Entries Tagged as 'Essays'
The Emerging Hyper-Surveillance State

Three decades ago, an investigation was led by Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho) which shed light on the US government’s murky history of domestic spying operations. After conducting hundreds of interviews and examining thousands of documents, the Church Commission discovered that a myriad of government agencies — including the FBI and CIA — had used extensive amounts of surveillance […]
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Tags: Essays · Nonfiction · Surveillance
The Art of Child Marketing
Every culture has its stories, fairytales and fables. Filled with heroes and villains, these stories provide a means to transmit knowledge and values on to future generations. However, in today’s electronic age of enchantment, it seems we’ve traded in the age old tradition of storytelling for something a little more modern: commercials.
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Tags: Essays · Advertising · Childhood · Commercialism