Chapter No 3 Research Methodolog This research is qualitative which is dealing with the issues of depthlesness in Don Delillo 's novel White Noise 1985. In this research the issues of cultural consumerism and toxicate air are found. The problems of depthlesness are read by the theory of post modernism given by the Fredrick jameson. In which he demonstrate the reason which make the people unable to differentiate among the reality and artificial. Data has been collected by usin different resources. Liberary research including encyclopidias journals has been used to finalize this paper. The internet was also a helpful research tool. This research is basically analytical in nature and follows MLA format, 3.1 Theoritical framework …show more content…
From the Victorian age and post Victorian age they have received the ugly and immoral forms of the bourgieise. The terms which are usually use for the cultural production are emergent and residual, both terms usually have diffenet meanings. Residual usually used for remaing part after something has gone and emergent is usually ues to tell about the which arise unexpectedly (William 315). He has given the real menaing of the cultural production. Depthlesness has found its place within the culture of late capitalism and simulcara. It shows the weakness of modern man who seems to be unable to continue their own relationships with families and who just trust on the things which are going infront of them they just trust on the surface and never tries to go into the depth of things. It tells about the multiple layers. Refrent is the real object in the real world. For example, the real cat as opposed the concept and idea of the cat. This concept is usually given by the structuralist. They said it must be a kind of the myth. They said that one can not talk longer about the real thing in the external and objective way. Depthlesness has come to the reason people have to bear a lot of bad and uncontrolable experiences. When they were unable to avoid from their stress then the reality seems to be disappeared. Thety thinks that …show more content…
They have no concern with the emotions of other people. They are impressed by the technology without knowing its bad impact on them. Television and filmshas separate the people from the reality although they seems to be more real and faithful than the real life. The hyperreality is that it seems more real, all things are presented in different ways. People just accept all those things which they have seen on the television (consumer society 110). A culture of the society has to much on thinking ability of the people that all the reality has been taken through the logic of exchange values and advertising. Some of the drugs type product has been advertised people buy it. They don 't seems to be awaree of the negative imapct they just use it because it has gain value on media level. people only consumes such a products but also resort te ideas that weath and commodities can prevent them from facing evnviornmental hazards. " Our society thinks itself and speaks itself asa consumer society. as such as it consumes anything, it consumes itself as a consumer society, As idea" (Baudrillard 45). The conclusion of this study is that the purpose of this theory is that to aware the modern man. Tell them thet they should not trust on the apperance of the things they just to go behind the thing. Awareness about the depth is necessary is best. It will help
It exhibits three faces of the same person. They display different emotions and different sides of a face. One face appears content and another appears crestfallen. They represent an internal struggle to find one’s true self and how they truly feel. The piece uses contrast in colors that could represent clashing conflicts and polarity.
He explained his critical attitude on the nutritionism, described the place of the Western Diet in the modern world and difficulties linked to its avoidance. The author also proposed several simple ways to improve food behavior. These rules can be treated as a logical fallacy of the article. At the beginning Pollan stated people should escape not only from the Western Diet, but from the nutritionism too. But his first rule “Eat food” that includes the separation of a “real food from the cascade of foodlike products that are surround and confound us” (Pollan 4) make the last task difficult.
With the help of appealing strategies and literary devices, guidance is provided to us which gives a clearer comprehension of the book itself. Especially the logos strategy gives the readers a sign that Pollan tries the best to get involved with the dilemma for understanding it better than just the obvious. Setting his unique tone throughout the book, Pollan provides his critical attitudes towards the phenomenon that the industrial farms are taking advantage of the ignorance of people’s knowledge of what they are eating, making large profits regardless the health and safety of people. The purpose of informing people what they are eating and what goes behind the food is reached with his investigation and observation expressed throughout the book, bringing the awareness of knowing the truth to the
His perception of the world around him is very shallow and superficial. He sees the surface of things, but he does not see deeply. When Robert asks him to show him a cathedral by drawing together, he finds a deeper connection. When Robert has him close his eyes, the connection goes deeper still and he finally realize that it is he himself that has been
Each part explains something different about the drugs and how it has influenced millions of people. The first part is “The Confluence of Psychoactive Resources” and this section helps to explain what was products were part of this new revolution. The second section of the book is called “Drugs and Commerce” and here we get to read about the medicinal value, but also the psychoactive revolution. Then the third part of the book is called “Drugs and Power” and here it explains to us the power of alcohol and drugs.
