have been changes in attitudes to and expectations of family life‚ as well as official changes such as government legislation. Society has been affected by feminism‚ which has led to increased awareness of women’s rights and freedoms‚ as well as postmodernism and secularisation. The changes resulting have affected marriage rates‚ which are decreasing‚ and more people are now marrying later in life and more than once. More people are choosing to cohabit‚ either before or instead of marrying‚ and this
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Introduction American literature‚ to my eyes‚ like American history‚ although short‚ however‚ still full of glories and shining masterpieces and writers. Those American writers‚ while conquering this wild America‚ also had conquered the great field of American literature. From its first imitative activities to innovative attempts nowadays‚ American literature gradually gains its unique style‚ theme and form‚ and I¡¯m always excited to see their works are more and more America in its true sense.
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# 2009 University of South Africa All rights reserved Printed and published by the University of South Africa Muckleneuk‚ Pretoria EDC1015/1/2010±2012 98473980 3B2 A4 6pica style (iii) EDC1015/1/2010±2012 Contents Unit INTRODUCTION 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 THINKING CLEARLY AND LEARNING FROM EXPERIENCE: THE BEGINNING OF OUR NEW WORLD ASKING QUESTIONS: CHALLENGING WHAT THE WORLD TELLS US HOW IN THE WORLD CAN WE GIVE OUR LIVES MEANING? WHAT OF AN AFRICAN WORLD? CAN WE CHANGE OUR WORLD? RETHINKING
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The purpose of this report is to examine consumer behavior within the hospitality industry‚ with a particular focus on investigating the consumer decision process models. Given the postmodern and fragmented nature of consumer behavior‚ the author intends to determine whether the consumer decision process models are vague and attempt to be all encompassing by reviewing examples of consumption within hospitality industry. Interesting as it seems‚ readers and the author of this report have something
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Cultural Studies and the Academy 1. Cultural studies in the academies of the advanced capitalist countries has transformed the object of studies in the humanities. In particular‚ in English departments‚ cultural studies has challenged the predominance of the governing categories of literary studies (the "canon‚" the homogeneous "period‚" the formal properties of genre‚ the literary object as autonomous and self-contained) in the interest of producing "readings" of all texts of culture and
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certain topics. Now many tend to look to the Internet for their sources of academic information. In the world of postmodernism‚ or as scholars define‚ mixing generations by recycling old media in new ways‚ the internet and emerging technology enables accessing information much easier‚ but it takes away from face to face communication. This newly defined technology or postmodernism is cheapening forms of public life such as email‚ libraries‚ and public communication. But‚ when looking at pop culture
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fascinating to explore. Through visual communication and literary methods‚ they have taken these ideas related to the exploration of identity‚ history‚ and culture and found new ways to represent this way of analytical thinking…” (Fischer 30). Postmodernism is a typical style for‚ “writers of a humanism that felt profoundly threatened.” (Bradbury 766). Westerfield shows a trend towards postproduction when he prompts his reader to think by allowing them to move past the dialogue he had given to his
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decades we have been witnessing a so called “linguistic turn” in social sciences which is inspired by postmodernism. As Spector-Mersel (2010) notes‚ the narrative‚ borrowed from humanities‚ especially from literary scholarship‚ penetrates many different social disciplines: psychology‚ anthropology‚ sociology‚ sociolinguistics. Acknowledging all difficulties to narrow down the term “postmodernism”‚ one should recognize the key figures of linguistic turn‚ such as J. F. Lyotard‚ F. Lacane‚ M. Foucault
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female protagonist from whatever perils she faces throughout her story. However‚ postmodernism brought a whole new flavour to the question of gender within literature. As this essay will show‚ when one begins to scratch the surface of postmodern literature‚ the age-old literature theme of gender is shown to be much more complicated and ambiguous than previous literary movements portrayed it to be. Just as postmodernism is complicated and subjective‚ gender in a postmodern text is hard to define or
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Modernism/Postmodernism. London: Longman‚ 1992 Hassan‚ Ihab and Hassan‚ Sally‚ eds. Innovation/Renovation: New Perspectives on the Humanities. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press‚ 1983 Huyssen‚ Andreas. After the Great Divide: Modernism‚ Mass Culture‚ Postmodernism. Bloomington: Indiana University Press‚ 1986 Lodge‚ David‚ ed. Modernism‚ Antimodernism‚ and Postmodernism. Birmingham: University of Birmingham Press‚ 1977 Wilde‚ Alan. Horizon of Assent: Modernism‚ Postmodernism and the
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