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Kevin Watson

Curriki - TheRomanticEraandtheAdvancedPlacement2010-2011 - 0 views

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  • Kevin Watson on 07 Oct 10
     
    Good Curriculum document on an AP class about the Romantic Era. Includes some great Romantic Poems like "The Lamb" and "The Tyger" by William Blake.
Gideon Burton

The digital age an age of stagnation? - 2 views

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  • Gideon Burton on 22 May 12
     
    When Will This Low-Innovation Internet Era End?
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  • Sean Watson on 23 May 12
     
    Fascinating article. Thanks for sharing this, Dr. Burton. Do you think it's because internet technologies are mainly looked at as entertainment sources and not utilized as educational, academic, and research empowering tools? Is there something about the facility of information that hampers one's creativity, kind of like the cat and mouse game of dating that heightens one's mojo? Or could it possibly just be the result of a nation that has become exhausted with the competitive level necessary to transform this into what it may become? Or finally, do you think it's just a matter of time like the economic historian, Paul David said?
  • Gideon Burton on 25 May 12
     
    I do think it is a matter of time. People fall into ruts, even with revolutionary technologies. But enough is happening to keep this sphere innovating on the large scale even if it appears same-old in the short term. Nice to hear from you, Sean.
  • Sean Watson on 26 May 12
     
    Very interesting! Nice to hear from you too, Dr. Burton.
Andrew DeWitt

Steampunk - Wikipedia - 0 views

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  • Andrew DeWitt on 04 Oct 10
     
    A sub-genre of science fiction based of a Victorian era, steam-powered, Britain. Tuesday's digital culture component. Steampunk you make recognize: Wild Wild West (movie), Sherlock Holmes (movie)
David Potter

Student voices from World War II and the McCarthy Era - 0 views

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  • David Potter on 11 Nov 10
     
    In this oral history website Brookyn College students narrate two historical episodes: their experiences of working on farms during World War II, and the events surrounding the suspension of the Vanguard, the student newspaper in a postwar McCarthy era climate
Gideon Burton

What Are Journalists For? - Rosen, Jay - Yale University Press - 0 views

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  • Gideon Burton on 27 Oct 10
     
    Rosen discusses civic journalism in the era of participatory culture.
Katherine Chipman

Fear! Living Under a Mushroom Cloud, a collection at the Museum at the Wisconsin Histor... - 0 views

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  • America's post-World War II period is often portrayed as a time of affluence and contentment, but fear of atomic war and Communist infiltration also marked the era and affected the decisions Americans made about their lives and futures. Fear of atomic bomb attacks on the nation's cities helped motivate people to move to the relative safety of the suburbs. Some Americans built fallout shelters to protect their families while others, shocked by the prospect of nuclear annihilation at any moment, sought to live for the present.
  • Once the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan, Americans realized a new era in history, one defined by the ability of humans to destroy their world.
  • Positive portrayals of atomic bomb blasts, along with toys and games that made light of atomic bomb destruction like those in the case below, may have helped diffuse some of the fear the American public felt about the bomb by desensitizing them to the devastation an atomic bomb could cause.
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  • While "atomic fiction" depicted possible fearful scenarios using atomic bombs and radiation, documentary sources illustrated the reality. Newspapers, magazines, books, and pamphlets described in vivid detail the effects of nuclear bombs on the Bikini Atoll, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, kept Americans abreast of the latest atomic developments and their destructive forces, and explained the devastating results if a bomb were to be dropped on the United States. All combined to reinforce the fear Americans had about anything atomic
  • Atomic Age fears provided science fiction writers with the inspiration for hundreds of stories, many of which conveyed political and moral messages as they shocked and entertained American readers and movie audiences. Three story types had emerged by the mid-1950s: the first dealt with atomic warfare; the second showed dinosaurs or fantastical beasts awakened or created by atomic blasts; and the third type depicted human deformities resulting from atomic experiments gone awry.
Kevin Watson

Let Dialogue begin | openDemocracy - 0 views

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      Kevin Watson on 30 Sep 10
       
      Spot on! Technology really is changing the world, and the sharing of ideas all over it.
  • Globalization has shaped our era. Technology has minimized distances; ideas, values and news cross borders quicker than ever before. New definitions and complex debates over our identities as international and national citizens have arisen as a result. As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. puts it: “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”
Kevin Watson

Reassessing the industrial revolution - 0 views

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  • Energy and the English Industrial Revolution, which is launched this week, suggests that the era not only stimulated unprecedented progress and growth, but opened a "Pandora's Box" of hazards. While new wealth was created and entire populations lifted out of poverty, the nature of economies also changed dramatically - from forms that were naturally self-limiting, to models which involve plundering finite natural resources without heeding the attendant dangers.
  • Kevin Watson on 04 Oct 10
     
    New views on the negative side of the Industrial Revolution
Jeffrey Chen

Britannica definition on Romanticism - 0 views

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  • Jeffrey Chen on 12 Oct 10
     
    An awesome brief overview of paintings and people in the romantic era. give you a good springboard into deeper study
Jeffrey Chen

How the romanticism came to be - 1 views

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  • Jeffrey Chen on 12 Oct 10
     
    Great article about a view of how the romantic era came about
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