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S - Ray Bradbury
O - Written in 1950 during the Cold War
A - People involved in the Cold War, and nuclear happenings
P - To show what life would be like after a nuclear war
S - There Will Come Soft Rains Ray Bradbury
T - Ominous and daunting
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n the kitchen, an instant before the rain of fire and timber, thestove could be seen making breakfasts at a psychopathic rate, tendozen eggs, six loaves of toast, twenty dozen bacon strips, which,eaten by fire, started the stove working again, hysterically hissin
I wonder what the meaning behind this is
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The fire burst the house and let it slam flat down, puffing out skirtsof spark and smoke
House is gone
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scene ofmaniac confusion, yet unity; singing, screaming,
Parralelism
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One, two, three, four, five voices died
People did die
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The fire rushed back into every closet and felt of the clothes thathung there
Are people going to die?
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An explosion
Like a nuclear explosion
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twenty snakes
Hoses
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reinforcements.From attic trapdoors, blind robot faces peered down with faucetmouths gushing green chemical
Firefighters?
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The reserve water supply which filled thebaths and washed the dishes for many quiet days was gone
No stopping the fire, the house has given up
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Fire, fire, fire!”
Was the charcoal on the house a foreshadow for what was to come?
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If mankind perished utterly
Another theme in this story
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The house was silent
Meaning this person was speaking to the house?
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A voice spoke from the study ceiling:“Mrs. McClellan, which poem would you like this evening?”
There is a person??
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patter of okapi4 feet and the murmur of a fresh jungle rain,like other hoofs falling upon the summer-starched grass. Now thewalls dissolved into distances of parched weed, mile on mile, andwarm endless sky
Plethora of description of the animals in this paragraph
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There was the sound like a great matted yellow hive of beeswithin a dark bellows, the lazy bumble of a purring lion
A whole jungle of animals
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Animals took shape
Lots of animals in this story
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But the tables were silent and the cards untouched
Silence is a theme throughout this story.
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The dog was gone
Where'd it go?
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the stove was making pancakes which filled the house with a richbaked odor and the scent of maple syrup
There is no human, the house is doing everything
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The dog,once huge and fleshy, but now gone to bone and covered with sores
Metaphor for what is taking place outside those doors
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But the gods had gone away, and theritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly
Losing faith in religion?
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the shade snapped up.
On edge
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shut up its windows and drawn shades in an old-maidenlypreoccupation with self-protection which bordered on a mechanicalparanoia
More personification of the anxiety-ridden house
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The five spots of paint—the man, the woman, the children, theball—remained. The rest was a thin charcoaled layer
Personification and metaphor of the paints spots on the house
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The entire westface of the house was black, save for five places
Was there a fire?
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The housestood alone
Personification
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electric eye
Repetition
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clock, time to clean
Day is constructed by the clock
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An aluminum
Person/narrator seems very distant to what's going on in the writing
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Eight-one, tick-tock, eight-one o’clock
Repetition
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Somewhere in the walls, relays clicked, memory tapes glidedunder electric eyes
Wow very good description
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August 4, 2026
Written in future tense
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created a widespread fear ofnuclear war
Race to who will drop an atomic bomb first
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non-military conflict
What's a non-military conflict?
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during a period known as the Cold War
Cold War
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1950
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Winn
S - Marie Winn
O - Concern about the effects of television on children
A - People who want to know how TV effects the brain and who it effects
P - to show what happens to the senses and the brain when watching TV and how adults are effected too, not just kids.
S - The Plug-In Drug: Television, Computers, and Family Life Excerpt By Marie Winn
T - critical and passionate
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not throughtheir own viewing (although frequently this, too, is the case) but at a remove, through their children
Parents become addicted through watching their shows their children are watching
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narcotized by the television set, not the parents
Children become hooked along with the parents
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narcotic
having the effect of relieving pain and inducing drowsiness, stupor, or insensibility
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insidious
having a gradual and cumulative effect
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television graduallybecomes a powerful and disruptive presence in family life
Becomes an addiction
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capable ofrendering a volatile three-year-old harmless at the flick of a switch
I feel like this is a bit draumatic
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volatile
liable to change rapidly
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There is indeed, no otherexperience in a child’s life that permits quite so much intake while demanding so little outflow
And getting not much benefit out of it
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meeting the eye and the barrage of human and inhuman sounds reaching the ear
Reaches all senses
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Studiesare conducted to discover whether television commercials make children greedy and materialisticor, as some have suggested, generous and spiritual
Can TV commercials really effect kids behavior that much though?
