Who controls who? Do we control technology, or does technology slow gain control of their creators? Of course, most people would think that humans are the one controlling technology because they created them and knew how to use them. However, is this really true? Maybe to a certain extent, but I feel that as technology advances, the possibility of technology controlling us one day is getting higher and higher...
Now, technology is so advanced. We wake to an alarm clock, use a toaster to toast our bread while listening to the news on the radio, or watching TV. You either take a bus or a train or your parents drive you to school. In this age, we couldn't live without technology. We've all grown up with it and we've become so dependent, we wouldn't know what to do without it. It is a two headed monster as it makes our lives easier but is also making us very reliant on it quickly. Technology is advancing very swiftly indeed. More inventions are made to make our lives more comfortable, vaccines are created to help fight against diseases.
So, how can technology control us? I feel that technology can control us through many ways. One of them is through our mindset -- computer games.
Nowadays, computer game is an essential necessity that every teenager needs. Almost everyone plays computer, but most of us do not know how to control ourselves. And even if we know how to control ourselves, we may still be affected by the computer games. Although playing computer games can release stress and is relaxing, we may get affected in the long run. Let me give you a few examples.
Firstly, we may get addicted to the game and only feel like going home to play instead of going out with your friends to socialize. This would rob us of your real life experiences. Instead of hanging out with our friends or taking a trip with our family which can bear long lasting friendships and memories, we will choose to stay at home and fix our gaze at the computer screen. As computer games are becoming more addictive, they are becoming more expensive too. Many avid gamers spend all their money on games. For example, it's not uncommon for a gamer to have 50-100 games that cost $40-$50 each. Hence, we can see that technology is slowly gaining control of our lives. It is ironical because we are the ones who created it, yet we are slowly getting controlled by it.
Moreover, if technology becomes so advanced, what would happen to our future generation? Would they only know how to rely on technology and nothing else? What if they relied so much on technology that they do not even know how to write even a Chinese character? They would become lazy with technology and eventually, technology would control them as they do not train their minds to think, only relying on technology.
With so advanced technology, we also would not be able to socialize. For example, we can chat on MSN, send emails and share our thoughts through face book. However, these are all in the internet and we are not meeting up face to face to really socialize. When we use the internet to communicate, we do not meet with them, thus there is no emotional feelings like when friends meet up. The relationship between friends also become more distant and we will slowly become unfeeling.
As said earlier, we are all dependent on the internet. When we need to get information, we search the internet. When we need to do research, we do the same. Internet is so efficient that we become reliant on it. If this becomes worse, what would happen to us? We would only use the internet; we would not read any books because everything can be found on the internet.
What happens if one day, technology becomes so advanced that robots are created. First, if something does not go wrong, we will become lazy and uncritical as we only rely on the robot to do what we want. Secondly, what if the robots turn against us? (This is only a possibility).
In conclusion, I would say that technology is slowly gaining control over us, knowingly or not. We, the creator of technology, are slowly becoming too dependent on technology, which may lead to it controlling us in the future.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
My first semester of being a secondary one student
My first semester in my school was well... generally not bad. I mean, although I have just stepped into a new school, I was still able to adapt and cope well. This was because I have 2 brothers who were students of the school I was in now. They were able to share their experience with me. I will be talking on the pros and cons and the interesting things in my first semester school life.
The gap between primary school and secondary school is very big. In primary school, we study only like 4 subjects; however, secondary school life is a totally different thing. New subjects are introduced to me, like Geog, His, Lit, and Computer Studies. At first, these were totally foreign subjects to me and I was a bit scared of them. However, I was still able to cope by putting in effort. I think the biggest change that I face is the change in exams. Back then, there were only 4 exams annually, but now there are quizs and tests almost every other week. Hence, I have to know how to manage my time well in order to cope. The pros in secondary school life are that I can make new friends, expose myself to new things and learn different skills.
There are not many minus parts yet... but one of them is that I have to work longer hours. For example, I have projects and assignments that need to be completed and I can’t play as much computer games :(.
Now to the interesting part. Well, just to let you know, my classmates are all addicted to soccer. Everyday, without fail, we will go either to the corridor, field or street soccer court to play. No matter what (: Soccer is a very fun sport indeed! Moreover, they also like to play hand phone games...
