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Neil Postman Presidential Debates
1,200 wordsIn Chapter 8 of his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman talks about the phenomenon of religious programming on television. He concludes that... there are several characteristics of television and its surround that converge to make authentic religious experience impossible. (p. 118) I believe that though it's not explicitly stated, the concept of boundaries which I have been discussing is an essential element of his argument. He says that... there is no way to consecrate the space in wh...
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Martin Luther King Men And Women
3,249 words... ended to obtain education and to participate in community matters. Put differently, when one is hungry - one is less prone to read Mr. Lasch, less inclined to think about civil rights, let alone exercise them. Mr. Lasch is authoritarian and patronizing, even when he is strongly trying to convince us otherwise. The use of the phrase: "far in excess of their needs" rings of destructive envy. Worse, it rings of a dictatorship, a negation of individualism, a restriction of civil liberties, an in...
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Racial And Ethnic Make A Difference
2,434 wordsMulticulturalism Introduction Why does the nation need multiculturalism? The term multiculturalism provokes ambiguity and misunderstanding. It wasnt unambiguous during the time it first came into existence, and, when became the subject of heated debates, it gained, probably, the most conflicting, sometimes mutually exclusive meanings, from communitarian criticism of liberalism to ethnocentric and racial-centrically motivated isolationism, from the leftist ideology of subversion in relation to ex...
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Social And Political Political And Social
1,250 wordsTo what extent has British television drama contributed to a public discourse on major political and social issues, both in the recent past and during the 1960 s. Please draw on specific examples in presenting your argument. In this essay I will discuss how political and social issues have been raised in British television drama and also how they relate to public discourse in Britain. I will discuss TV dramas such as Our Friends in the North, Talking to a Stranger, Cathy Come Home, and Boys from...
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Social Identity Public Discourse
991 wordsJean Elshtain, Chp. 2 Democracy and the Politics of Displacement Response to Question 1: In the excerpted chapter titled Democracy and the Politics of Displacement, Jean Elshtain discusses the concept of? politics of identity. In discussing the? politics of identity, Elshtain argues there is an emerging social phenomenon, wherein society is turning the private affairs of our lives into public discourse. The Western World has become a public pool, in which the information mediums and venues of so...
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