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prosocial
social behavior that "benefit[s] other people or society as a whole
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Concern about the effects of television on children
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brains
S - Nicholas Carr
O - how the internet is effecting people's daily lives
A - people interested in the link between technology and the brain
P - the purpose of this was to discuss wether technology is beneficial or detrimental to society and our brains
S - What the Internet is doing to our brains by Nicholas Carr
T - analytical and inquisitive
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it is our own intelligence that flattens into artificialintelligence.
Combination
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poignant
evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret
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load and the technology of the “instantly
Everything's in reach
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Ifwe lose those quiet spaces, or fill them up with “con-tent,’
A lot of people nowadays don't even like to be alone with their thoughts, and fill those quiet spaces constantly.
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Inthe quiet spaces opened up by the sustained, undistractedreading of a book, or by any other act of contemplation,
Of going back to our roots
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spring a golden age ofintellectual discovery and universal wisdom
Forever growing and expanding
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So, yes, you should be skeptical of my skepticism
Question everything
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prescient
having or showing knowledge of events before they take place
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The clock’s methodical ticking helped bring into beingthe scientific mind and the scientific man.
Go hand in hand
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He couldn't foreseethe many ways that writing and reading would serve tospread information, spur fresh ideas, and expand humanknowledge (if not wisdom).
The positives
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glorify technological progress, there's acountertendencyto expect the worst of every newtool or machine
there's always 2 sides
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he idea that our minds should operate as high-speeddata-processing machines is not only built into the work-ings of the Internet,
This thinking is also very flawed and unrealistic
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The human brain is just an outdated computerthat needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive
Or we're just fine as we are
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f our brains were supplemented, or even replaced, byan artificial intelligence is unsett
That is very unsettling. People really think that?
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“to solve problems that have never beensolved before,” and artificial intelligence is the hardestproblem out there.
There's always the race to do what others cannot
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smart as people—or smarter
Definitely smarter
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connected direcily to our brains
Huhhh that's terrifying
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frequently of their desire to turn their search engine intoan artificial intelligence
Like there is now
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religion practiced
Referring to this as religion
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the future the system must be first
Why must it be?
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restructuring not onlyof industry but of society,
It's crazy how even schools rely on technology and computers for their work now
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shaping the neural circuits inside our brains
I think that's why kids need to stay away from electronics
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Where does it end
It doesn't seem like it ever will, there's continuous advancements.
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the perfectsearch engine,” which it defines as something that “under-stands exactly what you mean and gives you back exactlywhat you want.
Just like an AI robot
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Seeking maximum speed,maximum efficiency, and maximum output
Trying to be bigger and better
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Televisionprograms add text crawls and pop-up ads,
They also know what you like and pop up with things of your interest
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It injects the medium’s contentwith hyperlinks, blinking ads, and other digital gewgaws,and it surrounds the content with the content of all
Keeping your mind distracted with a million different things at once
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Internet promises to have particularly far-reach-ing effects on cognition.
Negative or positive?
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The process of adapting to new intellectual technol-ogies is reflected in the changing metaphors
Man vs nature theme again
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n decidingwhen to eat, to work, to sleep, to rise, we stopped listeningto our senses and started obeying the clock.
We go against our own bodies
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intellectual technologies
Crazy how much we are constantly learning about the brain
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adult mind “is very plastic
Wow this is interesting
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largely fixed by the time wereached adulthood.
It's ever-growing
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terse prose
brief, or using very few words
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The typewriter rescued him, at leastfor a time.
This reminds me of Ron Kovic and his type writer
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curtail
to reduce or limit something
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Reading, explains Wolf, is not an instinctive skill forhuman beings
It's a learned and developed skill
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may be weakening our capacity for the kind of deepreading
I wonder if reading and processing disorders have increased from this?