There is also the matter of third language. I must admit, its tough. I'm taking Jap now and it is difficult and tires me out easily. I mean, it is a totally new language and there are tests like once every two weeks. Sometimes I am really tempted to drop it. Especially during the time of my competition, I was so busy and had to struggle with my work that I could not do my Jap homework. Each lesson of Jap is 3h 30 min. It will be very hard to catch up if you even miss one lesson. However, I feel that Jap is a really intriguing language. Although it is not easy, I will not drop it. (hopefully). One question I always ask myself is "Why did I take up Jap if I am going to drop out now?"
In conclusion, my first semester of my secondary school life is generally not bad. However, I have still much to adapt to. The journey would not be tough but I will persevere.
The gap between primary school and secondary school is very big. In primary school, we study only like 4 subjects; however, secondary school life is a totally different thing. New subjects are introduced to me, like Geog, His, Lit, and Computer Studies. At first, these were totally foreign subjects to me and I was a bit scared of them. However, I was still able to cope by putting in effort. I think the biggest change that I face is the change in exams. Back then, there were only 4 exams annually, but now there are quizs and tests almost every other week. Hence, I have to know how to manage my time well in order to cope. The pros in secondary school life are that I can make new friends, expose myself to new things and learn different skills.
There are not many minus parts yet... but one of them is that I have to work longer hours. For example, I have projects and assignments that need to be completed and I can’t play as much computer games :(.
Now to the interesting part. Well, just to let you know, my classmates are all addicted to soccer. Everyday, without fail, we will go either to the corridor, field or street soccer court to play. No matter what (: Soccer is a very fun sport indeed! Moreover, they also like to play hand phone games...
There is also the matter of third language. I must admit, its tough. I'm taking Jap now and it is difficult and tires me out easily. I mean, it is a totally new language and there are tests like once every two weeks. Sometimes I am really tempted to drop it. Especially during the time of my competition, I was so busy and had to struggle with my work that I could not do my Jap homework. Each lesson of Jap is 3h 30 min. It will be very hard to catch up if you even miss one lesson. However, I feel that Jap is a really intriguing language. Although it is not easy, I will not drop it. (hopefully). One question I always ask myself is "Why did I take up Jap if I am going to drop out now?"
In conclusion, my first semester of my secondary school life is generally not bad. However, I have still much to adapt to. The journey would not be tough but I will persevere.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Should we criticse, or should we not?
Should we criticise people or the opinion they have?
"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. " This is a quote from Elbert Hubbard.
Generally, I feel that we should not criticise people or their opinions. Different individuals have different perspective of things and see things in a different way, thus having different opinions. This is similar to the quote " Beauty is in the eye of the beholder " What one finds beautiful, the other may not. Hence, we should respect people's opinion and not criticise them because their opinion differ from yours.
Firstly, as friends, we should not criticise each other. As true friendship involves a shared sense of caring and concern and a desire to see one another grow and develop, we should not criticise but help our friends. Criticising our friends would only make them more demoralized. As friends, we should respect their views and opinions.
Secondly, when we step into society, we should watch our mouths and not criticise people because of differing opinions. To be successful in society, one must have people supporting you. If you always criticise people, people will not respect you and support you. In this society, being tolerant is also very crucial. All the people come from different backgrounds, for example, some people come from rich families while others come from poor families. People have different cultures and behaviour. Hence, everyone will have differing opinions because of the differnce in wealth, education and culture.
Thirdly, as humans, we should give each race and religion equal respect. For example, the whites should not criticse the blacks and vise versa. Religion and race is a very sensitive topic, thus, if we criticse people without thinking twice, disaster would be sure to ensue. For example, if the whites keep criticising the blacks, a riot or strike may occur. Everyone have their own weaknesses and strength and we should help each other.
However, even though criticisng people is unwise, sometimes we have to step in when it concerns fundamental truths. For example, if a person says " Murdering is the key to success " We should not just stay back and listen to him. We should criticise him and point out his mistake or he would go on with the wrong concept that murdering is the key to success.
In conclusion, I feel that criticisng people is not good. However, if the need arises, we should step in and voice out.
"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. " This is a quote from Elbert Hubbard.
Generally, I feel that we should not criticise people or their opinions. Different individuals have different perspective of things and see things in a different way, thus having different opinions. This is similar to the quote " Beauty is in the eye of the beholder " What one finds beautiful, the other may not. Hence, we should respect people's opinion and not criticise them because their opinion differ from yours.
