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An account of the Lewis and Clark expedition sent by President Jefferson to explore the land acquired in the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Includes related activities.
Named for their probably mythical leader, Ned Ludd, the Luddites
were a group of social agitators in nineteenth-century Britain who
tried to prevent the mechanization of cloth factories, which they
blamed for increased unemployment, poverty, and hunger in
industrial centers. Though famous for their often violent protests,
the Luddites also engaged in literary resistance in the form of
poems, proclamations, petitions, songs, and letters. In Writings of
the Luddites, Kevin Binfield collects complete texts written by
Luddites or Luddite sympathizers between 1811 and 1816, adds
detailed notes, and organizes the documents by the three primary
regions of origin: the Midlands, Northwestern England, and
Yorkshire. Binfield's extensive introduction provides a historical
overview of the Luddites and their activities, explores their
rhetorical strategies, and illuminates their literary context.
Written for the most part from a collective point of view, the
texts themselves range from judicious to bloodthirsty in tone and
reveal a fascination both with legal forms of address and with the
more personal forms of Romantic literature, as well as with the
recent political revolutions in France and America.
Oller and Giardetti provide a simple, comprehensive, and fully
consistent theory to explain why some messages and images
communicate more effectively than others -- and then show
specialists in advertising, marketing, and high stake
communications how to apply the theory in their work. With examples
and illustrations that practitioners and academics alike will find
understandable, they provide readers with a solid grounding in
semiotics, the study of how meanings are constructed and construed
in signs. In doing so Oller and Giardetti help high stakes
communicators find new ways to reach and persuade others -- but
speak against deceit and subterfuge. They make clear that messages
must be consistent with the facts, and that the most successful
communicators share one special trait: integrity. A readable,
research-based, up-to-date treatment of an important emerging field
of study, and a carefully developed guide for practitioners and
academics alike.
"Images That Work" is about emotions, desires, ideas, and the
hard objects, events, and tensional relations in the common world
of space and time. It is about creating and presenting words and
pictures in ways that communicate genuine substance from real
people to other real people. Oller and Giardetti begin with the
foundations of integrity, the glory of supreme effort, and the
weaknesses of fads, fashions, and untested gut feelings. They draw
examples from high stakes messages in advertising, entertainment,
and other communications industries. In doing so they make clear
that not only are effective messages consistent with material
facts, they are also comprehensive in how they convey facts and yet
concise and simple enough to fit into the time and space that
consumers will devote to the message. And along the way they give
readers a solid grounding in the fascinating and relatively new
field of semiotics, a field that has already become well
established in the academic community and which has begun to spread
its influence to the world outside.
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