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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... whole to which the parts belong . Knowing isolated facts alone is insufficient , for only when students understand their interconnections can they appreciate their full significance . This same truth underlies the nature of personal ...
... whole years just watch- ing commercials.58 Because television's audience is so big , advertisers in 1996 spent more money buying commercial time- $ 36 billion - than the federal govern- ment spent on education . In prime time , you'll ...
... whole . Preserving and celebrating one's heritage is the proud right of all Americans , but taken to an extreme it can be separatist and divi- sive , transforming what was once a nation into factions centered only on themselves , 103 It ...
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Prologue The Land of the Lotuseaters | 1 |
Cultural Amnesia | 5 |
Memory and Personal Identity | 19 |
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