Firstly, as friends, we should not criticise each other. As true friendship involves a shared sense of caring and concern and a desire to see one another grow and develop, we should not criticise but help our friends. Criticising our friends would only make them more demoralized. As friends, we should respect their views and opinions.
Secondly, when we step into society, we should watch our mouths and not criticise people because of differing opinions. To be successful in society, one must have people supporting you. If you always criticise people, people will not respect you and support you. In this society, being tolerant is also very crucial. All the people come from different backgrounds, for example, some people come from rich families while others come from poor families. People have different cultures and behaviour. Hence, everyone will have differing opinions because of the differnce in wealth, education and culture.
Thirdly, as humans, we should give each race and religion equal respect. For example, the whites should not criticse the blacks and vise versa. Religion and race is a very sensitive topic, thus, if we criticse people without thinking twice, disaster would be sure to ensue. For example, if the whites keep criticising the blacks, a riot or strike may occur. Everyone have their own weaknesses and strength and we should help each other.
However, even though criticisng people is unwise, sometimes we have to step in when it concerns fundamental truths. For example, if a person says " Murdering is the key to success " We should not just stay back and listen to him. We should criticise him and point out his mistake or he would go on with the wrong concept that murdering is the key to success.
In conclusion, I feel that criticisng people is not good. However, if the need arises, we should step in and voice out.
Which emotion would I eliminate...
If you could eliminate one emotion from the world, would you? Which one? Why?
In this world, there are so many emotions that can lead to disasters. For example, anger, jealously and even contentment.
Let me share with you the many disasters that would occur before telling you which one of the emotion I would choose to eliminate from the world.
Anger is a very common emotion and people all over the world get angry everyday. Many things can make you angry. For example, you get angry when things doesn’t go your way, you get angry when you dun get what you want and you get angry when someone teases you etc. When angry and the person loses control, he may storm out of the room, scream at you or even start to hit you. Or much worse, do other bad things to you.
However, although anger can lead to bad things, it is relatively controllable. There are many ways to control anger.
Even though contentment is good, too much of it is bad. Contentment makes you satisfied with life and it removes ambition. When you are content with your results, you stop studying, when you are content with your physical conditioning, you stop working out. Hence, I feel that although contentment is good, too much of it would result in the end of improvement.
Out of these three emotions, anger, contentment and jealously, I would eliminate jealously if I could.
Jealously is horrible! It comes in so many different forms and will eat at you. I feel that many of the horrible crimes had been caused by jealously. Jealously is a really terrible thing in this world that has caused much unhappiness. It can lead to murders, divorces, stealing and so many other bad things.
For example, this person is very successful business man. He is extremely wealthy and live in a bungalow. He also has a very beautiful wife. Then, his brother, seeing him prosper, becomes jealous and envies his brother...
In order to beat his brother due to jealously, he took up an affair with his sister in law and found it wasn't enough to outshine him. He began to hate and loath his brother and his jealousy was so overwhelming that he killed him.
In this example, the man stole his brother's wife and killed his brother just because he was jealous of his wealth. So many things can happen because of jealously.
In conclusion, I feel that jealously is the root of many problems and disasters. It has caused much unhappiness and led to many crimes. Hence, given a chance, I would eliminate the emotion jealously from this world.
In this world, there are so many emotions that can lead to disasters. For example, anger, jealously and even contentment.
Let me share with you the many disasters that would occur before telling you which one of the emotion I would choose to eliminate from the world.
Anger is a very common emotion and people all over the world get angry everyday. Many things can make you angry. For example, you get angry when things doesn’t go your way, you get angry when you dun get what you want and you get angry when someone teases you etc. When angry and the person loses control, he may storm out of the room, scream at you or even start to hit you. Or much worse, do other bad things to you.
However, although anger can lead to bad things, it is relatively controllable. There are many ways to control anger.
Even though contentment is good, too much of it is bad. Contentment makes you satisfied with life and it removes ambition. When you are content with your results, you stop studying, when you are content with your physical conditioning, you stop working out. Hence, I feel that although contentment is good, too much of it would result in the end of improvement.
Out of these three emotions, anger, contentment and jealously, I would eliminate jealously if I could.
Jealously is horrible! It comes in so many different forms and will eat at you. I feel that many of the horrible crimes had been caused by jealously. Jealously is a really terrible thing in this world that has caused much unhappiness. It can lead to murders, divorces, stealing and so many other bad things.
