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NO MIRRORS

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By controlling their language for example when Asher asks for a smack they control him not to say it with the discipline wand therfore they are controling his mind

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When Asher asks for a 'smack' that teaches Asher to be more precise, and by controlling their language they are there for controlling their thinking.

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Jonas and his community is being watched by the elders. The elders brainwash them and make them believe That they are all the same. The community has a strict way of language because a word that is unknown could be said and people could rebel against the government

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The people in Jonas' community are always watched by the elders to make sure they don't do anything different. The Committee of Elders gives them a very strict vocabulary to follow and they are not allowed to ask questions. Also they have to take pills to control their stirrings for one another. The elders choose everyone's jobs, who they will marry, and who their children will be. This is how Jonas' community controls its citizens and creates conformity.

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The Elders control the society by assigning jobs, taking away originality/ forcing sameness, and picks your spouse for you. They even give you pills so you won't feel as much emotion

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The Elders in Jonas' community are the ones that have the most Power and Control over everyone else. They make the decisions for everyone and the citizens trust in the Elders in making the right decisions for them. This can be related to what Alexander Hamilton had done when the electoral college was created. He did not believe that the American citizens were smart enough to make their own decisions, therefore he created the electoral vote. This is similar to the Elders making decisions for the community because they did not trust that the citizens were going to make the right ones. This creates sameness.

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The elders control what the citizens feel ...... they choose what they feel and when they feel it, to keep anything from happening like choosing your spouse .... the elders do that for you

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By using the electoral college the government cuts down on our power, by making our votes not count as real votes And instead are recomendations

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People are using the precision of language to control society. They control their emotions. They also have little mirrors to

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They do this by tamporing down on emotions and making them take pills. This makes everyone have a equal emotion twords each other.

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They do this by controlling their emotions and not having them make a choice

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The elders of the community urged the citizens to take pills, which helps prevent them from revealing their emotional side.

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jonas' community does not have much difference because everyone is the same in language in family, and in their houses. they all have the same memories, the same furniture in the same places but this is all controlled by the elders

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The society uses the preciseness of language and the committee of elders to make sure everything and everyone is conformed. The lack of mirrors also eliminate difference in appearance by not being able to compare yourself to others.

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Jonas' community control its citizen and create conformity by removing the natural world and replacing it with a well-controlled civilization. In Ch.1 pg 2, it shows how their world is controlled through a PA system. The system reminds them of the rules and when to abide it. Chapter 3, pg 21 states that birthmother's have very low status. This is a great example of how they are removing some parts of nature, such as having the right to give birth. Chapter 4 shows how mirrors were rarely used in their society. This defines how their society STRONGLY believe in conformity and wants everyone to be the same. I can connect communism and partially oligarchy with their "government" since they are ruled by a group(oligarchy) and they want similarity in their society(communism).

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The community creates similarity between all citizens by controlling what they say and by doing that they are controlling what they think and the judgement they have on the community. When you hear people say things that are very opinionated and against the system you begin to think about if they are right and then you think about rebelling and the community is trying to get rid of every bit of that.

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To remove dissent, his community prevents people from understanding what is going on and how to fix it causing them to rely on their leaders to do everything which removes independence.

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Jonas's community tamps down on dissent and difference by controlling their precision of language. The way you speak can affect your point of view on something. By controlling what the citizens say they will all have the same point of view so dissent and difference do not appear.

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Jonas' community tamps down on dissent and difference by making them all feel the same. To explain this by them taking the pills and not experiencing the stirrings they don't have a time period in their life to truly figure out who they are. To explain if kids our age did not branch off into our groups like we have then we would be just like this community because every single person would follow in the reflection of their leaders(mr johnson) and we would be more like robot than humans.

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The leaders of the community prevent dissent by controlling their emotions by pills and precision of language. They prevent difference by establishing a family unit in adulthood. In newborns, they try to genetically modify the babies so sameness can occur.

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Jonas' community controls its citizens and create conformity by taking away the community's individuality. Precision of language is one way they do this. By controlling the way they talk and think, they are controlling their ideas and emotions. It also tries to ignore the differences by mirrors being rare, considering pointing out difference to be rude etc.

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To create conformity, Jonas's community controls puberty, and language. Without puberty, people feel emotions that are easy to control and lack independence. When they control language, people are unable to speak their mind and agree with everything.

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Society defines What is wrong or right. By doing this they are forcing people to either conform ti the social norms, or be labeled as an outsider. This creates a fear of Standing out which creates conformity. In addition, this creates a fear of questioning things that are widely accepted (rebelling). This quells resistance and social reforms.

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They control their citizens mentally by making them take pills to control their emotions. they also control their language, which can make them start to think differently. They control their physical state and family life by choosing who they have to marry, and what their jobs are.

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Jonas' community controls it citizens mentally and physically. The community controls its citizens mentally by controlling their word choice, and making them think they are all the same. By controlling someone's word choice you can influence the way they think. Also making everyone think that they are the same can play a huge factor in controlling people. For example, Jonas is taught that everyone is the same and that is the best way. It is not until Jonas starts his training as the new Receiver that he realizes that everyone is different. The community controls the citizens physically by giving them the pills and the sameness. The pills stop puberty which allows the elders to make decisions without being constantly questioned. The Sameness is also a huge factor in controlling people. If everything looks the same and you think everything the same, then in your head everything is the same. All of these forms of control eventually lead up to the keystone of control. The people's faith in the elders. Since the elders are the leaders of the community, and if everyone 100 percent trusts in them, then they control the entire community.

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The society removes the idea of individuality. The society controls your emotions, language, the natural world, and memories. Memories are personal to only you, no two people have the same memories. Emotions are how you yourself feel about something, and language is a way to express them. The natural world lets you know your place and how things are. When the society removes all these aspects of life, it removes individuality.

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The elders make rules that puts the world in a utopian view

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The elders make rules that puts the world in a utopian view

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They make everybody and every thing the same and they block out differences.

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They create conformity by conditioning the people to be all the same. They get rid of mirrors so nobody focuses on their physical appearances and how they differ from everybody else. The citizens cannot see in in color so they don't understand how everybody is different and are their own people.

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They Control People's words and feelings and when you control someone's words it like controlling the person all together.

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Jonas' community uses conformity to control the citizens actions and emotions. By controlling their actions and emotions it takes away the humanity inside the community. But when you take away the actions and emotions of the people it helps people resists the urge to do wrong. For example while jonas is having these dreams of pleasure his family is forcing him to take the pills. By doing this it takes away the feel of puberty and love for a person.This is how society creates conformity and tamps down in dissent and difference.