Blind Ambition: The End of the Story by John W. Dean

By John W. Dean

Blind Ambition uniquely takes the reader contained in the Nixon White residence, of specific curiosity because the Nixon management crumbled less than the impression of Watergate.

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On one occasion dur­ 3. MULTIMODAL REREPRESENTATIONS OF SELF 41 ing the month of November, Ruth read a folk tale to the class and asked the students to draw a picture in response to the story. Fatima began by drawing a house where the main character of the story lived. In drawing this house, Fatima took several minutes to meticulously draw intricate roof patterns (see Fig. 1). When Chris, during an informal interview on that same day, FIG. 1.

42). Bakhtin was also opposed to individualistic subjectivism—the idea that all aspects of language can be explained in terms of each individual speaker's voluntarist intentions. Although each of those views are characterized by the relations of self and others, abstract objectivism sees meaning as other dominant and completely originated outside the indi­ vidual, whereas in the philosophy of individualistic subjectivism it is the in­ dividual, the /, who controls the meaning—here, language originates completely inside the individual.

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