A Summary of “Television: The Plug-In Drug” by Marie Winn The family time that experts once believed the television would facilitate has backfired. It has been replaced with an everyday military regiment. Wake up‚ go to school‚ watch television‚ and go to bed. Parents have allowed the television to become the primary source for their children’s home life experience. Although this medium allows for peace within the home‚ the family dynamic suffers. Winn references the conflicts that family’s had
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Reading through Marie Mies chapter‚ “Colonization and Housewifization” from “Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale”‚ she discusses several ways in which the patriarchal division of labor was created violently to force the exploitation of not only women‚ but other classes and people. With the combination of the technologies attack on Mother Earth‚ the subordination of women‚ and the rise of the bourgeoisie‚ this lead to her example of the witch trials that took over Europe from the twelfth
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The poem is well known for a number of reasons. The extensive judicial scene gives a degree of insight into the legal system of the period‚ which is also well documented from a technical point of view in various Anglo-Norman texts of Henry I and Henry II of England. In contrast to Marie’s other lais‚ such as Guigemar and Le Fresne‚ nothing is made of the mistress’s intellectual or spiritual qualities. Rather the description is of the opulence of her wealth and her beauty. Guigemar: "She was
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In the essay "Television: The Plug-In Drug" by Marie Winn‚ the author explains how television separates people from each other. Television‚ she claims‚ replaces the human contact by keeping the television viewers interested in the television programming instead of having a human companion. In the essay "Dearly Disconnected" by Ian Frazier‚ the author describes the cell phone as an object that will take out the payphones‚ increase human contact and decrease privacy. For example‚ televisions and
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Individual ICEing #2 (pg. 205-251) In Legend by Marie Lu‚ the author uses characterization to explain how June might believe that Thomas had murdered her brother instead of Day like she had previously believed. At this point in the story June is looking through the case file of Metias‚ her brother’s death. She looks at the poorly taken crime scene photos of his dead body and notices some marks on the knife’s hilt. Looking at the photos more in depth‚ she sees marks that are not blood. Instead
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medieval society and structure‚ as well as determining religious‚ political and personal ideas. Such things as women’s roles and importance seem rather like a modern movement‚ but in reality were very much active during these days‚ as seen in Beowulf and Marie de France’s Lanval. Although written almost two hundred years apart (with some major societal changes at that)‚ both Beowulf and Lanval give the modern reader a great inside view of the roles‚ lifestyle‚ and importance
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Warcross by Marie Lu is an exciting story that takes place in the near future. The book seems to take place 10-15 years from now‚ when everyone is obsessed with a virtual reality video game called Warcross that is played on a device called the Hololens goggles. One day‚ when Emika Chen‚ a bounty Hunter‚ accidentally hacks into a Warcross championship tournament‚ she thinks she will be arrested. But instead‚ the creator of the Hololens goggles and Warcross is impressed with her skills and recruits
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The Lais of Marie de France offers an inquisitive perspective on the nature of love and the sacrifices one must make in relationships and marriage. While reading‚ I encountered many examples of a man and woman in love who must suffer for one another. This collection of narratives contains characters in relationships in which each partner suffers equally for one another and characters in which one partner sacrifices more than the other. In the first narrative “Guigemar”‚ when Guigemar is wounded
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characteristics of truthfulness‚ reliability‚ and endurance. Firstly‚ a true friendship is truthful. A friendship that involves lying‚ whether by only one person or by both people‚ is not a real friendship. For example‚ in the book series "Legend"‚ by Marie Lu‚ June tells the leader of the Republic about an assassination plot targeting him developed by the Rebellion she works for. This is an example of truthfulness because by revealing the plan‚ one that she was supposed to carry out‚ in fact‚ she reveals
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease is a foot deformity‚ it is a very high arched foot. People who have this disease can also have numb feet. CMT the peripheral nerves‚ which are the nerves outside the brain and spinal cord. There are more than 80 kinds of CMT. Each kind is caused by a different kind of mutation‚ and more causes are being discovered every year. CMT is one kind of neuropathy which means that peripheral nerves are damaged. This disease affects about 2.8 million people worldwide. Some of the
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