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This paper examines the issue of communication in Pinter's play. The main characters Gus and Ben are simple characters and their means of communication are the central theme in this play. It shows how even though the two characters interact and talk and discuss, they don't really communicate. The essence of the difference between just talking and really communicating is analyzed.

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""Silence": the stage direction that often speaks far more clearly than words ever could. The characters in Harold Pinter's The Dumb Waiter are bound by this direction throughout the work, locked in a pantomimic parody of our own world. Pinter's dialogue, the stage directions and the world created within the play must follow this golden rule; however, silence is only one course within the larger meal. By examining the text, reading critical works, and studying Pinter's words himself we find that the meal we have trouble swallowing is listed on the menu as "communication;" true communication is often something too difficult to even attempt. By "true communication" it is meant the ability to get another person to understand your ideas in their purest form; a notion that, after studying The Dumb Waiter, is increasingly in decay."

Tags:gus, ben, communication, interpersonal, speech, talk

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This paper examines how a look at some of the laws still on the books in our states and cities makes the reader wonder what the lawmakers were thinking when they passed those laws. These "protective" laws may not have actually protected many people or animals from very much. It explores some of the dafter regulations that still hold today that cover issues of dress, language, and animals.

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"Language is another behavior that many cities and states felt they needed to regulate on public streets. Some laws had a legitimate reason. For instance, in Jonesboro, Georgia, it is illegal to say "Oh Boy!" That sounds pretty silly at first, but as it turns out, after slavery ended, it was common for former owners to call to their slaves by saying "Oh, Boy!" Several would respond, fighting for the right to do whatever job the man had in mind. By forbidding "Oh Boy," the law owners forced the former slave owners to use the former slaves' names, ending the confusion, and fights over the job to be offered."

Tags:constitution, dress, language

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This is an essay that analyzes "Dumbing Us Down", points out the messages of the author and enhances the position that the author has taken on this complex subject. The essay is as equally clear as the book was and discusses the situation in a very clear pattern. Gatto has received awards for teachings that boost his message as written throughout this book. The message is that the current education system is purposefully dumbing down the population of the United States to create "drones" that fit in perfectly with the 9-to-5 working class, which makes up the basis of the capitalistic economic pyramid. Without that working class of consumers, the capitalistic economy would fail.

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"For the time that children spend that is school-related, they are under constant supervision and are constantly micromanaged. They seldom get chances to express themselves throughout this time. Basically they are sponges, soaking up information throughout the mornings and afternoons. By 3:00 they have heard about different cultures, sciences, languages, and numbers. Mentally they are fatigued, and when they get home, they realize that all of their desires and motivations were used up in school. They end up sitting in front of the TV or playing a video game just so they can try and explore different environments without expelling too much energy."

Tags:education, capitalist, society

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This paper discusses the point made by Tom Shachtman, in his essay "Talk Shows and the Dumbing of America", that talk shows are indicative of a dumbing down of America. The discussion focuses on talk shows such as Oprah, Jerry Springer, Maury Povich and uses the Hilton sisters as examples of the types of people to whom Shachtman is referring.

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"Tom Shachtman, in his essay titled "Talk Shows and the Dumbing of America", makes the point that the talk shows that are featured on network and cable television tend to present a portrait of America and Americans that is indicative of a gradual dumbing down effect. It is Shachtman's thesis that despite the inherent literacy of the people who create talk shows, the vast majority of these programs present individuals, both celebrities and ordinary people, who seem to be largely illiterate, unable..."

Tags:television, talk shows

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" This paper shall explore the current discussion regarding our innate cognitive methods of formulating accurate predictions. What was discovered in the first experiment was that response formats proved incredibly valuable in determining accuracy of the prediction. However, experiment 2 showed a statistical difference when the formats where changed to incorporate other than __% and __ out of __. What resulted was that far less participants made better predictions in the frequency formatted questions. This then solidifies the reasoning for the difference being dumb luck and its weight on the original experiment."

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Tags:dumb luck, frequency, format

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This paper examines how the book "In this Sign" is about Janice and Abel who meet at a school for the deaf and dumb during the first half of the 20th century, before the acceptance of deaf culture in America. It looks at how the novel chronicles the changing world of American life, and the largely unchanging nature of American prejudice against the deaf.

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"The school for the deaf, which also teaches the blind, is dirty, dim, and grim, and takes a patronizing attitude to the students. The nature couple's education highlights some of the assumptions about the deaf that run through the text. The deaf are assumed to be inferior versions of hearing persons, so they are forced to learn a method of communication that is a kind of parody of hearing communication, lip-reading, rather than the signing that comes so naturally and fluidly to the deaf. The deaf are grouped with persons with a variety of difficulties, rather than to have their uniqueness as a group acknowledged."

