MacLeish has written an amazing play based on extremely old story from bible and transferred it in, quite a modern setting. Though the idea of events are the same, digging deeper into both main characters of stories we can see how they are related but also see few major differences. Starting with most obvious comparison of Job and J.B. is who they are. J.B. is a millionaire who lived in New England after WWII, while Job was a wealthy man in Uz, millennium before Christ. Both Job and J.B. had wives named Sarah and lots of children.
He believed that it hindered students abilities to perform well in the classroom, he argued that traditional education systems thrive on print technology. McLuhan also looked at media as hot and cool media. Cool media was those that allowed high levels of participation and involvement. Hot media were those that higher information and consequently did not involve the recipient of the message as intensely. Some examples of cool media would be television and the fact that people could watch the Vietnam War on the television, or the bombings of Iraq, or the twin towers getting blown up by planes and the tumbling to ground.
March 2, 1981 is declared Dr. Seuss Day in honor to Theodor Geisel and all his published works. Dr. Seuss wrote forty-seven books and all sold more than 200 million copies altogether. (Ford p. 98). Dedicated to him, were many museum exhibits, art shows, amusement park rides, movies, and television shows (Timeline). Geisel was, and still is, remembered for his books about fairness, discrimination, peace, the environment, consumerism, and humanity (Schulman p.7).
In 2011, Cohen received a Prince of Asturias Award for literature. The critic Bruce Eder assessed Cohen's overall career in popular music by asserting that "[he is] one of the most fascinating and enigmatic … singer/songwriters of the late '60s … [and] has retained an audience across four decades of music-making … Second only to Bob Dylan (and perhaps Paul Simon) [in terms of influence], he commands the attention of critics and younger musicians more firmly than any other musical figure from the 1960s who is still working at the outset of the 21st century. "[2]
Everything in the world has a Personal Legend, and by reaching one's Personal Legend, they add to the Soul of the World. Paulo Coelho essentially created all these ideas. Paulo was born in Rio de Janiero in 1947 and has a career as a best-selling author, theatre director, hippie, and songwriter for some of Brazil's best top pop artists. One of his books “The Alchemist” was one of the top ten international best sellers. Paulo’s work has been published in more than 100 countries and is translated into 42 different languages.
By 2004, the novel had been chosen by 25 communities for variations of citywide reading programs, more than any other novel. In 2006, Lee was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Notre Dame. During the ceremony, the graduating class and audience gave Lee a standing ovation, and the entire graduating class held up copies of To Kill a Mockingbird to honor her. Lee was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Nov. 5, 2007, by President George W. Bush. In his remarks, Bush stated, "One reason To Kill a Mockingbird succeeded is the wise and kind heart of the author, which comes through on every page... To Kill a Mockingbird has influenced the character of our country for the better.
Shirky starts by revealing the case about how our new technology has enabled amateurs to make a large number of average grade information and products, lowering our levels of what is considered acceptable. Shirky then provides horrid predictions of the future caused by the collapse of culture. He adds that these fears are actually true and have been around for a long period of time, proving this claim through historical references of the Guttenberg’s press and the Protestant reformation. Shirky shifts to focus on the importance of the innovations that occur after: the new norms are increasingly made the “intellectual output” of society. In the article Shirky establishes the point that we are now going through a similar growth in our publishing capability as we had in our past.
The past forty years have changed America for the better with the new waves of technology that was once believed to be unimaginable. The long drawn out wars are still being fought, except in today’s society hippies aren’t protesting against troops being overseas, they are protesting against too much pollution and the ozone being depleted by the cars we drive. The education systems are still pushing children to do better and become more successful. The difference between yesterday and today is a very thin line. The majority of everything in society in the seventies still exists only with a modern twist and spin on the original creation.
Jane Mukala Professor Hart ENG 101 March 18, 2015 Does The Internet Make You Dumber? Nicholas Carr argues that the internet has bad effects on the brain. He says that the internet makes it harder to remember anything, and that it is harder to move memories into long term memories. Carr thinks that by skimming information, it will diminish the ability to read long texts; I disagree with him because the internet makes actually makes us smarter and think accurate because we are aware of every little information around us. Carr thinks that excessive use of the internet might cause permanent changes to the way our brains work and we don’t have to remember as much, because we have RAM (Random Access Memory).
Franzen then goes on to write about how technology has made living much more “likeable”, it is much easier to like something in cyberspace than in real life. He appeals to his readers through pathos. He tries to speak to our feelings by saying “We can handle being disliked now and then, because there is such an infinitely big pool of potential “likers”. But to expose your whole self, not just the likable surface, and to have it rejected, can be catastrophically painful.” He claims people are having a relationship to their cell phone and other technological devices. Throughout the entire essay Franzen uses arguments saying we do not appreciate the physical world enough.