Orwell's Dystopian Vision Alive and Thriving

FIRST, read this article http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/03/opinion/beale-1984-now/index.html and complete a short written response about how you see this relating to today and to the parts of your book that you have read so far.  For those reading 1984, prepare to explain the elements discussed at the end of the article in more depth to your other group members.

NEXT, read TWO Articles related to "Big Brother" and "Thought Police" from the six articles given.
Summarize then prepare to share together and talk about how they relate to 1984/dystopian literature choice piece.


1.  "Big Brother is Watching You Run Errands" by Edward Niedermeyer, Bloomberg Review, 1/29/15
http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-01-29/big-brother-is-watching-you-run-errands

2.  "Global Opposition to USA Big Brother Mass Surveillance", Amnesty International, 3/18/15
https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/news/2015/03/global-opposition-to-usa-big-brother-mass-surveillance/

3.  "Big Brother Spying is Reaching Scary Levels" by Casey Oppenheimer, CNN.com, 12/10/13
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/10/opinion/oppenheim-privacy-reform/

4.  "We Want Privacy, But Can't Stop Sharing" by Kate Murphy, New York Times, 10/4/14
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/05/sunday-review/we-want-privacy-but-cant-stop-sharing.html

5.  "Social Media Research Raises Privacy and Ethics Issues" by Sharyn Jayson, USA Today, 3/12/14
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/03/08/data-online-behavior-research/5781447/

6.  "Student Blasts her College's Thought Police and Political Correctness that has Reached the Level of Crazy" by Sharona Schwartz, The Blaze, 3/9/15.  [focus of the story, Suzy Lee Weiss's opinion writings, are also linked here]
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/03/09/student-blasts-her-colleges-thought-police-and-political-correctness-thats-reached-the-level-of-crazy/