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But it’s a different kind of reading
More mind-numbing
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‘we may well be reading more today than we didn the1970s or 1980s,
Not the effective kind of reading
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ubiquity
The state or capacity of being everywhere, especially at the same time
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we still awaitthe long-term neurological and psychological experi-ments
When can these experiments take place though? Technology is still so fresh.
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Even a blogpost of more than three or four paragraphs is too muchto absorb. I skim it.”
Seems to ring true for this generation
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“I now have almosttotally lost the ability to read and absorb a longish articleon the web or in print,
Goes quickly
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The more they use the Web, the more they haveto fight to stay focused on long pieces of writing
This reminds me of how our generations said to have a shorter attention span than past generations because of technology.
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reading and writing e-mails,scanning headlines and blog posts, watching videos andlistening to podcasts, or just tripping
Chronically online
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I’ve been spending alot of time online, searching and.surfing and sometimes adding to the great databases ofthe Internet
Developed a short attention span?
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Now my concentration often starts to drift after twoor three pages. I get fidgety, lose the thread, begin lookingfor something else to do.
Sounds like ADHD
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remapping the neural circuitry,reprogramming the memory.
Whatt like the human is feeling these things?
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Dave,-my mind is going
That's so scary, it's like a robot.
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supercomputer HAL
The computer is speaking?
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S - by daily mail provider
O - The life of Appalachians where almost 50% fall below the poverty line.
A - Americans to show that this country isn't equal economically wise and there's people who live without running water or power.
P - The purpose of this article was to show that there's still communities in America that seem to be frozen in time.
S - America's poorest county: Proud Appalachians who live without running water or power in region where 40% fall below poverty line By Daily Mail Reporter
T - the tone of this article is illuminating and eye-opening.
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, 48.6 per cent of the population in Owsley below 18-years-old fell below the poverty line - a seven per cent increase from their parents' generation.
Why is it increasing?
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Married students Starr and Travis Lewis celebrated before the dance with their three-week-old daughter, Ariel.
This town feels like they're still living in the olden days. I.e. getting married young and having kids.
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selling his clothes for extra cash.
Which he probably doesn't have much of to being with.
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Paul Neace, 72, feeds his dog from a milk jug;
Whattttt
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His modest trailer in Booneville has no electricity, and no running water. Pots and pans spill from the kitchen sink and litter the floor, sodden with dirt and worn through the years.
This opens my eyes, and makes me really grateful to have things that a lot of people look past on a daily bases, such as, running water.
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Lowell Morris is paid $8 per hour
That's less than minimum wage.
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Entertainment: James Moore, centre, plays the guitar as Robert Go, left, sings while revelers hug at Joe's Meat Market #2
It looks like they have a good, close-knit community.
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Riders pass an abandoned car
I wonder how many people travel horse back compared to motor vehicles.
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abandoned buildings line paved roads.
Where'd the people go?
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$45,000 a year for a family of four. In Owsley, the median household income is $19,351 - the lowest in the country outside of Puerto Rico.
Wow, this is insane. That's a big drop from what's considered "low income".
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U.S. Census Bureau c
The Census Bureau publishes population estimates and demographic components of change, such as births, deaths, and migration.
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Job shortages hit the region hard due to declines in demand for coal, lumber and tobacco
This reminds me of how in the Civil War, the South had no resources to fight because the North made everything for them. They were in high demand for simple necessities and couldn't get them.
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Appalachian county has the lowest median household income in the states - a staggering 41.5 per cent of residents falling below the poverty line.
Where specifically is this talking about? Because the Appalachian mountains run from New York to Mississippi.
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S - Anna Quindlen, writer
O - Global Financial Crisis, the most severe worldwide economic crisis since the Great Depression
A - The audience of this article is people who tend to fixate on the materialistics, rather than neccessary means
P - The purpose of this article was to show that meaningless items are not sustaining or, as the article says, "salvation".
S - Why Stuff Is Not Salvation by Anna Quindlen
T - The tone of this article is apprising and illuminating
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what they'd grab if their house were on fire,
True, I always say the stuffed animal I got when I was born. It holds real meaning to me and I really couldn’t think of another answer.
