Lecture 2: The Technological Society What is Technology? • Defining technology presents a common challenge in that scholars have proposed many different definitions. • Socio-technical perspective: The study of how social factors affect technological and scientific developments. What is Technology? cont’d • Technology has been defined as: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Material Substance Knowledge Practice Technique Society What was the original purpose of technology? • To relieve us of menial tasks
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There is nothing to fear‚ but fear itself. This axiom highlights what many people perceive as mankind’s greatest weakness‚ fear. Fear commonly manifests itself in two forms‚ tangible and transcendental. For the people who seek the thrilling feeling of fear through movies‚ this combination can all but guarantee that picture will be a cinematic thriller. In Mike Flanagan’s film‚ Oculus‚ fear is portrayed all throughout the movie. The movie tells the story of a brother-sister duo‚ Tim and Kaylie‚ in
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Tunnel Vision When one lives in a privileged country‚ it becomes very easy to walk through life with a negative attitude and to almost become blind to all that one is lucky to have. Han Nolan‚ in her adaptation of Crazy‚ portrays the protagonist as an insecure teenager who learns to accept his fate and trust others. In this novel‚ a young boy named Jason Papadopoulos is left alone to live and take care of his father who is suffering from a mental illness. After attending daily counseling sessions
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In this day of age‚ technology impacts the world within every angle. However‚ within the aspect of technology is one major influential tool‚ social media. Besides the fact that social media is a dominant‚ and powerful‚ source of the twenty-first century‚ it has also become known to be unfulfilling in areas where a human being must feel assured. Without a doubt‚ social media has made people illusional‚ unaware‚ and capable of passing it on to future generations. About 1.96 billion people in the
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Josué López Professor Gilda Pacheco Acuña LM-1386 Literature and Women 14 May 2013 The Role of the Gaze in the Loss of Autonomy and Creation of Suspense In Poe’s the Tell-Tale Heart‚ the gaze is the generator of suspense in the protagonist’s mind. The effects of the gaze can be analyzed by means of three characters in the story: the protagonist‚ the Old Man‚ and the police officers. The gaze’s effect of the three characters helps to destabilize the autonomy of the main character. According
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Let’s talk about lust. In the film The Obscure Object of Desire directed by Luis Buñuel he introduces a male protagonist by the name of Mathieu who has the ultimate lust for the female protagonist Conchita. Mathieu’s character is a widower who meets Conchita on a whim. Mathieu becomes enamored with Conchita and she becomes his desire. This relates to Freud’s theory Libido=Life Drive. Throughout this film Mathieu is blinded by his desire for Conchita and puts himself through the ringer to obtain
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Jane in the Wallpaper In reading Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s short story‚ “The Yellow Wallpaper‚” I found the perspective of the woman’s mind-set towards the wallpaper to be out of the ordinary. At first the room and wallpaper were viewed to be “repellent‚ almost revolting” by the woman but later she grows “fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper”(Gilman 222). The woman goes back and forth from hating the paper to then becoming intrigued with it when she sees another woman within it. Her
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Araby James Joyce’s prose Araby in Dubliners is a story written with a nameless first-person narrator. It is about the narrator’s life on Northern Richmond Street and his tremendous crush on the sister of his companion‚ Mangan. In my opinion‚ the girl has significance in symbolizing the frustration and blind pursuit of romance. In view of the portrait of her “brown figure” and that “her dress swung as she moved her body”‚ as well as the boy’s timidity towards her‚ she appears to be mysterious‚
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The Use of Symbolic Language in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House: A Feministic Perspective Abdul Baseer‚ Ph.D. Candidate Sofia Dildar Alvi Fareha Zafran‚ M.Phil. English Candidate ==================================================================== Language in India www.languageinindia.com ISSN 1930-2940 Vol. 13:3 March 2013 ==================================================================== Abstract This paper is a feministic analysis of Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House in Julia Kristeva’s perspective of semiotic
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Gaby Pailer (University of British Columbia) Gender‚ Cultural Diversity‚ and the Comic Notes and Quotes for Discussion At the first workshop in Bronnbach‚ the group decided‚ that Andreas Böhn and I shall provide a theoretical framework for the initial session of the second workshop in Vancouver. What follows here‚ is less a concise argument than a patchwork of theories from gender studies‚ cultural and postcolonial studies as well as theories of the comic‚ which I would suggest to employ.
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