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The Nation is the oldest consistently released weekly journal within the usa. The periodical, dedicated to politics and tradition, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." based on July 6, 1865.

"The kingdom are not the organ of any get together, sect, or physique. it is going to, to the contrary, make an earnest attempt to convey to the dialogue of political and social questions a very serious spirit, and to salary conflict upon the vices of violence, exaggeration and misrepresentation wherein quite a bit of the political writing of the day is marred."

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Monday, January nine, 2012

Gimme a P! Gimme an A! Gimme a T!...
Katha Pollitt ratings back. “Penn State’s Patriarchal Pastimes” [Dec. 5], her column in regards to the Jerry Sandusky baby abuse scandal, blooms into a piece of writing approximately patriarchy in...

IS the area fairly more secure with no THE SOVIET UNION?
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
Virtually all American observation in regards to the finish of the Soviet Union extols what the West is thought to have won from that ancient occasion. in this 20th anniversary of the breakup, The Nation...

The Soviet Union’s Afterlife
by STEPHEN F. COHEN
Asked to guage the French Revolution approximately 2 hundred years later, the chinese language most efficient Zhou Enlai used to be famously pronounced to have spoke back, “Too early to say.” notwithstanding apocryphal, the lengthy perspective...

Back within the USSR
by VADIM NIKITIN
For such a lot 14-year-olds, the 1st 12 months of highschool is mortifying sufficient with no need to make justifications for a whole kingdom. yet because the simply Russian child at a global university in England...

The innovative Honor Roll of 2011
by John Nichols
What a distinction a yr makes! final yr The Nation’s Honor Roll well-known brave, if frequently lonely, battlers opposed to an austerity time table, an ascendant Tea get together and a Republican electoral wave that had placed Democrats, operating fogeys and the unions that signify them at the protective nationwide....

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Some of these heroic figures are show-business personalities—singers, dancers, comedians, actors, and athletes. Identification and imitation are powerful forces that can shape our behaviors in ways of which we are generally unaware. 9). These commercials often feature extremely beautiful women; they are shown as an integral part of the consumption experience. 9. This advertisement for a Brazilian liquor, Cabana Cachaca, is very erotic, but it doesn’t show anything except a woman’s knees and elbows.

They use every editing technique they can think of to make their commercials visually more memorable and every trick of language and narrative structure to gain our attention and divert our attention from the advertising of competitors. One of the problems advertisers face is that of clutter—the enormous number of advertisements we are exposed to on a given day, which leads to information overload and in many cases, paralysis. So advertising agencies knock themselves out to differentiate their campaigns from other campaigns and get the attention of the target audience they are attacking.

12). One aspect of being successful is knowing what to consume—having “product knowledge,” which has replaced regular knowledge in all too many people in America. They don’t know history, are not well-read, have no appreciation of art, music, philosophy . . you name it. But they have incredible product knowledge; that is, all they know is what they can buy. 12. The Movado advertisement plays upon the aesthetic codes of elite classes: Simplicity is tied to upscale taste. For downscale taste, look at supermarket advertisements.

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