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Avram Noam Chomsky: 92 and Still Kicking
Noam Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as the eldest son of two Jewish immigrant parents. His father was a respected professor of Hebrew and his mother was a political activist. Noam Chomsky received three degrees (B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in linguistics) and married his childhood friend Carol Doris Schatz and had three children. After his wife's death from cancer, he remarried Valeria Wasserman. “Noam Chomsky.” Biography, 5 Oct. 2015, www.biography.com/scholar/noam-chomsky. -
Political Impact: Understanding Power
Chomsky became publicly involved in politics during 1964, protesting against the U.S. role in the Vietnam War. He argued that the United States was using its military power to gain economic control over increasingly larger areas of the developing world to detrimental effects. McGilvray, James A. “Noam Chomsky | Biography, Books, & Facts.” Encyclopædia Britannica, 2019, www.britannica.com/biography/Noam-Chomsky. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf-tQYcZGM4&ab_channel=AlJazeeraEnglish -
The Logical Structure of Linguistic Theory
Chomsky was a key figure in the cognitive revolution, an attempt to connect external behaviors with learning, mental problem solving, and language development. He brought about a revolution in linguistics with the concept of language acquisition device in the mind. His theory states that language structure is hardwired as a universal grammar framework. Lemetyinen, Henna. “Language Acquisition Theory | Simply Psychology.” Simplypsychology.org, 2012, www.simplypsychology.org/language.html. -
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Noam Chomsky's book Manufacturing Consent explains how the media is able to impact our thoughts. His work directly challenges the myth that the media is a check to power. With five different filters (ownership of the medium, the medium's funding sources, sourcing, flack, and fear ideology) media makes the audience receptive to accept any message put out. An...Illusion of Democracy | Open Culture. www.openculture.com/2017/03/an-animated-introduction-to-noam-chomskys-manufacturing-consent.html.