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Mohsen Amiri Posted 11 years ago
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The "child" was an invention of the seventeenth century [Medium is the Massage] M. Mcluhan

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what does total concept of below context, according to Bold phrases exactly:
"It is naturally an environment much like any factory set-up with its inventories and assembly lines. The "child" was an invention of the seventeenth century; he did not exist in, say, Shakespeare's day. He had, up until that time, been merged in the adult world and there was nothing that could be called childhood in our sense. Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up—that is our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice."
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Mohsen Amiri what does total concept of below context, according to Bold phrases exactly: It's hard to understand what you are asking. Are you asking for the meaning of the bold phrases? If so, you forgot to make them bold.

  • Mohsen Amiri what does total concept of below context, according to Bold phrases exactly: It's hard to understand what you are asking.
  • Are you asking for the meaning of the bold phrases?
  • If so, you forgot to make them bold.
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Mohsen Amiriwhat does total concept of below context, according to Bold phrases exactly:
It's hard to understand what you are asking. Are you asking for the meaning of the bold phrases? If so, you forgot to make them bold.
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GPY Mohsen Amiriwhat does total concept of below context, according to Bold phrases exactly:It's hard to understand what you are asking. Are you asking for the meaning of the bold phrases? If so, you forgot to make them bold.
It may be a bug on the website. I've been experienced that recently, i.e. my posts on the forum differed from those which I sent (italic
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Well, in any case you'll need to try again.

Let's see if my posting works: Bold. Italics. Underscore.

Yes, it works fine for me.
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Dear GPY
I Bold them again. have a look again:

what does total concept of below context, according to Bold phrases exactly:
"It is naturally an environment much like any factory set-up with its inventories and assembly lines. The "child" was an invention of the seventeenth century; he did not exist in, say, Shakespeare's day. He had, up until that time, been merged in the adult wo
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"growing up absurd" means growing up (becoming adult) in an absurd way or so as to become an absurd person.

"neither of them inclines him to grow up" means that neither of the "two worlds" encourages the child to want to grow up. The text that you quote does not explain what these "two worlds" are. I suppose this is explained somewhere else.

"Growing up—that is our new work, and

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