else who may be watching my presentation.
Scientology… haven’t heard it before? Don’t blame you, I didn’t know what it was until I started this speech. Scientology is somewhat like Todd Strasser novella “the Wave”. It has some similarities… however it also has some differences.
The term “fascist mentality” is used to describe abusive behaviour by an individual or group. People blindly follow a leader without regard to whether he or she is right or wrong. People usually give up their individual rights in the process of behaving like the group in this case. This can be seen in both the novella “The wave”, and ‘Scientology’.
The wave is based on a true story and had started simply as a history experiment whilst learning World War II. However, Laurie Saudner’s sees her classmates quickly changing into a new organisation called the wave. The history teacher Mr, Ross, had his students follow his orders and having the students to follow the ‘wave’s’ motto and salute. “Strength through discipline, strength through community, strength through action
Mr Ross was one of the main antagonist as the leader of the wave. His …show more content…

A 25-year-old woman from Sydney was charged with murdering her father and sister and seriously injuring her mother. The parents of the woman prevented her from seeking psychiatric treatment she needed because of their Scientology beliefs. This can be related back to the novella, as people who didn’t follow the waves structure was shamed and was either removed from the party or beaten up. To be apart of scientology, you must pay $800 per hour for a so called, ‘therapy’. These expensive sessions can last a minimum of two and a half hours each. As seen in the documentary and novella, if you leave the ‘Wave’ you are shamed upon, threatened and even beaten up. There are no consequences if you leave

Show More
Related
343 Words | 2 Pages

Q7. The Fascist nations were extremely powerful during their time, along with the strong leadership they provided. Fascism is a political movement which promotes extreme forms of militarism and nationalism. It includes the denial of individual rights and dictatorial one-party rule. Fascism has several characteristics; for example, social, chief examples, basic principles, political, economic, and cultural characteristics.

Read More
370 Words | 2 Pages

Elizabeth Proctor is another dynamic character whose actions and emotions can be related to through the song “More Like Her” by Miranda Lambert. After being cheated on, Elizabeth loses her trust in John. She has to learn to forgive to move on with her life. She realizes how poorly she was treated and stands up for herself. She says, “You’ll tear it free - when you come to know I will be your only wife, or no wife at all” (Miller 1128).

Read More
1829 Words | 8 Pages

This can turn dangerous as some many feel they are deserving of more, so they go and create their self-righteous version of terror. Because of this powerful businessman and their rent-seeking activities and the abusers of the BlueServo project possess similar motives. But when people are the ones being viewed or spectated, humans attempt to escape reality to focus on irrelevant things. The

Read More
1159 Words | 5 Pages

For instance, in 1984 the act of thinking individual thoughts is considered a crime against Oceania. Once a comrade has given himself or herself some individuality, the Thought Police arrests the comrade for committing

Read More
1006 Words | 5 Pages

“They tell you to do your thing but they don’t mean it. They don’t want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too. It’s a laugh, Goober, a fake. Don’t disturb the universe, Goober, no matter what the posters say.” (Cormier 259)

Read More
1418 Words | 6 Pages

William Harrison Ainsworth’s Jack Sheppard , serialised in Bentley 's Miscellany magazine, an affordable means of entertainment for the lower classes, from 1839-40; the story fictionalises and sensationalises the events of a notorious real life housebreaker written to entertain. William Makepeace Thackeray’s ‘Going to See a Man Hanged’, published in Fraser’s Magazine, a general interest periodical aimed at the middle-classes, in 1840; written to express Thackeray’s discontent with capital punishment and gives a graphic but factual depiction of a hanging ‘to see the effect on the public mind of an execution’. Thackeray’s essay can be read against the last two chapters of Jack Sheppard where Ainsworth gives a very accurate representation of a

Read More
1190 Words | 5 Pages

In the novel 1984, George Orwell applies the three steps of reintegration to the readers understanding, while comparing his philosophical worldview to Winston and Julia’s. Orwells ultimate message to the readers is to understand the dangers of totalitarianism, and how the government has complete control over its citizens. Totalitarianism is a political concept where the state recognizes no limits to its authority and strives to regulate every aspect of public and private life wherever feasible. This concept is shown throughout 1984, when the inner party is constantly controlling and watching over its citizens as well as limiting them from things such as privacy, sexual activity, and family interaction. The citizens receive lack of privacy

