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__** United States **__ 1. The ability to hack into anything. 2. Cell phone location, they always know where you are. 3. Surveillance cameras 4. Control through media 5. Always in war/conflict with others 6. Secret police are everywhere, undercover 7. Uses fear to control 8. Pledge of Allegiance 9. Rewriting history, removing racism and sexism 10. People confessing 1. North Korea propaganda 2. North Korea is a complete totalitarian country 3. North Korea is brainwashed that what they do it right 4.China has awful working conditions 5. Other countries always in war 6. North Korea has complete control over middle class 7. North Korea ignores the lower class 8. Honduras poor living conditions 9. Food rationing in Cuba 10. Torture in North Korea
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United States Examples 1. __The ability to hack into anything__ The United States government has the ability to hack into any device they want to and can get any information they want to. They can look through all of your text messages e-mails, listen to all of your phone calls, look at everything you do on your computer, and look at all of the purchases you have made without any of your consent and without you knowing at all. This is Big Brother-like because you have no idea that they could be looking through your personal information.



2. __Cell phone location, they always know where you are__ Cell phone devices nowadays have location devices and gps chips inside of them. If you own a modern day cell phone, then that phone most likely has a location device chip inside of it that constantly sends your exact location to the phone company. The government could easily ask for the information they gather and find out exactly where you are. Now, you have the ability to turn that off on your phone, but most people don't even know how to do that and turning the location off would limit to what your phone could do. This is Big Brother-like because they have the ability to know every step you take and where you go.



3. __ Surveillance cameras __ Cameras are all over the United States. Every street corner, every restaurant, and in every building, there are cameras watching your every move. You are almost never alone, even if you think you are. Even in places you wouldn't expect it, like dark alleys, or lonely streets. The point is, there is almost always something watching you and seeing your everymove, similiar to telescreens in 1984.

4. __Control through media__ The United States has a lot of control through media. I mean, how else would know about any type of news? You know about local news, national news, international news, and sports news all through the television and radio. Even when the president has to make a big announcement or has big news, they demand TV time from the major networks. The media could tells us anything and we'll believe it because we are used to having anything they tell us be true. This is Big Brother like because for all we know, nothing is real and they fabricate the news, but we would never know.

5. __Always in war/conflict with others__ When you think about it, when is America not in conflict with other countries? They are always in a conflict with someone and right now it's Afghanistan and North Korea. They are always in conflict with countries about communism and they are always in conflict about terrorism. This is very related to Big Brother because Oceania is always in a constant war with the other countries, and they are in the war on purpose to distract the people and to make a common enemy. Is America doing the same thing? We would never actually know.

6. __Police are everywhere, undercover__ The police are everywhere in the united states. They are all over as cops that drive around being a known policeman, and there are undercover policemen. Anyone can be an undercover policeman, and they can bait you into doing something that is illegal, like prostitution. An undercover policeman could act like they are a normal citizen, then bust you with illegal prostitution. O'brien was an undercover inner party member and played along for awhile, so that is very big brother like.

7. __Use fear to control__ The government uses fear, just like how big brother used fear to help control. The United States uses fear like saying that if something doesn't happen, then something will happen. They also use fear to help distract the people from something that might be even worse. An example is saying that if we don't use our resources correctly, then they might be gone forever. They also use terms like the fiscal cliff, and how the economy will be awful.



8. __Pledge of Allegiance__ Whether you recognize it or not, you are supposed to pledge allegiance to your country just like they did in 1984. When you were younger, every morning you were asked to stand up and say the pledge of allegiance to the flag. This is saying that you should put your country first in your mind. In 1984, every citizen had to have their country before anything, even their family, and America might start doing with with trying to brainwash the younger group of kids with the pledge of allegiance. Although the younger kids don't really understand exactly what they are saying, it is a start.

