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Today, we must look to the city of Las Vegas, Nevada, as a metaphor of our national character and aspiration, its symbol a thirty-foot-high cardboard picture of a slot machine and a chorus girl. For Las Vegas is a city entirely devoted to the idea of entertainment, and as such proclaims the spirit of a culture in which all public discourse increasingly takes the form of entertainment.
(from Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. New York: Penguin Books, 1985, page 3.) |
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Exhibit C*
| The city of Las Vegas is perhaps a metaphor of American national character possessing as its symbol a thirty-foot-high cardboard picture of a slot machine and a chorus girl. (Postman, 3) |
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| *This is plagiarism. The student credits the author's work, but the student's words and syntax are too similar to the original. Many students summarize what the author says by paraphrase. This is permissible, but be careful not to use too much of the original syntax and phrasing. |
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