Tag: propaganda

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+ Bayardo Pub Memorial, Belfast, language, Louise Kennedy, Northern Ireland, Trespasses

Language and the Crafting of Anger and Fear

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Throughout Louise Kennedy’s Trespasses, language plays an important role in the ways that it defines individuals and creates divisions even where similarities exist. During a session with Michel Agnew and his friends, Cushla teaches them Irish. One of Michael’s friends, Victor, goads Cushla into teaching him the Irish words that would denigrate her as a Catholic, Irish speaker. He tells her, “There are lots of … Read More Language and the Crafting of Anger and Fear

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+ berlin conference, Palestine, propaganda, ralph waldo emerson, terraform

How do we view the world?

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How do we view the world? How do changes in our perception occur? How do those changes affect us? These are all questions that I’ve thought about recently, in various ways. When I think about the ways that we view the world around us, I always return to a passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature where he talks about the ways that “a small … Read More How do we view the world?

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