In order to see how advertising and public relations have obscured and facilitated our freedom and our understanding of democracy, we need to understand the differences between the two. ... "In the cities in which we live, all of us see hundreds of publicity images everyday of our lives" (p.129). ... Buster Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. is a tale of before and after. ... In three of the readings from class, Franklin's Autobiography, Alger's Ragged Dick and the Autobiography of Malcolm X are all tales of self-improvement. ... Dick is living in a city where poor people are looked at ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Mediaeval stories, written before the advent of the novel, could be either epics - usually based in some kind of historical fact - or romances, tales of chivalry based on legend and adventure, or the supernatural. ... So, in modernity, we have the "shock of the new" - everything in the city is constantly changing and new. ... The view of a Manhattan street is as important as one of the two major characters. ... Whereas Robin, his second wife, despairs at the loss of privacy in the city - she can't reach orgasm as their love making is interrupted by a fire siren, and relies on Valium to g...

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Films are probably the closest medium we have to experiencing the inexplicable quality of the dream in our waking lives. Rich in symbol, metaphor, movement and mystery, films, like dreams, enable us to participate in another reality, and, through that participation, to be transformed. Films are li...

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