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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In the end, it was Aldous Huxley, not George Orwell (whom Huxley taught at Eton), whose vision of the future had the touch of prophecy. The modern world did not collapse into the cold, damp totalitarian hell Orwell described in his 1948 novel 1984. What has happened is closer to Huxley's vision of the future in his astonishing 1931 novel Brave New World -- a world of tomorrow in which capitalist civilization has been reconstituted through the most...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This program investigates the ways various art forms are used to sway minds and to argue political causes. Examples include Napoleon and Hitler; artist such as Daumier, Hogath and Shann; writers Dickens, Swift and Orwell; and pop artists who mock popular ideals.
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English
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“Every single American needs to read Michael Knowles’s Speechless. I don’t mean ‘read it eventually.’ I mean: stop what you’re doing and pick up this book.” — -- Speechless: Controlling Words, Controlling Minds How the “free speech absolutists” gave away the storeThe First Amendment does not require a value-neutral public squareHow the Communists figured out that their revolution could never succeed as long as the common man...
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Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Bill Clinton is the most investigated president since Richard Nixonfacing inquiries into Whitewater, campaign fundraising abuses, and sexual misconductand yet he improbably began 1998 with approval ratings as high as those of Ronald Reagan. But the new year has brought a barrage of new allegations, and the president and his advisers face once again the challenge of spinning the news to their advantage, a challenge they have mastered many times...
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English
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Who fact-checks the fact-checkers? The author argues that an industry that started in the 1990s by fact-checking chain emails and Bigfoot sightings has evolved over the past decade into the American political left's tool in justifying the censorship of their political opposition.
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Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"The Boston Tea Party was an inflammatory episode that helped spark the American Revolutionary War. The events leading up to the incident, and those that followed, were colored by bias, propaganda, and the spread of misinformation. Readers will study the Boston Tea Party through the critical lens of this book. Readers will be asked to question how the opinions of the time prompted the Tea Party itself and how the incident was interpreted in later...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
The Gleiwitz case reconstructs in detail the 1939 surprise attack by a Nazi unit on the radio station in Gleiwitz, a German town on the Polish border. This attack was blamed on Polish forces, thus served as Hitler's justification for marching into Poland and starting WWII. It shows how facts and opinions can be manipulated and how people are made to accept lies, murder and war. To depict fascism, director Gerhard Klein and his Czech cameraman, Jan...
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English
Description
Meerloo began to study the methods by which systematic mental pressure brings people to abject submission, and by which totalitarians imprint their subjective "truth" on their victims' minds. In "The Rape of the Mind" he goes far beyond the direct military implications of mental torture to describing how our own culture unobtrusively shows symptoms of pressurizing people's minds. He presents a systematic analysis of the methods of brainwashing and...
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English
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"Propaganda Unveiled" is not just a book; it's a journey into the shadows of information manipulation. In this eye-opening exploration, we delve into the intricate world of propaganda techniques, lifting the veil on the strategies that shape public opinion and control narratives. From the subtle nuances of media manipulation to the psychology behind deceptive messaging, this book serves as a guide for readers seeking to decipher the hidden forces...
11) The red chapel
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning film, a trio of Danish comedians, who call themselves "The red chapel," pretend to be regime sympathizers and mount an absurd variety show in Pyongyang. The result is an unconventional, hilarious and damning peek into a totalitarian regime.
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Publisher
Currency
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Social media connected the world--and gave rise to fake news and increasing polarization. Now a leading researcher at MIT draws on 20 years of research to show how these trends threaten our political, economic, and emotional health in this eye-opening exploration of the dark side of technological progress. Today we have the ability, unprecedented in human history, to amplify our interactions with each other through social media. It is paramount,...
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Español
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Las emociones y los sentimientos han sido siempre determinantes en política. Pero ¿por qué ahora ocurre más que nunca? Nos proponemos mostrar cómo y por qué las emociones dominan el mundo, para ser menos prisioneros de ello.
¿Quién no ha leído algún tuit de Donald Trump y no ha percibido su odio latente o expreso? Seguro que más de uno ha visto algún fragmento de los debates sobre el Brexit o sobre la crisis del coronavirus, ahí con...
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English
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Did you know that FBI agents knew all details of September 11 in advance, including the date, the targets, the means, the perpetrators? Did you know that their hierarchy forbade them to warn the public under threat of prosecution?
Did you know that the FBI lost, manipulated, and even made disappear, evidence of what really happened?
And that is only the beginning of this book.
The time for an independent investigation on 9/11 and the FBI's (mis)conduct...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
As relevant today as when it was first released, Faces of the enemy follows social psychologist Sam Keen as he unmasks how individuals and nations dehumanize their enemies to justify the inhumanity of war. Using archival news footage, public service announcements, and editorial cartoons, Keen unveils the same frightening pattern in conflict after conflict - World War II, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, Islamic and Christian Fundamentalism - and prefigures...
16) The Juche idea
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Korean
Description
Inspired by the real-life story of the South Korean director kidnapped in the 70's to invigorate the North Korean film industry, the film follows Yoon Jung Lee, a young video artist invited to work at a Juche art residency on a North Korean collective farm. The story is told through the films she made at the residency as well as interviews with a Bulgarian filmmaker and even a brief sci-fi movie.
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English
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Essays spanning three decades-reflective yet contemporary, philosophical and practical-address human nature and environmental ethics; personal and metapolitical intention; radical insight and live freedom in thought, emotion and action. While it might be said that everything pre-2020 is irrelevant in the light of our global paradigm shift, it is important to recognize both the long history of our present oppression, and the more ancient tradition...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Deutsch
Description
This fast-paced montage represents West Berlin as the frontline of neo-fascism, terrorism and neo-colonialism, against which the peaceful city of East Berlin requires an “antifascist defense.” A strikingly modernist propaganda piece, it uses rare authentic images and newsreels from both sides to justify the erection of the Berlin Wall on August 13, 1961. Made at the behest of those responsible for GDR propaganda, Gass’ trademark fast-paced editing...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Legend has it that the triumphal march of television began in the United States in the 1950s but in reality its origins hark back much further. Nazi leaders, determined to beat Great Britain and the U.S. to be the world’s first television broadcaster, began Greater German Television in March 1935. German viewers enjoyed their TV broadcasts until September 1944, as Allied troops closed in. Making use of 285 reels of film discovered in the catacombs...
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