Hope for the future A Critique of Chapter 11 in Neil Postman's Technopoly In chapter 11 ("The Loving Resistance Fighter") of the book Technopoly, published in 1992, Neil Postman focuses on a solution to the problems created by Technopoly. ... As an engaging cultural critic, professor at New York University, and author of numerous books on the themes of education and technology, Neil Postman is well positioned to comment on the relation of technology to culture. ... In chapter 11 Postman gives examples of people who resist the American Technopoly. ... As Postman introduced in chapter...

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This past semester I have been obligated to read books on linguistics and culture, and this is the extent of my knowledge in linguistics, nothing more. Prior to reading this book by Kuipers, the previous books that I have read in linguistics have been somewhat hard to follow for me personally, however, with Kuipers book I felt as though it was making one point after another which with a much easier flow, making it easier to follow. ... In chapter 3, the paragraph begins with "Scholarly literature on language "shift" and language "death" often makes these changes appear to be impersonal, stru...

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In chapter 6 of The Peace Corps Cross-Cultural Workbook, it shows the four levels of cultural awareness. ... He would oftentimes talk to dozens of people about things such as books or poetry and while they learned about him he would also learn more about the culture and the people there. ...

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What do a hot pink dress, a sparkling new Chevy and a bright green Jell-O mold all have in common? Karal Ann Marling asserts that Americans became obsessed with such colorful new objects during the 1950s, and that mass marketing and advertising convinced Americans to display such items as signs of their success and affluence. Aesthetics is the key word Marling uses to describe the consumer culture of the 1950s, with a growing emphasis on the new, bright, fresh and colorful. As Seen on TV centers not on the study of television, but on the transformation of visual culture coinciding with the eme...

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