English 1022E Lecture Notes - World War I, Piano Tuning, Beautiful Music
12 Sep 2012
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Give imaginative and emotional stimulation in a short period of time. New york city, and other large cities, starting in 18th century with industrialism, it offers a loud, noisy, and busy setting that has come to be known as modernity . This is what happened with the modernity, because change made people uneasy. Therapeutic culture: dedicated to solving the intricate problems of modernity , trying to help people. How did they help people: cottage: if you were wealthy enough, you could build yourself a cottage and that would be your escape, parks: frederic law olmsted, who designed central park, mount royal, parks in philly, They are wild parks, and this is because it was far more therapeutic than tamed wildnerness, in order to help the people suffering from modernity: literature: medicine the mind . You could escape into the story you were reading and then that would help cure modernity.
