When these texts are examined comparatively, the contiguity, proximity and associations that can exist between them shape more than just an interesting response but one that is illuminating. Both texts demonstrate man’s relentless pursuit for knowledge as detrimental to humanity’s existence. Shelly recognises the ‘horrors’ and dehumanising consequences of the prolific changes of the early 19th century. She criticises the great promises and progress of the Industrial Revolution using the isolation and destruction of the scientist Victor Frankenstein as a social warning for society. Victor’s egotistic obsession with “unfolding the deep mysteries of creation” forces him far away from nature and society into an isolated and dehumanised existence, ideas reflecting Shelley’s Romantic perspective.
Ryan Lerner The French Revolution is widely regarded as one of the most bizarre times in the history of the world. One of the most bizarre occurrences from this movement came with the adoption of a new French calendar. With the French movement, the phrase, “liberty, equality, and fraternity” became increasingly important. However, the adoption of the revolutionary calendar actually undermined all three of these values. While this calendar may have seemed very logical, promoting religious and social reform, it actually did much more harm than good.
Putnam argument rests majorly on an earlier work done by Ithiel de Sola Pool, “Technologies Without Borders (1990)”. Putnam considers this work as a discerning work attributing its relevance to the current debates about complicated links in social connectedness and culture. In his argument, Putnam proposes that Pool’s prediction about revolutions in communication technology is indeed relevant to the civic engagement crisis that is being evidenced. From what he talks about, Pool had predicted of technological advances that would come to have a profound decentralization and fragmentation effect on the society and culture in decades to come. He therefore, supports his arguments as a fulfillment of what Pool seemed to predict.
Was Colonial Culture Uniquely American? Yes: Gary B. Nash No: David Hackett Fisher Each of the authors of this spirited debate between the uniqueness (or the lack there of) of the American culture presented compelling arguments for their side. Nash feels strongly that the convergence of the three cultures which he refers to as a tri-racial society, in and of itself created a new and unique culture. Regardless of the origins of these cultures, he refers to the unique blend of diverse environmental factors and peoples caused the development of a variety of cultures that were mostly English, part European, and altogether original. He argued that social development studies showed changes in their social behaviors and their interactions once in their new environment.
Through the notion of trauma, she contends, we come to a new understanding that permits history to arise where immediate understanding is impossible. “The experience of trauma, the fact of latency, would thus seem to consist,
The context of a text weighs heavily on its creation and the issues it conveys. Also, its composer at its time of creation often significantly influences the ideas, theme and attributes presented in the text itself. ‘Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley and ‘Blade Runner’ by Ridley Scott are both future projections from the worlds in which they were created. They depicts that the search for progress of both science and technology leads to the control and abolition of nature. Showing, that the consequence of the strain between humanity and the natural is a world without a relationship with the rhythms of nature and void of the defining features that makes us human such as individual freedom, identity, morals and compassion.
They are viewed as obstructions. To maintain social flow, insistence for change by the struggling groups will be largely ignored and the norm of society will use assimilation as its justification vehicle, resulting in covering. In order to change, “we must be willing to see the dark side of assimilation, and specifically covering, which is the most widespread form of assimilation required of us today.” (Yoshino, 2006, Preface xi) This profound statement elaborates on the idea that change will occur when society is educated enough to realize the identity assassination that occurs with assimilation. Education, as it has in the past, will be the best way for social change to occur. Insistence will always encounter resistance, where education will cause
As Ira Irwin proposed; “The greatest discoveries have come from people who have looked at a standard situation and seen it differently” demonstrating that explicitly searching for a new landscape condemns an individual to a constrained area of discoveries. To make a true revelation an individual must not search; rather, they must look at their surrounds from a new perspective. The important discoveries, those that last, are ones which are not pursued but contrarily are a result of previous actions such as the widening of one’s lens and the way they view the world around them. William Shakespeare effectively demonstrates the notion of looking with a ‘new pair of eyes’ in The Tempest as does Darren Aronofsky in his psychological thriller Black
It has also sought to explain a modern formulation of the argument as put forward by Richard Swinburne. In both of these versions of the argument, the key idea is that the order and purpose which we all experience through our senses, a posteriori, requires an explanation. For believers like Paley and Swinburne, the most likely explanation is that there is a designer God who created the world lovingly and for a purpose. Hume presents a fictitious dialogue between three characters: Cleanthes, Philo, and Demea. Although Hume focuses primarily on the global design argument, it should be clear that his objections to the global argument can be applied to the local design argument presented by Paley.
synopsis (Included in word count) “The ability to stand outside your own political system and your own culture, to criticise your own society and to pursue the truth is something we today take so much for granted.” - Keith Windschuttle, 2010 The ways in which history is researched, perceived and recorded has changed dramatically over time to reflect the continuous historiographical problems associated with any attempt to uncover the ‘truth’ of the past. This essay will attempt to analyse and explore both sides central to the ‘History Wars’ and shed light on the problems of objectivity, prior political convictions, the role of the academic historian and the proper practice of scholarship