We all have different ideas of what it means or what is modern. From the way we dress to the way we act or eat or how we handle situations. Modern for many means to be ahead of the rest to have the newer things in life. For others it's finding new ways to make people equal. Much like in the Film Harrison Bergeron, the film this 14 year old boy is taken from his family. In this modern time no one is stronger than anyone else, no one is smarter,uglier, prettier, or just flat out better than anyone else.…
During the last period of the Zhou Dynasty intellectual thoughts had flourished and the people artistic mind awaken. The people started developing ideas about life and connecting with nature. Within that figures like Confucius and Lao-Tzu became well known philosophers. Their contributions have help shape the characters of Chinese civilization up to this present day (Violatti). During that period the people was living in fear needed a solution for the disorder and problems surrounding their lives. Seeing how the people was suffering both Confucius and Lao-Tzu created a philosophy or a book teaching the people how to improve their lives. China most influential philosophers Confucius and Lao-Tzu has spark the interest of religion and philosophy…
The aim of the writing was that ‘verifying most clearly and certainly the necessity of what the Tokugawa feudal system collapsed’ from a point of view, for instance, history of thought, thus followed the crushed process of such legitimate worldview in the feudal Japan as Confucian, especially neo-Confucian in the country, then, explaining ‘a pattern of modernization in Japanese thought widely and in Japanese society narrowly’.…
Brave New World was written by Aldous Huxley in England and published in 1932. Its literacy period is the Modernism. In Brave New World, science becomes the search of accuracy and fact in the different sciences, from biology to physics as it also become knowledge. Brave New World elevate the terrifying prospect that advances in the science of biology and psychology by changing the way how human beings anticipate and perform. In Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the main character named Victor Frankenstein was a scientist as he was trying to create something new; the goal of science is to discover new knowledge.…
Demonstrate your understanding of the context and values of Modernism by close analysis of the techniques and concerns of Modernism that are reflected in one poem and one short story.…
Modernization. This has been a feared word in the past and even today. For example, in the Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby is trapped living in the past and is disillusioned by modernization. Additionally, in the story A Rose for Emily, Emily is also afraid of modernization because she is trying to escape death by holding onto her father’s dead body. She is afraid to move on in her life and decides to hide in her past. Lastly, in one of Langston Hughes poems called Mother to Son, he writes about how in the early 20th century African Americans were not equal to white people and then society began to modernize blacks to become equal. This led to segregation because the white people wanted to isolate themselves from African Americans. Because their dream of what society should be was disillusioned, just like in all three of these literatures. Therefore the results of modernization, isolation and disillusionment was that many people didn’t except a change their life.…
Discuss the nature of Arab and Jewish responses to the question of a Jewish homeland post World War II?…
Gabriel Josipovici’s scathing tone throughout What Ever Happened to Modernism refreshes readers who find most literature hollow and the modern social landscape overly accepting. Near the end of a prolific career in both fiction and non-fiction, Josipovici writes from the perspective of a well-read scholar in his field; his vast knowledge provides him with endless opportunities for analysis. His masterful command of language and his interpretive genius are both a blessing and a curse, however. These literary assets contribute to an air of elitism surrounding his writing, and ironically give him the sense of authority which his beloved Modernists so strongly rebuff. This sense of elitism distorts Josipovici’s view of literary forms outside of…
* Question A requires you to conduct research in order to answer a set question, and then write your response in timed conditions in class without your notes. You will have 20 minutes to answer this question in class.…
Bibliography: Asia Research Centre (1968) The Great Cultural Revolution in China, Charles E. Tuttle Company Inc., Tokyo…
Ask anyone on the street: "what is Romanticism?" and you will certainly receive some kind of reply. Everyone claims to know the meaning of the word romantic. The word conveys notions of sentiment and sentimentality, a visionary or idealistic lack of reality. It connotes fantasy and fiction. It has been associated with different times and with distant places: the island of Bali, the world of the Arabian Nights, the age of the troubadours and even Manhattan. Advertising links it with the effects of lipstick, perfume and soap. If we could ask the advertising genius who, fifty years ago, came up with the brilliant cigarette campaign, "blow some my way," he may have responded with "it's romantic."…
Explain how significant events in the world have influenced the practice of artists during the Modernism period. Refer to specific artworks and/or art movements to support your answer.…
Xu, Z. Q. (1994). Mei: Jiu Zai Ni Shen Pang [Beauty; Just next to you.] Beijing:…
Dependency Theory and Colonial Heritage. Many have tried to draw upon the legacy of the colonial system to explain the reasons for underdevelopment in many areas of the world. Most areas that suffer from poverty today are former colonies the developed nations, for the most part, are former metropoles. The colonizers exploited their underlings in colonies, turning them into suppliers of cheap raw materials and restricting the infrastructure construction, leaving former colonies with only basic facilities. In many cases, when the colonizers departed, the nations were left with artificial boundaries that separated them from each other without regard for their historical development. This fuelled subsequent separatism and military conflicts, hampering economic progress. Thus, if one looks at straight-line boundaries in Africa which we are now learning in DS 202, it becomes obvious that those were artificially created. The colonizers, in particular the British Empire, were suppressing the industrial development in their colonies because they viewed them as sources of cheap imports and at the same time large markets for their industrial goods. An example of north-eastern Brazil that often surfaces in literature on underdevelopment, (Taylor 2001) claims that north eastern Brazil in the 19th century would have appeared to be an ideal place for a textile industry with its high quality cotton and existing demand for sugar bags cloth and slave clothing. However, to develop the textile industry, it would take years during which the industry should have been shielded from foreign competition with import tariffs and quotas. This was surely not something Britain would allow in its colony. As a result, the fledgling Brazilian textile enterprises proved unable to withstand the competition with Britain's textile industry. Britain, like almost any metropole, was interested in selling to the colony, not developing industry inside it. As of 1822, when Brazil received independence,…
^ Shigeru Akita, "World History and the Emergence of Global History in Japan,"Chinese Studies in History, Spring 2010, Vol…