Century. And especially lay consumer culture. We talked about the motor behind the story, and i think we settled on one word. Desire. Desire was the kind of engine with the story. Wanting what you cant have. Always being able to see what is ahead of you that is elusive that youre trying to grasp. And thats what makes things happen in the novel. Remember that carrie is never satisfied. And recall the department store, right . Where he felt as he tells us the claim of each trinket and valuable upon her personally. We talked a little bit too about the moral of the story. A moral for the 20th ench ri maybe that there is no moral, right . Things happen to people. Good things happen to bad people, right . People arent punished for bad deeds. In fact sometimes like carrie, theyre rewarded. So what he8f kind of Success Story at vik torn period. That victorian ladder of virtue. The changing of fortunes was not the result of strong character or even of planning and preparedness. Think back to th
Who sought to improve industrial efficiency. This class is about an hour and 20 minutes. All right. Great. Hello, everybody. As you know, we will take up the topic in janay ring and worth as andrson engineering worth as a person. I put up here the cover of one of Theodore Dreisers novels, and what wee, have been considering is a kind of fictional assault, right . On the victorian moral order. Oks, inre dreiser for naturalistic fiction. In Theodore Dreisers case, in naturalistic fiction. He set his story, as you know, in the booming, bustling town of chicago. And to use chicago as a kind of character in this story, to look busts, thems, the travails of the characters in his novel. Just to summarize where we got we saw the workings of many things. Not just a story, but a kind of commentary on early 20thcentury Century America and especially urban industrial america. We saw the workings of a new economy. The novel espoused as a kind of allegory for capitalism and especially consumer cultu
It does not require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you will be deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property . And such machinery already exists. The government can find them charge to bring against any can learn it chooses to prosecute. Every businessman has his own tale of harassment. Has takena perversion place. Our natural, unalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation of government and freedom has never been so fragile to our grasp as it is at this moment. American history tv sits in with a lecture from one of the Nations College professors. Next, Vanderbilt University professor sarah igo talks about the societal shift that occurred during the early 20th century as modernization impacted businesses and households. Igo focuses on the Literary Works of the string frederick and Frederick Winslow tayl
Personally, you know, when i think about the friends and the comrades who gave their life in the city of fallujah, i try not to think that they gave their life for anything that we were doing in iraq but they gave their life to the man to the left and right and that does help me and has meaning that we lead our own lives each day and what we do with the rest of our lives but i try not to tie that to anything that is geopolitical in nature or to the future of a country that we really have no control over. Rose our conversation with Stanley Mcchrystal and a look at the battle for fallujah, then and now when we continue. Funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. There is a saying around here, you stand behind what you say. Around here, we dont make excuses. We make commitments. And when you cant live up to them, you own up and make it right. Some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where it is
Personally, you know, when i think about the friends and the comrades who gave their life in the city of fallujah, i try not to think that they gave their life for anything that we were doing in iraq but they gave their life to the man to the left and right and that does help me and has meaning that we lead our own lives each day and what we do with the rest of our lives but i try not to tie that to anything that is geopolitical in nature or to the future of a country that we really have no control over. Rose our conversation with Stanley Mcchrystal and a look at the battle for fallujah, then and now when we continue. Funding for charlie rose was provided by the following. There is a saying around here, you stand behind what you say. Around here, we dont make excuses. We make commitments. And when you cant live up to them, you own up and make it right. Some people think the kind of accountability that thrives on so many streets in this country has gone missing in the places where it is