Regarding the Pain of Others‚ by Susan Sontag In Regarding the Pain of Others‚ Susan Sontag asks the reader to think about how our engagement with a photograph affects our understanding of suffering and war. Sontag evaluates the use of images and the role of photography in representing how the interpretation of images is heavily influenced by context‚ and the effect that these representations have on us. In doing so‚ Sontag addresses a few major questions concerning photography. What is unique
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are a great invention‚ they can also twist what we see. That they are a good thing for people to use‚ to create with‚ but can be used in bad ways‚ to distort what we see. What I understand your essay is about‚ is the way even when photography is good‚ it will always be manipulated‚ someone bad will always use this good thing for wrong. Your question at the end of‚ how do we combat this? How do we make sure we get the truth? really will pave the way for the rest of your essay and more development
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Article Summary Sontag‚ Susan. “Regarding the Pain of Others”. Caroline Shrodes‚ et.al‚ Eds. The Conscious Reader. Boston: Longman P. 2012. In Sontags article she is trying to explain why we humans are so interested in pain or violence being brought upon other people to where we find it as being somewhat amusing and are aroused by this occurrence. When we encounter an event of pain and suffering we tend to keep watching and hope the event furthers instead of just looking away. The viewing
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The book As We Are Now‚ written by May Sarton‚ targets those concerned with the care of elderly individuals in nursing homes. In the book‚ Sarton artistically highlights the plethora of ongoing issues social workers face in their work as they attempt to provide quality care to the elderly population. The book is written as the memoirs of a very thoughtful elderly woman‚ Caroline Spenser‚ as she spent part of her life in a nursing home; and brings to light the lack of quality of care that elderly
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Photography shows us the world‚ but only the world the photographer creates. According to Sontag‚ photos show that we understand through a photo in the way we see the picture. Seeing photos can limit our understanding because we only see the picture not whats going on around it. In other words the viewer only sees what’s within the frame. Images allowed us to see situations that occurred; however‚ it is extremely limited in what the audience can see. I qualify Sontag’s claim that photography limits
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are used and who they are used by. How Technology Contributes to the Business World This discusses the different ways technology has affected the business world. It also talks about what exactly the four different types of technology are and how they help. How the Different Types of Technology Work The four types of technology that are discussed work in different ways. This section explains how to send an accurate email‚ what kind of information to put into an email and how to send it
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Though Sontag speaks and disagrees with the form of interpretation of art that can be invoked as a stereotype for art critics/interpreters in the modern world today‚ Aristotle’s representational view of art battles that notion and challenges the view of‚ whether imitational art is a art form in itself‚ or just simply the product of the egos that critics possess in hopes of polishing their appearances as an connoisseur of finding the latent contents in artworks. In “Against Interpretation” Sontag
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In what ways do we allow or forbid death from instructing us on how we are to live? Remember to restate the question in your answer. Write 3 paragraphs supporting your arguments and make sure to use quotes from the book. In everyday that we live‚ we should act as if today was our last day. We need to be kind to everyone‚ forgive others‚ and realize we are not promised tomorrow. If we did this everyday‚ we would not have any problems with other people. Living like it is our last day would allow
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The Way We Live Now: I Tweet‚ Therefore I Am This is a short story written by Peggy Orenstein‚ which begins as a reflection on an afternoon spent with her daughter when she realizes she can’t stay in the moment. She instead finds herself wanting to Tweet about it‚ this is a thought I have had on occasion‚ only for me it’s Facebook. This particular author unlike most of us can pinpoint the beginning of her addiction to Twitter it was to promote a book. For myself it was a long slippery slope‚ perhaps
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How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live In the article “How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live”‚ the author Steven Johnson writes about Twitter and its impact on how we live. Twitter is a social network site that lets you make status updates with up to 140 characters. You follow celebrities or people you know and tweet about your daily activities‚ how you are feeling‚ what you are eating‚ etc. The author says Twitter is so interesting because it gives you a glimpse of someone’s daily routine‚ and
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