Cultural Amnesia: America's Future and the Crisis of MemoryBloomsbury Academic, 28 de fev. de 2000 - 192 páginas According to Bertman, just as an individual needs memories to maintain a sense of personal identity, so does a nation need them in order to survive. Like Alzheimer victims, however, today's Americans are rapidly losing a consciousness of history, and with it, a sense of national identity and direction. |
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... especially high school seniors and especially in reading . " The 1994 reading scores are woe- ful , " said Chester E. Finn Jr. , a member of the National Assessment's Gov- erning Board and former Assistant Secretary of Education ...
... especially in the allied fields of electronics , comput- ers , and telecommunications . Indeed , at its current rate of growth , within another decade the electronics industry may in fact become the largest in- dustry in the world ...
... especially indebted to these recent works on memory and the brain : Alan Baddeley , Your Memory : A User's Guide ( London : Prion , 1996 ) ; John Kotre , White Gloves : How We Create Our- selves Through Memory ( New York : Free Press ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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