research proposol and annotated bibliography
LI 4
Aize Li
Professor Nolan
ENG 1A
8 May 2017
Research Proposal & Annotated Bibliography
Research Proposal
Topic: Totalitarianism
Narrowed Topic: Manipulation methods of totalitarianism
Issue: The effect of manipulation methods on people
Research: How has the effect of manipulation methods physically and mentally affected people?
Hypothesis: Manipulation methods seem to have a physically and mentally negative influence on people.
Annotated Bibliography
First Entry
Jacobus, Lee A. A World of Ideas: Essential Readings for College Writers. 10th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2017. Print, pp.161-169
In this book, Hannah mainly talks about the mechanics of totalitarian movements, focusing on Nazi Germany and Communist Russia. Hannah shows how a totalitarian government manipulate its citizen. This source is a general statement and a pave for the following argument. The author, Hannah Arendt was a German-born Jewish American political theorist and philosopher. Hannah Arendt experienced a lot of cultures so there is little chance to be bias. The book was published in 1951.
Second Entry
PETRE, Silviu Valentin. "The Hill and Knowlton Affair and the Marketization of the First Gulf War. A Polanyian Perspective." Scientific Research & Education in the Air Force - AFASES, vol. 2, July 2016, pp. 635-647.
In this scholarly journal, the author mainly talks about the first gulf war was a typical case of manipulation. Hill and Knowlton, one of the biggest advertising brands faked many testimonies to gain legitimacy to start war. Also, it affects the way that public see through this war. This article can help me to argue the negative effects of manipulation. Silviu Valentin is an independent researcher from Romania. His nationality may be the source of bias because Romania was dominated by USSR. The article was published last year
Third Entry
de Ruyter, Doret J. and Jan W. Steutel. "The Promotion of Moral Ideals in Schools; What the State May or May Not Demand." Journal of Moral Education, vol. 42, no. 2, June 2013, pp. 177-192.
In this scholarly journal, authors main discuss moral education that the state requires schools to offer now is a contention. Also, this article talks about whether a state can force students to learn moral education in school and school to teach moral education to students. This article also states that reasonable citizens will not accept that state obligates schools to educate moral ideals. This article can help me argue strongly that it is still wrong to use manipulation techniques even to educate good things. Both authors are faculty members of Vrieje University in Holland. Because they work for university, the vocation may be a source of bias. The article was published only 3 years ago.
Fourth Entry
Dimitrov, Martin K. and Joseph Sassoon. "State Security, Information, and Repression." Journal of Cold War Studies, vol. 16, no. 2, Spring2014, pp. 3-31.
In this scholarly journal, the author compares the state security agencies of Communist-era Bulgaria, the Durzhavna sigurnost (DS), and Ba'th Party Iraq, the Special Security Organization (SSO), as totalitarian aspects of single-party autocracies. Topics include Stalinist aspects of both autocracies, the use of information control in relation to repression, and the views of Iraqi political leader Saddam Hussein on the SSO. This article can be another strong example of manipulation techniques, which differs from previous methods. Martin K. Dimitrov is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. He is also an associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University and a research fellow at the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School so this article can be credential and unbiased. The article was published in 2014.