9. __ Rewriting history, removing racism and sexism __ In 1984, the government would edit the history and make them look better. America kind of does the same thing. America has had some really bad eras in the past. There used to be slavery, racism, and sexism, but people don't really think about it anymore because the government does it's best to get it out of peoples minds. They try to remove from peoples minds because they are embarrassed of it and it doesn't make them look as good, so they remove it. This is big brother like because they did the pretty much the same thing. When something happened that they didn't like, they just simply remove it from history and get rid of all the facts.



10. __People confessing__ The United States actually does a good job of getting people to confess into doing things. They actually do it a couple different ways. They get people to confess in court and they get them to confess on talk shows hosted by celebrities. The court will get a guilty man to confess tha he has done something wrong, same goes for talk shows. The talk show host will make someone feel bad and embarrassed in front of the whole world. Like in big brother, they will make you confess in the torture room.



Other Country Examples 1. __North Korea Propaganda__ North Korea has a lot of propaganda like 1984 had. Every person in North Korea believes that they are doing the right thing because the propaganda tells them that they are, even when in reality it is completely idiotic and wrong. Big Brother was the same way, no one thought they were wrong in what they were doing because they were being brainwashed into what they do it right.

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2. __North Korea is a complete totalitarian country__ The way North Korea runs their country is very similar to the way big brother ran the government. North Korea is a complete totalitarian country where the head of the government has complete control over everyone. The leader of the country is Kim Jong Un and only a small group of people actually have something to do with the way to government is ran, everyone else just has to do the orders that they are given, or else they will have some consequences.

__ 3. North Korea is brainwashed into what they do it right __ North Korea brainwashes the entire country into thinking that what they do is right and they aren't doing anything wrong, just like how big brother convinced the whole country into thinking that the country was right. North Korea uses techniques like propaganda to make their people believe that they are superior to everyone else in the world, but in reality they really aren't. This is very big brother like because that it exactly what they did in 1984, brainwash people into believing something that isn't true.

4. __China has awful working conditions__ China has working conditions almost as bad as big brother had. In China, you work very young, like elementary school age, and the conditions are just unfair. There are sweat shops in China, and those are where young kids and adults work for extremely little pay and are expected the best. There are no labor laws, so they work a ton of hours and get only very little pay. Big Brother would do the same thing because they would make people work against their will and they got very pay.



5. __Other countries always in war__ Just like the United States, other countries around the world are constantly in war. There is always a war on terrorism and there will always be a war about government. Countries are always trying to push a type of government, like communism, and other countries are trying to stop the countries from spreading, like the United States. Right now, North Korea is trying to attack other countries, which isn't going well for them and it is causing a big conflict, so war will be declared.

6. __North Korea has complete control over the middle class__ North Korea, just like big brother, has complete control over the middle class. North Korea can do anything they want to the middle class because they have no power and they think they have to do so. They work with terrible conditions, they are monitored heavily, and they can have them do whatever they want. The middle class has zero power will the upper class has complete power.



7. __North Korea ignores middle class__ North Korea has zero care about its middle class, just like the proles in 1984. The lower class and the proles are pretty much treated the same way. They are not heavily monitored because they aren't a big threat, and are ignored by the government. They still don't live a good life though, they are still ruled by a dictator leader and still have to do what they are told or else they get consequences.



8. __Honduras poor living conditions__ Honduras has living conditions very comparable to how 1984 was. Almost everybody in Honduras is living in poverty and is struggling just to live and to eat. Big Brother ran its country where almost every family is struggling on money, just like how Honduras is today.



9. __Food rationing in Cuba__ Cuba has a law where people can only have so much food. They give a limit to what each family can have and they had no freedom to how much they can have. This is very big brother like because they did the same thing. People didn't have a choice to what they ate, they had to eat what they were given.



10. __Torture in North Korea__ North Korea has no care to how their people feel. If they feel the need to put you through cruel and unusual punishments, they will without even thinking about it. Big brother did the same, if someone broke a law, they wouldn't think twice about putting you through torture. This is scary because you could do a very small crime, and get cruel torture treatment because of it.

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