Read More
1191 Words | 5 Pages

The Manson Family: Hell On Earth “Sharon was going to leave me, no one leaves me.” ~ Charles Manson God didn’t create the world in the image that all men are equal, all of us are judged on the stature of good and evil, positive & negative, yin & yang. Charles Manson didn’t abide by these age old proverbs, instead he chose a path of violence, anarchy, and bloodshed.

Read More
1471 Words | 6 Pages

Conformity and group mentality are major aspects of social influence that have governed some of the most notorious events and experiments in history. The Holocaust is a shocking example of group mentality, or groupthink, which states that all members of the group must support the group’s decisions strongly, and all evidence leading to the contrary must be ignored. Social norms are an example of conformity on a smaller scale, such as tipping your waiter or waitress, saying please and thank you, and getting a job and becoming a productive member of society. Our society hinges on an individual’s inherent need to belong and focuses on manipulating that need in order to create compliant members of society by using the ‘majority rules’ concept. This

Read More
217 Words | 1 Pages

In 1919, Benito Mussolini described fascism as “A movement that would strike against the backwardness of the right and the destructiveness of the left.” That “Fascism sitting on the right, could also have sat on the mountain of the center… These words in any case do not have a fixed and unchanged: they do have a variable subject to location, time and spirit. We don’t give a damn about these empty terminologies and we despise those who are terrorized by these words.” Fascism came into prominence in the early 20th-century Europe. It originated in Italy during World War I.

Read More
1422 Words | 6 Pages

Fascism is ideology which often uses totalitarianism and nationalism methods. The fascist leaders made people are the subject to the government, and limit the independency of the people, in order to gain the better for the nation. This is somehow similar to absolutism of western Europe during 17th and 18th century. Absolutism had given the monarch absolute power to rule over people, while fascism had given the leader and the nation the power to rule over the people of the state. Moreover, fascism had denied the democratic parliament system, and had only allowed the “elite” to rule over the country.

Read More
386 Words | 2 Pages

Have you ever wondered how people seen on the news involved in a cult, ended up in one in the first place. Cults can develop from religious or social movements, often times involving; brainwashing, control, and kidnapping. In many cases social influence can leave an imprint on a person’s actions, personality, and growth. When people interact with others on a daily basis they tend to change their own behavior in order to conform with the what is relevant. Often times group thinking overrides a person’s a rational reasoning and can lead to the joining of a cult.

Read More
790 Words | 4 Pages

Thought Police, Thought Crime, and Face Crime gave great examples of the topic of psychological manipulation that occurred in the novel. The illusion that nowhere remained safe to live a private life and one’s self being watched was given by these topics. This made the citizens of Oceania scared to show what they truly felt about the government or the society itself or even local things that happen. The citizens then did not want to question anything in fear of

Read More
1161 Words | 5 Pages

Beginning in the mind of a troubled and delusional science fiction author, Scientology has grown to become one of the most controversial body of beliefs since the dawn of its creation in 1960. The Church of Scientology uses marketing technics to lure men and women into its cult-like sector and, while doing so, ruins the lives of everyone in its wake. Although the Church of Scientology claims to help the human condition by ridding the minds of its followers of terrible past life experiences so that they may reach their untapped potential, the Church of Scientology is a profit-making cult driven by greed, power, and gaining a worldwide following and ultimately ruins the lives of its followers. Science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard created Scientology

Read More
60 Words | 1 Pages

Good Morning, After the conference I have had today with Mrs. Dye and yourself, I feel that stopping the small group testing on all Test would be the most beneficial to CarMendi. Moving forward we can reevaluate if she needs small group for the STAAR, or extended time test, or test she has failed on a case by case bases.

Read More

More about Scientology Persuasive Speech Analysis

Related Topics

Open Document