in 2011. It wasn’t always like this though. There used to be a time where the only form of public discourse‚ the corporation of conversations vital to a culture’s survival‚ was fostered by Typography. Neil Postman explains in his book‚ Amusing Ourselves to Death; Public Discourse in the age of show business‚ the transition from the Age of Typography to the Age of Television. In the beginning of the book he explains that this shift has dramatically changed the context and meaning of public discourse
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The name of the article is Our Zombies‚ Ourselves written by James Parker. In this article Parker discusses the historical backdrop of zombies and talks about where it is that they started from. Parker additionally raises exceptionally fascinating point on the notoriety of zombies and a short timeline on zombies. He also talks of different sorts of popular cultures which incorporate zombies and are utilized‚ for example‚ the movies Night of the Living Dead‚ White Zombie‚ the books The Zen of Zombies
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Feminist Lens vs Marxist Lens When reading a book‚ or any piece of literature of that matter‚ the readers background is important. It is apart of how the reader perceives the piece. Two different readers with different viewpoints and backgrounds are naturally going to have different opinions and will analyze the same piece of writing very differently. For example‚ a feminist lens and a marxist lens. A feminist lens would notice all cases where a man and a women are not being compared as equal or
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Grief and Trauma Grief can be described as a collection of sorrow‚ misery and pain‚ which is usually followed by trauma. Grief and trauma are intensely expressed in the book‚ The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie. The main Character‚ Arnold Spirit Junior experiences grief when his grandmother passes away due to a car incident. Following by the death of Eugene‚ a close family friend‚ and the tragedy of Mary‚ Junior and his parents are severely
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I heard someone say‚ grief isn’t a life sentence‚ it’s a life passage. It’s the one common human experience we all have at one time or another. I’m now discovering that grieving the loss of your child is the hardest thing you will have ever done. I know‚ because suddenly‚ without warning‚ my life has dramatically changed. My beautiful 11-year old was complaining of a headache and a fever but somehow I decided to ignore him. But it wasn’t the right thing a caring parent should have done. Sometime
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and duration. The Control lens focuses on how to improve the coming events rather than focusing on how preventing the crisis was possible by asking questions that will form a plan on what could be done. Asking questions like what can I influence to change the direction of the crisis? Or a visualizing question such as what would [a manager] do? Or a collaborating question to see who in his team can help him and how to engage him/her in the best way. The impact lens focuses on how the manager can
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Ethical Lens Inventory Results for DESIREE Your preferred lens is: Rights and Responsibility Lens You use your reasoning skills (rationality) to determine your duties as well as the universal rules that each person should follow (autonomy). Your Core Values: Autonomy and Rationality You prioritize the value of autonomy over equality. Your primary concern is protecting individual rights. You believe this is the best way to assure that everyone in the community is treated fairly. You prioritize
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The "peek-a-boo" world of television has had a disastrous effect on the culture of the typographic mind. Neil Postman in his book‚ Amusing Ourselves to Death explains how the "peek-a-boo" world of television has impacted modern discourse. The typographic mind is that of a print based culture. The people in such a culture tend to speak in paragraph format and use proper grammar; they organize thoughts in a way that resembles a book. This is due to the fact that people were used to reading and
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Strategic Lens Amazon: Grouping: With a mission “to be Earth’s most customer-centric company‚ where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online‚ and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices‚” . There are three things that can be inferred form Amazon’s mission statement‚ one is their extremely consumer centric business strategy‚ secondly to strive to enter into new markets and thirdly to achieve it through the least amount of resources. However there
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nothing but a sin in the making‚ and the crash resulted with immoral thoughts‚ harsh gender roles‚ and the split between the wealthy and poor. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a novel that goes underneath all the party‚ carefree living‚ and brings out the deeper meaning of society at the time. The author provides the reader with a writing piece that exemplifies the greed and ignorance of the upper class people‚ the power of the male sex over the female‚ with the exception of love‚ and the
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