This paper analyzes and compares the following contemporary books: 'Trash Culture', 'The Death of Literature', 'The Medium is the Massage' and 'What was Literature?'.
Abstract This paper discusses four books about literature today. The author of the paper's ideas are the following: Richard Keller Simon's book 'Trash Culture' encourages studying classic literature and both its classical and contemporary interpretations. Leslie Fiedler's book 'What Was Literature?' states that the examination of the art novel is a pass? exercise; that our approach is flawed if we cannot cater to the detective novel, the pornographic fancy, or the comic strip. Marshall McLuhan's book 'The Medium is the Massage' discusses messages as well as the importance of themes in novels. Alvin Kernan's book' The Death of Literature' advocates negative views against television. The paper also includes examples of modern movies and television shows and compares them to certain books.
From the Paper "Richard Keller Simon, in his book 'Trash Culture' advocates the simultaneous study of classic literature through its traditional forms and contemporary interpretation, highlighting the importance of promoting popular culture in conjunction with classic literature in order to comprehend the crucial perspective in which the books materialize. (R. K. Simon, California, 3-5) In rejecting Stallone's interpretation and condensation of the Iliad as not having the ability to convey any of the inherent messages of its classic counterpart, we deny popular culture as a possibly influential schooling device. (Spectrum, Australia, 1) "
This paper discusses Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock", a physically and psychologically disruptive phenomenon which occurs when individuals are subjected to rapid change in a short period of time.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 7 sources, 1972, $ 71.95
From the Paper "The purpose of this research is to review Alvin Toffler's book "Future Shock" by presenting its major ideas and theories and by placing those ideas in the realm of current research on the psychologically and physically disruptive phenomena which occur when individuals are subjected to rapid environmental and sociological changes in a short period of time.
As Alvin Toffler vividly describes in "Future Shock", individuals are today facing trying to cope with an existence which is constituted by frequent and rapid changes. Indeed, the rate of change is so rapid that reality appears to many to be nothing more than a kaleidoscope that has gone wild, the changes as dramatic as those experienced by the ancient sea creatures who evolved into land animals. Although these animals were aptly capable of adapting to their newfound environment, it is ... "
This paper examine Alvin Toffler's "Future Shock", which deals with the manner in which the world is moving progressively toward a future that no one can fully control and few can even partly predict.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 1 source, 1980, $ 63.95
From the Paper "The purpose of this research is to examine Alvin Toffler's book, Future Shock, which deals with the manner in which the world is moving progressively toward a future that no one can fully control and few can even partly predict. In large part, this derives from the technological revolution and from the manner in which technology feeds upon itself, resulting in an even faster pace of technological change and development (27-28). The Rip Van Winkle-like effect of constantly finding oneself in a world that has changed in many ways since it was last examined is what the concept of future shock is all about.
This is not to say that Toffler has written a book that deals exclusively with technology. To a great extent, technology is merely the catalyst with regard to the changing roles each of us play in society in the course of our daily lives. As Toffler ... "
From the Paper " Alvin Toffler develops a concept that our world and society, particularly our economic progression, is composed of three ?waves.? The first wave was the agricultural wave that lasts for thousands of years. Then came the second wave, the industrial wave that has only been operative for the last 300 years.
It is Toffler's contention that the second wave, industrialization, has already peaked, and is no longer meeting the needs of the populace. He cites the great diversities now present in our societies and says that the limited multinational corporations cannot deliver to the consumers these diverse needs. Consequently, Toffler is consumed with what he terms the third wave, the wave that replaces industrialism, as we have known it.
This paper argues that Alvin Goldman's naturalized theory of knowledge, reliabilism, is more useful than the classical theory or "justified true belief".
Abstract This paper explains Alvin Goldman's reliabilism agrees with classical theory that knowledge must be a true belief and that its justification can be any mechanism, which produces a belief with a high degree of accuracy, but that justification must be a causality as the final necessary condition. The author stresses two comparative differences: (1) Goldman's theory is broad, consuming the classical definition and expanding it, which is naturally better at dealing with difficult cases because it has more possible explanations from which to choose, but (2) this broad interpretation does not necessarily make the definition better in terms of clarity. The paper, using two examples, the dolphin's echolocation ability and a person's blind sight, to highlight the difference in knowledge between reliabilism and the classical theorist, concludes that reliabilism is a better epistemic position because this definition of knowledge seems infinitely more practical in terms of explaining scientific discoveries.
