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Prisoners Of War Period Of Time
2,191 wordsBrainwashing is a method of manipulating or influencing peoples own personal beliefs, thoughts, attitudes or actions in order to get them to believe what they had previously considered false. The word brainwashing originated from the Chinese term his nao, which literally means to wash the brain. Many people have different variations of what exactly they think brainwashing is, but all are generally the same, involving a powerful effort to manipulate the human mind. Brainwashing is said to have or...
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Religious Movements Cult Members
959 wordsThe controversy surrounding new religious movements seems to be foremost concerned with whether or not the members of these religions come of their own freewill or if they convert as a necessary and inevitable response to advanced coercion, or? brainwashing? techniques employed by the cult leaders. The concept of brainwashing came into popular existence in the 1950? s as the result of attempts to try and explain the behaviour of some American GI? s who defected to the Communists during the Korea...
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Shell Shock Religious Movements
1,355 wordsI. Brief Introduction Recently during our in class discussion we where introduced to the definition of a cult. So unannounced to myself I was unaware of the fact this paper was due. Which is entirely my fault. This in turn peaked my interest to learn more of the cult and where this term originated. So The past week I attempted to read many articles on such things as Waco and the like. The controversy surrounding new religious movements seems to be foremost concerned with whether or not the membe...
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