The term substance abuse is predominately used to signify an unhealthy and devitalizing obsession on a mind-altering chemical substance. In addition, it is most often used to refer to illegal drugs as well as legal, regulated substances such as prescription medications and alcohol. Drug abuse is usually considered a punishable offence by many countries and is also regarded as being personally and socially detrimental. Three major sociological paradigms including functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism delve in to the world of addiction as well as the controversies that surround this social issue.
There is a multitude of reasons as to why people use drugs. Current theories on drug use include using drugs to rebel against authority, as a means to escape personal issues or in response to conflict occurring in the world around them. There isn’t a sole valid explanation for drug use, but all these reasons have overlapping themes: context and environment, which relates back to a new theory that aims to change the ways in which we analyze drug use. Drug, set and setting is a theory coined by Norman Zinberg which is necessary to validate drug use in all its variations because it considers a multitude of factors, including context and environment when attempting to understand drug use in society. Before we can apply Zinberg’s theory to different
“A gram is better than a damn,” is a statement that reflects the mindset of contemporary America to use drugs to palliate the problems rather than dealing with them. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley shows the relationship of drug usage in the near future by alluding the use of drugs to the real world. Huxley creates a drug, soma, in his novel that makes a person who takes it instantly becomes tranquil. This drug is commonly used throughout the novel by giving an instant source of gratification and also is used to control the population. Huxley’s prediction of drug usage became a reality because both legal and illegal drugs are commonly used in contemporary society.
The legalization of drugs has been at the center of interminable debate. Drugs have widely been perceived as a dominant threat to the moral fabric of society. Drug use has been attributed as the source responsible for a myriad of key issues. For instance, it is believed that drugs have exacerbated the already weak status of mental health in the United States in which some individuals suffering from mental illness administer illicit substances such as heroin or cocaine in an attempt to self-medicate. Moreover, drugs are blamed for turning auspicious members of the community into worthless degenerates.
Today many countries try to regulate the numbers of drugs users as many as they can by using the scary promotions and commercials to attract the attention from people, albeit ineffective. Rather than using the outmoded methods, legitimacy should be announced for all drugs in order that the regulation will process more ease for the government. In this procedure, the government can legislate the limitations for drugs consumption and people will be able to understand drug disadvantages profoundly. Therefore, allowing drugs as ordinary substances will abate the drug consumption. The aforementioned issue, in brief, the drugs is a too danger to leave it as it is so it should be legalized.
Effects people’s characters is prime heed for causing poverty. According to Tenai (2016) Consumerism moulds people’s characters into self-interest and a pursuit of interest’s other than those for the common good. When people change their interest in necessaries and turn all their attention to luxuries this will waste their energy, time and resources.
The narrator begins to change as Robert taught him to see beyond the surface of looking. The narrator feels enlightened and opens up to a new world of vision and imagination. This brief experience has a long lasting effect on the narrator. Being able to shut out everything around us allows an individual the ability to become focused on their relationships, intrapersonal well-being, and
Recently, people being calling that they have freedom to do what the want—using drugs, and proposing legalizing using drugs. This essay will discuss drug legalization issues only in America by giving valid data and considerate suggestion to explain why researcher believes drug should be legalized in the U.S. Drug can lead to multiple social problems and potential threats in most case, and there are several reasons why the US is currently suffering from serious drug problems. The US has a great amount drug user: according to the statistics provided by the U.S Federal Government, An estimated 3.6 million people met diagnostic criteria for dependence on illegal drugs in 1999, including 800,000 youths between the ages of twelve and seventeen (America’s Drug Use Profile, p.1). In recent years, there has been a worrying trend of young drug addiction and the lower age of drug users. Age between 18-25 years, current use of any illegal drug has been rising since 1994 and currently stands at 18.8 percent.
In the last twenty years, marijuana has become more effective and addictive. Overusing marijuana for a long term has increased the number of crimes, such as smuggling and drugs; which are considered as negative impacts for the society. Based on the data, the marijuana addicts in the world reached 27 million people in 2012. Moreover, The UN said if 5% of the world’s population have been using marijuana, so it is not wrong if the number of marijuana case always increasing. Simply put, it appears that society has already experienced the negative effect of marijuana and had already set a perception of it; it is shown by the severe punishment given to citizens who uses marijuana.
As the Open-Door Policy and economic reform encouraged the independency of individual and family, some new forms of consumerism, individualism have occurred. Not only was the economy opened to the world, but also the rest of the country, meaning that China would accept more open and vibrant culture and have more interactions with the outside world. In recent years, consumerism has become more and more important to the development of the contemporary Chinese popular culture. And television definitely contributed a lot in it.