Communities by Benedict Anderson Introduction Modern Americans today can easily answer the question “When was your nationbirthed?” Though the details of their answer may vary‚ the basic idea would place that time around the American Revolution. Some “older” countries such as Italy‚ Greece‚ or China would not have such a ready-made answer because they believe their nation was a naturalmanifestation of their people. Not so‚ according to Benedict Anderson’sImagined Communities(Anderson 1983).Nations are
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Carol Anderson is a professor at Emory University‚ who teaches African American History. Through post-Reconstruction racial terror‚ to the extraordinary legal efforts by officials to block African Americans from fleeing repression‚ she discovers the ideas of white rebellion from anti-emancipation revolts. She consistently makes connections to present day actions by legislative and judicial across the country that has criminalized and suppressed blacks and their right to vote. In her book “White Rage”
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Monsieur Gustave How does Anderson characterise Gustave? Very fast paced Straight forward Stern Sense of humour Peculiar Lonely Posh but crude Uses a lot of vernacular In what way does Gustave reflect the world that he lives in? The world he lives is depicted as almost cartoonish and unreal. The colours are very bright and a lot of contrast is used. The setting of the film as well as the directing‚ makes the film seem quite peculiar and strange. The setting in the hotel lobby‚ in particular
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Imagined Communities The concept of nationalism‚ according to Benedict Anderson‚ has never been deeply discussed. There has never been a great thinker treating this concept as thoroughly as other concepts. Anderson suggests that one should not think of nationalism as an ideology like “fascism” or “liberalism”‚ but to relate it with “kinship” and “religion” in order to understand the similarity that groups of people have and why the territory that they live help one understand the borders that we
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1. Benedict Anderson/Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism: 1983 (Revised 2006)/Brooklyn‚ New York 2. What is the central theme – the topic – of the reading? “The reading is about....” Anderson articulates that a nation is an “imagined political community – and imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign” (6). People will not meet every person in their community and nationalism has been proven to be hard to define. The people from the same community will
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Anthropologist by Barbara Anderson‚ is a book about a graduate student who moves to Denmark for a year to do an ethnographic report of the people in a small Danish‚ island town of Taarnby. She travels with her husband‚ Thor‚ who is a licensed Anthropologist‚ her daughter Katie and her unborn child‚ Sarah. Although a fictionalized book‚ it clearly and accurately describes the challenges and perils of being an inexperienced Anthropologist. The book starts out with Anderson introducing her studies
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and feelings of the “Lost Generation‚” which faced the harsh brutalities of global war. In most Modernist texts‚ authors focus upon the ideas of disillusionment‚ alienation‚ collectiveness‚ disappearing faith‚ and having little direction. Sherwood Anderson‚ uses the ideals of the modernist era in his novel‚ Winesburg‚ Ohio‚ to negatively portray the American Dream. In this novel‚ which is entirely comprised of short stories‚ he tends the show the fragility in conventional means of success and the pursuit
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Pamela Anderson is changing and trying a new career‚ to become a stand-up comedian‚ according to Fox News‚ April 16‚ 2016. Pamela had five minutes to get the audience laughing on Thursday night when she was the host of “Gotham Comedy Live” that was simultaneously broadcast live on the AXS network. Many remember Pamela Anderson as a former Baywatch star where she played the role of a sexy lifeguard‚ C.J. Parker. She had the part for five years where her main clothes were skimpy swimwear. “I’ve always
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Feed by M. T. Anderson Feed‚ a satirical novel written by M. T. Anderson‚ depicts a futuristic world where technology is not just all around us anymore‚ but inside our own heads at all times. The majority of Americans have a Feed. This is the mechanism that is installed into one’s brain (preferably at birth‚ as the reader learns) that allows for one to immediately look up anything‚ watch a show‚ shop‚ message one another and everything else that people nowadays are used to doing using laptops and
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Summary Paragraph In Feed by M.T. Anderson‚ Titus is a teenager with a feed. A feed is a computer implanted in the brain which is used similarly to a smartphone. The story takes place in the United States as well as the Moon‚ roughly one hundred years in the future. Titus and his friends receive suggestions‚ such as advertisements‚ from the feed on what products to purchase and venues to visit. Titus’ love interest Violet is against the feed and her and Titus discover the damage that the feed is
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