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toc =__Group Members__= Paul, Stephen, Charles

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__Thesis:__
In George Orwell's novel, //1984,// the use of psychological intimidation is seen through the Orwellian "Party". This parallels with the real governments of today and the past as they use this tactic often to its full potential. Through George Orwell's novel and our experiences with governments today we see that the use of psychological intimidation is immoral and wrong to use against the masses. George Orwell's 1984 novel condemns a totalitarian government bent on total manipulation on how it led to a dystopia being created.

__Defining Psychological Intimidation:__
The definition of psychological is:
 * 1) Of or relating to psychology: //psychological research.//
 * Of, relating to, or arising from the mind or emotions.
 * 1) Influencing or intended to influence the mind or emotions: //psychological warfare.//
 * 2) Of or being any of certain primary colors whose mixture may be subjectively conceived as producing other colors.

The definition of intimidation is: So through these 2 definitions we can conclude that the definition of __psychological intimidation__ is: To fill with fear through the mind or emotions.
 * 1) To make timid; fill with fear.
 * 2) To coerce or inhibit by or as if by threats.

__Propaganda:__
Official government communications to the public that are designed to influence opinion. The information may be true or false, but it is always carefully selected for its political effect.

__**Script:**__ __Narrator:__ Do you feel like you are being forced into a way of thinking? (puppeteer brain) Is your every move being watched by a "big brother"? (Hitler Big Brother). If so, your government may be coercing you through psychological intimidation to convert you to their way of thinking. (Big dog, little dog) If you feel like you are being psychologically intimidated by your government, (naked bush) contact us at 1-800-BIG-GBRO (woman on telephone) or go to our website at www.psychologicalintimidation.com. (computer) Remember that your government is trying to better the government, not its people.

__Producers' Document__
The goal of our PSA is to portray how George Orwell condemns a totalitarian government bent on total manipulation on how it led to a dystopia being created in his novel 1984. To do this, our group took George Orwell’s belief and made it relate to our assignment of defining psychological intimidation and discuss how it works. How is it being used today? Record a PSA that critiques how a current government uses psychological intimidation and compare it with the tactics of the Orwellian “Party.” Our group took Orwell’s belief and or assignment topic to produce this thesis statement: In George Orwell's novel, 1984, the use of psychological intimidation is seen through the Orwellian "Party". This parallels with the real governments of today and the past as they use this tactic often to its full potential. Through George Orwell's novel and our experiences with governments today we see that the use of psychological intimidation is immoral and wrong to use against the masses.

To portray our thesis visually, Paul, Charles, and I obtained a series of photos in which we thought were both visually attractive to the media and captured the main points of out thesis. For the audio part we decided to ask questions aimed toward the media for example: “Do you feel like you are being forced into a way of thinking?” or “[I] s your every move being watched?” We chose to ask the media questions we thought they would be able to relate to and it would spark their brains. Our questions would relate to people Oceania because it would be the first time hey realized there could be an alternative to the way they lived, one where they could live free from the oppressive government of Big Brother. People’s eyes would be opened to the point that they questioned the practices of Big Brother and examined Big Brother’s motives that have led to the past being erased and radical slogans being instilled in the people’s mind. With our PSA we are directly speaking against political intimidation as it displayed in 1984 as brain washing its people through ministries and taking an individuals most sacred and personal possession, their mind.

The sites we used were primarily for images we found by using Google images search. We found this useful because even if our search was specific we would still be able to find a vast array of images to chose from. For one of our pictures of the brain from [|http://www.wegotcards.com/cards/rude/mood/paranoid.GIF>._] we chose to modify it by adding string to the head to more strongly represent mind control. Besides the images we got off of the Google image searches, we used [|www.dictionary.com] to get the definitions of psychological, intimidation, and propaganda.

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