Is America moving forward towards the totalitarianism of Oceania or are we retreating from it? Academic Help

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This is a research assignment and the requirements are to pick two quotes from George Orwell’s book “1984” and explain the context of those quotes to support whichever direction you are taking, in response to the question: Is America moving forward towards the totalitarianism of Oceania or are we retreating from it? Also, two recent articles are needed to prove the thesis: America is or isn’t moving towards totalitarianism. The articles must be from a competent news sources and cited in a bibliography in MLA format. This research assignment can be a minimum of 2 pages and 5-6 paragraphs.The following file is an image of the requirements in more detail: