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1984 11.28.2011.1984 Anticipation Statement Response The American Government should not have the right to spy on the citizens in order to assure our country’s freedom. The citizens should be able to live their lives without the government controlling the citizen’s lives more than they already are. Our country’s freedom is solely lost when the government’s goal of maintaining power is at stake. As American’s we deserve to have the right to privacy in our own country. One of the benefits of living in America is that every citizen is given a number of freedoms; privacy should be one of those freedoms. The government already controls our lives as Americans enough, we don’t need they spying on us. If they were able to spy on its citizens they would be taking away our country’s freedom in itself. I think that if they were to install cameras in public that would be more acceptable, because when people go out into public they surrender their privacy; but spying on people in their own homes is violating their rights as American citizens. There comes a time when a person needs their privacy, not that they have anything to hide; but just that they don’t want two beating eyes looking over them 24/7. In order for the government to spy on its citizens they need a legit reason why with substantial evidence. It’s like how police officers can’t just walk into your house, unless they have evidence or if the door is unlocked; the government should work the same way. Although they want to assure our country is safe and its citizens are a threat to our country, there needs to be boundaries. Everyone who is apart of the government would lose their privacy as well, making their lives the nations news as well. When giving the government the ability to spy on its citizens they use it to their advantage by singling out those who oppose them, and therefore denying freedom of expression to all the outer people. The government wants to increase and maintain their power as the American monster. After a time, it is inevitable that the spying government would cease to uphold the humanitarian purpose it began with, and instead revert to its nature and use its ability to spy to consolidate and increase its power. Inevitable, no matter how noble the original cause, the government’s surveillance of the people would gravitate toward the extremem. Citizens should have nothing to hide, so if the government were to spy on them they should not find anything. It’s solely the idea of having someone watch your every move and be able to judge you. In today’s society everything about you contributes to how people look at you. Just think how people would look at you if they knew everything you said and did while in the presence of your own home. Privacy in your own home is all we American’s can ask for now-a-days. The government already takes enough away from us. So for the sake of our country’s freedom, the government should not be able to spy on its citizens. Give the citizens their right to privacy and respect their rights as American citizens. If the government feels the person is a threat to our country, then go through the necessary steps in order to keep our country a safe place for everyone. There comes a time when the government needs to back off and realize they can’t control our lives any more than they already are; as the American government they are allowed to have some control, but not observe every single thing we do or say.

12.1.2011 "I Want a Wife (1971)" Rhetorical precise Judy Brady, //I Want a Wife,// Ms. Magizine (1972) argues woman don't receieve enough appreciation for the things they do. Brady describes her role as a wife along with the expected chores of wives today, emphasizing the number of duties a wife is wanted to do compared to what a man does. The prolonged purpose of the author is to tell women to stand up for themselves and their rights, in order to show they have a part in society today. This ultimately develops a personal connection with the audience of women's right advocates, wives, and even husbands.

12.05.2011 Part III Response After reading 1984 written by George Orwell, I disagree with the statement “the government has a right to know what people are reading so they may determine who might be a threat.” In Orwell’s novel he shows the reader how the government controls the people’s lives and how cruel they are to the people. The government’s only wish is to be in control and to gain more power than they already have. Not once in the novel does Orwell describe the “Big Brother” to be beneficial to the people. In 1984, the government officials edited every book, magazine, article that was published; and then rewrote the articles the way they wanted them written. This took away the people’s ability to know what was going on and how cruel the government was. By doing so, that government is limiting the information the public is able to access and is putting nonsense into these innocent people’s heads; both of which are wrong, morally and logically. The government should not have to hide the things that are being published from the public, when the people of our country deserve to know what is going. If the government were to monitor the things people are reading, how are they supposed to pick out a person who might be a threat verses a person who is just interested in that topic. There is no way the government is able to distinguish a terrorist by just looking at they have been reading. In order for the government to be able to do so, they need valid evidence as to why they are monitoring a certain individual. There is no reason to ruin the lives of the innocent because some people pose a threat to our country. Look back to 1984 and look at how the government controlled Winston’s life. Winston was forced to hide his diary, because he was afraid that the government would find it and then he would be punished. Someone who is writing in a journal does not deserve to be punished for expressing their true feelings about whatever they are writing about. Therefore, I believe that there is a point when the government needs to know when they’ve crossed the line and to stop. Although they do run our country and their job is to protect the people from anyone who may harm us, there comes a time when the people deserve to have their own privacy. When a person is reading out in public they give up their right to privacy by just being out in the open, but when a person is in their own home they deserve to be left alone; and the government needs to respect that. One of the many benefits of living in the United States of America, is our freedom. In my mind I believe each individual person has the freedom to read whatever they choose without being monitored by the government and then judged by them as well. So all in all the government should not be given the right to know what people are reading, in order to determine if they might be a threat to our country. The government should have nothing to hide, so there is no need to reprint an article in order to satisfy themselves and make the “Big Brother” look heroic. If the government has no supportive evidence as to why they need to monitor a individual, then they need to leave the innocent alone; and respect their rights as American citizens. When a person is in the privacy of their own home the government needs to respect that; it would be more acceptable for the government to monitor a person’s reading while out in public rather than in their home. For all these reasons I strongly believe that there is no reason for the government to need to know what a person is reading. _

12.7.2011 Intended audience George Orwell’s intended is audience is post-WWII western society and those who are involved with Big Brother. “You must love Big Brother.” (700) Orwell illustrates the complete and utter victory of the totalitarian government, and is able to create his vision of the future unencumbered by the romanticized stereotype of a heroic revolutionary who overcomes his oppressors and leads his people to freedom. “He put the diary away in a drawer.” (83) Winston was forced to hide his diary, so the government would not punish him for speaking his mind. “BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU…” (20) This shows how much power Big Brother had over the people. ___ 12.11.2011 Message The totalitarian government will never be a benefit to society. Look at what the government has done to Winston and the other characters in 1984, all of them were forced to live the way Big Brother wanted them to. The government destroyed all their individuality when thinking and also in their actions. “He could not remember what had happened, but he knew in his dream that in some the lives of his mother and sister had been sacrificed by his own.” (87) It requires all people fit the needs of the government in order to please them. “Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and forgotten.” (61) Those who did not meet the governments’ requirements were punished. It, also, creates divisions between people with a sense of insecurity and suspicion. “A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledgehammer, seemed to flow through the whole group…”(50) ____ 12. 11. 2011 Purpose

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The speaker, George Orwell, a British man, uses his goal of capturing the struggles of “real” people, to live among the less fortunate, and to tell their stories. “They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money.” (191) He writes, because there is some kind of lie that he has to expose, some fact to which he wants to draw attention to. “But you could prove nothing. There was never any evidence.” (102) The government destroyed anything they did not approve of, in order to make them look more heroic. “…the original copy destroyed, and the corrected copy placed on the files in its stead.” (111) In 1984, Orwell exposes the governments’ political purpose, meaning, and warns people of the harm they are capable of.======

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Orwell makes the reader feel bad for those suffering due to the Big Brother’s superior powers. “Since he was arrested he had not been fed.” (559) “What he had longed for above all was a piece of bread.” (559) Due to Winston’s failure to follow the ‘rules’ of the government, Winston was arrested. The government tortured those who were put in jail, although the torturing lessoned later on. Orwell is able to show the impact the government had on society and give the reader a sense of how cruel it was. ======