What is one reason Postman believes television is a myth in current culture? • A. Because TV offers experiences that normal society
will never
personally experience
• B. Because TV is so embedded in the culture that its effects are
invisible
• C. Because TV is accepted as normal in some societies but shunned
in others
• D. Because TV offers an unbiased view on a plethora of topics
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98 ! use evidence from the text to support each response. complete at least one full paragraph for each question.1. select one of the stories or poems in this unit and identify the author's purpose for writing. then, identify the theme of that same story or poem. what is the difference between the theme and the author's purpose? are they the same, or are they different? 2. what views about what's important do most of the stories and poems in this unit share? how do the selections differ in their views of what's important? 3. name two pieces that share a theme and explain how each story develops this theme. try to answer them all. !

Read the excerpt from infinite jest. three faces have resolved into place above summer-weight sportcoats and half-windsors across a polished pine conference table shiny with the spidered light of an arizona noon. these are three deans—of admissions, academic affairs, athletic affairs. i do not know which face belongs to whom. which line of text supports the idea that hal is meeting the college deans for the first time? a. three faces have resolved into place above summer-weight sportcoats. . b. . half-windsors across a polished pine conference table shiny with the spidered light. . c. these are three deans—of admissions, academic affairs, athletic affairs. d. i do not know which face belongs to whom.

Read this excerpt from the legend in chicago it is snowing softly and a man has just done his wash for the week. he steps into the twilight of early evening carrying a wrinkled shopping bag full of neatly folded clothes based on the contrast between the man wrinkled shopping bags and his nearly folded clothes readers can best conclude that the man