For example, this person is very successful business man. He is extremely wealthy and live in a bungalow. He also has a very beautiful wife. Then, his brother, seeing him prosper, becomes jealous and envies his brother...
In order to beat his brother due to jealously, he took up an affair with his sister in law and found it wasn't enough to outshine him. He began to hate and loath his brother and his jealousy was so overwhelming that he killed him.
In this example, the man stole his brother's wife and killed his brother just because he was jealous of his wealth. So many things can happen because of jealously.
In conclusion, I feel that jealously is the root of many problems and disasters. It has caused much unhappiness and led to many crimes. Hence, given a chance, I would eliminate the emotion jealously from this world.
How do you know who your friends are
How do you know who your friends are?
First, we must understand what is friendship before we can discover who our true friends are.
Friends often share similar interests, likes and dislikes and passion. Thus, friends are able to interact with you more freely as they understand you better.
True friendship involves a shared sense of caring and concern and a desire to see one another grow and develop and a hope that one another would succeed in all aspects of life. Let me break this into three parts.
Firstly, about a shared sense of caring and concern. True friends care for each other and cares for them. Let me compare a true friend to a fake friend. For example, if you had fallen down and injured yourself, a true friend will always stand by your side and help you. However, the other person may not help you and may walk away pretending not to see you to avoid having to waste his own time.
Secondly, about a desires to see one another grow and develop. True friends will always have a desire to see one another grow and develop, that is to say, they will work together and grow together as friends. For example, if you have troubles with your homework and do not understand a mathematics concept, a true friend will sit down patiently to teach you while the other person would not even bother to teach you! He would just say " Learn yourselves and don't waste my time."
Thirdly, about succeeding in all aspects of life. Genuine friends will always cheer you on and hope that you succeed in all the things you do. For instance, if you got high marks for your exam, a true friend will not be jealous, instead, he would congratulate you unlike the other person who would look at you with a sour look on his face and walk away without saying anything.
Real friends encourage one another and forgive one another where there has been an offense. Genuine friendship supports during times of struggle. Friends are dependable. In true friendship, unconditional love develops. We love our friends no matter what and we always want the best for our friends.
All these time we have been talking about what true friendship is. So, you may ask, how do we get true friends and why is it important to have true friends.
Firstly, I would say that to get true friends, we must first trust them and never doubt them. If you trust your friend, your friend will also not doubt you. However, if you continually doubt your friends, your friends would not want to hang out with you because you are so overly suspicious and not trustworthy. For example, if your friend tells you a secret and asks you not to tell anybody, you should not. Otherwise, if you gossip about it and tell other people or even worse, posting it on the internet, your friendship will soon be destroyed. Faithfulness and loyalty are also key to true friendship.
About the importance of getting true friends. All of us in this world needs someone with whom we can share our lives, thoughts, feelings, and frustrations. We need to be able to share our deepest secrets with someone, without worrying that those secrets will be leaked out.
Friendship takes time: time to get to know each other, time to build shared memories, time to invest in each other's growth. Thus, spend more time with your friends and start to get to know more about each other!
First, we must understand what is friendship before we can discover who our true friends are.
Friends often share similar interests, likes and dislikes and passion. Thus, friends are able to interact with you more freely as they understand you better.
True friendship involves a shared sense of caring and concern and a desire to see one another grow and develop and a hope that one another would succeed in all aspects of life. Let me break this into three parts.
Firstly, about a shared sense of caring and concern. True friends care for each other and cares for them. Let me compare a true friend to a fake friend. For example, if you had fallen down and injured yourself, a true friend will always stand by your side and help you. However, the other person may not help you and may walk away pretending not to see you to avoid having to waste his own time.
Secondly, about a desires to see one another grow and develop. True friends will always have a desire to see one another grow and develop, that is to say, they will work together and grow together as friends. For example, if you have troubles with your homework and do not understand a mathematics concept, a true friend will sit down patiently to teach you while the other person would not even bother to teach you! He would just say " Learn yourselves and don't waste my time."
Thirdly, about succeeding in all aspects of life. Genuine friends will always cheer you on and hope that you succeed in all the things you do. For instance, if you got high marks for your exam, a true friend will not be jealous, instead, he would congratulate you unlike the other person who would look at you with a sour look on his face and walk away without saying anything.
