Language and Literature

Dear II medio class,
Study and try to explain the follwoing quote. It will be included in our test.

I.             “Foucault argues that whoever dominates or controls the "official" use of language in a society holds the key to social and political power.”. Consider the  changes in the postmodern society.

News Broadcast in Postmodernism

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> 1.       Choose an area of interest: political conflict, science and
> technology, government, social classes
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> 2.       Work in pairs. Search for a possible piece of news (broadcasted)
> related to the chosen are of interest. There are two possible websites:
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8004316/ns/video (more liberal);
> http://video.foxnews.com/ (more conservative).
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> 3.       Check the following links:
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> http://rhetorica.net/bias.htm
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> http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/handouts/broadca
> st_news/bw_bias_in_the_news.cfm
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> 4.       Summarize the piece of news and provide your critical opinion.
> Upload both your opinion and the video in your blog.
>

Language and Literature, The Mackay School

Hi Class!
This is the list of blogs up to now....

http://englesmackay.blogspot.com/  Matthew Faille

http://mneuweiler.blogspot.com Matías Neuweiler

http://youssef-postmodernism.blogspot.com/ Youssef Eltit

http://english2013.blogspot.com/  José Manuel Zulueta

http://rodrigo-sifon.blogspot.com/ Rodrigo Sifon
http://vgandaraf95.blogspot.com/ Vicente Gándara
http://mercry3018.blogspot.com/ Matías Valenzuela

http://englishib2013.blogspot.com/ Héctor Zuñiga

http://postengmack.blogspot.com/ Stefan Search
http://leyton0.blogspot.com/ Jose Tomas Leyton  

What about the rest? I hope to have the complete list soon.

Remember that the next post is what we have done with the novel Hard Times today in class. I hope you do your best :)