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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... hundred major corporations showed they had to teach 22 percent of their employees how to read , 41 percent how to write , and 31 per- cent how to do math.43 When tested , only forty - seven Americans out of a hundred could put together ...
... hundred public monuments , over half of which have major sculptural or architectural features , most of which are de- generating into what preservationist Donald Martin Reynolds has termed " Monuments to Neglect . " 21 In addition , the ...
... hundred classic works by almost a hundred different authors from antiquity to modern times . Discussions were to take place in small tutorials , amplified by required courses in ancient Greek , French , music , mathematics , and ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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