Tags:janice, prejudice, deaf, dumb, abel

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This paper looks at the origins and history of American pit bull terriers and why an individual cannot hope to own this dog within city limits without fear of being arrested or being faced with the euthanasia of the dog, for daring to own this dog that is certified as a 'vicious dog' under the city ordinance laws. It contends that current regulations are grossly unfair on the dog owner as well as on the dog, and how somewhere there must be justice for the poor dumb creature that has been trained to be as mean as it is by certain unscrupulous elements of society who had their own reasons for doing it.

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"The American Kennel Club in fact eschewed the breed known as the 'Pit Bull' until the year 1936, and it was after this that the American Pit Bull Terrier came to be recognized as the 'Strafford shire Terrier', actually named after the Stafford shire miners who had had a hand in creating the breed for the purpose of fighting in the pits where they worked. In the year 1972, this name was changed to the American Stafford shire terrier', and this was for the purpose of differentiating this breed from the Stafforsdhire Bull Terrier of England, the actual ancestor of the American breed of dog, which was later recognized by the American Kennel Club in the year 1974. In the United Kingdom, the dog is about 14 to 16 inches tall, and weighs about up to 45 pounds, while the breed found in America is about 18 to 19 inches tall, and weighs about up to 80 pounds."

Tags:breed, fights, vicious, dog'

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Autobiographies present a personal view of a life that often lacks the kind of unflinching insight that a biography brings. But, the strength of the autobiography is that it presents a person's individual view of their lives. They present stories and details that most others could not know. Frederick Douglass was never more artfully subtle or persuasive than in "Narrative of the Life of an American Slave." In this memoir, Douglass - a black man who, as slavery was still in practice, engendered admiration and respect from both black and white people, including Abraham Lincoln - revealed his torturous boyhood as the work-beast of many owners of varying degrees of cruelty, though none so bad as Mr. Covey. The eloquently keen observations made by this former slave flew in the face of the conventional rationale that black people were just dumb beasts put on Earth for the use of white men. In "Narrative," Douglass ultimately earns his right to be a man in a final physical and psychological showdown with his brutal master, Covey. He achieves his 'rebellion', by defying those who would whip him (Mr. Covey) and those who would censor his identity as a man and a human. It is the purpose of this paper to examine the psychology of the relationship between Douglass and Covey and to demonstrate how it was psychology that ultimately defeated Covey.

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This paper looks at comedians from the silent era such as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, the early talkies such as Mae West and the Marx Brothers, as compared to actors such as Jim Carrey in "Dumb and Dumber" and Kevin Spacey in "American Beauty" and attempts to analyze why comedies from a long time ago may not be considered as funny by modern audiences.

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"In the past hundred years, the comedic motion picture industry has gone through a drastic change in the way movies are written, acted and structured. What began as silent black and white shorts has turned into colored films with sound, lasting up to three hours. While most of these changes came about with improved technology, changes in the way these films have been written have come about with a change in society as a whole. What people found to be funny and comedic in the past has dramatically changed from what people find funny today. Despite this, comedic critics today still consider works of Chaplin and Keaton and such to be masterpieces, even though the majority of "general" audiences today wouldn't find them as funny as a Jim Carrey. Alas we come across the question of why people have been finding different things funny as the times go by, and the main answer to this is that society's idea of what is funny has changed. However, the critics' idea of "good comedy" has not changed, and thus critics still consider the older silent films masterpieces."

Tags:chaplin, keaton, marx, brothers, mae, west, jim, carrey

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The paper discusses the impact that television has on American society, and especially in the field of politics. This includes how television is used as a means to celebrate America's positive qualities, such as in the aftermath of World War II. The paper explains how television has influenced politics in America, with examples such as the famous debate between Richard M. Nixon and John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the 1950s. It also mentions how television has a direct effect on women's perceptions of themselves and of what they desire in a politician. The paper further discusses the rise in acceptance of Freudian psychoanalysis and the "dumbing" down of knowledge received through the television. It concludes that television has led to the start of the erosion of political intelligence in the American public.

Introduction
Truth in Broadcasting
Coming to You 'Live' from the Universe
Freud and the American Political Animal
Lifting Up or Dumbing Down?
Women and Broadcasting
Changing a Way of Life
Works Cited

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" Until the advent of commercial television in the United States in the early 1950s, political campaigns in this country depended on newspapers, magazines and radio shows to reach the American people, and town hall meetings were still used as well, arguably for more than the 'photo ops' they provide to TV news crews these days. Anyone who was treated to the 'dueling banjos' of the last presidential campaign, in which the 'fight songs' of Bush and Kerry were played in endless counterpoint on every TV station in the nation, must wonder how much TV had changed politics, making the entire event into a media circus rather than what it once is rumored to have been, an exchange of ideas about how best to continue the great experiment that is American democracy."

Tags:tv, interactive, medium, live, freud, advertising, women, political, intelligence