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with three kids who somehow, incredibly
I think this is also a huge part of it. If people are raised to care about the newest doll out, they're going to continue this mentality throughout life. Whereas, kids like in this example are raised in the outdoors and learn from a young age to give back.
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dark days in the United States
Is Black Friday a global event or just something that occurs in the US?
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if it's so obvious, how come for so long people have not realized it?
People get caught up in the rush of things and if there is a nation wide thought process, it takes a lot to break free from it.
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trifles
A thing of little value or importance
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, that if enough money was spent by shoppers it would indicate that things were not so bad after all
In present today, online shopping has created such a big boom, many malls are closing down. In turn this means less Black Friday, and every day, shoppers. I wonder what this has done to the economy.
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why did we buy all this stuff? Did anyone really need a flat-screen in the bedroom, or a designer handbag, or three cars?
Our society tends to be very materialistic. If more people started asking themselves these questions, maybe we'd see a shift.
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the number of people on food stamps will exceed the 30 million mark.
Statistics that backs up the evidence
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A person in the United States replaces a cell phone every 16 months, not because the cell phone is old, but because it is oldish
The appeal of the next new thing is so fascinating to this society. That when the newest phone comes out, and their old one is perfectly intact, it doesn't matter. They just need the satisfaction of having the newest item on the market.
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national savings rate
How much on average people save as a country. America isn't very good at this.
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By 2010 Americans will be a trillion dollars in the hole on credit-card debt alone.
Seems reasonable because it just hit a trillion recently and that was during the financial crisis.
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Interest
Payment made on borrowed money
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I suspect television advertising,
Due to generation Z being less on TV and more on social media, I wonder if this has decreased
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an addiction to consumption so out of control that it qualifies as a sickness
Whattt thats crazy. Can this be like a medical diagnostic?
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pernicious
having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual or subtle way
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stock-market declines, the industries edging up on bankruptcy, the home foreclosures and the waves of layoffs.
Wait so during Black Friday the stock market declines, or just after this specific event?
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cataclysmic
Massive disaster
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S - Northeastern Global News, A source
O - The protests after the killing of George Floyd, and observing/ hearing about, other protests around the world, led to the development of this text.
A - The audience of this article is people who are interested in protesting and the right way to go about it.
P - The purpose of this article was to compare if peaceful protests are more effective than violent ones.
S - "Are peaceful protests more effective than violent ones?" by Northeastern Global News
T - The tone of this article was didactic because the goal was to educate the audience about peaceful protesting.
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the efficacy of violence when it comes to spurring social change
Therefore, peaceful protest are more powerful, long term, than violence.
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The results were inarguable visuals of peaceful Black protesters being attacked by dogs and beaten by police.
How are they expected to endure that and not fight back when something as simple as protesting, puts their life on the line?
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Martin Luther King Jr.’s movement was peace. But the catalyst was violence
How does something with a clear purpose of peace and harmony become the exact opposite?
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violence is the spark that ignites the movement
So, is this stating that you can't have a powerful protest without violence?
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“Violence can scare away your potential allies. You need the people on the sidelines to say, ‘This is my issue, too,’
It's like how if you come off too strong when making a claim, you'll scare the reader away.
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Who’s responsible for inciting this violence—the protesters or the police
This is a valid question I never thought about. I think most just assume violent protests start from the protesters. My mind didn't even think about the cops having anything to do with starting the violence.
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George Floyd
A lot of the articles about protests start off with George Floyd.
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Are peaceful protests more effective than violent ones?
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now look again, and see what will naturally follow
Wait, is this not actually happening? Is it imaginary?
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Being self-taught, they
I think people can mistake illusions for reality because when aren't fully educated and are unaware of what goes on in the world.
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S - Dialogue of Socrates and Glaucon
O - This text is from Book VII of Plato's best-known work, The Republic
A - The audience is people who seek knowledge of this topic of discussion
P - The purpose of this text is to enlighten people on the nature of justice.
S - The Allegory of the Cave, from The Republic by Plato
T - The tone is authoritative and educational.
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then you may have a well-ordered State;for only in the State which offers thi
Socrates is their teacher, but it's so different than teaching nowadays. He basing his information of his educated opinion. And it's actually about the world and what these individuals have to do to succeed.
