In this book‚ Steven Johnson is talking about the control that mass-media is having on people. Everything moves around mass-media‚ internet‚ games and all that includes this industry‚ taking over the idea of „brainwashing”. First of all‚ he’s describing his favorite game from his childhood‚ that his dad bought him when he was nine. The game was called „ American Professional Baseball Assosiation” (APBA)‚ it was a baseball simulation. A company in Lancaster‚ Pennsylvania‚ had analyzed
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In the realm of contemporary society‚ the exploration of hidden and contentious ideas catalyzes profound societal transformation and genuine progress. Steven Pinker‚ a renowned authority in psychology at Harvard University‚ boldly navigates this challenging terrain in his essay "In Defense of Dangerous Ideas‚" urging readers to confront uncomfortable truths directly. With his expertise‚ Pinker challenges readers to reconsider established norms and beliefs‚ advocating for unrestricted intellectual
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techniques in the film “Jaws” The film ‘Jaws’ is about a shark that goes about eating some people on the beach. The director of the movie is Steven Spielberg. The film is about a great white shark that goes about terrorising the town Amity Islands. A lot of people go out to kill the shark but the only people who succeed are Quint‚ Brody‚ and Hooper. In the movie Steven Spielberg uses different techniques in his direction of the movie camera angles‚ lighting‚ sound effects and music. The characterisation
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In “My Genome‚ My Self‚” Steven Pinker wrote about how he was getting his genome tested and where exactly personality traits came from. I thought that this essay was very interesting because it had a lot of information in it‚ with facts from all different sides of the spectrum. Pinker talked about the sciences of how geneticists proved that every trait a person can have can be linked to genes. He also talked about some part of personality traits are part environmental‚ yet not the majority. Last
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tolerate acts of violence. Dana Stevens’ “Thinking Outside the Idiot Box” argues that television does not make you smarter‚ directly contrasting Steven Johnsons article‚ “Watching TV Makes You Smarter.” Television has definitely made a mark on our hearts and has most certainly made an impact on society‚ but too much of a good thing is never a good thing. The propaganda photo about television that was found on Facebook is a good lens that helps me understand Stevens’ argument better. The photo assisted
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that many people all over the world would like to have the same freedoms and others would like to take them all away. Each author writes their story in their own words to share their views and leave them open to our interpretations. In Wallace Stevens’ poem‚ “The Death of a Soldier” he depicts that death is swift‚ unemotional and comparative to the season of autumn. Just as autumn dies swiftly and poignantly‚ a soldier’s death is just as cold and ill fated. “As in a season of autumn. The soldier
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When Steven Spielberg boldly created one of cinema’s most audacious films with Jaws‚ one would contemplate how he would attempt to outdo himself in his next going. This project would become an Close Encounters of the Third Kind a film that doesn’t transports its audience into the startling terror of its characters‚ but instead it conveys the unrelentless force of dazzling awe. It’s worth repeating that Steven Spielberg is a genuinely captivating director‚ a filmmaker who manages to balance his
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clearly presented within the texts analysed. In the novel “The Simple Gift” by Steven Herrick the author successfully demonstrates the power of past experiences to both limit and enrich an individual’s sense of belonging to both their surroundings and influential people. Similarly in the poem “Drifters”‚ Bruce Dawe conveys the idea of constant change preventing people connecting and belong to a community or place. Steven Herrick demonstrates that a single event in our past can greatly affect they
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How does Zephaniah express feelings of anger about injustice in his poems? Benjamin Zephaniah expresses feeling of injustice in a vast amount of his poems. Zephaniah does this through the techniques he uses; emotive language‚ facts and personal experiences. Zephaniah is a dub poet. Dub poetry is a form of performance of the West Indians. It is spoken over reggae rhythms and is mainly about political and social nature concerned with justice. Zephaniah uses plenty of real life examples to support his
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Steven Kellman‚ author of Switching Languages: Translingual Writers Reflect on Their Craft‚ is a professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Kellman works as a professor in the department of English and specializes at many topics in his field. Some of the forms of literature he specializes in are comparative literature‚ modern and contemporary literature‚ the european novel‚ film and film theory‚ literary theory‚ biography translingualism‚ and post colonialism. From viewing the various topics
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