Real friends encourage one another and forgive one another where there has been an offense. Genuine friendship supports during times of struggle. Friends are dependable. In true friendship, unconditional love develops. We love our friends no matter what and we always want the best for our friends.
All these time we have been talking about what true friendship is. So, you may ask, how do we get true friends and why is it important to have true friends.
Firstly, I would say that to get true friends, we must first trust them and never doubt them. If you trust your friend, your friend will also not doubt you. However, if you continually doubt your friends, your friends would not want to hang out with you because you are so overly suspicious and not trustworthy. For example, if your friend tells you a secret and asks you not to tell anybody, you should not. Otherwise, if you gossip about it and tell other people or even worse, posting it on the internet, your friendship will soon be destroyed. Faithfulness and loyalty are also key to true friendship.
About the importance of getting true friends. All of us in this world needs someone with whom we can share our lives, thoughts, feelings, and frustrations. We need to be able to share our deepest secrets with someone, without worrying that those secrets will be leaked out.
Friendship takes time: time to get to know each other, time to build shared memories, time to invest in each other's growth. Thus, spend more time with your friends and start to get to know more about each other!
What is beauty?
What is beauty? Beauty can be found in so many things around us. The beauty of a child's innocence, mother's love, caring eyes, graceful rivers and the flaky snow.
Beauty is a matter of perspective, it is subjective. Beauty is completely personal. What one thinks is beautiful someone else can think completely opposite.
For example, if you think that this vase is beautiful, someone may disagree with you, pointing out all the disadvantages of it.
What if someone likes green, while others don’t? What if he love red; but you hate it? What if I hate red beans, while others like their taste? Different people have different perception of things around us. For example, the perception of things of a particle physicist would be entirely different than the person who is unfamiliar with the atomic structure of materials.
Furthermore, I feel that beauty depends upon the mental state. For example, when you are about to take an important exam, nothing would seem beautiful to you. However, if you had a lucky day -- gotten full marks for exams, won a lottery etc, even the smallest things would seem beautiful to you.
"Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder". This is a very famous quote and is often heard.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder in the sense that everyone finds beauty in different things around us. As said earlier, there is beauty in almost everyone and everything. It doesn't have to be physical beauty. Beauty can be inner beauty -- what's on the inside of a person, and how they treat others.
The media is hung up on the physical aspect of beauty, making people think they need to look a certain way in order to be considered beautiful but that's not at all true. Different people define beauty in many different ways. Anything can be beautiful if you think it is.
Personally, I feel that true beauty is not about physical appearance and materialistic things. I feel that true beauty lies in the heart and in the spirit, and no amount of money, makeup, surgery or false fronts can compete with it. For example, someone may have attractive features, but if he or she does not help people who are in need and look down on them, I do not think he or she is beautiful. Inner beauty is much more important than physical appearance. Our actions reflect on our personality.
In conclusion, I think that beauty is whatever you feel it to be. One person's impression of what is beautiful may be different than another's. Hence, no one is right or wrong with regards to beauty.
Beauty is a matter of perspective, it is subjective. Beauty is completely personal. What one thinks is beautiful someone else can think completely opposite.
For example, if you think that this vase is beautiful, someone may disagree with you, pointing out all the disadvantages of it.
What if someone likes green, while others don’t? What if he love red; but you hate it? What if I hate red beans, while others like their taste? Different people have different perception of things around us. For example, the perception of things of a particle physicist would be entirely different than the person who is unfamiliar with the atomic structure of materials.
Furthermore, I feel that beauty depends upon the mental state. For example, when you are about to take an important exam, nothing would seem beautiful to you. However, if you had a lucky day -- gotten full marks for exams, won a lottery etc, even the smallest things would seem beautiful to you.
"Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder". This is a very famous quote and is often heard.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder in the sense that everyone finds beauty in different things around us. As said earlier, there is beauty in almost everyone and everything. It doesn't have to be physical beauty. Beauty can be inner beauty -- what's on the inside of a person, and how they treat others.
The media is hung up on the physical aspect of beauty, making people think they need to look a certain way in order to be considered beautiful but that's not at all true. Different people define beauty in many different ways. Anything can be beautiful if you think it is.