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True, he said, I had forgotten
But he still just ends up going with whatever Socrates says.
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But is not this unjust? he said; ought we to give them a worse life, when they mighthave a better?
Finally a rebuttal. And a good point too.
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nor yet thosewho never make an end of their education
He sneaks into the text the importance of a good education.
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Glaucon
Glaucon never disagrees or makes any real points back to Socrates. He just goes along with everything he says.
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Very true
Repetition
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this conversion is rendered useful and profitable; or, on the other hand, hurtfuland useless.
Socrates shows two sides to everything he talks about in this story. He highlights both the negative and the positive to every situation he brings up.
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bewilderments of the eyesare of two kinds,
There is two different types of people in society as follows.
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beatific vision areunwilling to descend to human affairs; for their souls are ever hastening into the upper worldwhere they desire to dwell; which desire of theirs is very natural, if our allegory may be trusted.
I think he's saying some live in denial of anything but this blissfully happy view on life.
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idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with an effort;
It's hard to find the good, in a world full of hate and insecurity. Looking on the bright side or "finding the good", doesn't come without an effort.
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the prison-house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun,
This story is based off how Socrates views civilization in the world.
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Imagine once more
That answers my previous question. This is imaginary.
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then he will gaze upon the light of the moon and the stars and the spangledheaven; and he will see the sky and the stars by night better than the sun or the light of the sun byday?
Everything the world revolves around.
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Will he not fancy that the shadows which he formerly saware truer than the objects which are now shown to him?
Is this a story Socrates is telling his students? If so, I'm curious to know the lesson of it.
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Socrates
Socrates never wrote anything down.
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puppets
Puppets, as in people in our society. Go along to get along and don't actually have their owns morals and values.
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chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, beingprevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing
This reminds me of the painting Guernica by Pablo Picasso that we looked at in class. There was people burning in fire and locked in a room they couldn't escape.
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S - Virginia Woolf, women in the 1940s
O - Written in August, 1940, current matters concerning women, how women need to raise a mental war for ways to adapt new rights for women.
A - The audience of this text was women in the 1940s to get them to take a stance on this topic and fight
P - The purpose of this text was to get the point across that women should have equal rights to men and to show how to spread world peace.
S - Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid by Virginia Woolf.
T - The tone was demanding because Woolf wanted to see a change happen and was forceful with her claims.
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We must make happiness. We must free him from the machine. We must bringhim out of his prison into the open air.
Why is she putting on this pressure on women to "free" men. It's a communal effort, not just fully on women.
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We must createmore honourable activities for those who try to conquer in themselves their fighting instinct, theirsubconsicous Hitlerism. We must compensate the man for the loss of his gun
It almost sounds like she wants women to try to "fix" what's wrong in men to create a more peaceful world. Like "We must compensate the man for the loss of his gun", but that's not on women to do.
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Disarmament
The reduction or withdrawal of military forces and weapons.
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. It was for this that my whole life so far had beendedicated, my education, training, everything.
This reminds me of On the Rainy River when Tim O'Brien had felt like he was throwing all his hopes for the future, including his education, away to fight in a war he didn't believe in.
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They are slaveswho are trying to enslave
She makes a lot of very big claims. The audience can see she's very passionate about the subject.
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are held down because ofa subconscious Hitlerism in the hearts of men
She's saying men share the traits listen above with Hitler. Basically saying men are controlling and like to feel superior.
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Mental fight means thinking against the current, not withit.
She wants women to be leaders, not followers. To stand their ground and fight for equal rights.
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we can fight with themind.
Politics*
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he must fight, so far as shecan, on the side of the English. How far can she fight for freedom without firearms?
If this is during WWII, then this would take place in the 1940s, which would be after the prime time of the fight for women's rights (1920s).
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n. Arms are not given to Englishwomen either to fight the enemy or to defendherself. She must lie weaponless tonight.
This reminds me of what we're doing in history. Pro gun control vs rights. The basis of it being if people should be allowed guns to defend themselves.
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Englishmen and young German men are fighting each other
Is this about the Battle of Britian, during WWII?
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Virginia Woolf
speaker
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