. MT Anderson’s dystopian young adult novel Feed issues a blistering satire of the dishonest, manipulative aspects of American consumer culture. Through the implantation of a wireless internet-access microchip, young people and most adults are bombarded with corporately sponsored commercials, songs, and feedcasts that function much like banner ads or pop-up advertisements. Write an essay in which you analyze the manipulative effects of the commercial rhetoric that largely determines the behavior and spending patterns of Titus, the novel’s male protagonist, and his teenage friends. Find specific examples in the novel of the “hyped up” commercial language produced by the culture industry that work to manipulate and exploit consumers’ psychological wants, desires, even fears and insecurities. How does the world of advertising—as depicted in this novel—secure kids’ consent into dominant social practices of consumerism, so much so that there is very little critical resistance to the culture industry?

Welcome to the vocabulary assessment. by connecting with words in a more interactive way, through a graphic organizer that includes your own ideas, we hope you will learn new vocabulary strategies to integrate into your course work and your everyday life. objectives: use a variety of techniques to acquire a range of words determine, clarify, and illustrate the meaning of unfamiliar words to ensure that you properly and successfully complete the vocabulary assessment, do the following: complete the assessment using the passage provided. select a word from the passage, and identify/create each of the following for that word: denotation connotations synonyms antonyms affixes the sentence from the passage where the word appears an original sentence using the word a memory trick type your responses in the appropriate boxes. after you have typed your responses, print your graphic organizer and submit it to your teacher. be careful not to refresh the page before printing, as some browsers will not save your work. passage from "the pit and the pendulum" by edgar allan poe very suddenly there came back to my soul motion and sound—the tumultuous motion of the heart, and in my ears the sound of its beating. then a pause in which all is blank. then again sound, and motion, and touch, a tingling sensation pervading my frame. then the mere consciousness of existence, without thought, a condition which lasted long. then, very suddenly, thought, and shuddering terror, and earnest endeavor to comprehend my true state. then a strong desire to lapse into insensibility. then a rushing revival of soul and a successful effort to move. and now a full memory of the trial, of the judges, of the sable draperies, of the sentence, of the sickness, of the swoon. then entire forgetfulness of all that followed; of all that a later day and much earnestness of endeavor have enabled me vaguely to recall.

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Why does the author of exploring the titanic give background information about his youth and education? to show his lifelong love for the ocean