Personally, I feel that true beauty is not about physical appearance and materialistic things. I feel that true beauty lies in the heart and in the spirit, and no amount of money, makeup, surgery or false fronts can compete with it. For example, someone may have attractive features, but if he or she does not help people who are in need and look down on them, I do not think he or she is beautiful. Inner beauty is much more important than physical appearance. Our actions reflect on our personality.
In conclusion, I think that beauty is whatever you feel it to be. One person's impression of what is beautiful may be different than another's. Hence, no one is right or wrong with regards to beauty.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Cult of Personality
A cult of personality or personality cult arises when a country's leader uses mass media to create a larger-than-life public image through unquestioning flattery and praise.
Personality cults are mostly common in regimes with totalitarian systems of government. (Animal Farm is one of them). The main reason why leaders create a cult of personality is to obtain undying devotion and blind loyalty of the people.
Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, Franco, Marcos, Kim ll-Sung and Kim Jong-ll were leaders who were presented as infallible and god like. For example, portraits of them were hung in public buildings and poems were made to praise them. This is similar to what happened in Animal Farm when Napoleon had portraits of himself pasted on the wall and a poem made for him.
For instance, Stalin created a cult of personality in the Soviet Union around both himself and Lenin. Numerous towns and villages were renamed after him.
There are 4 main ways Stalin’s cult of personality was created:
1) He censored anything that might reflect badly on himself
2) He made use of propaganda - he hung up pictures of himself, built statues, places named after him
3) Word of mouth: Once the people were influenced by him, parents would teach their children that Stalin was ‘the wisest man of the age’ and make them think that Stalin was a great leader, which is also something like brainwashing.
4) History books and photographs were changed to make him the hero of the Revolution, and he did not include Trotsky's name.
His cult of personality reached new levels during the Great Patriotic War, with Stalin's name included in the new Soviet national anthem. Stalin became the focus of literature, poetry, music, paintings and film, exhibiting fawning devotion, crediting Stalin with almost god-like qualities, and suggesting he single-handedly won the Second World War.
This is similar to Animal Farm where Napoleon also had a cult of personality. He "approved of the poem and caused it to be inscribed on the wall of the big farm, at the opposite end from the Seven Commandments." Moreover, the poem was surrounded by a "portrait of Napoleon". Like Stalin, whom the people credited with god-like qualities, "it had become common for the animals to give Napoleon credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune ". This shows that Napoleon has a cult of personality and uses the mass media to brainwash the common animals.
The mass media can have a very great effect on the common people as it can sort of control the people, hence, leaders often use it.
Personality cults are mostly common in regimes with totalitarian systems of government. (Animal Farm is one of them). The main reason why leaders create a cult of personality is to obtain undying devotion and blind loyalty of the people.
Stalin, Hitler, Lenin, Franco, Marcos, Kim ll-Sung and Kim Jong-ll were leaders who were presented as infallible and god like. For example, portraits of them were hung in public buildings and poems were made to praise them. This is similar to what happened in Animal Farm when Napoleon had portraits of himself pasted on the wall and a poem made for him.
For instance, Stalin created a cult of personality in the Soviet Union around both himself and Lenin. Numerous towns and villages were renamed after him.
There are 4 main ways Stalin’s cult of personality was created:
1) He censored anything that might reflect badly on himself
2) He made use of propaganda - he hung up pictures of himself, built statues, places named after him
3) Word of mouth: Once the people were influenced by him, parents would teach their children that Stalin was ‘the wisest man of the age’ and make them think that Stalin was a great leader, which is also something like brainwashing.
4) History books and photographs were changed to make him the hero of the Revolution, and he did not include Trotsky's name.
His cult of personality reached new levels during the Great Patriotic War, with Stalin's name included in the new Soviet national anthem. Stalin became the focus of literature, poetry, music, paintings and film, exhibiting fawning devotion, crediting Stalin with almost god-like qualities, and suggesting he single-handedly won the Second World War.
This is similar to Animal Farm where Napoleon also had a cult of personality. He "approved of the poem and caused it to be inscribed on the wall of the big farm, at the opposite end from the Seven Commandments." Moreover, the poem was surrounded by a "portrait of Napoleon". Like Stalin, whom the people credited with god-like qualities, "it had become common for the animals to give Napoleon credit for every successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune ". This shows that Napoleon has a cult of personality and uses the mass media to brainwash the common animals.
The mass media can have a very great effect on the common people as it can sort of control the people, hence, leaders often use it.
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