The article “Shame is not a Four-Letter Word” discusses New York’s newest tactic in efforts to fight teenage pregnancy; shame. The advertisements depict small‚ crying‚ children with captions such as “I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen”. City officials hope that this shame will encourage teens to practice “good behavior”‚ giving them a “nudge in the right direction”. The statistics the advertisements brandish ring true in studies conducted over the years
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appointed by President John F Kennedy himself‚ as the new chairman of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC). His speech directly speaks about the influence and future of broadcasting television. He refers the current programming as a “vast wasteland” and ultimately advocates programming in the public interest. (Wikipedia 1) Minow’s purpose and target audience in his speech is very clear. As Minow states‚ “I intend to find out whether the community which each broadcaster serves believes he has
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Jane Eyre: Final Reflection A wasteland is a time of great struggle and decomposition‚ it is a place that seems dark and dreary‚ it is also a major thematic idea in Jane Eyre. A wasteland was displayed in this text by showing all of Jane’s inner and outer struggles with society and herself. There are many ways in which a wasteland was displayed in this novel. To start off‚ Jane‚ the protagonist is a little lonely orphan girl with no relatives or friends to help her. All she really has is
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Fitzgerald ’s Great Gatsby and Elliot ’s The Wasteland are two stories that similarly express the modernist post-war disillusionment. Both stories comment pessimistically on the direction that our world is moving in from the post-war modernist perspective. Both men looked past the roaring twenties‚ and realized that this time period was actually a moral wasteland. The final paragraphs of The Great Gatsby sum up their mutual lack of faith in American culture to improve. Fitzgerald uses a number
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Vast Wasteland The media is an integral part of mankind’s history and progression. It has undoubtedly played a large role in influencing society‚ for better or for worse. Therefore‚ I qualify Newton Minow’s “Vast Wasteland” (May 1961) that “The power of instantaneous sight and sound…has limitless capabilities for good-and for evil.” In World War Two (1939-1945)‚ the axis and allied powers alike used propaganda to gain support for their respective causes. For example‚ “Tokyo Rose” was a radio
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Lourdes Denise M. Hermoso 2011-50624 ENG1 W2-6R Reaction Paper: Wasteland August 23‚ 2011 The film Wasteland follows famous artist Vik Muniz as he visits Jardim Gramacho‚ a garbage dumpsite in his native country Brazil. There he starts a fundraising project of photographing some of the chosen “pickers” and creating enlargements of the photos made of recyclable materials‚ he then sells the creations and gives the proceeds to the group. Watching as the project materializes
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T.S Eliot-"The Wasteland" In T.S Eliot’s wide-ranging poem "The Wasteland‚" the reader journeys through the industrial metropolis of London by means of multiple individualistic narratives concerning the inert existence of those living in a place consumed by a fast paced economy. Eliot focuses on the negativity that a cold and synthetic setting can impose on the natural human qualities of a society‚ almost completely wiping out necessary characteristics like compassion and enthusiasm. The city
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Write a critical analysis‚ focusing particularly on what makes your chosen passage a piece of Modernist writing. Unreal City‚ Under the brown fog of a winter dawn‚ A crowd flowed over London Bridge‚ so many‚ I had not thought death had undone so many. Sighs‚ short and infrequent‚ were exhaled‚ And each man fixed his eyes before his feet. Flowed up the hill and down King William Street‚ To where Saint Mary Woolnoth kept the hours With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine. There I saw
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New Historicism: T.S. Eliot’s “The Wasteland” T.S. Eliot’s highly influential 433-line modernist poem is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poem of the twentieth-century. Eliot’s composition brings forth a reader to understand the work through its historical context and to understand cultural and intellectual history through this piece of literature‚ which documents the new discipline of the history of ideas. In other words‚ The Waste Land is subject to New Historicism to further
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As i read the chapters from American Wasteland by Jonathan Bloom and uses phrases in order to get his message across to the readers such as culture of waste‚ redistribution‚ and food insecurity. The author reflects on these phrases to discuss and argue his message. Bloom was successful in getting his message across and i will explain how. To start off Bloom talks about culture of waste. He really wants us to rethink about food waste. He talks about how America nearly throws have of its food
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