Library Database Source
“By means of these negative exempla, Atwood urges us to recognize the flaws of our culture and to refuse passive acceptance of them. Handmaid is, above all, a book about responsibility, at once emotional, sexual, intellectual and civic.”(Hammer, 47)
Summary
Basically, what the passage is saying is that Atwood was trying to make sure the reader understood the fact that similar events still happen today. She wants the reader to know that these events are not acceptable. Then it goes into an interpretation of what the book is about. It is a book about responsibility, a book about sex, an emotional book, and finally a book about intellect and civic.
How I will use this in my essay
I am going to use this in my paper to help me explain to the reader what the book is about and what Atwood was trying to teach the reader.


Internet Source
“Isolation: the meeting or training takes place in a place where participants are cut off from the outside world. This often involves making a public commitment to stay during the training. When training takes place in isolation like this, there is usually a quick follow-up session to ensure that the technique has really taken hold.” (Sutphen).
Summary
Isolation is a brainwashing technique that was used by the Germans in World War two. What they did was take people and put them in a location and that’s where they had to stay. The prisoners were cut off from everything outside of that location.
Evaluation
The author of the passage is Dick Sutphen and he is an author with 19 New Age books. The website was last updated on July 15th 2006. I am not looking for any dated information because I am not worried about that. The website has a link to the full article and there they cited their information. There isn’t really anything I saw on the website that would make me suspicious. The website seems legit to me.





Works Citied
Hammer, Stephanie. "The World as It will Be? Female Satire and the Technology of Power in "The Handmaid's Tale”." Modern Language Studies. Modern Language Studies, spring 1990. Web. 25 Jul 2010.
Sutphen, Dick. "Six brainwashing techniques and the decognition process." Radical Mutual-Improvement 15 July 2006: 1. Web. 25 Jul 2010. .

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