Mahatma Gandhi Non-Violence Resistance Against Totalitarianism

Gandhi encouraged Indians to boycott British goods and buy Indian goods instead. This helped to revitalise local economies in India and it also hit home at the British by undermining their economy in the country. Gandhi preached passive resistance, believing that acts of violence against the British only provoked a negative reaction whereas passive resistance provoked the British into doing something which invariably pushed more people into supporting the Indian National Congress movement. 
Gandhi did some amazing things In 1930 Gandhi proclaims a new campaign of civil disobedience and calls upon the Indian population to refuse to pay taxes, particularly the tax on salt. The campaign was 400 km march to the sea between 12 March and 6 April. Thousands followed Gandhi to this destination. When they arrive they illegally make salt by evaporating seawater. “Let the government then, to carry on its rules, use guns against us, send us to prison, hang us,” Gandhi says during the march. ”

Gandhi was trying to show the people and the government that violence isn't the answer and you can get a lot more said and done with peace and equality. It takes one person like Gandhi to start a revolution, a wave that get something, gets the people going and believing and when  you have all the people that's when you have the power.

#6 Video relevant to nineteen eighty-four

These high school students did a reenactment of nineteen eighty-four for a English project and they did a really good job on the film because they actually dressed up like inner and outer parties and they tried to dress up like the characters would in nineteen eighty-four.They described well what was happening in the story and the narrator did a pretty good job. They had there version of big brother in almost every shot and the editing of the film and back round music i thought was pretty good. Overall the project was done well, the students showed the life of nineteen eighty-four pretty well and i think the project taken seriously by the students and they wanted a good mark which i think they probably got.

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Four historical totalitarian leaders

Pol Pot was a radical marxist leader of Cambodia from 1975-79, who butchered his own people. The four years of nightmarish Khmer Rouge rule led to the state-sponsored extermination of citizens by its own government. Between 1 million and 2 million people were massacred on the "killing fields" of Cambodia or were worked to death through forced labor. Pol Pot's radical vision of transforming the country into a Marxist agrarian society led to the virtual extermination of the country's professional and technical class anyone wearing glasses, for example, was murdered. Pol Pot died in 1998 without remorse, declaring, "My conscience is clear."


Adolf Hitler was a German politician and leader of Nazi Party and served as head of state from 1934 to1945. Hitler had became leader of a small but growing political party that he took over because he needed a party on his own. They used propaganda, they ware special badges and uniforms they rendered their special solute. Nazi also made appeal to the german youth. He moved quickly to establish a dictatorship. He used terror to given power while maintaining on air legality throughout. In the economy sphere all strikes were made illegal and unions were abolished. The press was fell under total state control. Books were burned, modern art prohibited. The Nazi tolerated privilege and wealth but only when is served the Party.

Joseph Stalin was a first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union’s Central Committee from 1922 to 1953.

Stalin issued the “general party line “anyone why deviated from that line was condemned to either exile or execution – in most cases execution. People went to work one day and simply did not return –they were either killed immediately or send to the Gulag. By 1938 at least one million people were in prison, some 8.5 million been arrested and sent to the Gulag and nearly 800.000 has been executed. Stalin trained officers filled all top-level posts and terror become one of the principal features of the government itself. Newspapers, films and radio broadcast endless social achievements and capitalist evil. Stalin appeared in public but his presence was everywhere portraits, statues, books, films and quotations from his books. They were constant shortage of food but vodka was always available. Housing was poor and short supply.    

 

Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier was the totalitarian leader of Haiti. Up to 60,000 Haitians died under the 1957-71 reign of Duvalier, and millions were exiled. With his henchmen, the Tontons Macoutes Duvalier terrorized and murdered potential political foes and ordinary Haitians. Trained as a doctor hence his ironic  nickname Duvalier declared himself President-for-Life in 1964 and portrayed himself as a powerful leader a portrait shows him posing with Jesus Christ. His corrupt policies spawned a fabulously wealthy elite and a dirt-poor populace Haitians' per capita annual income under Duvalier was $80, the lowest in the Western Hemisphere. After his death, his pudgy, somewhat dim son Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier was enthroned, and carried on his father's venal policies until he was driven out of the country in 1986.

Three modern day totalitarian countries

North Korea for decades now has been one of the world’s most secretive societies. The leader of country is Kim Jong-il. North Koreans caught listening to foreign broadcasts risk harsh punishments, such as forced labour. The totalitarian regime in North Korea keeps its people in a state of ignorance through tight control of media. Cellular phone access is limited to an internal network. The government enforces loyalty and obedience through its Ministry of People’s Security, which requires citizens to spy on each another, including family members. Anyone who goes against to the government is subject of torture, execution, or imprisonment in one of brutal concentration camps .Government maintains ten concentration camps, with a total of between 200,000 and 250,000 prisoners. Despite North Korea's small population they claim to have an army of 1.3 million soldiers. During the 1990s, as many as 3.5 million people died of starvation. They use propaganda for the idolisation of Kim Jong II and his father Kim II Sung that includes parades and archival footage from the glorious Korean War.

Cuba is another totalitarian communist state headed by General Raul Castro. Cuba’s government controls all aspects of life thought the Communist Party. The government put's people in jail for their peaceful political beliefs or activities. The total number of political prisoners is unknown because the government does not disclose such information and keeps its prisons off-limits to human right organizations. The law does not allow Cuban workers to form and join unions of their choice. Despite the government’s decision to permit Cubans to purchase personal computers, access to the Internet is strictly controlled and given only to those people that are believed to be trustworthy.

The law punishes unauthorized assembly of more than three persons. The government also restricts freedom of movement and prevents some citizens from emigrating because of their political views. The military plays a dominant role in the economy, particularly in tourism and  foreign trade.

The news in January 2011 were all about how the Egyptian government has ordered service providers to shut down all international connections to the Internet in response to civil unrest. Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was president since 1981, and is one of word’s longest-serving presidents. He has economic inequalities, kept most of 80 million people in poverty, abetted brutality and torture by police and in the nation’s prisons. Following a push by the Bush administration  2004 and 2005 to bring democracy to the Middle East, Mubark promised a few reforms and more open elections but people of Egypt were not able to see any democracy.That is why they want new government and new democratic president.

Blended Post ( Cuba Exprience )

I had an experience when i was in about grade 6 with a totalitarian government, when my family and i went on a trip to Cuba. When we arrived at our resort in Varadero, Cuba it was really beautiful just like all the pictures we saw and all the people working there were really nice. Our second day staying there i noticed my mom giving the cleaning ladies that worked at the hotel little soaps tooth pastes, and shampoo bottles and they were so grateful so these items and i didn't really know why. My mom said to me because they get paid such a low rate to work and they can't afford food clothes and basic necessities so give them those little things really helps them out. But they were also worried because if they got caught they would be in trouble.

Later in our week in Cuba we went on a trip to Havana and when we got there it was not what i thought Cuba looked like. On the tourist parts of Cuba it's a really beautiful country, beautiful beaches and hot weather, but when you go to the parts of the country were it's people live like Havana, you see how the people live. The streets looked philthy and all the building looked really old and dirty. Before we got off the bus the driver instructed everyone on the bus to leave there valuables behind, because when we got off the bus the people that live there know we are tourists and maybe they can get something off of us, or for us to buy or give them money. The totalitarian government in Cuba controls all of the people within the country just like in the book 1984. It's not to the exact extremities but with the same idea, the people don't have a choice, they don't have a choice to vote because there is only one political party. Both in the book 1984 and in present day Cuba people don't have the basic rights we do and are told what to do by the government.

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