From the Paper "There are many assumptions made about what can make beliefs and how we determine those believes to be true. For example, can animals have beliefs? What kind of thoughts count as a belief? Are subconscious decisions beliefs? Justification plays an even larger role in comparing these two models. Classical theorists define justification as a sound syllogism or inductively sound arguments. Edmund Gettier tries to argue that justified true belief is not sufficient for knowledge."
Tags: classic, epistemology, goldman, knowledge, reliablism, theory
From the Paper "Interaction among states takes place in both wartime and peacetime. Peacetime interaction, diplomacy, can be either positive or negative; that is, aggressive or conciliatory. Invariably, states seek their own benefit in diplomacy, and the pursuit of such benefit causes states to be either accommodating of other parties in order to reach agreement, or to be greatly demanding, which can often lead to armed conflict. Wartime interstate interaction is necessarily negative because war necessarily involves pursuit of destruction, a negative sum game. Although war is a negative sum game, the methods of war can be used to measure the level of development of a society because war frequently requires a state to put its full resources behind the war effort. The changes in war methods, therefore, reflect the changes in society. Alvin and Heidi Toffler assert that wealth creation and destruction methods, just as war and peace, are linked; that is, changes in business are reflected in changes in warfare and that change in warfare necessitates change in ?peacefare,? the creation and maintenance of peace. The Tofflers analyze the revolutionary changes in the business world, the reflection of these changes in war, and the pending changes in peacefare."
This paper discusses the process in which adolescents separate from parents and from their own identities, focusing on handicapped adolescents & educational issues.: Self-identification theory, peer group and Alvin Toffler's "future shock" ideas.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 18 sources, 1990, $ 119.95
From the Paper "One of the clearest and most difficult problems encountered by adolescents is the manner in which they separate from past relationships that had previously provided them with both comfort and security. Indeed, some have called this process of ego structuralization one of the most important phases in adolescent development, one that clearly deserves attention and research in order to more adequately understand and explain that important process.
One way that psychological theorists have described this process of change is separation-individuation. This term speaks directly to the process that entails adolescents removing themselves from parental structure and forming their own, unique identity. In some ways, this process may be viewed as a synthesis in the strict Hegelian tradition. For Hegel, and later ... "
From the Paper "Today, life in America seems to be moving at an ever.increasing pace, leaving stress, a weakened family and incredible chaos on many levels, including political, economic and social, in its wake. There are many reasons behind this sense of speed felt on a daily basis and all of it is related directly or indirectly to modern technology. In fact, one of the most confusing aspects of this period in which we live is that while technology has made man's life easier, there seems to be less time than ever to do things, thus leaving us more burden with day.to.day living.
The result of computers, satellites, fax machines, and all the other information.laden electronics running our lives is that civilization is going through a new era, a major "powershift" that will affect life as we know it well into the 21st century. The purpose of this report will be to discuss what is meant by "powershift" as outlined in Alvin Toffler's book, Powershift (1991). Included in this analysis will be an explanation of what it means, how it happens, why it is occurring and where, what were past powershifts, and what is in store for the future as a result of powershifts.
According to Toffler, mankind now lives on the edge of a new shift in power different ..."
Abstract In this article, the writer discusses that, as noted by Alvin Goldfarb and Edwin Wilson in the text 'Theater: The Lively Art', quite often it is difficult to identify a play as either tragic or comic, simply based upon its plot. The writer points out that the way that the author of a play chooses to depict certain events determines the audience's reaction, whether viewers will gasp in horror or roar with laughter. Further, the writer notes that the difficulty in determining the genre of the play based upon plot alone, however, is best illustrated, perhaps in comparing some of Shakespeare's plays with exactly the same plots. The writer concludes that when classifying the genre of a play, one must consider the overall texture of the work, as the playwright usually cannot, nor wants, to create a seamless effect of laughter or sadness.
From the Paper "Goldfarb and Wilson point out that the genres of tragedy and comedy themselves have undergone substantial reconfiguration over the course of the history of drama. Classical tragedy used to only involve august personages, like kings and great heroes, along the lines of Oedipus Rex or Jason. Later, in modern tragedy, ordinary men and women's lives were given epic scope and drama, like Arthur Miller's tragic figure of the salesman Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman," or the Iceman Hickey, the man who murders his wife in Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh." These modern characters were not heroes or gods. Their actions were deemed worthy by the modern playwright of the audience's interest, and the main character's tragic fall is viewed with great sadness, even though the men are quite ordinary."
